Venture Capital directory in Europe
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NorthCap
NorthCap (Northcap Partners) is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm founded in 1999, focused on B2B and B2B2C technology companies across the Nordics, with a particular emphasis on SaaS, cloud computing, and mobile services. The firm invests from seed stage (Denmark only) through growth stage, with ticket sizes ranging from $1 million to $25 million, and draws on more than 100 investments of operational experience to support founders in scaling and internationalization. Notable investments include GAN Integrity and Visiopharm.
Northzone
Northzone is a prominent European venture capital firm with Scandinavian roots, known for early bets on companies like Spotify and Klarna. Founded in 1996 in Oslo (and now headquartered in Stockholm with a big presence in London), Northzone is an evergreen VC fund that has raised 9 funds to date. It invests from Seed and Series A up to Growth (Series B/C), typically focusing on consumer internet, fintech, and B2B SaaS. Northzone rose to fame as the earliest institutional investor in Spotify – it led Spotify’s $21M Series A in 2008 and remained a major shareholder until IPO. It was also an early backer of Klarna (led the $8M Series A in 2010) and other Nordic breakouts like iZettle (payments, acquired by PayPal) and Avito (Russian classifieds, acquired by Naspers). Over the years, Northzone expanded its geographic focus to include the UK, Benelux, and the US East Coast (they’ve invested in Wallapop in Spain, Personio in Germany, and Secret Escapes in UK, among others). The firm’s investment approach is relatively hands-on – partners often take board seats and leverage Northzone’s network for business development of their portfolio. With approximately €1.5 billion under management, Northzone typically writes initial checks of €2–10M and can follow on with much larger amounts. In 2022, Northzone raised a new €1B+ fund, reflecting growing LP interest in European tech. The team blends operational experience and finance acumen; notable partners include Pär-Jörgen Pärson (who led the Spotify deal) and Michiel Kotting (who sits on Personio’s board). Northzone often leads or co-leads rounds and likes to syndicate with US VCs when scaling globally. Beyond fintech and music tech, they have investments in healthtech (Kry), edtech (Kahoot!), crypto (Sovereign), and more – showcasing a broad thesis of “transformative tech.” Northzone’s steady success over 25+ years – producing multiple billion-dollar exits – has cemented its reputation as one of Europe’s top-tier venture firms, bridging the vibrant Nordic ecosystem with the rest of the continent.
Notion Capital
Notion Capital is a London-based venture firm founded in 2009 by the team behind MessageLabs and Star — Jos White, Ben White, Stephen Chandler, Chris Tottman and Ian Milbourn — who built MessageLabs before its $700M sale to Symantec. The firm invests exclusively in European B2B software and fintech, with a sweet spot at Series A (companies at or near product-market fit, typically $1M+ ARR) and initial cheques of €1–8M. Across five venture funds and three growth vehicles Notion has raised over $1bn in total AUM; Fund V closed at its €300M hard cap in 2023 and Growth Opportunities III added $130M in 2025 to back the firm's best companies longer. Its thesis spans four software categories — Knowledge (AI-enhanced SaaS), Money (fintech), Labour (services-as-software) and Machines (software in physical environments, including defence). Marquee outcomes include Currencycloud (acquired by Visa for ~$963M, 2021) and GoCardless (acquisition by Mollie announced at ~$1.1bn, 2025), with a portfolio that also features Paddle, Mews, Quantum Systems, Workable, TestGorilla and Upvest.
Novo Holdings
Novo Holdings is the investment arm of the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the largest life science investor in Denmark. It backs biotech, medtech, and health innovation across seed, venture, and growth stages while also managing the foundation's long term ownership in Novo Nordisk and Novozymes. The firm provides patient capital, deep scientific expertise, and global networks for founders building therapies, diagnostics, and industrial biotech solutions. Novo Holdings is a cornerstone of the Danish life science ecosystem.
Omorika Ventures
Omorika Ventures is a Belgrade-based seed and early Series A fund launched in 2024 to address the shortage of institutional early-stage capital in Serbia and the broader Balkans. The fund secured €5 million in public co-funding through the Innovation Fund of Serbia's Serbia Ventures program and is operated by three founding partners with deep roots in the regional startup ecosystem via ICT Hub. It invests in tech companies with globally ambitious Serbian founders, providing capital alongside strategic support, mentorship, and international investor introductions. Portfolio companies include cybersecurity platform Trickest and HR-tech startup OneAssessment.
Open Circle Capital
Open Circle Capital is a Vilnius-based early-stage fund founded in 2017, backed two-thirds by the Lithuanian public institution INVEGA and one-third by private investors, with a mandate to invest up to €20 million in the commercialisation of Baltic technology. The fund targets ICT, robotics, high-tech, AI, and IoT companies primarily in Lithuania and Northern Europe, writing seed-stage cheques. Its 17-company portfolio has recorded three acquisitions — Frontu, Eddy Travels, and Paysolut — and the partners collectively bring experience spanning more than 80 technology-transfer transactions and seven previous funds. The team has prior exit history with global acquirers including Facebook, Saab, and Eli Lilly.
OpenOcean
OpenOcean is a pan-European seed and Series A venture capital firm operating from Helsinki. It invests in AI-native software, automation and foundational technology, with stated focus areas spanning AI-enabled services, horizontal and vertical AI automation, quantum and scalable AI computation, and agentic infrastructure and developer tooling.
Outlast Fund
Outlast Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm co-headquartered in Riga and Stockholm, founded in 2024 by Egita Polanska, Marija Rucevska, Kristaps Prusis, and Mikaela Pedersen. The fund closed its debut €21 million vehicle backed by Latvian sovereign fund Altum, the EU's ERDF, and Baltic angel investors. It targets pre-seed tickets up to €250k and seed rounds up to €1.5 million, with a focus on B2B SaaS, fintech, and cybersecurity across the Baltics and Nordics.
Overkill Ventures
Overkill Ventures is a pre-seed B2B tech fund founded in 2017 and headquartered at Dzirnavu iela 105 in Riga, Latvia. The firm backs founders it calls 'overkillers' — operators who work smarter and challenge conventions — primarily across the Baltics, Nordics, CEE, and CIS regions. Overkill focuses on helping startups reach product-market fit and has made over 40 investments to date. It is registered as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) in Latvia under the entity Overkill Ventures AIFP.
OXO Ventures
OXO Ventures is the venture capital arm of OXO Group, a Budapest-based multi-stage technology investment platform founded by former Hungarian Finance Minister Péter Oszkó. Established in 2017 with a €50 million EIF-backed fund, the firm takes a sector-agnostic approach to early and growth-stage tech investments across the CEE, DACH, Benelux, and Nordic regions. OXO Group combines an accelerator (OXO Labs), an angel network (OXO Angels), and the VC fund under one roof, enabling investment from the earliest stages. Notable portfolio exits include Commsignia, which raised a Series B from LG Electronics, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Qualcomm Ventures.
P101
Founded in 2013 by Andrea Di Camillo — a serial entrepreneur behind Vitaminic and Banzai and an early investor in Yoox and Venere — P101 is one of Italy's most prominent early-stage VC firms, managing approximately €500 million AUM. Its latest vehicle, Programma 103, closed at €250 million in early 2025, targeting early-stage startups in fintech, proptech, edtech, and cybersecurity with an average ticket of €5 million. Over 12 years P101 has backed 58+ companies and completed roughly 290 transactions with ~20 exits; standout portfolio names include Musixmatch (acquired by TPG for ~$500 million in 2023). The firm has a stated goal that Programma 103 companies will collectively generate €5 billion in revenue and 3,000+ jobs by 2030.
Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is a Swedish venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to investing in early-stage climate tech companies across the Nordic region and Europe. Founded to accelerate decarbonization through technology-driven solutions, the fund backs startups working on energy transition, carbon capture, sustainable food systems, and related sectors. It is one of the most prominent climate-focused VC funds operating in Scandinavia and a partner organization at NORDEEP 2026.
Partech
Partech is a global venture capital firm founded in 1982 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Paris, with additional offices in Berlin, Dakar, and San Francisco. The firm manages over EUR 2.5B across seed, venture, and growth funds, investing from EUR 200K pre-seed tickets up to EUR 50M+ growth rounds. Partech has backed over 250 companies including BlaBlaCar, Doctolib, Alan, Exotec, and Swile. The firm is one of the most active French VCs investing in Germany and Africa, and its Partech Africa fund is the largest dedicated tech VC fund on the continent.
Passion Capital
Passion Capital is an early-stage London VC founded in 2011 by Eileen Burbidge, Stefan Glaenzer, and Robert Dighero. The fund backs European early-stage technology companies, with a portfolio that has included Monzo, GoCardless, and DueDil. Passion is recognised for hands-on founder support and has been an influential voice in UK tech-policy discussions for over a decade.
Peak
Peak is an Amsterdam-based seed venture capital firm founded in 2013 by a group of serial European founders — Johan van Mil, Daniel Hennes, Madeline Lawrence, and later Luc Mader — who wanted to build a fund explicitly aimed at first-time SaaS, marketplace, and platform founders in Europe. The firm writes initial checks of EUR 500K to EUR 4M at pre-seed and seed, reserves meaningful follow-on capacity through Series A, and takes a hands-on partner model that is unusually involved in hiring, pricing, and product-strategy work for portfolio companies. Peak's portfolio has included Trengo, Creative Fabrica, Catawiki, Miinto, Homerun, and Recruitee, and the firm is one of the most consistent seed-stage names in Benelux/DACH venture. It closed its fifth fund in 2023 and remains a reference seed investor for founders across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the Nordics.
PFR Ventures
PFR Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Polish Development Fund (Polski Fundusz Rozwoju), wholly owned by the Polish state, established in 2014 and based in Warsaw. The firm operates as the largest fund-of-funds manager in the Central and Eastern Europe region, managing over PLN 3 billion in assets across 80+ private VC funds that have collectively supported more than 900 startup investments. PFR Ventures co-invests alongside private LPs to leverage EU structural funds and catalyse private capital into the Polish venture ecosystem, backing early-stage through growth-stage funds in sectors including deep tech, SaaS, fintech, and life sciences. Its Innovate Poland programme launched in November 2025 with at least PLN 4 billion earmarked for the next investment cycle.
Pledge Ventures
Pledge Ventures is the venture capital arm of Founders Pledge, launched in 2023 to invest in high-growth technology companies whose founders have made binding philanthropic commitments. The fund operates on a rules-based model across sectors and geographies, aiming to create a self-reinforcing flywheel between entrepreneurial financial success and positive social impact. Co-founded by Niki Buys and David Goldberg, the fund backs a broad portfolio of technology companies and is a featured partner at Nordic Tech Week 2026.
Plural
Plural is a London-based venture fund founded in 2022 by operator-investors Taavet Hinrikus (Wise), Sten Tamkivi (Skype, Teleport), Ian Hogarth (Songkick), and Carina Namih. The first fund closed at around EUR 250M to back European pre-seed and seed companies, with a thesis centred on founder-led investing — every partner has built and scaled a venture-backed company. Plural is positioned as a counter to traditional partner-led firms, with deep operator support.
Point Nine
Point Nine is a Berlin-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Christoph Janz and Pawel Chudzinski, specializing in B2B SaaS and online marketplaces. The firm manages over EUR 500M across multiple funds and typically invests EUR 500K to EUR 3M at seed, with follow-on capacity into Series A. Point Nine has backed notable companies including Zendesk (pre-IPO), Algolia, Typeform, Mambu, Chainalysis, and DocPlanner, establishing a strong track record in vertical SaaS and developer tools across Europe and North America.
Pomerangels
A venture fund + angel network based in Szczecin, Pomerangels invests alongside business angels and syndicates in post-revenue companies. With a network of 100+ angels, they co-invest up to €4M in innovative SMEs across ICT, autonomous tech, biotech, etc. Notable focus: companies that already have strong angel syndicates; Pomerangels adds capital on top of angel rounds to scale these ventures.
