Investors in Ar

HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing startups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports startups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more than 780 startups and achieved almost 200 successful exits. HTGF has a fund volume of over 2 billion euros. Fund investors in the public-private partnership include the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, KfW Capital as well as 45 companies and family offices. Our HQ Location is located in Bonn, Germany with additional offices in Berlin and Munich.

Start It Smart is an entrepreneurship organization created to spread and develop the entrepreneurial way of thinking. Start It Smart is an entrepreneurship organization created to spread and develop the entrepreneurial way of thinking, while supporting young people to start their own business. Start It Smart is an entrepreneurship organization founded in 2009 by five fellow students at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

Overkill Ventures invests in pre-seed stage startups and helps them get to product-market fit. Overkill Ventures is a Nordics based angel fund that invests in pre-seed b2b tech startups across CEE and Nordics. We invest as early as angel investors do, however, have the resources, know-how and network to help startups get to product-market fit and scale from there.

AENU drives systemic transformation in venture capital towards impact, accessibility, and stakeholder alignment. They are an impact technology fund aligned with Article 9 SFDR, focusing on early-stage climate tech companies based in Europe.

Oxygen Accelerator is a tech accelerators that look for startups working on big, world-changing, continent-shifting ideas. Oxygen Accelerator is an intensive 13 week programme that provides mentoring, tools, hands-on support and up to €21,000 in investment for early stage tech startups. If you have a product launched with customers and are looking to take your startup to the next level with the most intense, game-changing three months of your life, we want to hear from you.

The first dedicated cybersecurity incubator in the CEE region. OXO Cybersecurity Lab is a separate incubator of OXO Labs created exclusively to support cybersecurity innovation. The incubator involves a large number of industry specialists as team members as well as program mentors who can cover all critical aspects of the field.

They are looking for ambitious teams that are building groundbreaking products and aiming to become tomorrow’s market leaders. As an early-stage venture capital firm, they support the most ambitious product-focused founders with an angel-like approach. They believe that knowledge transfer from their collective is the ultimate booster and provides an unbeatable unfair advantage for startups.

StartLife empowers founders to build and grow Foodtech & Agtech startups with lasting impact. StartLife strongly believes that startups hold the key to the big changes needed in our food system. In order for promising startups to succeed, we help them find their way to success and build an impactful company. Europe's leading AgriFoodTech Accelerator. Disruptive innovation in itself is not enough; it also needs to be implemented and transformed into tangible applications.

They invest from day-zero to seed, backing founders from all over Europe. They are fortunate to have been on the zero-to-one journey with portfolio companies that have raised in excess of $2B in follow-on funding from some of the world’s best VCs. More than 60% of their portfolio companies go on to raise a follow-on round from US or tier 1 European VCs.

F-LOG Ventures is an independent venture capital fund managed by former business founders and seasoned investment managers. They focus on start-ups in need of Seed or Series A funding that have the potential to disrupt the logistics industry. F-LOG Ventures defines logistical transactions as a merger of information, material, and financial flows. So it’s a given that young companies working to improve these areas pique their interest.

At LIOS Ventures, they believe in the power of entrepreneurship and game-changing ideas. They take a long-term approach to building relationships and supporting teams to reach the next level. They are passionate, quick, and decisive, balancing patience with ambition.

They focus on digital business models in the areas of AI/Deep Tech, B2B SaaS, and Asset-Light IoT. They support and accompany sustainable digital innovation and visionary entrepreneurship on a national and international scale, with a clear goal: to become the innovative Pre-Seed and Seed VC fund for AI in Europe.