Investors in Capital

Fierce Capital is developing and investing in early-stage startups, including female-focused businesses. Fierce Capital is a European leading real estate investment, asset management, and development firm handling over 250,000 sqm of business, retail, logistics, and residential buildings. The company's focus on ESG principles and long-term capital.

Inventure is the early-stage VC that knows how to get Nordic and Baltic founders to the next level. Since 2005, the team has been in venture with over 90 companies ranging from deep tech to consumer internet brands, including Wolt, Swappie, Stravito and Jobbatical. With its €377 million of assets under management, Inventure focuses on Seed and Series A investments across Nordics and Baltics, with offices in Helsinki and Stockholm.

OHB Venture Capital is a corporate venture capital company of OHB SE, specializes in start-up and early stage investments. OHB Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of the OHB group. They invest worldwide in cutting-edge space technology-related start-ups. With a spirit of disruption in their DNA.

Brightlands Life Sciences Ventures is a corporate venture arm of Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus.Brightlands is a network of four innovation campuses in Limburg, where researchers, entrepreneurs, and students collaborate to develop sustainable solutions in materials, health, and nutrition.

Esperante is a private limited Netherlands-based seed investments company incorporated in January 2004. Esperante brings significant expertise and a human healthcare industry contacts network gained through up to three decades of cross-functional management experience. This background provides investment portfolio companies with extended management resources, particularly in Business Development, as a complement to Esperante's financial contribution.

Founded in 2020, Fable Investments is a corporate venture capital arm of Natura &Co based in São Paulo, Brazil. The firm seeks investments in emerging and high growth companies. The firm prefers to make investments in the beauty and wellness sectors.

CEA Investissement (SA), founded (as CEA Valorisation) in 1999, is a subsidiary of the CEA, a major player in technological research, development and innovation. The central mission of CEA Valorisation is to create economic value based on technological innovations. To fulfill this mission, they have developed two main activities: Investment in seed capital in innovative start-ups / start-ups active in the technology areas of CEA. The Licensing of advising companies and public laboratories of innovation in creative strategy development and marketing rights to patent or know-how belonging to the CEA, other research organizations or innovative companies. In addition, CEA contributes to the financing of national investment in seed technology (activity "Fund of Funds"), this activity is developed through particular Emertec management and funds managed by this company (FCPR Emertec 2 Emertec Energy and Environment), the FCPR managed by ACE Security Management SA, an investment company in seed priming Minatec SAS. Their areas of technological expertise are mainly micro-and nanotechnology, health technologies, the New Technologies for Information and Communication (NTIC), advanced materials and technologies for energy.

Karma Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage deep tech software startups across Europe. We back exceptional founders building defensible technology, typically at the late-seed or Series A stage.  

Chroma Ventures channels flexible capital into a range of early-stage and established businesses with high-growth potential. Burns and van der Kuyl have been active supporters – both financially and practically – of a broad range of companies for several years, often in collaboration with other investors. Their portfolio includes direct investments that have grown into significant stakes in well-established businesses, such as global leader in cross-platform TV ad measurement TVS quared, cupboard stored ready meal provider Parsley Box, commercial insurance distribution and data platform Broker Insights, and indie game studio Puny Astronaut.

OpenOcean is a pan-European early-stage Venture Capital investor with offices in Helsinki and London. Our investment strategy focuses on leading or co-leading Series A investments with initial ticket sizes up to €5m in European companies driving the data economy, including B2B platforms and Enterprise Software technology. Our founding team members include key persons behind MySQL AB (sold to Sun Microsystems Inc. for $1 Billion in 2008), after which the team jointly built category leader MariaDB Corporation Ab, as well as forming and managing OpenOcean.

Exclusively focused on investing in blockchain technologies, the BlockGrounds Team is experienced in both technological and financial sides of this ecosystem.We have kept our vision from the start: The blockchain technology is holding the key to disrupt legacy businesses and create entirely new markets and business models.

Tera Ventures is an international investment firm based in Estonia. Tera helps some of Europe's most disruptive technology companies scale and become global leaders. We back ambitious founders and their compelling visions at pre-seed and seed stage. Founded in 2016, Tera Ventures has 12 active investments in its first fund (that we previously managed under SmartCap). We are also proud of our previous exits from GrabCAD, Modesat, VitalFields, Startup Wise Guys, and others. The team at Tera Ventures consists of investors and advisors from around the world who have created exceptional value and personally made the journey from founders to acquisition or IPO of several digital tech companies. We believe in and strongly support founders and great teams and possess a very Silicon Valley-approach to helping our companies – we have worked in all weather conditions and life cycles of startups and are there to support our clients' success. We are tenacious, ambitious and experienced in making it happen.