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Fairpoint Capital is a B2B technology investment fund originally established by SEB Venture Capital's technology team, now operating independently with SEB as its main investor. With over two decades of experience in technology venture capital, Fairpoint Capital focuses on minority investments in early growth stage companies, spanning from late seed to B round funding. Initial investments range from 10-40 million SEK, with potential for increased exposure over the holding period. The fund primarily targets the Nordic region, particularly Sweden, but operates without formal geographic restrictions. Fairpoint Capital seeks unique technologies and business models with scalability and sustainable competitive advantages, targeting global markets with strong growth potential and proven commercial viability. Key sectors of interest include AI, IoT, Cloud, Robotics, and Additive Manufacturing, among others.

Eir Ventures, based in the Nordic region, specializes in life sciences venture capital. With extensive experience and a strong network, they focus on investing in innovative medical solutions addressing critical unmet needs. Their team, renowned for managing over €4 billion in assets and achieving numerous successful exits, collaborates closely with universities and incubators to drive advancements in therapies, medical technology, and digital health.

Portugal Ventures was created with the ambition of boosting the global success of Portuguese companies, leading them to achieve competitiveness goals in all phases of their business development. They invest in Digital & Technology, Industry & Technology, Health Technologies, and Tourism, supporting startups from pre-seed to Series A stages. Founded in June 2012, Portugal Ventures fosters growth, competitiveness, and internationalization, guided by the values of commitment, transparency, and excellence.

A venture capital fund with 35 mio Euro under management. A focused portfolio of corporate ventures built and accelerated with leading corporations. Governed at arms-length, but coached close to the heart: we share all the risks, upsides, and challenges of our ventures. They are independent, based on an equity partnership.

Circular economy focused Series A/B investor, jointly managed by Demeter (France) and Cycle Capital (Canada), investing in Europe (incl. UK and Israel) and North America.

CNB Capital is an evergreen, early-stage investor with a focus on high-tech B2B product companies showing first-customer traction. Its experienced team supports founding teams, especially in sales and marketing or corporate development. CNB is looking for technologies with a strong unique selling proposition and good scaling potential - also in niches. CNB has a long-term view to building companies enabled by an enduring setup.

FSP Ventures invests in Austria and neighboring regions with the aim to support innovative environmental technologies to jointly achieve sustainable growth together with management and to make a contribution towards solving environmental and social challenges.

XPRESS Ventures is a pan-European pre(seed) investor focusing on the infrastructure industries of modern society, such as logistics, manufacturing, and enterprise software. We provide founders with deep sectoral knowledge and a collaborative approach to amplify their vision and accelerate growth. Our unique strengths lie in our research-informed investment approach and logistics and supply chain expertise, making us a valuable partner for startups and co-investors.

Elaia is a European venture capital firm focused on digital & deep tech startups, from early stage to growth development. They backed tech disruptors such as Mirakl, Criteo, Ornikar, Shift Technologies and Aqemia.

We back early stage founders with unique industry insights, powerful vision, passion, courage, resilience, growth mindset and excellence in the execution of their plans. We bring tier 1B-schools know-how and Fortune 500 companies international operational experience, building strong relationships with founders, rolling our sleeves and working side by side with them from MVP launch to market-product fit and scaling up, preparing them for series A and beyond.

We founded Great Stuff Ventures in 2018 with the goal to find and be inspired by the greatest technology entrepreneurs of the next decade and beyond. We are a group of entrepreneurs and industry veterans investing their own capital in great people doing great stuff. We help by asking the right questions and introducing you to the right people. We focus on early business acceleration. When investing, we help you closing the round by involving our wider network of investors. *We invest up to € 100k in seed to pre-series A rounds in companies raising between € 250k and € 1.5m. *Occasionally we also invest in later stage rounds *We prefer to co-invest with other angel groups or early-stage VC funds *We prefer equity deals over convertibles

Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures) is one of Europe's leading early stage investors. As an entrepreneurial venture capitalist, DvH Ventures invests in emerging technology companies and builds successful investment clusters in areas such as Digital Health, Education, DeepTech or Climate Tech/ESG. Founded in 2014, partners Duc Quyen Tran, Peter Richarz and Fabian von Trotha manage several venture capital funds from their Cologne office. In addition to financial investments, DvH Ventures supports its portfolio companies with management expertise, in-depth industry knowledge and an international investor network. An exclusive media-for-equity programme gives portfolio companies access to extensive media reach through leading publishing brands such as Handelsblatt, DIE ZEIT, Tagesspiegel and Apotheken Umschau.