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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.

Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) is a state-owned investment company that invests on market terms both in venture capital and private equity funds, and directly in startups, scale-ups, and large industrial projects.

Aboa Advest is a family-owned investment company focusing on startups and other growth companies. Founded in 2015, we have been particularly interested in impact investing: Impact investing generates a beneficial social or environmental impact, as well as a financial return. (*) We are an active investor in Finnish growth companies. We revised our investment strategy in January 2020: our primary focus is to invest in Venture Capital funds. To date we have invested in two buyout funds and five VC funds, adding value in DeepTech startups. Our investment strategy is based on a long-term perspective: we expect a significant return on our investments in 10 years time.

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.

Monttu Ventures is a pro-bono development company focusing on early-stage startups founded by individuals with a background in the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku University of Applied Sciences, or Novia University of Applied Sciences. With 78 co-founders and over 730 000€ capital, we help promising companies by sharing the expertise of our shareholders and leveraging the services of our business partners. Additionally, we can invest in the most potential companies.

Since 2012 Butterfly Ventures team has invested into ~100 early-stage companies. Our business track record is strong, and we take an active stance in supporting the startups from early on. Most of them do not have any revenue at the time of our entry, and we are often the first VC to get on board. Here’s a few more companies from our active portfolio along with selected exits and other venture capital investments that are managed by Butterfly Ventures team. Feel free to explore them further.

Vendep Capital is a B2B SaaS specialist VC operating in the Nordics and Baltics. They invest in the best early stage software entrepreneurs, providing funding ranging from 0.1–3M euros depending on the stage.