Investors in Lean

ESG-focused fund, helping female-founders and gender-balanced teams in the BaltiNordics get access to capital to scale world-changing ideas

Disruptive Technology Ventures is a privately held investment firm in disruptive technologies. We believe groundbreaking technologies can help resolve the big challenges the world is facing and can improve our lives. Our mission is to bring the most promising, unique and groundbreaking new technologies to the market in their optimal business model in order to deliver the impact these technologies deserve.

SINTEF has developed venture funds, the latest of which is called SINTEF Venture VI Fund. It will manage a capital of some €50 million, of which EIF is investing some €20 million. This substantial investment aims to promote the creation of 10-15 new companies, leveraging SINTEF’s tradition of pioneering technological innovations. The EIF also invested in SINTEF’s previous funds – EIF invested €10 million in 2014 and increased to €15 million in 2018. Fund’s latest investments: Cartesian AS – Offers heating and cooling solutions by storing and extracting thermal energy from phase change materials. MoreScope – Provides a data-driven platform for companies and investors to use to quantify climate impact, carbon footprint and avoided emissions. Sonair – Offers a 3D ultrasonic sensor for robots. Mia Health – Offers a solution that gives individuals and companies easy and precise insight into the actual health benefits of the activity in which they are involved.

Beringea is a transatlantic venture capital investor that seeks to create lasting success for rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies. We provide patient and intelligent capital and a global footprint to back entrepreneurs throughout their journey. For U.K. and European entrepreneurs: We'll typically make an initial investment between £1-10 million into companies turning over approximately £1 million or more. We tend to lead Series A or Series B rounds, with further funding available for follow-on investments.

Provide an effective, outsourced incubation and acceleration platform . Green Campus Innovations. A new business developer and cleantech seed investor. Our new business development system is based on a continuous and systematic End-to-End development process and active Corporate Venture Programs.

"Extension Fund is a pioneering venture debt firm based in Madrid and Barcelona, specializing in supporting bold entrepreneurs aiming to build global companies. They forge long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, leveraging their extensive knowledge, experience, and network to drive growth and success. Extension Fund operates as a hybrid debt fund, investing through convertible notes and venture debt, tailored for companies from pre-seed to Series B stages. They invest from €100k to €3M in companies with global potential at different stages; through convertible notes in earlier stages or venture debt in more mature startups. In their Seed Pocket initiative, Extension Fund partners early on with high-potential companies expected to raise several rounds of funding. They utilize convertible notes as a form of short-term financing with the final purpose of conversion into equity, typically in a future round. Additionally, their venture debt offering provides debt financing for venture-backed companies at more flexible terms than traditional financing, supporting companies in scaling their operations effectively."

Cemex Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Cemex. They are dedicated to catalyzing the construction revolution through strategic investments and collaborative partnerships with hundreds of startups. Beyond financial support, Cemex Ventures provides startups with direct access to a leading company in the building materials industry. Their commitment extends beyond mere investment; they aim to co-create a path to success tailored to the specific needs of each startup. This approach ensures mutual benefit and supports the development of innovative solutions across all stages of startup growth.

Rooted in the Norrsken Foundation, the fund is an early-stage deep tech impact (Article 9) investor that offers access to impact capital, world-class recruitment resources, and scalable growth structures. With a focused strategy, the fund makes 1-3 selective investments per year and takes a deeply operational approach, working closely alongside founders to drive growth and achieve impactful outcomes.

They embody the future of innovation by mobilizing a pan-European multi-stakeholder open-innovation ecosystem of top European corporations, SMEs, startups, universities, and research institutes. Within this ecosystem, students, researchers, engineers, business developers, and investors address the technology, talent, skills, business, and capital needs of digital entrepreneurship. They build the next generation of digital ventures, products, and services, and nurture digital entrepreneurial talent. They help businesses and entrepreneurs stay at the frontier of digital innovation by providing them with technology, talent, and growth support.

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.

Nausicaa Ventures combines the best of institutional venture capital groups and individual investors. It aims to cover the equity gap faced by most, promising early stage companies on their path towards profitable growth. Nausicaa Ventures has the resources, knowledge, experience and agility to respond to the financial and management needs of those companies, and to work side-by-side with them towards the achievement of successful exits.

Our raison d'être consists of taking an active part in well-being and well-being in Wallonia, through our ability to enable ambitious entrepreneurs to see bigger , to move faster, to register more easily in a sustainability approach. This intention can be summarized by the expression “ Amplifiers of Ambitions ”, the term amplifiers referring to the leverage effect generated by our action, and also to our ability to support numerous partners. Concretely, our vision is to invest financial resources but also to invest ourselves personally in order to enable our partner entrepreneurs to innovate, develop, and pass on their businesses.