Investors in Tech

Carinthian Venture Fonds GmbH is a public venture fund founded in 2022 by public stakeholders in Carinthia. The company's objective is to invest in start-ups and small and medium-sized companies in the technology sector in Carinthia (seed and growth stage companies). The company invests only together with a private, independent co-investor.

Upfin is a Nordic VC specializing in early-stage fintech. We invest at pre-seed and seed stage, either as lead or joining as specialized co-investor. Fund I had a first close of 30m EUR in May 2022, backed by Vækstfonden, a sovereign wealth fund, Velliv, an innovative pension fund & Finansforbundet, the leading financial services union. To date, Upfin has invested in seven fintechs across Sweden, Denmark and the UK.

The Pioneer Group Life Science Accelerator Programme works with entrepreneurs at every stage – from idea to exit. For 20 years, we have supported and invested in founders of cutting-edge life science technologies into visionary ventures, that scale. Helping to transfer ideas (and their founders) out of the lab and into the world.

Pureos Bioventures is a venture capital fund, which invests exclusively in private innovative drug development companies, with a special emphasis on the next generation of biological drugs and drug formats. The fund’s portfolio companies are built on scientific excellence to develop therapies across a broad indication spectrum including oncology, immunology, ophthalmology, rare diseases, and neuroscience. Pureos has built a team with deep investment, operating and clinical expertise, that strives to impact patients’ lives by advancing innovative treatments for devastating diseases.

Co-founded by Ronan Le Moal and Charles Cabillic in September 2020, Épopée Gestion is located in Brest, Nantes, Bordeaux and Paris and aims to reinvest in the Atlantic Arc territories by supporting companies in financing and operational support. Épopée Gestion operates in four areas: innovation capital, development capital, sustainable real estate and low-carbon infrastructure. Xplore inherits all the expertise of the West Web Valley accelerator created in 2012 at the initiative of Charles Cabillic, Ronan Le Moal and Sébastien Le Corfec to support and accelerate digital startups in Brittany, in particular via the West Web Valley 1 investment fund created in 2015. When it was created, Épopée Gestion took over the management of the West Web Valley 1 fund in 2020 and launched a second capital innovation fund in 2021, Épopée West Web Valley II, which brings the total investment capacity to 80 million euros solely for innovation in startups. These two funds are now renamed Xplore I and Xplore II.

Studio is constantly looking for B2B startups with founders who are obsessed with the success of their business and build real, disruptive technologies. Studio is dedicated to startups from Seed to Series A in France: with a strong ambition for French and international development with the ambition and capacity to address key accounts with the ability to create synergies with consulting professions (strategy consulting, management, data science consulting, project support, digital projects, communications agency etc).

Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital is an alternative investment firm based in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic. They focus on investing in startups, particularly in FinTech and ClimateTech. Their fund targets early-stage technologies with applications in the sectors that are the most CO₂ or greenhouse gas equivalent (GHG eq), emitters at a global scale.

Aletra Capital Partners B.V. is a hands-on investment company focused on corporate divestures of non-core business units, family owned businesses with succession issues and/or stand-alone companies requiring turnaround management or growth acceleration. In Singapore we focus on young ventures looking for a bridge financing or (pre) Serie financing.

At Novaterra, our fundamental belief is that the most significant innovations arise from backing brilliant individuals tackling formidable problems. Hence, our mission is not to fund businesses, but to invest in intellectual capital: minds capable of solving substantial challenges, those that hold the potential to revolutionize industries and positively impact society at large. Identifying potential transformative leaders is at the core of our strategy, this is why we consider ourselves people investors. We employ a comprehensive evaluation process, made up of a proprietary framework that focuses on the traits of the founders, their tenacity, and their ultimate vision. We learned the hard way that the best founders are those who have a messianic attitude and even believe their venture is fundamental to the world, we discovered on our skin that usually the most successful overcame tough challenges and therefore developed a strong resilience in their past, and they see their company as a revenge to prove to themselves that they are worth it. The more they feel defeated, the heavier they push and the more they are resilient. We want to back the darest, those who have a natural inclination to fail, to take risks, to push the level higher and higher even despite the reality they are forced to face, and the only reason they are doing it is because they feel they have to. Nothing more. For these reasons, our investment mandate allows us to directly invest in people, even before there is a concrete idea.

We specialize in driving long-term growth for companies with high potential. As your partner, we offer flexible funding solutions together with strategic and operational advice and hands-on expertise on creating a global success story. We invest in start-ups and scale-ups operating in Finland and Europe. Our focus is on promising and innovative companies operating on three main verticals: Healthtech, Greentech, and Deeptech. We also invest outside these three – in short, the better the impact of your company or a technology is on the world, the better it fits our investment portfolio and the more we can help it on your journey towards long-term growth.

We invest in startups in the forestry, professional landscaping, gardening, agriculture and construction sectors. Our goal is to add value by contributing our ecosystem network and the manifold assets of STIHL as a leading company in the industry.

Olisipo Way is an Early Stage Venture Firm focused on IT investments. Our investments are varied in terms of business areas but we have a natural tendency for B2B projects. We speak the same language as entrepreneurs, the language of business. More than investors, we are also entrepreneurs. Our priority is the choice of the right people and the creation of a community that works as a plus in the lives of our startups.