Investors in Tech

Investing in Nordic FinTech & Impact stars. Goose Valley is invested in some of the leading FinTechs in the Nordics: Klarna, Lunar, Open Payments, Receipt Hero, Indo. The name Goose Valley comes from the U-shaped valley Lapporten, a symbol of Sweden and its magnificent nature. In Northern Sami it is called Čuonjávággi which translates into Goose Valley.

SFC Capital (formerly Startup Funding Club) is a leading early-stage investment firm providing capital and support to British startups. By combining our Angel Network and Seed Funds, we have created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managed by our expert team. Recognised by PitchBook Data as the UK's most active VC, our team has supported more than 400 startups to date. Notable SFC Capital portfolio companies include Onfido, Cognism, and Transcend Packaging.

MTIP is a leading Swiss-based growth equity firm investing in European healthtech companies that aim to revolutionize global healthcare. We leverage our deep sector expertise to help scale up successful and sustainable healthtech businesses.

Metaplanet is an early-stage investment firm making long-term bets on contrarians and leveraging the knowledge and network across sectors. We back mission-driven founders working on positively disruptive deep technologies.

We work with innovative partners to invest in, accelerate and incubate the most disruptive startups and pioneering founders. Our team of seasoned venture capitalists and operational partners empower smart capital and founders and put their startups on the path of faster and greater growth.

Ascension is an early-stage venture capital firm built and managed by exited operators and entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders. Since 2015, Ascension has invested in 150+ start-ups across its (S)EIS & Institutional Funds – our specialist approach and extensive sector reach allow us to identify and scale pioneering tech enterprises. With over £83m under management and twelve exits, Ascension is the most active VC in London over the past decade (Beauhurst) and is UKBAA's Seed VC of the Year in 2022. Ascension is particularly focused on backing impact businesses leveraging the power of technology to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

The largest Japanese VC in Europe backing companies tackling the world’s carbon footprint with a focus on climate tech, deeptech, and digital society. We are a team of founders and operators focusing on problem areas the world has to solve - from transportation to healthcare to a wide array of digital infrastructure – to decrease the vast carbon footprint. We serve founders with ambitious mission - investing in the future we want to live in. From its first €101 million Fund I launched in 2019, NordicNinja has made tens of investments, three of which have achieved unicorn status, with a handful showing similar potential. The portfolio includes companies that transformed industries including Bolt, Einride, Veriff, Voi, Starship, ClimateView, Kognic, Mavenoid, Pactum, Varjo, DappRadar and Ready Player Me. Half of the first fund’s investments are in mobility and transportation – an area with a massive carbon footprint, as well as inefficiency and poor user experience.

Founded in 2018, Forestay is an early-growth stage tech fund and part of B-FLEXION, an entrepreneurial private investment firm founded by Ernesto Bertarelli. We invest in visionary teams reaching growth inflection points and partner with them to create future category leaders. We support start-ups with investments between $10M and $20M in Europe, Israel and opportunistically on the East coast of the US. Forestay Capital SA is the advisor to Forestay Capital Management Ltd, based in Jersey.

55m Estonian VC fund, investing in early-stage European software startups with Consumer and Community components, including marketplaces, Consumer Tech and B2B companies with short sales cycles. Currently investing out of Fund II, launched in 2022. Investing in pre-seed, seed and early series A startups, with ticket size between 100k-1meur and follow-on capacity of up to 5meur. Investment team of 8 people with offices in Estonia, Finland and Germany.

Edge are specialist investors in exceptional creative teams and emerging technologies. Our long-established network of highly experienced executives and senior specialists is formalised through our Leadership Council of world-class sector experts. We leverage the collective networks of our Board, our Advisers, and our Investment Team, our relationships span far beyond what you see here – all of whom we know directly as potential co-investors and corporations that are willing to work with us or the teams that we back. Creativity at its core is about imagination and novelty. We look for random drivers of creativity in the social and cultural spheres. Companies increasing access to creativity and companies supplying these creative companies, like software, are the type of companies we back. Consumers around the world are spending more and more on the creative sectors, even during recessions as consumers shift from ownership to experiences. Technology continues to widen those who can participate in creativity. With our market expertise, we will find those emerging technologies and accelerate them to become the industry champions of the future.

We invest in teams transforming the world with technology. Faber is a Lisbon-based venture capital firm investing in outstanding entrepreneurs who innovate at the intersection of science and technology to drive digital transformation and climate action. The firm combines a specialist focus on deep tech early stage startups with dedicated funds, investment teams, and expert advisors to actively help founders build global companies powered by AI/data or climate/ocean technologies. Faber’s unique approach in Southern Europe is led by an entrepreneurial management partnership and backed by notable thesis-driven institutions and private investors. Investing since 2013, the firm has been an early investor in hard tech companies such as Unbabel, SWORD Health, Codacy, iLoF, Smartex or YData.

Cardumen Capital is a global venture capital firm and asset management company with presence in Europe and Israel that invests in world-class founders who bring the future into the present. With €250M in Assets Under Management, Cardumen Capital’s extensive portfolio encompasses tech companies and fund investments across three different strategies, with global coverage. Cardumen Capital strives to be the most active investor for both entrepreneurs and investors. Its portfolio benefits from decades of experience in the world’s most important tech ecosystems, a culture of radical collaboration and absolute availability. Cardumen Capital is backed by world-leading institutional investors and corporations. Cardumen Capital supports world-class entrepreneurs to reach their potential by proactively providing services, connections and capital. Our portfolio benefits from 14 years of experience in this business, a culture of radical collaboration and the availability of our team 24/7. We invest in companies that work to bring the future into the present, investing in people developing the technologies that drive the evolution of society and business.