Investors in Technology

SETsquared is a collaborative partnership that supports enterprise activities, spin-outs, licensing, and incubation. SETsquared is a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey which partners in enterprise activities and collectively supports the growth and success of new business opportunities through spin-outs, licensing and incubation.

Lunar Ventures is a Berlin-based venture capital firm specializing in deep tech investments across Europe. They focus on supporting visionary founders developing groundbreaking technologies in fields like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced materials. Lunar Ventures provides both financial backing and strategic guidance to help their portfolio companies succeed in highly technical and complex industries.

Curious Capital is the corporate venture subsidiary of Heinen-Verlag, and was just established in 2017. Heinen-Verlag, founded in 1946, is a Cologne-based publishing house with activities and history in regional print media. Curious Capital is now looking for seed and early stage investments in business models, products and/or markets, whichanyhow fit to activities of a modern media company.

āltitude is a (pre-) seed venture capital firm that is closing the European SME Tech Gap by investing in B2B/software-first startups with a focus on people, product, and process - predominantly targeting DACH and the UK. Through their strategic positioning, portfolio construction, and deal-sourcing programs (Open Angel, Trojan, and Maven), their fund has three edges that differentiate them from other European VC firms - they are creating better access, earlier.

Hauer Ventures focuses on investing in European deep tech founders to bring their ideas to reality. Hauer Ventures aims to bring new technology to the market, create talented and diverse teams, as well as connect the ecosystem.

Novalis Biotech Incubation is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in biotechnology and life sciences related companies. Focusing on enabling technologies in healthcare, such as digital health, diagnostics, genomics and bio-informatics. We focus on early-stage start-ups, from (pre-)seed stage to series A, and support their evolution by providing funding, sharing our professional and academic connections, and help to shape the business strategy in order to create value for all stakeholders.

StartupHER is an online startup competition that promotes and strengthens female digital entrepreneurship. StartupHER is the online startup call to promote and strengthen female digital entrepreneurship in our country, with a particular focus on technology and financial innovation. The call for Startup al Femminile.

SmiLe Incubator helps entrepreneurs and startup companies to develop and commercialize new ideas. Surrounded by smart and passionate people, as well as the best tools and approaches at your disposal – you’ll take leaps toward creating a business and connecting with the right people and resources. We offer business coaching, access to investor & industry networks, access to labs & instrument as well as a community with colleagues, friends and peers.

StartupHighway is a Baltic startup accelerator and an early seed stage fund based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Since it’s establishment in 2011 it has developed a proven investment programme focusing all of its efforts on value maximization for innovative technology startups. It has been purely designed to provide individually tailored support for the most perspective participating entrepreneurs.

Space dedicated to the creation of innovative businesses. For over 20 years, Nubbo has been creating innovative startups in the Occitan region and helping them shine at the national and international level. Because entrepreneurship already means knowing how to surround yourself.

Space2Earth Accelerator is an accelerator program to connect space startups and new customers across industries. Space2Earth Accelerator brings together space startups and companies, the industry and investors. As part of our Space2Earth Accelerator, we help space startups to bring the power of satellite data to new markets.

Supporting start-ups which use space technologies by offering access to an international network, tools, knowledge and finance. SBIC Noordwijk supports startups that use space technologies by offering access to an international network, tools, knowledge and finance. SBIC manages the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) Noordwijk. ESA BIC Noordwijk is part of the space business incubator network of ESA Commercialisation Gateway.