European VC Funds

🇬🇧 London, UK

Founded by Skype co-creator Niklas Zennström. One of Europe's most celebrated VC firms — investing from seed to growth a...

Portfolio: Klarna, Supercell, Graphcore

🇬🇧 London, UK

European-only since 2000. Benchmark-affiliated, now fully independent. Known for conviction bets on European category-cr...

Portfolio: Revolut, GoCardless, Depop

🇨🇭 Zürich, Switzerland

Klaus Hommels was the first investor in Spotify. Lakestar now backs European fintech and enterprise at scale....

Portfolio: Spotify, N26, Tink

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden

VC arm of the €40B+ EQT platform. Uses proprietary AI (Motherbrain) for deal sourcing. Offices in 6 cities....

Portfolio: Einride, Voi, Wolt

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden

Active since 1996. Cross-stage investor with a legendary Nordic portfolio. One of the earliest backers of both Spotify a...

Portfolio: Spotify, iZettle, Trustpilot

🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria

Europe's most active pre-seed and seed investor. 40+ investments per year. Specialized teams across fintech, health, dee...

Portfolio: GoStudent, Bitpanda, Tier

🇬🇧 London, UK

Europe's specialist B2B software and fintech investor. ~$2B total AUM. Laser focus on enterprise-grade companies....

Portfolio: Collibra, Mimecast, Darktrace

🇫🇷 Paris, France

Multi-stage VC with seed, growth, and impact strategies. One of the few European VCs also active in Africa....

Portfolio: Bolt, ManoMano, Swile

🇫🇷 Paris, France

Top French early-stage VC. Known for developer-tool and fintech bets before they were fashionable....

Portfolio: Algolia, Qonto, October

🇫🇷 Paris, France

Europe's first VC fund with an EU defence mandate. Investing in quantum, space, AI, and advanced materials....

Portfolio: Exotec, Pasqal, Kineis

🇫🇷 Paris, France

Life sciences specialist since 1972. Industrial biotech, digital health, and therapeutics across Europe....

Portfolio: GenSight, Abivax, DNA Script

🇫🇷 Paris, France

World's first quantum-computing VC. €30M direct EIF commitment. Backing the builders of quantum hardware and software....

Portfolio: Pasqal, Quandela, Alice & Bob

🇫🇷 Paris, France

ETCI-backed growth buyout fund. Cybersecurity, automation, enterprise software, and medtech at scale....

Portfolio: Dental Monitoring, Cheetah Digital

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Top Berlin early-stage firm. Asking founders to build Europe's first trillion-dollar company. Technical founder bias....

Portfolio: Flixbus, Auto1, Flink

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

20+ year track record. Dual strategy: Digital West (pan-EU) and Digital East (CEE/Turkey). Deep operator network....

Portfolio: N26, Wefox, Peak Games

🇩🇪 Munich, Germany

Germany's oldest VC firm (est. 2000). Backed 3 of Germany's most valuable tech companies. Patient, conviction-driven....

Portfolio: Zalando, Delivery Hero, Scalable Capital

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Operational VC — invests capital + deploys a 100-person platform team (engineering, design, data, marketing) to help bui...

Portfolio: WorldRemit, Catawiki, Sennder

🇩🇪 Munich, Germany

Deep tech specialist. University spin-offs from TU Munich, Max Planck, Fraunhofer. Hard science with commercial ambition...

Portfolio: Isar Aerospace, Konux, Lilium

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Europe's largest climate-only VC. Will only invest if a company can reduce 100MT+ CO₂ equivalent. No greenwashing....

Portfolio: Enpal, 1KOMMA5°

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Deep tech and industrial technology focus. Strong ties to ETH Zurich and German technical universities....

Portfolio: GetYourGuide, Lilium

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic-born, pan-European. Seed and Series A with a founder-first culture. Three generations of landmark Nordic tech bet...

Portfolio: Spotify, Klarna, Trade Republic

🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway

Nordic growth equity. Sustainability-native — every investment measured against EU taxonomy. Digital meets climate....

Portfolio: Infobric, Vaayu, GetAccept

🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark

Danish quantum and deep physics VC. Targeting €300M for frontier technology companies building foundational hardware and...

🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic climate tech specialist. €34M+ EIF commitment. Focused on energy transition, circular economy, and sustainable fo...

🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

Spain's leading tech VC. €500M+ raised across 6 funds. Deep tech conviction with a European expansion mandate....

Portfolio: Flywire, Seedtag, Clarity AI

🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain

ETCI flagship growth fund. €300M EIF anchor commitment. Pan-European mandate: applied AI, deep tech, climate, fintech....

Portfolio: Wallbox, Typeform, JobandTalent

🇮🇹 Rome, Italy

Italy's national venture platform. €260M joint programme with EIF to accelerate tech transfer from Italian research inst...

🇮🇹 Milan, Italy

Milan-based early-stage investor. Building Italy's startup ecosystem one technical founder at a time....

Portfolio: Prima Assicurazioni, Credimi

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Spain

B2B software specialist. €550M deployed historically. Pan-European from Barcelona with London and Munich offices....

Portfolio: Typeform, Docplanner

🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal

€30M EIF commitment. Portugal's top VC expanding into Spain and Italy. Riding the Lisbon tech wave....

Portfolio: Unbabel, Sword Health

🇬🇷 Athens, Greece

€20M EIF commitment. Backing tech innovation from the Greek ecosystem and diaspora founders returning to build in Europe...

🇮🇹 Milan, Italy

Italian agrifood and climate tech VC. EIF-backed. Investing at the intersection of food systems and sustainability....

🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands

First fund to receive the EU Defence Equity Facility investment. €40M from EIF. European defence and dual-use technology...

🇳🇱 Naarden, Netherlands

One of Europe's leading life sciences VCs. €1B+ under management. Therapeutics, diagnostics, and medtech....

Portfolio: Pharming, Alnylam

🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands

€40M EIF backing. Growth equity for European sustainability companies at inflection point. ESG-native from day one....

🇳🇱 The Hague, Netherlands

€20M EIF investment. Europe's dedicated cybersecurity VC. Five generations of cyber-focused funds....

🇨🇿 Prague, Czechia

Central Europe's most established VC. Seed investor in UiPath before it became a $35B company. Prague-based, pan-CEE man...

Portfolio: UiPath, Productboard, Rossum

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland

€25M EIF commitment. Deep tech VC focused on Central and Eastern Europe. University spin-offs and frontier research....

🇱🇹 Vilnius, Lithuania

€25M EIF commitment. Climate tech VC from the Baltics. Pan-European mandate for energy, mobility, and circular economy....

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland

Polish deep tech fund targeting cybersecurity, AI, quantum, and defence. Growing the CEE as a serious tech hub....