Spendbase is a spending management platform that helps businesses gain control over their spending on SaaS subscriptions, cloud services, and corporate cards.
It centralizes all expenses and provides tools to optimize costs, including a discount marketplace offering exclusive deals on popular software, helping companies eliminate wasteful SaaS spending and streamline their financial operations.
Credit conditions: Loans for debt financing/soft loans, are drawn from 5 Million to 25 Billion and above in all investment sectors, for the start-up and expansion of commercial enterprises at an interest rate of 2% per annum, which is not limited to any region or sector (except the cannabis industry). In cases of startups and small / medium scale businesses, we can fund them from 1 Million & above to meet with their funding requirements.
Elevator Ventures is the venture capital fund backed by Raiffeisen Bank International, Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien, and Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark and manages funds of more than 100m€ to elevate the growth of technology companies in Fintech and Beyond Banking. The team invests in Series A and B growth equity rounds in DACH and CEE and uses the deep expertise and intel of its corporate investors to support their portfolio companies. To date, Elevator Ventures has deployed over €50 million, with investments into 18 companies - resulting in five successful exits - and into two additional funds.
Waiting for Startups with: Achieved product market fit and ready to scale.
Fields of interest: Fintech, Cybersecurity, Climate Resilience, Legaltech, Regtech
Benefits for Startups: Raiffesein Bank network for business development opportunities
Fund range per team: €1-3m
Investment conditions: Equity
Market focus: DACH & CEE
Lost Astronaut is a self-funded experiment in backing relentless builders. We’ve built and broken enough things to know the magic usually starts where the playbook ends.
We invest our own capital - €25K to €250K - and make decisions in 24 hours. No committees. No gatekeeping. No pretending to be more professional than we are. Just velocity, curiosity, and a little bit of beautiful madness.
Sometimes it flies. Sometimes it explodes. Either way, we learn, build again, and keep moving.
Waiting for Startups with: team, MVP, first income
Fields of interest: Generalist – open to opportunities across all sectors
Benefits for Startups: fast, founder-first investment and hands-on mentoring
Fund range per team: from 25 000 to over 250 000 Eur
Investment conditions: equity-based investment
Market focus: Europe-focused, with a global outlook
Highland Europe provides growth capital for exceptional teams and total commitment to a collaborative relationship.
Waiting for Startups with: Revenue generating
Fields of interest: Technology
Fund range per team: Growth capital
Investment conditions: Equity
Market focus: Technology
Verge is a VC fund manager focused exclusively on impactful healthtech startups at a global scale and at their earliest stages. The Fund invests in scalable technologies that solve large unmet needs in health and platforms that can reach millions. We don't invest in molecules, gene therapy or drug development platforms.
Waiting for Startups with: prototype, first income
Fields of interest: Healthtech
Fund range per team: 50M
Market focus: Global
Prague-based fund investing €300k to 3M in Baltic & CEE startups. From pre-seed to Series A.
We love to lead rounds.
Waiting for Startups with: Pre-revenue startups with experienced founders and seed/Series A startup with great KPI metrics.
Fields of interest: All (except for Pharma, BioTech, Web3 and Blockchain)
Benefits for Startups: J&T bank network, fundraising support, follow-up rounds, leading rounds
Fund range per team: €300,000 - €3,000,000
Investment conditions: Equity or convertible notes
Market focus: Baltics & CEE
ATR is the core research of Keihanna Science City located in the middle Kyoto, Osaka and Nara in Japan. ATR drives innovation ecosystem from the perspective of a world-renowned research institute and organizes KGAP+, a distinguished startup acceleration program. In collaboration with international innovation organizations, KGAP+ carefully selects deep-tech startups from various sectors and supports their expansion into the Japanese market by facilitating local strategic partnerships. Over the past 10 batches, 155 companies from 17 countries have participated, achieving a 68% matchmaking success rate and a satisfaction rate of 4.3/5.
Fields of interest: Deep-tech sectors such as health care / medical, material, smart devices, manufacturing, agri/food-tech, green-tech, robotics, etc.
Benefits for founders and teams: Supports to explore to the Japanese market, such as Mentoring, exposure at virtual pitch events and being introduced to potential partners/customers
Burda Principal Investments (BPI) is a global venture capital investor providing long-term growth equity for fast growing digital technology companies. BPI has been a partner for visionary entrepreneurs looking to build global category leaders across the consumer and SMB segments. As a financial investor for the Hubert Burda Media group, BPI leverages Burda’s capital, brands and sector expertise, particularly in the areas of business expansion, internationalization and localization.
Waiting for Startups with: revenues of €5m+
Fields of interest: Consumer, SME, cybersecurity, fintech, SME productivity, marketplaces
Benefits for Startups: Growth stage experts including a broad global network
Fund range per team: 5-20m first check
Investment conditions: open to doing primary or secondary or CLN/SAFE
Market focus: US, Europe (incl. Blatics), South-East Asia, Australia
We are a venture capital fund supporting forward-thinking founders from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Ukraine. Our investment focus is mostly in B2B, SaaS, fintech, platforms, software enabled hardware and deep tech, but we don’t limit ourselves to those areas.
Waiting for Startups with: Team, MPV/Product, Initial traction
Fields of interest: FinTech, B2B, SaaS, DeepTech, Platform, Hardware (with a software component)
Benefits for Startups: At our core, we're not just investors; we're partners in a true sense, walking alongside founders on their journey. Besides capital, we offer a helping hand, sharing insights, guidance, and feedback. It's a collaboration built on trust, aimed at achieving long-term success together.
Fund range per team: 50k-3m EUR
Investment conditions: Equity and convertible
Market focus: Baltics, Finland and Ukraine
