FASE – the leading impact finance advisor across Europe
Our mission is to support impact ventures with outstanding, innovative solutions in finding the appropriate financing to grow and scale. With our
tailored consulting services and various activities to shape a better ecosystem, we are committed to helping to create a thriving market for social innovation across Europe. We are also making direct investment through our mezzanine matching fund with up to 400K EUR/transaction.

Waiting for Startups with: Post-revenue
Fields of interest: Sector agnostic - requiring social or environmental impact
Benefits for Startups: 2000+ impact investors, mostly from DACH region. Facilitation of full rounds as trusted advisor
Fund range per team: Up to 400K EUR
Investment conditions: Mezzanine (patient, subordinated loan)
Market focus: Europe

With a background of more than 20 years of digital business development, we specialise in high-growth digital businesses. We operate with an entrepreneurial attitude and support your growth with a “late founder” mentality. We invest in early-stage startups (angel/pre-seed/seed).
Sofokus Ventures investment focus:
A digital software solution or platform has been (/will be) designed around your business.
Your business idea is scalable.
Your team is growth-oriented and able to learn quickly.
You are located in the Nordics or Baltics.
You believe in customer-centricity and product-led growth.
Your company is in its early stages and optimally you are seeking your first external funding.
You are capital efficient and have sustainable financial management.

 

Waiting for Startups with: MVP, first income
Fields of interest: B2B Saas, marketplaces
Fund range per team: 20-70t€
Investment conditions: equity or convertible note
Market focus: Nordics and Baltics - main focus on Finland

Tenity is a startup incubator, accelerator and early-stage VC founded in 2016 in Zurich focused primarily on Fintech, Insurtech, Regtech and Deeptech. It provides incubation and acceleration programs helping startups to connecting with corporates, experts, mentors, and investors for early stage venture and late stage venture investing, and collaboration opportunities. The company currently has operating hubs in Zurich, Singapore, Madrid, and Tallinn.
As of July 2023, the company had accepted over 280 companies into its programs who have raised more than $370mn USD combined.

 

Waiting for Startups with: prototype, MVP, first income, early GTM
Fields of interest: fintech, insurtech, regtech, legaltech, deeptech, sustainability
Fund range per team: 50k to 250k and up to 1 mln EUR at companies in our portfolio at later stages
Investment conditions: Convertible Loans, SAFE, Equity
Market focus: Europe, Nordics, Baltics, Singapore, South-East Asia

SFV is the Baltics pre-seed cleantech VC fund. Investing in Energy, Mobility, Industry & Novel Materials, Agtech & Foodtech + wider cleantech.

Waiting for Startups with: Prototype, founder-level
Fields of interest: Cleantech in general, Energy, Mobility, Materials, Industry, Agtech, Foodtech
Fund range per team: 500000-3000000
Investment conditions: Equity, SAFE, convertible
Market focus: Baltics

Estonian 55m fund, investing in early-stage European startups with Consumer and Community components (marketplaces, consumer tech and B2B companies with Product Led Growth strategy). Investment team of 8 people, based in Estonia, Finland and Germany.

Waiting for Startups with: Consumer and Community components, and at least MVP with initial traction
Fields of interest: Marketplaces, B2C, B2B2C, B2B companies with PLG strategy
Benefits for Startups: We can offer mentorship and network
Fund range per team: 100k-1m initial ticket, follow-on capacity of up to 5m per team
Investment conditions: Equity and convertible notes
Market focus: We invest all over Europe, with Baltics and Finland being our core regions

VNTRS (Ventures) is a digital consulting and pre-seed investment company that bridges the gap between digital product development and technology investments. We specialize in supporting early-stage tech companies, particularly those in the pre-seed and seed stages, by offering expertise in tech, growth, design, and business development. VNTRS is distinct for reinvesting parts of their fee for equity in selected companies, becoming shareholders and long-term partners, and currently boasts a diverse investment portfolio of over 30 early-stage tech companies.

Waiting for Startups with: MVP, first income, growth
Fields of interest: SaaS and tech
Benefits for Startups: Access to senior talent, growth, networks
Fund range per team: 30-300K
Investment conditions: Sweat Equity 1-5%
Market focus: New Nordics

Digital East Fund (DEF) is one of the leading early-stage focused venture capital investors in Europe, investing in tech startups with global ambitions and roots in Emerging Europe. With over $550m committed capital, DEF seeks to back the most ambitious startups from Emerging Europe in capturing large global markets as category leaders. DEF team’s investment track record includes some of the multi-billion dollar successes emerging from the region, including UiPath, Payhawk, and Trendyol.

Waiting for Startups with: No threshold
Fields of interest: Sector-agnostic (except for biotech)
Benefits for Startups: In-house talent sourcing team dedicated to our portfolio companies
Fund range per team: Flexible ticket size from a few hundred thousands up to ten million first checks
Investment conditions: No conditions
Market focus: CEE and Turkey

Black Pearls VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on supporting the leading tech companies from the Baltic Sea Region. It invests in early stages with a typical ticket of between €100k - €1m. Black Pearls VC is a part of the Kauffman Fellows, a global network of 700+ leading VCs. The fund's investments include Autenti, Telemedi, Enso, eAgronom, Ondato, heavyFinance, Traxlo, and the unicorn GoCardless.

Waiting for Startups with: Prototype/MVP, solid team, happy to see early traction
Fields of interest: Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Deep Tech
Benefits for Startups: Hands on support, expansion opportunities, connections to enterprise customers, access to Kauffman Fellows network
Fund range per team: €100k-€1M 
Investment conditions: Equity, CN
Market focus: Baltic Sea Region

$2B venture and growth equity fund investing $1M-$50M checks globally into high growth internet and SMB businesses.

Waiting for Startups with: $1M+ Revenue, Gross Margin positive
Fields of interest: Consumer, SMB Software, Marketplaces, FinTech
Benefits for Startups: Hiring team, corp dev, strategy, advisory board recruitment
Fund range per team: 1M - 100M
Investment conditions: Equity
Market focus: Global

Simpact is the first VC investment fund in Poland based on the Impact Investing idea. For 5 years, we have been successfully investing in startups that create innovative technologies that solve the problems of the modern world. As part of the Simpact 1.0 fund, we supported 26 innovative projects. We are currently investing under the Simpact 2.0 fund with a total capitalization of PLN 100 million, supported by the European Investment Fund.

Fields of interest: Sector agnostic

Waiting for Startups with: Strong impact, Scalability, Strong team, Exit possibility

Benefits for Startups: Investment, Community, Networking

Fund range per team: 500k - 2M

Investment conditions: Equity, Convertible notes, SAFEs

Market focus: CEE