Aster is a VC fund based in Paris, with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv. We invest in Energy, Mobility, and Industry 4.0, from seed to series B – meaning ticket size from €500,000 to €10M. We cover France, Europe and the USA
We are looking for three verticals:
– New Mobilities (Smart infrastructures, global digital Transformation of operators, vehicles manufacturers and infrastructure providers – Transportation and smart cities, urban mobility – Connected and autonomous cars)
– Energy Transition (Energy management, storage, and efficiency – Smart building – Solar and Wind Energies – Wireless Power)
– Smart Industry (Robotics and logistics – IoT and Industrial connectivity, human-machine interface – Predictive maintenance, analytics / efficiency – Inspection and quality prediction software – Simulation software)

AVCO is the national association for Austria’s private equity
industry and corporate finance service providers. AVCO
encompasses private equity houses – from venture capital
and expansion financing to buy-outs –

as well as various
other institutions and companies which are interested in
developing the private equity and venture capital industry
in Austria – from service providers, banks, investors to
portfolio companies and professionals. AVCO’s purpose
is to communicate private equity and venture capital
activities and issues to the appropriate target audience
and the general public. Furthermore, the exchange of ideas
and cooperation between the members and the private
equity and venture capital community is encouraged.

aws Founders Fund is Austria’s most active venture capital fund with around EUR 70 m under management. The fund invests during the later seed and series A/B phases of highly scalable Austrian technology start-ups.

Co-investors from our international network are actively involved. aws Founders Fund sees itself as a long-term, stable partner and offers entrepreneurial venture capital with active support. To date, together with co-investors, aws Founders Fund has invested more than EUR 153m in 30 portfolio companies and has successfully completed numerous.

Type of funding:
– Start-up investments (later seed)
– Follow-on financing (series A/B)
– Flexible terms and various instruments of financing (equity, mezzanine, convertible loan, etc.)
– Co-investments with national and international partners exits.

We support our start-ups with start-up and follow-up investments of up to EUR 3m and the preparation of future financing rounds. Together with our co-investors we can raise EUR 10m to EUR 15m.

Breega is a European venture capital fund designed to finance start-ups in the digital economy. The fund, comprised of experienced investors with entrepreneurial experience, exercises an approach to financing that includes providing on-the-ground support to its start-ups by an in-house team of specialists focused on providing sectorial and operational expertise.

Leading the way in transforming the modern VC, Breega invests in Seed and Series Arounds, up to €10M.

Maximilien began his career at Beijaflore, a management consulting firm, in which he served as a consultant specialized in Telecom. After launching Tele2’s ADSL Triple Play offer, he founded Titane Conseil, a consulting company specialized in digital transformation, which he led for seven years before co-founding Breega Capital in 2013.

The fund is structured as an evergreen, with average target investment — de-investment cycles of 5 years. The fund is constantly being increased in volume by the club’s members (total net-worth approx. EUR 20b) — which commit on a deal by deal basis.

The fund has invested (until today) in 6 start-ups — following a clear strategy to develop them moving forward. Our investment philosophy is very simple:

– We back strong, entrepreneurial founder (management) teams at early and later stages.

– We have an innovative and flexible approach to size, structure and level of ownership.

– We actively focus on asset-light companies in target sectors with strong growth potential.

– We favour dynamic situations — often driven by competitive advantage, technology (deep tech), transition of business model or special opportunities (e.g. secondary share sales)

Our concept resulted in significant valuation increases and international follow-on investments. The management team holds a successful track record of more than 60 transactions completed, since working together. We offer a highly entrepreneurial team with operational, strategic and M&A expertise, which is used to work hands-on if needed.

Last but not least, ESAC seeks to overcome geographical, industrial, and technological barriers to exchange ideas, knowledge, and opportunities across Europe and seeks to scale European “unicorns” (as a vision).

The club’s fund invests in high-growth tech European start-ups from EUR 1 to 10 million/round. The fund invests in 90% of European start-ups and 10% of non-EU start-ups.

For almost 20 years, KREAXI’s team (resulting from the merger in 2016 of Banexi Ventures Partners and Rhône-Alpes Création) has invested in companies that are transforming the core of industries by either technology or service innovations or new business models.

Kreaxi is an established European Venture Capital firm with team of 15 people based in Lyon, Paris and Frankfurt. Over €500M raised from institutional investors in last 20 years. Out of 540 start-up investments, 27 companies went public. Kreaxi is regulated by the AMF.
Kreaxi is managing venture funds and regional seed investment funds. Kreaxi has >80 companies in its actual fund’s portfolios. Our value creation strategy is to develop investments to « hyper growth » by a combination of internal and external growth plans.

LEA Partners is an entrepreneurial-minded multi-stage private equity firm supporting founders and management teams in various development stages to achieve growth and market leadership.

Operating out of Karlsruhe, one of Europe’s largest tech clusters, LEA Partners has facilitated investments into more than 40 companies since 2002. With two investment vehicles for all business stages and a strong network of operational industry experts and strategic partners, LEA Partners adds substantial value to the development of tech companies.

Omnes raises between €25-40M each year and invests in A and B series from €1M to €5M (ticket size) as a co-investor (lead or follower).

The technologies and markets targeted by Omnes include the following sectors:
Advanced software, high-end sensors/semiconductors, new (in)organic materials. Start-ups in the so-called “deep tech” sector share the following characteristics (as opposed to “low tech” start-ups): disruptive technology, high barriers to entry, high R&D, intellectual property, complex technology, capital intensive. Omnes also invests in Biotech start-up.

Ring Capital is a €165M growth fund: they provide capital to fast growing digital scale-ups and mentor ambitious French entrepreneurs. Ring Capital is currently raising a 2nd vehicle, dedicated to supporting Tech4Good early stage start-ups in France and abroad.

The new philosophy is the ability to both finance and support impact-tech early stage companies with dedication and humility. Digital operational skills and proven track record to invest and support the entrepreneurs’ team in growing and scaling up their business. Currently Ring Capitel is gathering a community of 50+ tech mentors to support entrepreneurs on on-demand issues, and 30+ entrepreneurs to mentor entrepreneurs throughout the holding period on transversal issues.

SAMAN Ventures invests in exceptional people whose ideas have the potential to disrupt the way we live and work. We provide early-stage financing to help transform those ideas into companies and those companies into market leaders.

Targeted technologies and markets :

We focus on deep tech solutions – Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Mechatronics & Robotics, Infrastructure, Materials, Automation & Automotive solutions

Fund portfolio and success stories :

SAMAN Ventures is currently invested in 8 start-ups. One start-up was exited 2017.

Situlus Holding GmbH is an independent Austrian company founded in Graz in 2012 that invests in start-ups and medium-sized companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In this sense, Situlus participates on the one hand in innovative technology companies as an early-stage financier for research and development, the market launch of the product, the development of production and internationalization. On the other hand, as a growth financier of already established small and medium-sized enterprises. Our commitments are in the region of €0.5 million to € 2 million. Situlus sees itself as a temporary partner that brings strategic know-how and capital to the company. With our experience and contacts, we accompany the management and create the basis for further expansion. The aims is to further develop our investments into successful companies with a strong market position. Situlus Holding GmbH is a subsidiary of SEIDEL PRIVATSTIFTUNG.

Ventech is an early stage VC fund created in 1998 in Paris and has developed internationally, with the openings of offices in Munich in 2013 and Helsinki in 2018 and the launch of a sister company in China in 2008.

Reason for that is that they believe in “Global reach, local touch” and they provide internationalization support to their start-ups through their local networks and investments in various geographies. Ventech has a team of 9 investment professionals in Europe, with General Partners having two fund lifecycles behind them and meaningful exits (>60).
Initially invest is between €1-4M per company, with reserves going up to €8M per company.