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 exits.

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

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.

We believe in the creation of technology-based companies as the response to the social demands for qualified employment, in promoting a highly technological industrial productive sector and of guaranteeing the quality and competitiveness of R&D.

We align with the interest of the main stakeholders:

• We know how science and the technology transfer process work
• We have a strong technological and financial background
• We have experience in the management of industrial companies in all their early stages of development
• We continually increase the company’s value through a solid and sustainable growth of the company

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.

Bullnet is a Spanish independent Venture Capital firm specialized in high technology start-ups. We focus on companies with proprietary disruptive technologies, which are the result of a previous R&D effort, usually done at research centers or Universities.

Our main investment interests are companies developing enterprise software, electronic design, avionics, photonics, and medical devices, but we are open to invest in other areas, considering each opportunity on a case by case basis.

We try to establish a close relationship with our invested companies, in order to support them not only from the financial point of view, but also providing the entrepreneurs all the necessary strategic and business support. We like to be seen as just another member of the founding team, who is going to make all the efforts needed in order to make the project a success.

We invest using equity or convertible loans. Our typical investment ticket ranges between 0.5 and 5 million euro per company (in several disbursements), and we look for minority stakes.

Our preferred investment region is Spain, but may consider opportunities in other countries depending specifically on the case.

Caixa Capital Risc, the venture capital arm of CriteriaCaixa, an investor that provides equity and convertible loans to innovative companies in their early stages.

Through different specialized vehicles, we invest in the seed phase and offer support during the A and B Series rounds, if necessary.

Caixa Capital Risc manages a capital of 195 million euro and invests mainly in Spanish companies in the following fields:

TIME: corporate software, communications equipment, and Internet/mobile business
Healthcare/ Life sciences: therapeutic treatments, drug development, medical devices, and healthcare services
Industrial technology: new materials, sustainability, process technology, etc.

In addition to our investment activity, we develop an intense activity of supporting the transfer of technology and the development of enterprises in their early stages, through programs such as CaixaImpulse or the Premios Emprendedor XXI.

We have been working in the startup industry for more than 20 years, launching our own companies, mentoring some of the most successful tech startups and investing as business angels in more than 100 projects.

Thus we have decided to go a step further and launch Encomenda Smart Capital: a fund where we keep investing in seed digital companies with further resources and money but the same philosophy that we had as business angels.

We help entrepreneurs for free in making strategic decisions, scaling organizations, implementing financial planning, defining new business opportunities, seeking new talent, analyzing their main KPIs and preparing their companies for next funding rounds.

Our initial investment ranges from 70K€ to 300K€, and we can invest up to 1M€ per company.

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.

Fluxunit is the Corporate VC arm of OSRAM, a leader in the photonics and optical semiconductor industry. We invest in early-stage start-ups with novel technologies and innovative business models. Our investment focus ranges from early stage to growth financing with a ticket size of up to 10m$ and a geographic coverage of Europe, North America and Israel –

with a focus on the following technology areas:

• Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics ventures enabling future mobility and transportation solutions (e.g. autonomous driving, safety systems, etc.).
• Smart Building applications that digitally connect systems or provide data analytics for professional buildings.
• Smart Farming technologies and solutions improving performance, yield and quality in agricultural production.
• Emerging VR/AR/XR Technologies or related commercial innovations adjacent to OSRAM’s capabilities or business scope.
• Digital Health Tech ventures providing scalable and precise systems and services for healthcare, enabled by miniaturization, connectivity and photonic technologies.
• Innovations in Photonics & Compound Semiconductor technologies that enable novel optical sensor solutions improving productivity, security, safety, health and quality of life.

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.

For more than 30 years, Laser 2000 has been supplying Photonics and Fiber Optic solutions matching even the most demanding applications. We cooperate with global leaders to supply customer-specific solutions from a single source. We are avid promoters of optical technologies and are always on the cutting edge of development, products and application options.

Photonics is our passion and profession alike. It is also the basis for ensuring the best customer satisfaction, as a leading player on the European market for optical technologies in the photonics century.

Founded in 1986 by the photonics pioneer Armin Luft, the Laser 2000 group has operations all over Europe.

In year 2018, the European investment company Gimv acquired a 75% stake in Laser 2000 GmbH, headquartered in Wessling (Germany) and with subsidiaries in France, Spain and Sweden, and integrated our company in Gimv’s Smart Industries platform.

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.

The Best Minds and Capital for Tech Driven Companies We Support companies through 7 main levers:

1. Team Building We provide a startup’s most important asset: Human capital. One of our goals is to ensure great people find the best place.

2. Operations We enhance administrative, accounting, legal, and technological fields by offering Experts as a Service.

3. Perspective We leverage your product strategy — defining scope, target market and competitive positioning. To provide strategic counselling and frank feedback.

4. Skill Building Building the right skills, especially for senior management. We collected a portfolio of executives that lead world-class technology companies. 
We also use coaching as a key lever with our own team or through outside partners.

5. Customer Development Identifying and gaining access to the right customers. We have relationships with large global corporations. We maintain a database of their needs — allowing us to identify early clients for your company.

6. Analysis Knowing the right KPIs to track in a company is essential for its success. We help entrepreneurs measure, understand, and report their performance.

7. Network Providing access to contact networks — particularly to other potential investors — is one of the cheapest and most value-added services an investor can provide. We organize events in our community and have regular meetings with accelerators, VCs and enterprise clients.

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.

Q Ventures Group are a business group led by a private foundation its aim is to accelerate new business projects related to quantum technologies by making our community of mentors, experts, entities and companies available to the best entrepreneurs. In addition, we have an investment vehicle called “The Quantum Revolution Fund” to invest hard capital in positive and viable initiatives after acceleration.

We invest in the practical applications of deep Quantum knowledge (QT) and complement the investment with strategic investments in DARQ Power, Distributed ledger technology (DLT), Artificial intelligence (AI) and Extended reality (XR). GAINING COMBINATORIAL EFFECTS.

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.

We are an investment group with a strong focus on hardware projects using infrared solutions (sensors, detectors). One of our strategic partners is VIGO System a joint stock company and a global leader in production of high operating temperature IR detectors. VIGO System supplies unique products, manufactured with the use of internally developed technology and the aid of its 100+ team. Our second strategic partner is Warsaw Equity Group a privately held investment company with over 20 years track record of successfully supporting business ventures. We are a part of a larger ecosystem and offer long term support for our portfolio companies this includes possible next round financing.