

HQ: France Fund size: Targeting €150m Focus: French tech Stage: Seed and Series A Unruly Capital’s standard cheque size is €250k, either leading a pre-seed round or tagging along in a seed round. As an angel, he’s backed companies like forest monitoring startup Pachama, mycelium startup Mushlabs and Heart Aerospace, which is working on electric aircraft.

Self-described “crypto-anarcho-eco-capitalist” Stefano Bernardi, who’s been angel investing for the past few years, announced his first VC fund as a solo GP in November. HQ: Italy Fund size: €18m Focus: Climate and deeptech Stage: Pre-seed and seed Zero Carbon Capital, which is run by experienced climate tech angel investors Pippa and Alex Gawley, has already made seven investments including ClimateCrop, RepAir, Anaphite and Ionate. HQ: UK Fund size: £13m closed, targeting £30m Focus: Climate tech and deeptech Stage: Pre-seed and seed It typically invests between €150k and €500k, for a 5% stake in equity. HQ: Germany Fund size: Targeting €15-18m with a first close of €5m in June 2022 Focus: Food and agritech - primarily in Europe Stage: Pre-seed and seedĬheque size: Typically between €150k to €500k for 5% equityįeast Ventures backs early-stage founders in the food and agritech space before their first institutional funding round, targeting everything from the development of new proteins and food traceability to personalised nutrition and pet food. It invests up to €100k to begin with, but also puts aside a few hundred thousand for potential follow-on investments. Slovenia-based daFUND currently has seven investments across Europe, spread across Switzerland, UK, Germany and Croatia.

EUROPEAN VENTURE CAPITAL FUND SOFTWARE
HQ: Ljubljana, Slovenia Fund size: €2M Focus: European B2B start-ups powered by software Stage: early stage (pre-seed/seed, rarely Series A) Alongside tickets of between €100k to €500k, portfolio companies may also receive angel co-investments. Backed by the European Investment Fund and angel investors, Genesis Ventures focuses on startups based in Greece or South-East Europe, but also ventures further out as long as companies have at least one branch or subsidiary in Greece.
