Flood Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage funding to technology companies with recurring revenue models. Founded in 2012, it typically invests at the pre-seed to Series A stages and aims to participate early rather than lead rounds. The firm helps companies accelerate growth by connecting them with partners, customers and follow-on investors, and leverages expertise in digital marketing to drive scalable expansion. Flood Ventures focuses on teams building scalable products and recurring revenue, offering strategic support and networks to speed market traction.

Graduate Entrepreneur is a venture capital investment firm based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2021. It backs early-stage companies in the Netherlands, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds up to Series A, supported by a broad network of successful entrepreneurs that provide mentors and strategic guidance throughout the growth journey. The firm aims to stimulate the startup ecosystem in Delft and Rotterdam by funding ambitious ventures and connecting them with experienced advisors and supporters.

KPN Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of KPN, a Dutch telecommunications and ICT company headquartered in Rotterdam. It partners with innovative early-growth European technology companies, providing capital, strategic guidance, and access to KPN's network and customer channels to help scale. The focus spans networking technology, Internet of Things, smart home, digital healthcare, cybersecurity, mobile and video services, cloud computing, data and analytics, and related digital infrastructure. Founded in 2015, KPN Ventures seeks to leverage KPN's telecom and ICT capabilities to create value for portfolio companies and enhance KPN's ecosystem.

Innovation Industries is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm that targets high-tech, medtech and agri-foodtech companies in the Netherlands. The firm combines capital with a hands-on approach, sharing its experience, knowledge and connections to strengthen portfolio companies, accelerate time-to-market and build global strategic partnerships. While primarily focused on startups, it can invest in select scale-ups and offers flexible funding across a broad technology spectrum, including information technology, digital health, artificial intelligence, climate technology and related fields. It positions itself as a partner to entrepreneurs and other stakeholders rather than merely a financier, providing active involvement and strategic guidance to help ventures grow from seed onward in the Dutch market and beyond.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.

InnovationQuarter is a Dutch regional development agency and venture capital firm based in The Hague, South Holland. It supports innovative and fast-growing companies by providing financing, including equity investments and subordinated or convertible loans for seed, early-stage and growth companies, and helps foreign businesses settle in South Holland. It also fosters collaboration among entrepreneurs, knowledge institutes and government. The firm funds a broad range of sectors, including maritime, data science and artificial intelligence, biobased and horticulture, aerospace, life sciences and health, high-tech systems and materials, energy, circular economy, information and communication technology, and cybersecurity.

Legend Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm and the investment arm of Legend Holdings, established in 2001 to become a leading venture capital manager in China. It manages up to about US$700 million across four funds and focuses on high-growth ventures with operations in China or markets related to China, particularly in early-stage information technology including network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, and infrastructure components such as IC design, as well as mid-market growth in consumer goods, clean technology, healthcare, equipment manufacturing, and modern services. As an active investor, Legend Capital provides portfolio companies with strategic resources, business development support, and market guidance to help them scale in the Chinese market. Notable investments include Joyo.com, SinoCom, Solarfun Power, Spreadtrum Communications, China Sunshine Paper, and VanceInfo, among others.

Walden International is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm that concentrates on cross-border investments between the United States and Asia, providing capital, relationships and operating expertise to help portfolio companies scale. The firm supports early and expansion-stage opportunities across sectors including information technology, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, SaaS, software, semiconductors, and related technologies, leveraging a global footprint and deep operating experience to help entrepreneurs compete in international markets.

Future Food Fund is a venture capital firm based in Utrecht, Netherlands, that provides early-stage capital to startups across Europe developing technologies and products for the food and agriculture value chain. Its focus includes agrifood technology, food products, and agriculture information technology, and it pursues impact-oriented opportunities within the sector.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.

SHIFT Invest is a Dutch environmental impact venture capital firm based in Amstelveen. It makes early-stage investments in innovations across food and agriculture, green industries, energy transition, sustainable mobility and logistics, water and clean technologies, and biobased solutions, with a focus on agriculture and nutrients, food and health. The firm seeks to generate environmental benefits alongside financial returns and supports portfolio companies with its network and sector knowledge to help scale sustainable solutions.

UNIIQ is an investment fund based in The Hague, Netherlands, with a focus on the proof-of-concept phase. Established in 2016, it manages a fund of €22 million aimed at supporting entrepreneurs in South Holland in bringing their unique innovations to market. UNIIQ provides essential start-up capital to help bridge the most critical phase of transforming ideas into promising businesses. By collaborating closely with knowledge institutions and incubators, UNIIQ actively aids entrepreneurs in their strategic development. The investments made by UNIIQ are utilized for validating innovations and business concepts, with the ultimate goal of facilitating the transition to further financing. The fund emphasizes a straightforward process with favorable conditions for entrepreneurs, ensuring they can effectively move forward with their projects.

Noaber Foundation is an impact investment firm based in Ede, Netherlands. It invests in digital health, diagnostics and medtech to drive preventative healthcare and social outcomes, using information technology to create transformations, and typically supports seed-stage opportunities.

Bossa Invest is a venture capital firm based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, founded in 2011, that manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients across sectors, with a focus on software as a service companies, and analyzes market trends to inform its investment decisions while operating in finance, technology, and real estate.

OrbiMed is a healthcare-focused investment firm based in New York, founded in 1989, with approximately $5 billion in assets under management. It engages in private equity, venture capital, and growth investments across the global healthcare landscape, spanning biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences tools, medical devices, diagnostics, health care services, and digital health. The firm invests across the development spectrum, from startup ventures to mature companies, and pursues opportunities worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Israel and India, leveraging a long-standing specialization in the sector. Through its diversified capital programs, OrbiMed partners with management to advance innovative therapies, tools, and services that address significant medical needs.

Efung Capital is a Shenzhen-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on the healthcare and life sciences sector. It engages in early-stage and growth capital investments, targeting healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, high-end medical devices, and original drugs, and also investing across technology, media, telecommunications, high-end equipment, environmental protection, and new materials. The firm typically commits RMB 5 million to RMB 50 million per transaction and pursues exits through IPOs, stock transfers, mergers and acquisitions, back-door listings, or buybacks. Founded in 2007, Efung Capital aims to support the industrialization of medical research by providing capital and strategic value to portfolio companies. Its investments include notable life sciences companies such as Chipscreen Biosciences, Frontier Biotechnologies, Ascentage Pharma, Lifotronic, Aridis Pharmaceuticals, and Centrexion.

Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.

CDH Investments is an international alternative asset manager based in Beijing with offices in Hong Kong. Established in 2002, it runs a diversified platform across private equity, venture capital, growth, real assets, mezzanine, public equities, and wealth management, focusing on Greater China. The firm invests across stages from early to middle-market buyouts, targeting consumer, hard technology, new energy, and healthcare sectors, as well as related areas such as information technology, media, finance, and manufacturing. With experienced investment teams that have collaborated for years, CDH seeks to generate value through its China-focused approach, managing over $27 billion in assets.

IQ Capital is a Cambridge and London based venture capital firm that backs early‑stage and growth technology companies in the United Kingdom and Europe, with a focus on deep tech capable of global leadership. The firm invests in seed and Series A rounds and can provide follow‑on capital through a Growth Fund, with initial checks typically in the hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of pounds. Its portfolio spans software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, health tech, advanced engineering, semiconductors, energy and cybersecurity. IQ Capital has a track record of more than 30 exits to major tech companies and takes a hands‑on approach, often supporting portfolio companies with governance and strategic guidance to scale internationally.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

Basis Set Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in early-stage investments focused on artificial intelligence and its practical applications. The firm targets seed and Series A rounds and typically writes checks between $1 million and $3 million for enterprise companies, with emphasis on scalable infrastructure, collaboration tools, automated workflows, and autonomous systems.

Zero Prime Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that makes pre-seed and seed investments in engineer-led enterprise startups focused on data technologies, including data infrastructure, artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms, developer tools, blockchain, and cloud technologies.

Gradient Ventures is Google's AI-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2017 and based in Palo Alto, California. The firm backs seed- and early-stage startups in artificial intelligence and machine learning, providing capital and access to Google’s technical leadership and ecosystem. It supports founders in developing and scaling AI-enabled products by sharing best practices in recruiting, design, marketing, and engineering, and by connecting portfolio companies with Google resources to navigate early product challenges and drive practical AI applications across industries.

Seedcamp is a European seed-stage venture capital firm based in London that identifies and invests early in founders tackling large global markets with technology. It supports a community of more than 400 startups, including publicly listed UiPath and Wise and unicorns such as Revolut, Hopin, Sorare, Pleo and wefox, as well as fast-growing companies like Grover, viz.ai and Ezra. The firm accelerates founders by providing smart capital, a lifelong community, and a global network built on more than a decade of backing exceptional talent.

Founded in Munich, Germany in 2013, Possible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies developing frontier technologies with positive impacts on people and the planet. They focus on sectors such as technology, decentralized finance, energy, blockchain, climate, health, life sciences, and software.

iCON Infrastructure is an independent investment firm based in London that specializes in private investments in infrastructure assets across Europe and North America. Founded in 2004, the firm focuses on sectors including water, transportation, energy generation, distribution and storage, utilities, telecoms, and social infrastructure. It pursues long-term ownership and active management of infrastructure assets, supported by a network of senior industry professionals with broad management and sector expertise.

PDENH is an investment management firm based in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, that focuses on venture capital and private equity investments. Founded in 2014, the firm aims to identify and support innovative companies and projects, providing the necessary capital and expertise to foster growth and development in various sectors.

ZSVC is a Chinese venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments. The firm aims to support innovative startups by providing them with the necessary capital and resources to grow and scale their operations. Through its investment strategy, ZSVC seeks to identify and nurture promising entrepreneurial ventures within the Chinese market, contributing to the development of the startup ecosystem in the region.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

Healthy.Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, established in 2017. It funds health and care startups across growth, seed and co-investment rounds, with a focus on health tech and digital healthcare services, including B2B/B2C solutions, software-as-a-service, services and marketplaces. The firm typically backs Netherlands-based companies and takes minority stakes, with investments generally ranging from €0.2 million to €2 million and target enterprise values from €0.5 million to €10 million.

Curie Capital is a life science-focused venture capital firm established in 2018 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The firm aims to invest in early-stage companies within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical technology sectors, with particular emphasis on therapeutics, diagnostics, and medical devices. Founded by Mariette van der Velden and Han de Groot, both of whom possess extensive experience in investing and entrepreneurship, Curie Capital combines their complementary skills and networks to support the development of talented teams and innovative science and technology. The firm seeks to foster the growth of its portfolio companies from inception through to potential public exit.

Fortino Capital Partners is a Belgium-based private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Antwerp, established in 2013. It focuses on growth and early-stage technology investments in Western Europe, with emphasis on the Benelux region, and occasionally broader Europe. The firm backs B2B software and SaaS, IT services, and information technology companies, providing expansion capital and strategic support to accelerate growth, product development, and go-to-market initiatives, including international expansion and brand building for SMEs and technology-enabled businesses.

Africa Oil Corp is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya and Ethiopia and Puntland in Somalia through its 41% equity stake in Africa Energy Corp. Its East African holdings form part of a prolific exploration play along the East African Rift Basin, with a land position exceeding 200,000 square kilometers. In Kenya’s Lokichar basin, the company holds a 50% interest alongside operator Tullow Oil, supporting ongoing exploration in the region.

Pareto Holdings is a venture capital firm and venture studio founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York. It focuses on early-stage and pre-seed investments across industries and geographies, often backing entrepreneurs at the outset. The company invests its own capital rather than raising external funds and operates with a lean, globally distributed team. It has completed hundreds of investments to date, and provides hands-on support to startups through its venture studio activities.

Navus Ventures is a Netherlands-based venture capital firm founded in 2013, focused on high-tech and sustainable start-ups and scale-ups with emphasis on transitions in food and energy. It operates as an independent family-office backed investor, not tied to the Lely family business strategy, and typically invests across seed to growth stages in the Netherlands, in sectors such as sustainable food, software, hardware, energy technology, and related areas like food and agriculture, mobility and waste. Navus takes an active, hands-on approach as a shareholder, aiming for quick decisions and long holding periods, and provides strategic and operational support with short lines of communication to portfolio management. It seeks board representation in portfolio companies and emphasizes transparency and honesty in relationships with start-ups and co-investors.

Atlas Venture is a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based venture capital firm founded in 1980 that specializes in life sciences and technology. It pursues seed-led venture creation and early-stage investments to build scalable companies in biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices, and related biomedical technologies, as well as software and other technology sectors. The firm often leads investments and seeks board representation to support portfolio companies as they grow toward acquisition or public offerings. Atlas operates with dedicated life sciences and technology teams and maintains an international footprint across the United States and Europe.

Energiefonds Overijssel is a government-backed fund based in Zwolle, Netherlands, established in 2012. It provides financial support to companies and projects that save energy or generate energy from renewable sources, with a focus on renewable energy and clean energy technology to accelerate the energy transition.

StartGreen Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, focusing on cleantech and sustainable energy. It invests in seed, early-stage and expansion companies, as well as project finance in debt and equity, with a preference for Dutch ventures. Typical investments range from €0.1 million to €1.5 million and aim for a four to six year horizon. The firm provides more than capital, drawing on market knowledge, a broad network and entrepreneurial guidance to support portfolio companies after investment. It offers flexible financial products, including loans and access to crowdfunding, and seeks to integrate financing with hands-on support to help entrepreneurs commercialize innovative technologies in areas such as generation, storage, distribution, water technologies and purification. StartGreen Capital pursues impact alongside profitability and positions itself as a leading specialist in the Dutch clean-tech scene.

Antea Participaties is a private equity firm based in The Hague, Netherlands, founded in 1999. It focuses on middle-market investments in the Netherlands and targets companies in sectors such as food, industry, ICT, media and business services. The firm typically invests between €1.5 million and €7.5 million in enterprises valued at €5 million to €30 million, with EBITDA of at least €1 million, and it takes both minority and majority stakes. It aims to exit investments after about five to seven years and does not invest in start-ups, focusing instead on established, growth-oriented companies, including potential management buy-outs and restructurings.

VOC Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2009. It invests in seed to expansion-stage companies across sectors including new media and consumer, business services and technology, energy and resources, financial services, and healthcare, with a focus on opportunities in the Netherlands and on scalable technology-enabled businesses. Typical investments range from €100,000 to €2 million, and the firm often takes minority stakes of about 20-40% in companies founded within the last seven years.

The Hatch Firm is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Founded in 2014, it targets early-stage information technology and technology-enabled sectors, including SaaS, mobile, cybersecurity, fintech, big data, cloud technology, digital health, education technology, the internet of things and mobility technologies. The firm provides capital, time, expertise and network to ambitious entrepreneurs with scalable products or services and recurring revenue. Its hatch philosophy focuses on sharpening the business plan, accelerating growth through its network, and developing the venture's inside advantage. It aims to create value for customers and profits for the business by guiding startups toward attractive financial events, such as strategic exits or larger funding rounds, driven by market validation and scalable traction.

Endeit Capital is a Netherlands-headquartered private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2006. The firm focuses on technology-based European companies, providing mid- to late-stage growth capital to scale-ups. It maintains offices in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Stockholm to cover its European footprint. Endeit Capital targets investments across digital media and marketing technology, marketplaces, B2B and B2C commerce, enterprise cloud services, e-commerce, sales technology, and sectors such as supply chain, climate technology, fintech, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud technologies and the Internet of Things. The firm typically backs growth-stage companies across Europe, helping them expand market reach, product development and international growth.

Inventages Venture Capital Investment is the venture investment arm of Nestlé, focused on growth and early-stage opportunities across health care, life sciences, cosmeceuticals, pharmaceuticals, enabling technologies and services, diagnostics, and medical devices. It pursues seed through late-stage investments, including mezzanine and bridge financing, and targets middle-market and mature companies. Its portfolio interests span small molecules, proteins, antibodies, vaccines, phytopharmaceuticals, natural compounds, botanicals, antibiotics, and therapeutics; diagnostic areas such as genetic materials, biomarkers, pharmacogenomics, and analytical tools; enabling technologies including packaging, production technologies, supply chain management, and novel materials, as well as innovative preventive and therapeutic concepts. It also backs companies in nutraceuticals, functional foods, dietary supplements, oral and skin care, immune modulation, and health management. The firm seeks to create value through financial and strategic support across stages while leveraging Nestlé’s global resources.