Neulogy Ventures is a Bratislava-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that makes seed and Series A investments across technology-enabled sectors, including media, cleantech, data analytics, productivity applications, medtech, infrastructure, fintech, security, 3D, e-commerce, information and communication technology, new energy, and medical diagnostics. It supports portfolio companies with a professional, transparent, and hands-on approach, aiming to finance and develop talented entrepreneurs and help their companies succeed in the global market.

Vision Ventures (Slovakia) is a Bratislava-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in Slovakia. It also manages growth-oriented investment vehicles, such as Vision Ventures Growth I, to support expansion in the Slovak market.

CB Investment Management, founded in 2019 and based in Bratislava, Slovakia, is a growth and expansion investor that supports seed and pre-seed companies in Slovakia. The firm focuses on sectors including energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology, helping early-stage businesses scale operations and enter markets. It operates as part of the Crowdberry investment platform, which connects private investors with Slovak and Czech companies.

Oktogon Ventures is a Budapest-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology-driven startups in Central and Eastern Europe. It leverages local knowledge, operational experience, and a broad network to help portfolio companies achieve rapid growth, with a focus on technology-heavy businesses that can scale globally from early stages. The firm emphasizes regional reach across Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, and Bulgaria, and maintains strong connections to US and Western European co-investors, mentors, and talent pools. Its portfolio includes Bitrise, Recart, and Enduraid, illustrating emphasis on software and technology-enabled solutions. Oktogon engages with founders through a hands-on approach and aims to support companies with global appeal from day one, enabling scalable, extraordinary growth.

Established in 2022 and headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia, Zero One Hundred is a venture capital firm that supports and invests in promising technology startups from emerging Europe.

Crowdberry is an investment platform founded in 2015 and based in Bratislava, Slovakia, that enables private investors to directly invest in specific companies and real estate projects. It operates as a growth capital provider in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, connecting innovative startups, SMEs, real estate ventures, and impact projects with private investors to create long-term value and support domestic economic growth. The platform encompasses numerous target companies, investment funds, and SPVs across four segments and emphasizes transparency, fairness, and mutual accountability between founders and investors.

365.fintech is a boutique venture capital firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia, focused on early to scale-up technology startups in fintech, insurtech, big data and business intelligence. The firm targets API-first and infrastructure plays as well as B2B and B2B2C fintech companies, with a geographic focus on Slovakia and the wider Central and Eastern Europe region. It provides capital and strategic support to portfolio companies, including enabling product development, testing and piloting in live regulated banking environments, leveraging access within a banking group to accelerate market entry. The firm operates across Slovakia, Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, backing ventures that aim to transform financial services and data-driven industries.

Touzimsky Kapital is a venture capital investment firm and advisory services provider founded in 2011 and based in Prague, Czech Republic. It may invest independently or with private clients in growth-oriented projects and offers strategic advisory services related to investments, including strategy development, financial management and public relations. The firm focuses on opportunities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and pursues targets with clear growth plans and capable management, typically evaluating entities with annual turnover in the range of four to forty million euros.

Integer.pl Group is a leading private postal group in Europe that has rapidly expanded its InPost parcel locker network across numerous countries worldwide. Within three years, the company deployed its locker technology in Australia, Chile, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The service has earned high customer satisfaction, reflected in a Net Promoter Score of 89% as of February 2019, and has received several industry awards, including the World Mail Awards 2013, Retail Innovation of the Year 2013, and Delivery Innovation Excellence UK 2014. Integer.pl Group continues to build a strong global footprint in the logistics sector through its innovative locker solutions.

ZAKA Ventures is a Prague- and Bratislava-based venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed software startups across Europe, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the DACH region. It backs early-stage companies across sectors such as AI, analytics, B2B SaaS, consumer apps, gaming, crypto, retail, financial services, ad tech, e-commerce, marketing tech, real estate, and utilities. The firm pursues a pan-European strategy supported by scouts in Berlin, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, the Balkan region and Turkey, and operates from Prague and Bratislava. Founded in 2019, ZAKA Ventures seeks to partner with founders at the earliest stages to accelerate product development and market entry.

Venture to Future Fund is a Bratislava-based venture capital fund focused on technology companies operating in sectors such as business-to-business, business-to-consumer, healthcare, and information technology in Slovakia. It is a joint initiative involving the European Investment Bank, the Slovak Ministry of Finance, and the Slovak Investment Holding, and is noted as the first of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe region with EIB capital. The fund backs SMEs at seed, Series A and beyond, with partially functioning products and early paying customers or signed contracts, and typically participates in rounds from about 0.5 million euros, averaging 1.5–2 million euros, alongside independent private co-investors on a pari passu basis. Preference is given to Slovak-incorporated SMEs or EU companies with a capital link to Slovakia. The investment strategy centers on high-tech scaleups, innovation, market viability, and strong execution by the management teams.

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.

Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.

Global Founders Capital is a Berlin, Germany-based venture capital firm with a global focus that invests across seed, early, and later-stage companies. It maintains a stage-agnostic approach, seeking innovative ideas with potential impact and feasibility in global markets.

Third Point Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Third Point, a New York-based investment adviser. Founded in 2000, it engages in early-stage and growth equity investments and cross-over opportunities across technology sectors such as consumer, data and analytics, AI, software, cybersecurity, fintech, IT infrastructure, gaming and metaverse, mobility, and healthcare technology. The firm focuses on supporting portfolio companies from inception through scale and is led by veteran private equity and technology executive Robert Schwartz. It is affiliated with Third Point and forms part of its broader investment platform.

Established in 2022 and headquartered in Prague, Czech Founders VC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on supporting pre-seed startup founders predominantly from the CEE region. The firm differentiates itself by offering proactive assistance and fair terms to investees.

HBM Healthcare Investments is a Switzerland-based investment firm founded in 2001 and based in Zug. It concentrates on the healthcare sector, spanning human medicine, biotechnology, medical technology and diagnostics. The firm maintains a diversified portfolio that includes private companies, public companies, funds, cash and other assets, reflecting exposure across different stages and sectors within healthcare.

Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based venture capital firm that backs growth-oriented technology companies in Central Europe. Founded in 2017, it focuses on late Seed through Series B and scale-ups, typically investing €2-10 million. The firm backs teams with strong growth potential across sectors including software as a service, AI, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, fintech, adtech, telecom, mobility, energy and sustainability, and B2B services, with a preference for founders from Central Eastern Europe. Lead Ventures leverages its regional network and industry experience to help portfolio companies scale, expand within Hungary and the broader Central and Eastern Europe region. The firm is backed by corporate and financial institutional investors, including MOL and the Hungarian Development Bank and Eximbank, and manages around €200 million in funds.

LAUNCHub Ventures is a Bulgaria-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Sofia that invests in seed- and early-stage technology startups in Southeastern and Central Europe. The firm typically makes initial investments from €300,000 to €2 million and can provide follow-on support up to around €4 million across portfolio rounds. It backs startups across AI/ML, SaaS, future of work, proptech, crypto and blockchain, devtools, marketplaces, health tech, fintech, hardware, robotics, and related enterprise and consumer sectors, prioritizing scalable businesses with initial traction. LAUNCHub Ventures focuses on founders from SEE and CEE regions, partnering with them beyond capital and offering programs such as a Series A academy to help achieve milestones and raise subsequent rounds. The approach aims to strengthen the regional startup ecosystem and attract attention from global investors.

3TS Capital Partners is a Helsinki-based European technology-focused private equity and venture capital firm that provides expansion capital and buyout funding to small and mid-sized technology-enabled businesses across Europe. It targets growth sectors such as technology and internet, media and communications, and technology-enabled services, and augments its investments with sector partners and co-investors to deliver value beyond financing. The firm typically seeks minority or majority stakes and often takes seats on the board; it pursues exits within three to five years through trade sales or IPOs. It maintains active industry involvement through international associations and networks and operates with offices in the United States and across Europe.

Underground Ventures, established in 2024 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies. It specializes in investing in geothermal energy technology startups, aiming to facilitate global geothermal deployments. The firm commits up to $40 million over a period of 3 to 5 years to support these innovative ventures.

Wayra is a corporate venture arm and innovation hub connected to Telefónica, operating as a global accelerator and open-innovation platform that links startups and scaleups with the Telefónica group. With a presence in ten countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela, Wayra collaborates with entrepreneurs to identify and develop joint business opportunities. It serves as the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide, providing access to networks, capital, mentorship, and potential pilot deployments. Wayra runs accelerator programs and themed calls, such as the Wayra Call and the Health Hub with partners, to support tech startups across sectors like health tech, cybersecurity, smart city, and IT, aiming to scale startups through engagement with Telefónica's global assets and corporate partnerships.

Extantia Capital is a climate-first venture capital firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It focuses on deep decarbonisation technologies and accelerates the transition by uniting mission-driven entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and business leaders. With over €100 million in assets under management, Extantia operates two investment strategies: Extantia Flagship backs scalable deep decarbonisation companies, and Extantia Allstars invests in climate venture funds. The firm targets so-called Gigacorn companies capable of delivering substantial CO2e savings, aiming for ventures that reduce at least 100 Mt CO2e per year and have the potential to exceed 1 Gt CO2e annually.

Kinnevik is an industry-focused investment company based in Sweden that builds digital consumer businesses by partnering with talented founders and management teams to create, invest in, and lead fast-growing companies in developed and emerging markets. The group seeks to deliver shareholder value while contributing positively to society through well-governed ventures and responsible governance. Founded in 1936 by the Stenbeck, Klingspor and von Horn families, Kinnevik concentrates on digital consumer platforms and related technologies across global markets.

Hiventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary. It backs startups across multiple sectors and supports high-growth small and medium-sized enterprises, with the aim of fostering a sustainable and competitive SME and enterprise ecosystem in Hungary and the broader Central and Eastern Europe region. The firm is described as one of the largest and most active venture capital partners in Central and Eastern Europe.

Critical Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Coimbra, Portugal, established in 2011. It concentrates on seed and early-stage investments across technology sectors such as Internet of Things, automation and digitalization, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, decentralized technologies, user experience design and interfaces, mobility, and medical software. The firm differentiates itself by actively supporting portfolio companies with funding and strategic guidance, leveraging in-house expertise to help early-stage startups grow and navigate market development within a collaborative technology ecosystem.

DEPO Ventures is a Prague-based venture capital firm that operates an angel fund and an international network of angel investors. The firm focuses on technology startups, with a particular emphasis on early-stage, pre-seed ventures founded or led by entrepreneurs from Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to investment activities, it provides capital advisory services to help startups secure funding and scale their businesses. By combining its network and hands-on approach, DEPO Ventures aims to support early-stage companies across Europe through their growth journey.

J&T Ventures is a Prague-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that specializes in early-stage investments in startups across Central and South Eastern Europe, focusing on seed-stage companies with proven product-market fit and typically investing between EUR 0.3 million and 3 million per company.

Ara Partners is a private equity and infrastructure investment firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. The firm specializes in industrial decarbonization, investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy, industrial process electrification, waste management, and sustainable chemicals. It provides growth capital and buyout support to help portfolio companies scale and accelerate environmental progress, focusing on sectors such as manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency, green fuels, and food and agriculture. The firm pursues impact investments and collaborates with portfolio companies to advance decarbonization across the industrial economy, and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Earlybird Venture Capital is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 1997 that backs technology companies across Europe from early stages to growth. It focuses on consumer and enterprise technology, mobility and logistics, the internet of things, marketplaces, artificial intelligence, fintech, health tech, and related software-enabled services, often investing as lead or minority investor and taking board seats where appropriate. The firm provides strategic support and access to international networks and capital markets to help portfolio companies scale. It operates from Berlin with additional offices in Munich, Istanbul, and the United States, and is regarded as one of Europe’s most established and active VC firms.

OTB Ventures is a European venture capital firm founded in 2017 with offices in Amsterdam and Warsaw. It specializes in deep tech investments across Europe, targeting late seed to Series A/B rounds for startups developing technologies in SpaceTech, AI and data, Enterprise AI, Physical AI, Novel Computing, FinTech and Cybersecurity. The firm emphasizes access to Central and Eastern European deal flow and is described as the largest VC originating from the CEE, managing over $300 million in assets.

Rockaway Capital is a Prague-based venture capital firm and sector-focused holding founded in 2013 by Jakub Havrlant. It concentrates on digitally enabled businesses across e-commerce, online grocery, last-mile logistics, e-travel, fintech, media and blockchain, with portfolio activity across the DACH region, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The firm takes an active role in its portfolio, supporting management and operations where needed to accelerate growth. Portfolio companies have achieved substantial scale, with aggregated sales of over 2.5 billion euros and more than 5,000 employees across 17 European countries. The group emphasizes leveraging the digital economy to disrupt traditional business models and seeks opportunities across digitally enabled sectors throughout Europe.

Emma Capital is a private equity and holding firm founded in 2012, with offices in Prague, Nicosia and London. It focuses on investments in the retail and consumer-oriented sectors, including opportunities in Asia, Greece and the republics of the former Soviet Union, and tends to take an active management role in portfolio companies.

Planet A is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that focuses on impact investments and European greentech startups. It operates with an in-house science team that conducts life cycle assessments to quantify a startup's environmental impact and has the authority to veto investments if the impact is not significant and measurable, guiding portfolio decisions toward technologies that deliver meaningful, scalable environmental benefits.

Berlin Technologie Holding is a Berlin-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2013 that provides equity, debt, and venture debt financing to technology and technology-enabled businesses in German-speaking regions, including Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It engages across growth stages from late seed to later-stage buyouts, often through its own balance sheet, and pursues value creation via buyouts, spin-offs, management buy-outs, roll-ups, and buy-and-build strategies. The firm focuses on sectors such as Internet of Things, property technology, mobile, enterprise software as a service, and fintech, targeting companies with stable cash flows and growth potential, typically investing in the lower millions of euros to support expansion in technology-driven markets.

VentureFriends is a venture capital firm based in Athens, Greece, specializing in seed and pre-seed investments in tech-enabled startups across Europe. It backs early-stage companies in fintech, proptech, marketplaces, B2B software as a service, e-commerce, IT, and related sectors, with typical checks ranging from a few hundred thousand to a couple of million euros and potential follow-ons. The firm emphasizes a founder-friendly approach, drawing on the experience of ex-entrepreneurs and angel investors to support growth and go-to-market efforts. Investments target companies capable of building durable moats and scalable businesses, primarily in Europe, with activity across the broader EMENA region. The firm is credited with establishing a presence in Athens and focusing on a broad tech-enabled toolkit for portfolio development, networks, and strategic guidance.

Piton Capital is a London-based venture capital and growth equity firm that focuses exclusively on network effects businesses, including marketplaces, exchanges and platforms, as well as data network effects, user-generated content, and SaaS models with potential network effects. The firm is stage- and style-agnostic and invests from seed to late stage, with typical investments ranging from €200,000 to €15 million.

Unigrains is a Paris-based private equity firm founded in 1963 that concentrates on the agribusiness sector, including agri-food and agro-industry. It invests globally through direct minority investments and through specialized funds, with a focus on agri-food and ag-tech companies, and also provides specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector.

Yttrium is a growth capital firm based in Frankfurt, Germany. It invests in B2B technology companies across Europe and the United States, spanning seed to growth stages. The firm focuses on industrial technology and financial technology, with the aim of helping management teams scale and expand into regional and global markets.

Latitude Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm that backs seed, early, and later-stage startups. It partners with ambitious founders to help them scale, drawing on a track record of backing emerging breakout companies and notable exits. The firm has supported early investors in prominent companies such as Transferwise, Zoopla, Improbable, Robinhood, Citymapper, and Secret Escapes, and continues to invest in high-potential teams across software, insurance, and TMT sectors. Latitude operates as the series B+ sister fund to LocalGlobe, positioning itself within a wider UK startup ecosystem and leveraging a collaborative network to identify and grow ambitious ventures. The firm emphasizes practical value beyond capital, offering strategic guidance, networks, and hands-on support to founders aiming for rapid growth and geographic expansion.

TX Ventures is the corporate venture arm of TX Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2022, it operates as an independent fintech venture capital investor that backs fintechs democratizing access to financial products and improving financial security, efficiency and sustainability for consumers. The firm provides hands-on support in marketing, technology and IT security to its portfolio companies, helping startups scale while aligning with the group's strategic interests.

BaseTech Ventures is a family office based in Cham, Switzerland, that invests in technology companies and supports early-stage ventures in the German-speaking DACH region. It focuses on helping businesses grow by leveraging collective ingenuity and hard work to become part of tomorrow’s distinguished organizations.

GSR United Capital is a Beijing-based private equity and venture capital firm with offices in Hangzhou and Shenzhen. It allocates equity capital to high-tech companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, industrial internet and digital services, aiming to back early and growth-stage opportunities and support portfolio companies through commercialization and scale. The firm has drawn support from government-backed funds and other state-capital investors and has built a portfolio of more than 100 high-tech startups, generating notable exits and returns.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.

eQventure is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 and based in Graz, Austria. It focuses on deep technology, industrial technology, network effects, digital health, and consumer technology, and operates hubs in Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, the United States, and China. The firm provides growth capital and leverages a global network and operational support to accelerate the growth of high-tech companies, with backing from entrepreneur investors who contribute capital and take an active, hands-on role with portfolio companies.

Infracapital is a leading European infrastructure investor and the infrastructure investment arm of M&G Investments, the UK and European investment management arm of Prudential plc. Established in 2001 and based in London, the firm focuses on acquiring and managing core infrastructure assets across utilities, energy, transportation, and social sectors. Its investments cover utilities such as water and gas networks, metering, and energy traders, as well as renewable generation including wind and solar, and traditional transport assets like ports, airports, toll roads, and bridges. It also targets social infrastructure such as healthcare and educational facilities, government accommodation, and communications infrastructure, with a bias toward greenfield energy projects and a preference for controlling stakes and board representation. The firm operates across the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and Western Europe, seeking to deploy capital through infrastructure funds and bespoke mandates while pursuing impact elements in its investments.

SODENA is a government-backed investment entity in Navarre, Spain, founded in 1984 to promote regional business development through venture capital. It serves as the Government of Navarre's main instrument for entrepreneurship and economic growth, deploying capital to long-term investments and to stakes in group companies and associates. The organization maintains a diversified portfolio across long-term financial investments, cash and liquid assets, real estate, and other holdings, all aimed at supporting regional companies. Ownership is held by the Government of Navarre with indirect participation through related entities, reflecting its public mandate to stimulate the Navarre economy.

Vision Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs to support Seed and Series A startups across diverse verticals. The firm emphasizes hands-on guidance in marketing, sales, product and service development, financial planning and management, and growth strategy, leveraging its founders’ and team's extensive experience in starting companies and guiding them to growth. The team brings multi-national, multi-cultural experience across countries and provides practical support to help startups navigate early-stage challenges and scale in competitive markets.

North West Quadrant Ventures is a Parker, Colorado-based family office founded in 2010 that pursues early-stage investments in disruptive technologies.

Target Germanium is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in Berlin, with additional offices across Europe, North America and Asia. The firm focuses on early‑stage to late‑stage investments in digital consumer and technology companies, including fintech, IoT, cybersecurity, travel, e‑commerce, marketplaces, mobile, software and services. It typically invests between $1 million and $30 million in companies valued between $5 million and $500 million, with a preference for businesses whose revenue is largely B2C. Target Germanium offers equity, convertible debt or secondary interests and avoids online media or social networks.