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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Early Stage Venture investors for Venture Capital startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mangrove Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe | ||
SGH CAPITAL | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe | ||
HOWZAT Partners | Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe | ||
Adara Ventures | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe | ||
Vesalius Biocapital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture | Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital Early Stage Venture investors in Luxembourg. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Luxembourg)
Mangrove Capital Partners
Mangrove Capital Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on early-stage, mid venture, startups, expansion stage, growth capital investments, buyouts, and emerging growth. Its mission is to help turn visions into realities by providing financing, thoughtful advice, relevant experience, and industry relationships to its portfolio companies. Mangrove seeks to invest in internet and software businesses with a focus on online services, marketplaces, application service providers, multimedia services, communications, wireless, infrastructure, media, network, and services. The firm is also focused on peer-to-peer computing, gaming, e-commerce, security, mobile, mobile value-added services, network management, urban mobility, SaaS-based businesses, and the automotive industry. It primarily invests in greater Europe, including Russia, Benelux, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain, and Israel. It may also invest in United States, Canada, and India. Mangrove Capital Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Finance, Internet, Venture Capital
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SGH CAPITAL
SGH Capital is a group of funds focusing on disruptive business models and creative entrepreneurs in the US, Europe, and India. SGH is agnostic and constantly enters new Technology verticals. The firm was founded in 2014 by Alexandre Azoulay and is headquartered in Luxembourg.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Information Technology, Venture Capital
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HOWZAT Partners
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. Howzat Partners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Adara Ventures
Adara is a Venture Capital firm with 175 million euros under management that invests in Deep Tech companies in early-stage on the west coast of Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, United Kingdom, and Ireland). The VC, founded by Alberto Gómez and Nicolás Goulet, has favorite investment areas such as cyber security, big data, AI, AdTech, SaaS, and other solutions facilitating the digital transformation of the company. The investment criteria of Adara Ventures are based on three pillars: that they are technological startups, with B2B models, in seed capital phases and series A. The fund usually invests in very powerful equipment at the technological level and that have developed a very innovative innovative product internationally competitive, targeting a global market. In addition, Adara seeks that companies have a competitive technological advantage that allows them to compete in international markets, usually in Europe or the US. They are complex software solutions that have a high risk profile, but also a great commercial opportunity since they are designed for global markets. They are very focused on verticals such as cyber security and infrastructure for big data that includes segments such as artificial intelligence or machine learning, they also opt for AdTech and SaaS. Adara invests in phases of seed capital and series A, with an initial ticket of up to €3m.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Big Data, Information Technology, SaaS, Software, Venture Capital
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Vesalius Biocapital Partners
Vesalius Biocapital Partners invests in companies active in human health through venture capital funds raised since 2007. They have contributed to developing 20 companies since inception. With more than € 150 million under management in two funds. Vesalius Biocapital Partners plays the role of lead investor in the large majority of its financing rounds. Their companies are based in Europe allowing easy interaction with management. They invest in all stages of development and do not shy away from relatively early-stage projects with a sound proprietary technology and corresponding IP, unique team skills and a clear competitive edge based on solid data.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Hiro Capital
Hiro Capital is a Luxembourg / London technology Venture Capital fund which invests in European and UK innovators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports. Hiro Capital generally invests at the post-seed Series A and B stages. We invest both in front-end Content creators in Games, Esports and Digital Sports and in deep tech sector-specific applications of Cloud, Mobile, Streaming, Big Data, AI, Wearables, AR and VR technologies.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: eSports, Gaming, Venture Capital, Video Games, Wearables
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European Investment Fund
EIF was founded in 1994 to support Europe’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) by enhancing their access to finance. EIF designs and develops venture capital and guarantees instruments which specifically target this market segment. Venture capital is behind many of Europe’s innovative SMEs but it requires a complex ecosystem to thrive. This is why some geographies have a dynamic venture capital scene and others have none. Many components make up a successful ecosystem: Venture capital investment f low attracts talented entrepreneurs which can give rise to serial entrepreneurs willing to re-invest their money, which creates demand for bigger funds able to growth-finance SMEs, an established exit ecosystem and the inflow of even more talent. The EIF has played a significant role in the growth of a venture capital market in Europe. By taking cornerstone investments in funds we catalyse further investments and ‘crowd in’ private investors thus nurturing the development of an ecosystem. Our engagement in the European equity (both venture capital and private equity) arena has evolved from around EUR 60m across 22 deals in the first year of EIF operations to around 146 transactions, reaching more than EUR 3.3bn in 2017. Today, due to such developments, the EIF has more than EUR 14bn of assets under management in its equity investments portfolio, just at a time when European venture capital is finally turning into a demanded and attractive asset class, generating exits and delivering healthy returns for investors. Above all, we see the venture capital industry strongly supporting innovative European entrepreneurs that are at the forefront of global disruption, primarily in technology (ICT) and life sciences, but also across various other sectors.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Government, Small and Medium Businesses, Venture Capital
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Maor Investments
The need for growth capital in Israel has prompted the creation of Maor Investments. With Rothschild & Co as a cornerstone investor, Maor has become a leading co-investment vehicle in growth financing of Israeli tech companies. They invest in revenue-generating companies and support them in their scale-up process by giving them access to our network of European corporates. Not hungry for governance, door opener with European blue chip customers, Maor has already built a reputation of friendly enabler with most Israeli startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Simile Venture Partners
Simile Venture Partners is an early-stage investment firm focusing on internet, mobile and technology startups across the world. It was founded by a team with domain expertise in entrepreneurship and venture capital investments. Its priority markets are in Europe, South-East Asia, India, Brazil, Turkey and Russia. For more information, visit: www.simileventure.com (http://www.simileventure.com/)
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Digital Leaders Ventures
Digital Leaders Ventures (DLV) is a European Venture Capital Fund based in Luxembourg. DLV is investing in tech companies disrupting industries on a global level. They focus on entrepreneurs from Europe who go global from day one, combining a scalable business model with high growth and large demand.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Finance, Venture Capital
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nfinitiv funding
nfinitiv is challenging the traditional norms of management consulting for start-ups & scale-ups to reshape the industry. With our panel of experienced investors nfinitiv is reshaping the venture capital industry by make it accessible to you. Our team compromise of industry experts who have demonstrated outstanding skills and knowledge in their field of expertise. They have been on the front-line of start-ups. In that sense, they immediately understand the challenges and opportunities and provide real added value based on this expertise and experience. nfinitiv funding invest jointly or directly with other successful funds across Europe and United States. We invest at all stage of technology-based Start-ups!
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Seed, Venture
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Advice, Angel Investment, Consulting, Impact Investing, Management Consulting, Venture Capital
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Oyster Funds
Oyster Funds is a venture capital firm for collective investment in transferable securities. The firm is offering a balanced range of high-performance niche products covering a variety of asset classes, markets and investment styles.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Business Development, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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GGM Capital
GGM Capital, a Luxembourg-based advisory and asset management firm, offers a unique platform of investment banking services. The investment division is specialized in identifying and investing in Private Equity opportunities. The capital markets division offers a sophisticated sales and trading services to listed companies. On top, GGM Capital provides mergers & acquisitions, private placement and strategic advisory services to business owners and investors. Our Venture Capital fund, GGM High Growth IT Fund, is specialized in IT-centric businesses. We believe that our unique vision of combining Strategic advisory, Corporate Finance and Investment capacities under one roof creates an unparalleled value proposition for our clients, investors and business partners. The GGM High Growth IT Fund is a Venture Capital Fund established to achieve a medium-term capital appreciation through a portfolio of investments in European early-stage and growth capital companies developing technology-enabled and IT-centric business services. The management team is not interested in investing in companies creating the solution of the same old problem or trying to improve things by 10 per cent. The GGM High Growth IT Fund rather invests in proven teams attacking unproven markets with unproven solutions an genereting significant market potential.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Münsbach, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Luxempart
Luxempart S.A. is a financial holding company. based in Leudelange, in south-western Luxembourg, it is active primarily in Belgium and its home market of Luxembourg.[1] It is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and is one of the ten (and one of seven Luxembourg-based) companies that make up the exchange’s main index, the LuxX Index. In addition to investing itself, Luxempart owns controlling stakes in two other investment vehicles: a 71.0% stake in Audiolux, which specialises in media investments
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Leudelange, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Crowdfunding, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Venture Capital
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nfinitiv
nfinitiv is a Startup Venture Capital and Advisory firm that provides insights, initiatives, and long-term expertise to startups and scaleups to help accelerate growth and scale, both nationally and internationally. Our team comprises many who have been on the front-line of startups and are dedicated to help you unlock your potential. nfinitiv invest in and empower founders across the globe. Our venture team source investment opportunities through quality deal flow from our vast network and connections in the global startup ecosystem nfinitiv challenges the traditional norms, by providing quality advisory talent that delivers results by providing high-quality fact-based and analytically rigorous services to all startups.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Post Ipo, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Big Data, Consulting, Education, Financial Services, Incubators, Information Services, Management Consulting, Venture Capital
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I-Next Ventures
I-Next Ventures, based in Luxembourg, is an international investor specialized in the scouting of innovative and high-potential companies, led by dynamic entrepreneurs.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Orevon Partners
Orevon Venture Partners is a new fund and technology investment platform dedicated to the DeepTech (CyberSecurity, AI, Blockchain, …) next generation leaders. We partner entrepreneurs with sustainable vision and ensure startups ongoing viability. Thanks to our ecosystem, we create bridges between venture and research to build the companies of tomorrow.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Hedge Funds, IT Management, Venture Capital
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Equi Private Equity Fund
Founded by Valeria Lazzaroli and Equi Private Equity Fund invests in small and medium enterprises with a particular emphasis on Italy. The investment management approach means that, as well as providing capital, the fund is a solid partner that accompanies the development and growth of companies alongside shareholders and management. The Equi Private Equity Fund team is able to provide support thanks to its wide experience and knowledge earned in the worlds of strategic consulting, investment banking and company management. The skills and know-how range from selecting, evaluating, negotiating and structuring investments, to strategic or operational consulting in individual businesses. The fund invests in Italian SMEs with a sales turnover ranging from €1-20 million, focusing particularly on the manufacturing and services markets and the sector of goods for manufacturing processes. The fund makes two main types of investments: Leveraged Buyout (acquisition of majority stakes) and Development Capital (subscriptions to increase capital in companies with a high growth potential). The average investment size ranges from €500k to €5 million in terms of equity.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Post Ipo, Private Equity
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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