Investors in Hardware

We back growth-stage ventures in verticals including esports, e-commerce, biotech, artificial intelligence, robotics and technology hardware. We also make private market investments into companies with a clear path toward an imminent IPO.

Seed fund writing €50–100k checks in innovative pre-seed and seed companies. Active investor (1+ deal/month) and fast decision process (≈2 weeks from deck to check). Sectors: innovative tech-driven startups (software, platforms, data, new business models). Portfolio: https://www.apokinve.st Deck submission:

Netherlands-based deeptech and life sciences investor.

HARDWARE.co is a global community and accelerator for entrepreneurs, industry professionals and makers focused on hardware products. Hardware.co - formerly the Berlin Hardware Accelerator and Hardware Berlin is for startups that are making physical products from all over the world. The program offers nostrings attached assistance in the form of mentorship, engineering, office space, access to strategic partners and suppliers, and more.

Overkill Ventures invests in pre-seed stage startups and helps them get to product-market fit. They are mainly focusing on the Baltics, Nordics, CEE & CIS.

They are active entrepreneurs themselves. As a collective of technology entrepreneurs, they invest for the long term. They bring their capital, network, experience, and a hands-on mentality. They have eradicated all structural issues found in typical VC funds. In this partnership, your goals become theirs.

BayBG Venture Capital, with over €200 million invested since its inception, is one of the significant venture capital investors in Germany. Our current portfolio comprises 37 outstanding companies in Deep Tech, B2B, Consumer Tech, and Life Sciences sectors, including notable names like 4screen, AMW, EcoG, happybrush, IDnow, iThera, Navvis, Open-Xchange, rebike, Speexx, and Unite. BayBG targets young technology firms with exceptional founders and above-average growth potentials, demonstrating initial market successes and six-figure revenues. Initially, we invest between €1 million (Pre-Series A) and €5 million (Series B) and allocate up to €10 million per company through subsequent financings. Additionally, BayBG can serve as a co-investor for public participation companies. Structured as an Evergreen, BayBG operates without the temporal constraints of traditional venture funds. Our Venture Capital team has amassed extensive transaction experience over the past decade, completing over 120 (follow-on) financing rounds and achieving impressive performance, including 8 successful exits, among them 1 IPO! As a division within BayBG, boasting over 50 years of history as an investment company, we possess a broad network of investors, advisors, and governmental entities. The Venture Capital portfolio gains exclusive access to BayBG's medium-sized company portfolio, offering valuable leads to potential clients. Our largest shareholder, LfA Förderbank Bayern, stands as one of the key investors in German venture capital funds. We see ourselves as entrepreneurial sparring partners for founders.

We founded Great Stuff Ventures in 2018 with the goal to find and be inspired by the greatest technology entrepreneurs of the next decade and beyond. We are a group of entrepreneurs and industry veterans investing their own capital in great people doing great stuff. We help by asking the right questions and introducing you to the right people. We focus on early business acceleration. When investing, we help you closing the round by involving our wider network of investors. *We invest up to € 100k in seed to pre-series A rounds in companies raising between € 250k and € 1.5m. *Occasionally we also invest in later stage rounds *We prefer to co-invest with other angel groups or early-stage VC funds *We prefer equity deals over convertibles

Overkill Ventures invests in pre-seed stage startups and helps them get to product-market fit. They are mainly focusing on the Baltics, Nordics, CEE & CIS.

Business angel syndicate based in UK investing in EU startups, early-stage. We look at deep tech - AI foundations startups that are working towards making AI a more efficient technology, whether it is by making more efficient models, chips, or finding ways to get cleaner energy that reduces the consumption of data centers.

Comate Ventures is a pre-seed fund with a 100% focus on hardware startups. With this fund, they aim to leverage brilliant early-stage ideas to become the next big thing.

Open Circle Capital is an early-stage venture capital fund which focuses on innovative technology startups. We are interested in technology companies in the fields of ICT, robotics and high-tech. We favor teams of professionals comprised or led by serial entrepreneurs with past growth, fundraising and/or exiting experience.