Investors in Ventures

Schenker Ventures is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs to transform great ideas into industry-changing companies. The firm provides essential support and resources to early-stage startups, focusing on equipping them with the necessary tools and guidance to navigate the journey from ideation to market impact. Schenker Ventures offers strategic mentorship, access to networks, and financial backing to help startups validate their concepts, scale their operations, and achieve sustainable growth. By fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, Schenker Ventures plays a crucial role in driving economic development and fostering groundbreaking solutions across various industries.

The Conduit Connect specializes in sourcing and selecting high-quality, high-impact businesses globally that align profit with purpose. The firm focuses on identifying ventures that not only promise financial returns but also seek to make a positive social or environmental impact. The Conduit Connect provides strategic support and investment to these businesses, aiming to drive meaningful change while ensuring sustainable profitability. By bridging the gap between profit-driven goals and social responsibility, The Conduit Connect contributes to advancing sustainable business practices and fostering innovation in impactful sectors worldwide.

DSW Ventures is a national firm specializing in seed and early-stage venture capital investments, focusing on regional UK growth businesses. With a strategic emphasis on technology and tech-led enterprises, DSW Ventures targets companies with talented founders and a strong potential for scalability in their respective markets. Typical investments range from £300,000 to over £1 million, aimed at fueling the growth and development of promising startups. Beyond financial support, DSW Ventures distinguishes itself by actively adding value beyond capital, leveraging the expertise of its highly-experienced team of investors. Committed to empowering UK regional entrepreneurial talent, DSW Ventures plays a pivotal role in the growth ecosystem by providing strategic guidance and operational support to its portfolio companies.

Attica Ventures aims to invest in innovative small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are in their development phase, hold a distinctive competitive advantage and have excellent potential for equity appreciation and international competitiveness and presence, regardless of the industry they compete. Our target size of investment is between € 3-7 million, but we are able to accommodate any size of investment in cooperation to strategic partners and/or co-investors. In most of the cases we intend to take minority stakes, supporting the management achieving their goals.

Managing over €1 billion in assets, Trigon Capital Group is a holding company dedicated to driving growth across a diverse range of industries all linked together by a common purpose of creating a more environmentally sustainable future. Trigon Group has been operating in Central and Eastern Europe for over 30 years since its founding in 1994. We believe this region has exceptional growth potential as it converges with Western Europe and some of the strongest macroeconomic indicators in the world. We see exciting opportunities for our group to expand in the region going forward. Our team leverages both regional and global finance and investment, business development and related experience.

NDRC LaunchPad 10 is a business accelerator that enables entrepreneurial teams to transform solid ideas into commercially viable startups. The NDRC is Ireland’s national startup accelerator programme for globally ambitious entrepreneurs, powered by Dogpatch Labs in partnership with Portershed, RDI Hub, and Republic of Work. We help startups to succeed at every stage of their journey through coaching and mentoring, with a founder-first approach delivered by international experts.

Reaktor incubator focuses specifically to accelerate the growth and innovation of early-stage EU tech firms. The internationalization platform dedicated to SEE early-stage tech startups to fast forward the validation and launching of scalable products. The need for internationalization and validation of new markets is becoming more and more understood as a process in SEE.

Finstart Nordic, a strategic investment arm of SpareBank 1 SR Bank, invests in Nordic fintech, technology, and impact companies, striving to be valuable partners through building and investing in innovative ventures.

Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) is Europe's leading early stage tech for good VC. We back ambitious and diverse founders using technology to tackle big social and environmental problems at scale. BGV has unrivalled experience and track record investing in and scaling tech for good businesses, generating top-tier returns for investors, as well as significant and measurable impact.

Grace is a management and consulting firm that empowers women in the community. Grace stands for female entrepreneurship, empowerment and diversity. We empower women with start-up ambitions and support them in further developing and implementing their ideas.

Creative Dock is is a professional company builder and early stage investor from Prague. Over the last decade, we have grown from a disruptive startup into the world's largest independent corporate venture builder. We are one of the leaders of a growing young category called Company Venture Building (CVB), helping large companies find and bring in new revenue by creating new services and products that positively impact society.

SHAKE Climate Change is a consortium-based programme led by Rothamsted Research. We’re not a typical fund. Imagine us more like a family - nurturing collective potential to create something truly amazing, leveraging world class expertise in science, tech and business. We have a shared passion and a collective ambition to tackle climate change.