Tumbleweed €6.9M Seed round led by Pact VC Quint Computing €9.1M funding round led by Vsquared Ventures Hypersonica €100M Series B round led by Lightspeed Marble Cognition €3.4M ($3.8M) Pre-seed round led by Heartcore Capital Ares Intelligence €2.6M Seed round led by Creandum Fractile €691.9M (£577M) raises a Series C round Bleu Robotics €5M Pre-seed round led by Contrarian Ventures Pixel Systems €2.7M ($3.1M) Seed round led by Unconventional Ventures Braid €34.1M ($38M) Series A round led by Octopus Ventures Talky Labs €1.5M raises a Pre-seed round KineDB €850K Pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital FLTRD €500K raises a funding round i23 €5.9M (£4.9M) Seed round led by Four Cities Capital VUSE XR €1.2M Pre-seed round led by IACD Ravical €15.3M ($17M) Seed round led by MMC Ventures MuRay €3.5M funding round led by First Momentum Ventures ALLOX €9.5M ($10.5M) Seed round led by Asabys Partners Fronted €1.7M (NOK 18M) Seed round led by Kaknäs Invest Easol €17.9M ($20M) raises a Series A round Magic Vision €600K raises a funding round

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The funds actively deploying in European startups - thesis, ticket size, geography and the rounds they've actually led. Sourced from our round tracker, not self-reporting alone.

1,087

Funds tracked

€4.4B

Est. dry powder *

5

First-time funds

32

Countries

Ranking Most active investors in European tech Leading right now: Novo Holdings, Y Combinator, Notion Capital

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By stage Pre-seed Seed Series A Series B+ By ticket <€250k €250k–1M €1–5M €5M+

Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, which promotes, facilitates and scouts breakthrough innovations.

Backs founders to advance freedom and autonomy in Europe, in areas including hypersonics, biosecurity, subsurface mapping, maritime sensing and Arctic autonomy.

First-time fund Europe

Fund $22M first fund

ZOHO.VC

Nuremberg, Germany · Founded 2025

Early-stage B2B founders, with a focus on mission critical deeptech startups in hard- and software.

First-time fund DACH

Nucleus Capital

Nucleus Capital

Berlin, Germany · Founded 2021

Nucleus is a first-check investor backing technical teams at the earliest stage.

Spire Capital Partners

Growth Credit Partners

Hessen Kapital I (BMH)

Victory Park Capital

Victory Park Capital

Generalist alternative investment firm - flexible private debt, credit and structured financing for emerging and established companies. Classified here on AI infrastructure evidentially, from…

Silver Point Capital

Silver Point Capital

Generalist global alternative investment firm - private credit, distressed debt, special situations. Classified here on AI infrastructure evidentially, from the NexGen Cloud GPU financing…

USD.AI

Decentralized structured credit protocol financing physical AI infrastructure and GPU-backed compute assets - asset-backed lending for AI builders and infrastructure operators.

Motive Force Ventures

Early-stage climate tech VC fund (stated thesis, per the firm's own site/Apollo profile) - energy management, AI for environmental challenges, circularity. Classified here on…

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