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Les Business Angels des Grandes Écoles (BADGE)

Les Business Angels des Grandes Écoles (BADGE) brings together a powerful network of highly technical alumni investors, successful entrepreneurs, and industry leaders, focusing on backing early-stage DeepTech and IndustrialTech startups.While SpaceTech is not a core specialization, BADGE actively supports space-adjacent startups operating in satellite data analytics, orbital services, and critical Earth infrastructure management, particularly where founders have strong scientific or Grandes Écoles academic pedigrees.

Location: Paris, France

UVC Partners (Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners)

Type: Venture Capital Firm Country: Germany Founded: 2011 Description UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in European B2B startups. The firm focuses on sectors such as enterprise software, mobility, and industrial technologies. UVC Partners typically invests between €0.5 million and €3 million initially, with the potential to invest […]

Location: Munich & Berlin, Germany

BGF Ventures

Launched in September 2015, BGF Ventures is a division of BGF (Business Growth Fund), the UK's most active equity investor. With a dedicated focus on early-stage UK technology companies, BGF Ventures was established with a substantial commitment of £200 million to foster innovation and growth within the UK's tech landscape.

Location: Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Heartcore Capital

Type: Venture Capital Firm Country: Denmark Founded: 2007 Description: Heartcore Capital is a premier European venture capital firm specializing in early-stage consumer technology companies. With offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, and Paris, the firm has a strong presence across Europe. Heartcore Capital focuses on investing in companies that aim to create positive, lasting impacts on […]

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Verve Ventures

Verve Ventures is a network and technology-driven venture capital firm headquartered in Switzerland. Since its inception, the firm has grown to over 45 team members and has become one of the most active venture investors in Europe, with a portfolio exceeding 140 science and technology-driven startups. Verve Ventures provides its pan-European network of selected private and institutional investors access to top-tier investment opportunities through a digital platform. The firm invests from Seed Stage onward in startups across Europe, with investment sizes ranging from EUR 0.5 million to several million.

Location: Zug, Switzerland

Octopus Ventures

Octopus Ventures is one of Europe's largest and most active venture capital firms, managing over £1.2 billion in assets. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies that are reimagining the future of health, money, and industry. With offices in London and New York, and Venture Partners in San Francisco, Singapore, and China, Octopus Ventures has a global presence to support its portfolio companies.

Location: London, United Kingdom

Vsquared Ventures

Type: Venture Capital Firm Country: Germany Founded: 2020 Description Vsquared Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Munich, Germany, focusing on deep-tech companies tackling society’s most pressing challenges. Their investment areas include quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), new space, synthetic biology, and healthcare. The firm […]

Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany

High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)

HTGF is Germany's largest and most active seed investor, focusing on high-potential, tech-driven startups. With approximately €1.4 billion under management across four funds, HTGF has invested in over 750 startups since its inception. The firm supports innovative founders from the early stages through to exit or IPO.

Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Cur8 Capital

Cur8 Capital acts as a high-trust, curated venture syndicate platform, offering selective access to early-stage opportunities across transformational sectors. While not SpaceTech-exclusive, Cur8’s thematic interests in ClimateTech, ESG data platforms, and dual-use frontier technologies make it a relevant co-investor for SpaceTech startups operating at the intersection of space, climate, and digital infrastructure.

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

In-Q-Tel (IQT)

In-Q-Tel (IQT) is a not-for-profit strategic investor that identifies, evaluates, and leverages emerging commercial technologies to deliver best-in-class capabilities, strategic insights, and other services to the U.S. national security community and its allies. Established by the CIA in 1999, IQT bridges the gap between the technology needs of the intelligence and defense communities and the innovative solutions of the private sector.

Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States

OTB Ventures

OTB Ventures is a leading venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in deep-tech companies across Europe. The firm focuses on startups with unique intellectual property and global ambitions, particularly in sectors such as AI, cybersecurity, and space technologies.

Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Primo Capital

Founded in 2015, Primo Capital is an independent Italian investment platform headquartered in Milan. The firm focuses on alternative investments in cutting-edge technology sectors crucial for economic development, including digital, healthcare, climate tech, and the space economy.

Location: Italy