COMAT plays a critical role in the NewSpace and Deep Space ecosystem by offering flight-proven hardware solutions and customized co-development pathways for emerging space companies. Startups needing access to heritage space hardware expertise, space-qualified mechanisms, and industrialization support for flight systems find in COMAT a strategic non-financial partner.
Location: Flourens, Midi-Pyrenees, France
La French Tech has become a global model for public-private ecosystem building, accelerating thousands of French startups into global prominence. While it does not operate a venture fund directly, La French Tech mobilizes significant public funding, builds cross-border scaling pathways, and provides tailored support to SpaceTech and DeepTech startups aiming for international leadership.
Location: Paris, Île-de-France
UI Investissement is a veteran French private equity and venture player specializing in growth capital for industrial, healthcare, and innovation-driven companies. While not positioned as a NewSpace-focused investor, UI Investissement’s deep experience in industrial systems, aerospace component manufacturing, and dual-use innovation support makes it strategically relevant for growth-stage DeepTech and aerospace-enabling technology companies.
Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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
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 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 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
Founded in 2011, Dozen Investments is a Barcelona-based equity crowdfunding platform accredited by the CNMV (Spain's securities regulator). Formerly known as The Crowd Angel, Dozen specializes in providing both retail and institutional investors with access to high-potential startups across various sectors.
Location: Carrer del Consell de Cent, Barcelona, Spain
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
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) 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 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