Which investor invests in what?

European Commission

An eight-month accelerator for European startups and scale-ups developing defence and dual-use technologies. Delivered by Starburst, it provides coaching, bootcamps, and a €120,000 seed funding voucher.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Seed

Countries

EU-wide, NO

Key fact

Deadline 16 Nov 2026

Last verified

Verified 8 Nov 2026

Sondo Capital

Norwegian venture capital firm investing 2 to 6 MNOK in pre-seed and seed stage startups with a connection to Norway.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

Norway

Key fact

Ticket €190K–€570K

Last verified

Verified 8 Nov 2026

EUDIS

An 8-month defence acceleration programme providing 20 European startups and scale-ups with a €120k seed funding voucher, bootcamps across Europe, business mentoring, and testing facilities.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Seed

Countries

EU-wide, NO

Key fact

Deadline 16 Nov 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

RENEW-BOOSTER Consortium

BattleVerse OC1 provides lump-sum grants of up to €60,000 per beneficiary for six-month experiments integrating LLM decision support, multi-physics simulation, or distributed AI for unmanned swarms into the European Defence Fund simulation ecosystem.

Kind

Grant programme

Countries

EU-wide, NO, UA

Key fact

Deadline 16 Nov 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Oscar Mike Venture Partners

Operator-led venture capital firm investing in early-stage European defense and dual-use technologies, focusing particularly on the Baltics, Nordics, and Poland.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

DK, EE, FI +7

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Turbine Capital is a Swedish venture capital fund investing €300k–€1m in seed-stage deep tech startups across Sweden and the Nordics.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Seed

Countries

DK, FI, IS +2

Key fact

Ticket €300K–€1M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

E2D is a Munich-based growth venture capital fund backed by Armilar and Earlybird, investing $10M to $30M in Series B and growth-stage European dual-use, defence, aerospace, AI, and cybersecurity startups.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Series B · Series C+

Countries

DE, DK, EE +9

Key fact

Ticket €8.9M–€26.7M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Balnord is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in frontier and dual-use tech startups across the Baltic Sea region, Nordics, Poland, and Germany, focusing on space, healthcare, and industrial resilience.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Seed · Series A

Countries

DE, DK, EE +7

Key fact

Ticket €500K–€3M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

BraveTech EU

Multi-day defence tech competition for EU and Norwegian startups and SMEs with TRL 4+ dual-use solutions. Selected winners receive €120k grants plus access to up to €750k in scale-up funding.

Kind

Competition

Countries

EU-wide, NO

Key fact

Deadline 6 Sep 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Commission

Six-month space tech accelerator by the EC and EUSPA offering business and investment coaching, events, and non-dilutive funding to European startups and scale-ups using space technologies or data.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Seed

Countries

EU-wide, IS, NO

Key fact

Deadline 2 Oct 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

BioInnovation Institute

A 12-month accelerator program by BioInnovation Institute providing early-stage European life science startups with a €500,000 convertible loan, mentoring, and support in therapeutics and planetary health.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

AT, BE, BG +28

Key fact

Ticket €500K–€500K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European growth-credit provider originating and structuring €1–3M senior-secured debt facilities for late-seed and Series A B2B technology businesses.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide, GB, IS +2

Key fact

Ticket €1M–€3M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Bootstrap Europe provides non-dilutive growth debt funding of up to €5M+ to scale-up businesses across Europe, focusing on sectors including biotech, cleantech, fintech, and SaaS.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Series B · Series C+

Countries

AL, AT, BA +36

Key fact

Ticket €0–€5M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

E2D

Curiosity Venture Capital is an Amsterdam-based VC firm investing $270k to $1.1m in pre-seed to Series A European startups building B2B AI software across the Benelux, Nordics, and Baltics.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

BE, DK, EE +7

Key fact

Ticket €240.6K–€980K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Amazon

Hybrid accelerator by Amazon supporting European startups with scalable technologies that reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact, offering pilot opportunities.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Seed

Countries

CH, EU-wide, GB +3

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Healthcare impact investor backing (pre-)seed startups that contribute to healthy living and disease management across Benelux, Nordics, DACH, and the UK.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

AT, BE, CH +9

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

E2MC Ventures

Amsterdam-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage B2B cloud and SaaS companies across the Benelux, DACH, and Nordic regions.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Seed · Series A

Countries

AT, BE, CH +8

Key fact

Ticket €1M–€10M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Volve Capital is a Dutch VC backing early-stage tech companies across Benelux, DACH, and the Nordics that contribute to SDGs, with initial tickets of €200k–€500k.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed

Countries

AT, BE, CH +8

Key fact

Ticket €200K–€500K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Pride Capital provides flexible growth, acquisition, and buyout capital to software and IT companies across the Benelux, DACH, and Nordic regions.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Series B · Series C+

Countries

AT, BE, CH +8

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Apex Euro Capital

Apex provides structured venture equity, venture debt, and GPU compute financing for European artificial intelligence startups, from foundation models to vertical and applied ML applications.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Seed · Series A · Series B · Series C+

Countries

CH, EU-wide, GB +3

Key fact

Ticket €2M+

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026