Ananda Impact Ventures secures €73M first close for fifth Core Impact Fund

Ananda Impact Ventures has completed a €73million first close of its fifth Core Impact Fund, exceeding its €50 milliontarget and representing the largest first close in the firm’s 16-year history.The …

Vanagon Ventures closes €20M Fund I to back deeptech startups

Vanagon Ventures, a German deeptech venture capital firm, has reached the final closeof its €20 million Fund I. The fund is backed by Allocator One, alongsideadditional limited partners including fami…

PROTOTYPE Capital launches Fund III and hits 5.6x returns by backing "crazy ideas"
PROTOTYPE Capital launches Fund III and hits 5.6x returns by backing "crazy ideas"

It’s not often I meet an early-stage investor who tells me that they are looking for “weird and crazy ideas.” But Andreas Klinger, founder of PROTOTYPE, is not just any investor. He is deeply embedd…

DTCP expands into defence with €20M-per-deal Fund for security and dual-use startups

Global investment management platform DTCP today announced the launch of “Project Liberty”, its eighth fund and its first dedicated exclusively to defence, security, and resilience technologies. The…

HTGF: Where public mandate meets venture discipline

While many venture capital funds are optimised for speed, scale, and short fund lifecycles, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) was built to address a structural gap in Germany’s innovation ecosystem. HTGF …

Novo Nordisk Foundation backs BioInnovation Institute with €736M to scale life sciences and deeptech innovation

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has allocated up to €736 million (DKK 5.5 billion) to BioInnovation Institute (BII), a leading institute for life science and deep tech innovation in Copenhagen. The fun…

Rosberg Ventures closes $100M Fund III as Nico Rosberg bets on long-game venture strategy

Today, Nico Rosberg announced that Rosberg Ventures has just closed its $100 million Fund III, describing it on LinkedIn as “oversubscribed, with unprecedented demand, and capped for performance.” Ro…

The Artists Collective launches as an artist-led investment platform

The Artists Collective has officially launched as the UK’s first artist-ledinvestment collective, following a period in which it quietly backed 20early-stage technology companies.Theplatform brings to…

Europe’s edge in energy, software, and the future of compute
Europe’s edge in energy, software, and the future of compute

Voyager is an early-stage venture capital firm backing climate technology companies building the foundations of a decarbonised global economy. Founded four years ago by climate-tech investors and oper…