https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-early-stage-pre-seed-investors-in-Europe?share=1

Here is a list of some of the Pre-Seed Venture Capital investors in Europe. (Office = “United Kingdom” or Any European Country)

    7percent Ventures
    Antler
    Beast Ventures
    CPT Capital
    Forward Partners
    Frontline Ventures
    Haatch Ventures
    Jane VC
    Kindred Capital
    London Venture Partners
    Lumen Ventures
    Moonfire Ventures
    NEM Ventures (CVC)
    Picus Capital
    Samaipata Ventures
    Speedinvest
    York IE

I’ve included Pre-Seed Venture Capital investors from the United Kingdom.

You can find more Pre-Seed Venture Capital firms by searching VCList.Online (website) for other countries in Europe. 

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Bradley van Leeuwen
Always learning 5y

Which UK/European VCs are active early stage investors?

Here is an incomplete list of investments into UK-based startups so far this year that haven’t yet reached Series A (so Angel, Seed, Seed Extensions).

Apologies in advance for mistakes and omissions.

    Ably (Forward Partners)
    Airsupply (Forward Partners)
    Axial3D (Techstart NI and Patrick Hurst MBE)
    B-Secur (Accelerated Digital Ventures and Kernel Capital)
    Bibblio (01 Ventures)
    BrainWaveBank (Angel CoFund, techstart NI, Innovate UK, Invest Northern Ireland)
    Brolly (Valar Ventures, Pi Labs, Entrepreneur First)
    Butternut Box (Passion Capital)
    By Miles (InMotion Ventures, Hambro Perks)
    Care Sourcer (Accelerated Digital Ventures (ADV), BGF Ventures)
    Cera (Credo Ventures, Kima Ventures)
    Changing Health (Finance for Business North East Accelerator Fund)
    ClauseMatch (Speedinvest, TechStars,Tom Glocer , Cristobal Conde)
    Cleo (Niklas Zennstrom, Alex Chesterman, Errol Damelin, Jason Goodman, Siraj Khaliq, Simon Franks, Wendy White, Joe White)
    ClickMechanic (VC Forward Partners, Klaus Nyengaard)
    ContentCal (Angel investors led by Colin Smith)
    Cool Cousin (Elevator Fund)
    CrowdJustice (Venrock, First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Capital)
    Crowdsurfer (Mustard Seed, Brendan Bradley, William Tunstall-Pedoe)
    Cuvva (LocalGlobe, Tekton Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Seedcamp, Nick Hungerford, Ian Hogarth)
    Debut (LocalGlobe, Initial Capital, Entree Capital, Paul Forster)
    DigitalBridge (Stuart Marks, John Lewis)
    Ebb3 (Maven Capital Partners)
    Exonar (Winton Group, Amadeus Capital Partners)
    Flourish (LocalGlobe, Founder Collective)
    Free Postcode Lottery (Zeal Investments)
    Hadean (White Cloud Capital, Entrepreneur First)
    Hellocar (JamJar Investments, Alex Chesterman)
    Heresy (LAUNCHub Ventures, AngelList, Seedcamp, London Co-Investment Fund)
    Holiday Crowd (Clive Sykes , Apadmi Ventures)
    Hometree (LocalGlobe, DN Capital, Oxford Capital, FJ Labs)
    Huq Industries (24Haymarket, Force Over Mass Capital)
    Hutch (Index Ventures, Backed VC)
    Idea Drop (Lord Smith of Kelvin)
    Ideal Flatmate (Steve Leach)
    InMyBag (Demetrios Zoppos, Hambro Perks; Michael Eakins, Alan Clifton)
    Inploi (Julia Ross, Tim O’Connor, Bob Hamill and Sam Peter)
    Juro (Seedcamp, Point Nine Capital, Paul Forster, Michael Pennington)
    Koru Kids (Global Founders Capital, 7pc Ventures, Michael Pennington (Gumtree founder), Entrepreneur First’s two co-founders)
    Lavanda (Kenny Bruce, Sir Terry Leah, Harry Hill)
    Learnerbly (Frontline Ventures, Playfair Capital, the Mayor of London’s Co-Investment Fund, Future Planet Capital)
    LiveSmart (Matt Merrick , Lawrence Mitchell)
    Locum’s Nest (Albion Capital, IDO Investments)
    Mogees (Elio Leoni Sceti, Haim Perry, Eric Nicoli CBE).
    MortgageGym (Gaby Salem, of private family office Wharton Asset Management; China Pacific Capital, Trifecta Capital)
    Motivii (Charles Wiles, Sarah du Heaume)
    Mrs Wordsmith (Kindred Capital, Reach Capital, SaatchiNvest, Ropart Asset Management)
    Neurovalens (Angel CoFund, Beltrae Partners, TechStart NI)
    Obby (Sir Peter Michael, Steve Parish, Django Davidson, Nick Green)
    Olio (Accel, Quadia, Mustard Seed, Quentin Griffiths)
    Pleo (Creandum, Seedcamp, VC Founders)
    Previse (Hambro Perks, Founders Factory)
    Properr (Finance Wales, Ashley Cooper)
    Reactec (Archangels, The Scottish Investment Bank)
    Realyse (Round Hill Capital, Pi Labs, Anthemis Group, Rajiv Nathwani Oinky)
    Regnosys (Patrick de Nonneville)
    Repairly (Techstars, Virgin Media, Richard Fearn, Daniel Murray, Richard Pleeth)
    SaveMoneyCutCarbon (IW Capital)
    Settled (Connect Ventures, Piton Capital)
    Shipamax (Cherubic Ventures, AME Cloud, FF Angel)
    Sideways6 (Brent Hoberman, the 24 Haymarket group)
    Spoke (Oxford Capital, Forward Partners, Seedcamp, Adu Advaney, Derek Lovelock, Robert Easton)
    Sportr (Robert Braithwaite CBE, Ben Joseph, Richard Tufft)
    SpyBiotech (GV, Oxford Sciences Innovation)
    Starship Technologies (Daimler AG, Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners, ZX Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, Grishin Robotics, Playfair Capital)
    Streetbees (BGF Ventures, Octopus Ventures, LocalGlobe)
    StreetDots (B.O.H LLC)
    Switchee (Mustard Seed Ventures, InseadAlum Ventures, investment bank ClearlySo, Ian Peters)
    Talify (Awin, Founders Factory)
    Tenzo (Acequia Capital, Force Over Mass, Charlie Songhurst, Michael Orland, Getti Restaurants)
    The Electrospinning Company (Rainbow Seed Fund, Angels 5K, LBA, Minerva, Wroxall, Angels in MedCity, OION)
    Thriva (Alex Chesterman , Simon Franks, Taavet Hinrikus , Seedcamp, 500 Startups, London Co-Investment Fund)
    Trint (Horizon Labs)
    Ubamarket (Nick Stenning, Hans Falkenburg)
    Vantage Power (John Winter, the former CEO of Barclays Corporate Banking, Angel CoFund, Dr. Till Becker)
    Vida (Hambro Perks, Barnaby Cardwell of Cardwell Technologies, Grima Ventures)
    Zeelo (InMotion Ventures)
    Zego (LocalGlobe)

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Jason M. Lemkin
Partner @ $90m SaaStr Fund, 8.5 years in hedge funds Author has 3.4K answers and 59.4M answer views 4y

Is it normal for Series A investors to buy up previous seed investor's equity?

It’s much more common today than a few years ago.

Today, most Series A-B-C-D firms want to buy every share they can in any round they lead — not split the round. Funds are larger, and with Series A funds in particular, they are also often investing a tiny bit later than they used to, and with commensurately larger checks.

In most of the investments I’ve done, in either the A or B round or both, the new investors try to buy out any earlier investors that are non-institutional and willing to sell.

That’s a big change from a few years ago.

The bottom line is any round these days that is bigger than say $6m or so, someone is probably going to want to buy out the earlier pre-seed investors if they can and the price and terms work out. Because whomever that investor is, in 2018/2019, most likely they want to deploy 20% or more capital than they can otherwise deploy into the round.

It also helps if the A round valuations have gone up. If the A is at $20m pre and the seed investors invested at say $4m, there is a win-win here. The seed folks can 4x-5x their investment fairly quickly, and get cash right back out quickly.


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Ben Maisano
Worked at Andera (company)3y
Related
What do you look for before you invest in seed-stage deals?

    Understanding of problem space. Surprising how many people are completely naive about dimensions of the problem and what it will take to solve.
    Real world customer feedback - have they talked to potential customers? Have feedback? Lined up the first few who would use product?
    Dedication and grit. Have they committed in past? Dealt with hard problems or cruised by?
    Is it an order of magnitude or more differentiating from current state or a nice to have. 10% better or 10x better?
    Team skills? Why can they do it better than others? What are they good at vs need to learn?

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Hussein Kanji
formerly at accel partners, 60+ seed deals since 1999 including Pyra Labs (Blogger), Lovefilm, Moo, Moshi Monsters, Stardoll, Last.fm, Do…Updated 9y

Are there any other European micro seed funds besides Seedcamp?

Germany
HackFwd in Germany
Rocket Internet an incubator run by the Samwer brothers (Jamba fame)
Team Europe, Lukasz Gadowski's micro VC fund
Point Nine Capital is a spinoff from Team Europe
Early Bird may do seeds in Germany

UK
Index Seed (former The Accelerator Group/TAG) makes regular seed investments
Profounders runs a microcap fund in London and has done four deals as of September 2010
Passion Capital: Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbridge and Robert Dighiero run an incubator in London at White Bear Yard
Eden has jumped on the super angel bandwagon and writes small checks
London Venture Partners is new to the scene and supposed to do these kinds of deals
Notion Capital is an enterprise focused venture fund run by the principals of MessageLabs
DN Capital and Dawn Capital also do seeds. Sometimes.
#1Seed is a new seed fund
Connect Ventures is a newly raised micro VC

France
Kima Ventures founded by Iliad (Free.fr

) CEO and run by Jeremie Berrebi is a micro seed fund aiming to write 100 small checks
Jaina is another French fund inspired by French tax cuts

Nordics
Techstars is opening up in Copenhagen
OpenOcean is a new fund

Italy
dPixel is the one I know
99Fahrenheit is a new seed fund

Spain
Bernardo Hernandez of Google runs a small microcap fund

Filtering this list by who is good or who'd you want to get money from is a whole different matter.

Switzerland
Redalpine Ventue Partner - http://www.redalpine.com/





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