Beyond AI: Six startup opportunities in Europe
Six sectors where European expertise, needs and regulatory changes are opening up new markets.
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- 25.0
Invests in startups modernising legacy maritime industries and addressing water, energy, logistics and environmental challenges.
- Nordics
- 25 Aug 2026
- Redstone
- City of Turku
- 10.0
Gen-Z run fund for earliest-stage Nordic founders
- Generalist
- Nordics
- Fund 3
- 17 Jun 2026
- Wave Ventures
- 30.0
Pre-seed and seed in semiconductors, photonics and advanced materials; up to EUR 1m initial tickets, about 20 companies.
- Deep Tech
- Europe
- Emerging manager, Fund 1
- 18 Dec 2025
- Cloudberry VC
- Tesi
- 80.0
Specialist B2B SaaS fund for AI-first start-ups, about 20 companies across Nordics and Baltics.
- B2B Software
- Nordics, Baltics
- Fund 4
- 13 Nov 2025
- Vendep Capital
- Tesi
- 400.0
Largest single VC fund raised in Finland, first Luxembourg fund of Lifeline
- Generalist
- Nordics, Europe
- Fund 6
- 27 Oct 2025
- Lifeline Ventures
Agrifood fund for Nordic startups transforming food systems
- Food & Agri
- Nordics
- Fund 2
- 5 Jun 2025
- Nordic Foodtech VC
- EIF
- 100.0
Early-stage fund for AI and data-driven software founders
- AI, B2B Software
- Pan-European
- Fund 4
- 11 Mar 2025
- OpenOcean
- EIF
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