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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- 50.0
Find talented founders that traditional VC networks overlook, including women and founders with immigrant backgrounds, in companies addressing environmental or social challenges.
- Nordics
- Fund 3
- 21 Oct 2026
- BackingMinds
- EIF
Early-stage Nordic deeptech with industrial investors as LPs and partners
- Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Defence & Security, Climate & Energy
- Nordics
- SEK
- Emerging manager, Fund 1
- 9 Oct 2026
- Turbine Capital
- SEK 608m
- Saminvest, EIF
- 80.0
Impact fund for market-first European startups
- Generalist
- Pan-European
- Fund 2
- 22 Jun 2026
- Norrsken Launcher
- Saminvest
- 350.0
Scale Nordic B2B software businesses with hands-on operational support.
- B2B Software
- Nordic region
- Fund 2
- 2 Oct 2025
- Monterro
- 1,375.0
Scales Nordic B2B software businesses through operational support, networks, and add-on acquisitions.
- B2B Software
- Nordic region
- Fund 5
- 29 Sept 2025
- Monterro
- 49.5
Early-stage gaming startups
- Consumer
- Nordics, Europe
- SEK
- Emerging manager, Fund 1
- 27 Jun 2025
- Behold Ventures
- SEK 550m
- EIF
- 73.9
Nordic tech and life science companies at startup and growth stages
- Deep Tech, Health & Bio
- Nordics
- SEK
- Fund 2
- 30 Jan 2025
- Fahraeus Startup & Growth (FSG)
- SEK 848m
- EIF, Saminvest
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