PE/VC investors

Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) investors are the catalysts of innovation and growth in the business world. PE firms primarily target established companies, seeking to optimize operations and unlock value through strategic investments and management expertise. They focus on long-term growth and profitability, often preparing businesses for a future sale or IPO. VC investors, by contrast, are the adventurers of finance, injecting capital into high-potential startups and early-stage companies. They embrace risk for the possibility of outsized returns, often becoming invaluable advisors. Both investor types not only bring capital but also strategic guidance, industry connections, and market insights, propelling their portfolio companies towards success.

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Butterfly Ventures Butterfly Ventures
Butterfly Ventures is the leading seed stage focused VC in the Nordics. Butterfly Ventures was founded in 2012. Ever since then we’ve been one of the most active early stage VCs in the region. We have an office in Oulu, Helsinki and Stockholm. Butterfly Ventures is known for our co-operative approach. We like to interface with founders directly and work as a team and founders have the full support of all our partners.
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BV Capital Partners BV Capital Partners
BV Capital Partners provides 'The professional financial buyer solution for small and medium sized companies in the Benelux'.Over the years, there has been a growing demand for professional financial investors for smaller transactions, as many private equity investors have left this segment. Mid 2003, John Blydenstein and Hans Vanoorbeek have left their respective large European private equity funds in London to return to their home-countries to start investing their private capital in small & medium sized companies in the Benelux under the name BV Capital Partners. <br /> <br /> John Blydenstein has been one of the three founding partners of West Private Equity in London (€ 400m pan-European mid market private equity fund, now called Lyceum Capital). Hans Vanoorbeek has been a partner at BC Partners in London (€ 4.3bn pan-European large cap private equity fund). From 1995 until 1999, based in London, Hans and John have jointly built up Industri Kapital (€ 750 m pan-European mid market private equity fund, now called IK Investment Partners) in the Benelux.
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BV Holding AG BV Holding AG
BVgroup invests between CHF 3 million and CHF 20 million of equity in companies located in Switzerland for: <br /> Succession Financing <br /> Growth, Expansion und Acquisition <br /> Management Buyout and Buyin <br /> Innovation (selective) <br /> Restructuring (selective) <br /> <br /> Profitable companies with a turnover ranging from CHF 10 million to CHF 150 million. <br /> BVgroup participates with equity as an entrepreneurial partner in the long term. <br /> BVgroup participates as lead- and co-investor in Management Buyouts/Buyins.
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bValue bValue
We believe industrial digitalization in many areas is still at its early stage and there is asymmetry in its transformation across industries and geographies as well as access to knowledge and capital. We are eager to take technology risk to the extent its solves problems and create the business. We invest in early-stage founders and feel great empathy for them as we have been there. When you work with bValue you get access to super active partners, team and operational experts working hand-to-hand with you on any challenges. We strongly believe the best knowledge and advice come from your peers, therefore, we strive for building a real community among our portfolio, advisors, partners, and friends.
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BVF Partners BVF Partners
BVF Partners L.P. is a San Francisco-based private investment partnership specializing in fundamentally-driven public biotechnology investments. Since its inception in 1993, BVF has strived to build concentrated, long-term investments in small-cap biotechnology companies while performing rigorous diligence and on-going monitoring of itsinvestments.
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BWB Partners BWB Partners
BWB Partners is an independent owner-led Danish investment firm investing in small and medium-size companies with a turnover of up to DKK 750 million and strong growth potential. BWB Partners was founded in 2015 in connection with the reorganisation of the former Odin Equity Partners funds. As part of this reorganisation the investor base was renewed, a generational change in the management of BWB Partners was concluded, and investors added further commitments to the funds.
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byFounders byFounders
byFounders is an early stage venture fund actively investing in tech startups across the Nordics and Baltics. Made up of some of the region's most accomplished entrepreneurs, byFounders invests and supports the next generation of globally ambitious founders. It's "for founders, byFounders"
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C2 Ventures C2 Ventures
C² Ventures takes a chain-agnostic approach, making early-stage investments across all major layer 1 and layer 2 ecosystems. We focus on empowering builders with the capital and operational expertise to build and scale the next generation of Web3 and Metaverse applications.
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C4 Ventures C4 Ventures
C4 Ventures is a leading European venture fund founded by Pascal Cagni (VP & GM Apple EMEIA 2000-2012). Based in London and Paris, we typically invest in early stage (Series A) startups based in Europe and later stage startups seeking to expand into European markets. Our goal is to create a different kind of venture firm, one that focuses on partnering with entrepreneurs to navigate the complex European landscape.
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C5 Capital C5 Capital
C5 is a family capital-backed technology investment firm focused on innovating security. We are specialist investors in cyber security, data analytics, cloud computing and assistive technologies. <br /> <br /> C5 Cyber Partners is a specialist investment team dedicated to private equity investment in EMEA-based cyber security companies and venture capital investment in data analytics companies. <br /> <br /> We will soon announce the launch of C5 Cloud Partners, an investment vehicle focussed on cloud computing-focussed companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. <br /> <br /> C5 Accelerate is developing a Cloud Accelerator Cluster in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa alongside Amazon Web Services. Its mission is to accelerate best-of-breed start-ups throughout EMEA to meet the growth opportunity being created by the geographic expansion of AWS, the world’s leading cloud computing platform.
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