THE FUNDING MAP / BY TYPE AND ORIGIN
Who funds hardtech, sorted.
The map holds 175 investors. Below they are split by the kind of money they are and by where they sit, because a founder rarely needs all of them at once.
By type
Funds that take equity in early and growth-stage companies and expect to exit. The ones listed here have put money into hardware, materials, energy or industrial technology, not only software.
Investment companies 58Evergreen holding and investment companies, family offices and industrial owners. They invest from their own balance sheet, often with longer horizons than a fund.
Public funders 19State and EU instruments: grants, soft loans and co-investment. Non-dilutive money that funds the stretch from lab to first product. Deadlines and program details are on the grants pages.
Corporate venture arms 11Venture arms of industrial and technology groups. A corporate investor brings a pilot customer and distribution along with the cheque, and sometimes a later acquirer.
University venture entities 8Holding companies and seed funds attached to universities. They back spinouts from their own labs and are usually the first outside capital a research-based company sees.
Angel networks 5Organised groups of angels that syndicate seed rounds. A network gives a founder one pitch and many cheques.
Business angels 4Individuals investing their own money, usually at pre-seed and seed. Each angel on the map is listed with cited evidence of a hardtech investment.
By origin
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