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21 July 2023·8 min read

Aleksandra Woszczyk

Editor, Vestbee

Top VC Funds In Cyprus To Finance Your Startup

Want investment from a Venture Capitalist firm in Cyprus? We have listed the top VC Funds in Cyprus to finance your startup. We have listed all the portfolio requirements, and business investment size along with the added benefits that come along with the capital investments.

TA Ventures

TA Ventures is a venture capitalist firm that invests in early-stage tech startups that are contributing to shaping the industries of tomorrow. The VC fund offers execution, proactive support, and access to a broad international network. The VC firm has more than 13 years of experience working as a VC firm and has developed relationships with leading global investors, corporates with interests along with different industries and stages.

With their network, they will support all their portfolio companies by providing large, growth-minded co-investors in subsequent rounds. The VC fund also provides access to a highly-skilled and cost-effective R&D outsourcing team in Central and Eastern Europe. Till now they have done 200+ investments, and 140+ portfolio companies. These are global VC firms with a global presence in Cyprus but all over Europe and the United States.

Kinisis Ventures

Kinisis Ventures is the first CySEC registered venture capital fund that focuses mainly on pre-seed & seed Cypriot Startups.

The VC fund focuses on providing their investment team’s expertise from their USA experience to capitalise Cypriot innovation that will help them to differentiate, compete and scale them in the US and other international markets.

Kinisis Ventures brings along a unique perspective and strategic value to their portfolio companies by leveraging their experience & network in their US market. They pick and partner with early-stage Cypriot startups along with a differentiated value proposition that scales in the USA market.

As soon as the KV fund was launched, all the portfolio companies had the fund’s Investment advisory committee and business commercialization experts. This is one unique approach to investing in the early-stage Venture capital sector in Cyprus.

AddVenture VC

Addventure VC is an international venture capital fund that follows a sector-focused strategy. The fund gives investments to all its portfolio companies with a range of $1-10 Million.

The fund has been in the market for the past 10+ years, with more than 5 funds in management, and 120 million assets under management.

The VC fund provides the following funding to the following industries:

  • Home & local services marketplace along with SaaS for workforce management.
  • Business providing cleaning, beauty, storage, laundry & dry-cleaning, and legal services.
  • FoodTech businesses provide subscription-based service that caters to individual culture, dietary needs and taste while keeping the customers full and happy. Examples of business offerings such as personalised food, ready-to-cook, business catering, ready-to-eat, and B2B Supply marketplaces.
  • Health Tech: In this industry, the fund invests in companies that are efficiently providing quality care at a reasonable price to all customers. Services include Medical Insurance Tech, Doctor appointment platforms, TeleMedicine, etc.

If you are offering something that can add value to the customers in these specific segments. Then you can get an investment from Addventure VC.

GEM Capital


GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. The company was established in 2017, and there are more than 25 portfolio companies with origins in Europe, the US, and Israel. The offices are located in Paphos (Cyprus) and Dubai (UAE).

GEM Capital is a proud member of TechIsland which is the largest non-profit association in Cyprus in 2021 to make Cyprus a world-class destination for world-class talent. The VC fund focuses on investing in Games & Entertainment and Enterprise ventures with creative business founders.

The gaming & entertainment industry means developing games and entertainment products including mobile devices, PC/Consoles, VR as well as other game tech companies. The VC fund targets investment in the following stages: Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A. They are keen to provide funding of $1m-2m as an initial equity investment and are ready to follow on. They are always open to any co-investment along with other VC funds.

Insta Ventures

Insta Ventures is a venture capital firm with an interest in investing in the IT technology sector since 2019. The VC firm looks into investing in tech startups that are in the early stages of development of their products/services. The Investment team consists of experienced professionals with experience in the IT industry. EdTech, Crypto/Blockchain.

The goal here is to help the ambitious teams of IT startups to create innovative products and grow their business.

The VC fund invests $100-500k during the company’s business funding stages such as seed, late seed, and pre-round A and helps its marketing/sales team to prepare them for the next investment phase.

For businesses, the VC fund looks into investing in the following businesses: SaaS businesses, B2B/B2C Marketplaces, Enterprise Software, Mobile Applications, AdTech/MarTech, FinTech, ML/DL/AI, AR/VR, DevOps/Cloud.

Insta Ventures looks into investing with an enthusiastic team, inspiring leader, working prototype, addressable market, growing MoM revenue, established company structure, no founder/investor conflicts, predictable exit/earning strategy (M&A, IPO, Cash, etc.)

Vershina Capital

Vershina Capital is an international venture capitalist firm. The VC firm invests in innovative business models that can disrupt traditional industries. The VC firm provides expertise and financing to fuel the rapid development of early-stage technology companies in growing markets.

The VC firm provides strong industrial expertise from skilful experts, advisors to outperform competitors & take a lead position in the market. The firm has a diversified portfolio of Vershina Capital consisting of fast-growing companies catering to different industries.

Vershina Capital Favours the following industries: Online Education/Edtech, FoodTech (e-grocery) and E-Commerce sectors. The VC firms also help their portfolio companies with professional experts, and advisors from their specific industry, assist in fundraising as well as provide them with operational knowledge to ensure dynamic business growth.

This allows their portfolio companies to have a competitive edge and overtake their competitors, increasing their market share and valuation of their company.

MGVC

MGVC is a global venture capitalist firm dedicated to developing promising companies and projects within the gaming industry. MGVC provides support to the development of promising gaming projects and companies.

The VC firm has a team of leading professionals with many years of experience working in the video game industry. The experts know that the developers should follow their ideas through and develop their games.

The funding comes along with support in game design, marketing, business development, production, project management, HR and investment analysis.


Quonota Investments

Quonota is a VC fund that invests in new ideas, models, products and people with high growth potential that weathers adversity, transforming our society.

The VC fund invests in startup funding between the preseed to IPO stages. The VC firms not only provide the funding, but they provide strategy, guidance, counsel, operational expertise, and relationships.

We believe that finance alone is not enough to create global success stories. So, we execute our Smart Funding Thesis.

By providing strategy, guidance, counsel, operational expertise, relationships and capital, the total value of our service will far outweigh the initial monetary investment. The VC firm takes a cross-sector approach that helps businesses with innovation.

The VC fund backs all the teams with long-term support, investing in those who have the hunger for breakthroughs, and a hands-on approach for investing. 

Light Ray Ventures
 

Light Ray Ventures is a Europe-based VC fund with global investments focusing on investing in startups around the world. Currently, the fund has 100M+ Assets under Management and invests in Seed & series A+ stages with an investment ranging between $100k-$5million.

The VC firm looks for investment in companies that leverage disruptive technology in the following sectors:

  • Mobility
  • FoodTech
  • Construction & Smart Cities
  • CleanTech
  • Industrial Automation & Robotics
     

MVST: MG

MVST: MG is a venture capitalist firm that focuses on investing in companies that leverage blockchain technology. The businesses invest in startups that are in the pre-seed and seed stages of funding. The MVST Provides capital along with additional supporting services.

The VC firm acts as an angel investor that focuses on advanced technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, ad tech, fintech and other industry-leading technologies across various areas.

One of the best things about MVST: MG is that they have an intensive 4-month startup accelerator program that comes with a tailored combination of additional resources to speed up the product-to-market process, capital advice, interaction with other entrepreneurs, technical support, access to marketing platforms with millions of users worldwide.

Overall, A great VC fund for businesses that are looking to build their business around blockchain technology.

 

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