Fund F

There’s only a few days left to apply to Onstage (prev. Focal) S26 Demo Day 🚨 It takes 10 minutes to apply, and even those who don’t make it to demo day can get introductions to over 350 VC funds, including Fund F. If you're an early stage founder looking to build relationships with top VC funds, Onstage Demo Day might be for you. Even those that don’t make it to pitch can get introductions to their 350 VC partners. Last time, applicants received over 2,000 VC introduction requests. Find out if you're successful within three weeks. For those that make it to Demo Day, you’ll pitch live in front of over 200 VCs in London. Link to apply is here: https://lnkd.in/ebTMG6bM

Excited to be part of the first edition of 50 Diverse Led Impact Startups to Watch in Europe. An initiative by Impact Shakers and 4P CAPITAL spotlighting early stage startups led by underrepresented founders building real solutions to complex challenges. We'll be nominating startups that deserve more visibility. If you know a diverse-led impact startup in Europe that should be on the radar, nominations are open now. https://lnkd.in/eqCAz5iR

Calling all female founders and founders from underrepresented backgrounds in Malmö for Mashup 👋 We’re hosting a curated, low-key gathering together with Unconventional Ventures - designed for great conversations, strong connections, and a high-quality group of founders. Come for a slice (or two). Bring a founder friend. The more ambitious, the better. This is about building a more inclusive and connected founder community. If you know someone who should be in the room, bring them along. 📍 April 15 | 16:00 - 18:00 📍 Malmö Signup link in the comments. Spots are limited to keep the group curated and intentional - we’d love to see you there.

We’re hiring! We are looking for an Investment Analyst to join our team in Vienna. This role is for someone early in their career who wants to: ✨ work closely on investment decisions - not just observe, but contribute 🧠 develop strong judgment on founders, industries, and what makes companies win 🚀 be part of a high-conviction early-stage fund backing the next generation of founders You’ll be involved across the full investment process, from sourcing and evaluation to due diligence and portfolio support, and work closely with some of the most ambitious and exciting gender-diverse founders in Europe. At the same time, you’ll build a strong network across the European startup ecosystem. If you have 1-3 years of experience in VC, startups, or similar, are curious, driven, and excited about working with founders, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 Application link + job ad in the comments.

🌍 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐦 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 NHS Innovation Accelerator (𝐍𝐈𝐀) 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚 £𝟐.𝟓𝐌 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐅 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝! 🏥 💸 We are thrilled to announce our investment in Heim, the London-based health-tech startup by Kelly Klifa and James Monico. Europe’s community health market is at a pivotal moment. Patients increasingly 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲, while public health systems like the NHS 10 Year Plan 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱. Coupled with a 𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 and an ageing population, these trends require the exact kind of scalable, patient-centric solutions Heim provides. ✨ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝: 👉 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞: Unlike incumbents offering low-adherence software or low-margin staffing, Heim has a unique hybrid model combining proprietary AI scheduling with a managed network of 400+ clinicians to guarantee the delivery of high-value clinical tasks like blood draws at much better unit economics. 👉 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲: Heim has already proven its impact by reducing travel distance by 42% and cutting operational costs by 32%, unlocking thousands of clinical hours for frontline teams. 👉 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: The team has demonstrated strong momentum over the past year, showing great traction and having partnered with the most innovative digital health companies including Voy, Numan, Medichecks, Thriva & Co. 💪 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦: Kelly and James are rare repeat founders who previously scaled a healthcare venture to £𝟮𝟵𝗠+ 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 and reached 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. They combine deep clinical insight with elite engineering expertise to make community healthcare smarter, faster, and more human. 🎉 𝐖𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝? The £2.5M seed round was led by THENA Capital with participation from Fund F, Heal Capital, identity.vc 🏳️🌈 Backing LGBTQ+ Founders, Form Ventures, Portfolio Ventures and angels including former health minister, James Bethell. 🌍 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭? This capital will accelerate Heim’s growth across the NHS and private healthcare, pushing further into the AI capabilities that turn hidden activity data into operational intelligence. Congras to Kelly, James, and the entire team - we are honored to support your journey! 🚀 #HealthTech #NHS #VentureCapital Nina Wöss Lisa-Marie Fassl Carina Roth Sebastian Gomes Lucy Izquierdo Greene Judith Schnaubelt Female Founders Marta Mrozowicz Claire Mongeau Tatum Getty Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot Pamela Walker Geddes Will Martin Mayowa O.

We’re excited to host the Fund F x Female Founders Brunch at START Summit in St. Gallen on March 20, 2026. This gathering brings together female founders from across industries for a curated exchange. The focus: honest conversations around fundraising, building momentum, and navigating growth as well as meaningful peer connections in a setting without noise or transactional networking. We believe access and trusted networks matter. This brunch is designed to create exactly that: real conversations and long-term connections. Nina will be on site and is very much looking forward to meeting and connecting with founders building the next generation of European tech companies. If you are a female founder attending START Summit and would like to join, sign up via the link in the comments. We look forward to seeing many of you in St. Gallen.

🚀 Fund F Portfolio Is Hiring! Across the Fund F portfolio, our founders are building category-defining companies led by gender-diverse founding teams. These well-funded startups are now looking for exceptional diverse talent to help shape the future! Explore the open roles below: Scholé AI –  Working on the future of personalized learning - Senior Backend and DevOps Engineer (Full-Time, Lausanne)  🔗 https://lnkd.in/dBC7sTnk   Circonomit –  Building the strategic twin of organizations - Applied ML Researcher (Full-Time, Hybrid, Cologne)  🔗 https://lnkd.in/dtphJ4Pi senvo –  Redefining the face of last-mile logistics: Junior Account Executives, DACH Market & Benelux/France (Full-Time, Berlin) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/de9V5vna 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dj3cXhJe Sirius Music - Building the the #1 Global Music School - Customer Retention & Success Associate  (Full-Time, Berlin) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dBMUWh7b 10% - Reinventing FMCG loyalty - Sales Account Executive (Full-time, Paris) 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eAE5dGUk Lisa-Marie Fassl Nina Wöss Carina Roth Sebastian Gomes Judith Schnaubelt Lucy Izquierdo Greene Female Founders

💡refinq has raised a €2.2M Seed round to turn nature risk into a strategic advantage and Fund F is proud to be part of the journey! 🌍 Natural risk is becoming an increasing priority for companies as they struggle to understand how biodiversity loss or water scarcity is impacting their bottom line. Refinq is bringing the financial ambiguity of climate risk into a clear path forward with a platform that translates complex geospatial and climate data into climate risk data to inform internal decision makers. Why we invested: 👉 Beyond Reporting: Refinq moves beyond simple compliance by providing actionable risk modelling that predicts financial exposure and suggests site-specific mitigation strategies. 👉 Proprietary Tech Stack: Their engine ingests and harmonizes high-resolution geospatial data with high fidelity allowing them to more accurately measure these risks. 👉 Proven Industrial Traction: The team is already working with industry giants, proving that deep-tech nature intelligence is a "must-have" for critical infrastructure and global industry. 🎉 Who’s in the round? The €2.2M round was led by aws Gründungsfonds with participation from SymbiaVC (Co-Lead), Fund F, and business angel Olivier Schwab, supported by the FFG. 🌍 What’s next? This funding will accelerate their mission, as they scale their technology to help large-scale industrial and infrastructure operators globally navigate the transition to a nature-positive economy. Congratulations to Franziska, Lukas, Markus and the entire team. We are honored to support you in making "nature risk" a thing of the past! 🚀

🌍 Uplift360 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗱 €𝟕.𝟒𝗠 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 - 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗙 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱! 💸 We are thrilled to announce our investment in Uplift360, the Luxembourg and UK-based deep-tech startup by Sam Staincliffe and Jamie Meighan revolutionizing how the world’s strongest materials - like 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 - are recovered and reused. High-performance composites are the backbone of the aerospace, wind energy, defence and industrial sectors. Yet, over 𝟗𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 currently end up in landfills or incinerators because they are notoriously difficult to recycle. Uplift360 is changing the game with a proprietary chemical regeneration process that delivers 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫 without the environmental cost. ✨ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝: 👉 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲: By turning waste into high-quality feedstock, Uplift360 strengthens European supply chains and reduces reliance on foreign virgin materials.  👉 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Unlike traditional degenerative recycling, Uplift360’s process gives these critical materials a true second life at the same quality level. 👉 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: The team is already working with major industrial partners like Babcock on Eurofighter Typhoon recovery, Leonardo on repurposing helicopter blades as well as on a project with Rolls-Royce, proving that circularity and high performance go hand-in-hand. 💪 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦:  With deep roots in the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force, Co-founders Sam Staincliffe (CEO) and Jamie Meighan (COO) bring a true unfair advantage - offering unique access and unparalleled insight into the sectors that need this solution most. 💡 🎉 𝐖𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝? The €𝟕.𝟒𝐌 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 was led by Extantia with significant participation from the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Promus Ventures, and Fund F. 🌍 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭? This funding will be used to commission their 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, expand OEM partnerships, and scale their distributed model for composite circularity across Europe. Congratulations to Sam, Jamie, and the entire Uplift360 team - we are honored to support your journey in making "waste" a thing of the past! 🚀 #Investment #DeepTech #CircularEconomy #AdvancedMaterials #VC #FemaleFounders #FundF #Sustainability Nina Wöss Lisa-Marie Fassl Carina Roth Sebastian Gomes Lucy Izquierdo Greene Judith Schnaubelt Female Founders Nina Litman-Roventa Joern-Carlos Kuntze Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE Nicola Sinclair Lennart Velten Sander Verbrugge Pierre Festal John Lusk