E15 VC

Chasing hype is not our style. We value authenticity, and admire the tenacity it takes to turn a daring idea into an enduring company. We back extraordinary people capable of changing the status quo. We showcase their success, and work hard behind the scenes to amplify it. One life-altering investment can lead to industry-wide impact—we’ve seen it happen firsthand. So we aspire to be the partners of choice for today’s boldest startup founders, as they become tomorrow’s visionary leaders.

Mätch VC brings together a powerful collective of 91 family businesses and entrepreneurs who have united to support the next generation of innovators across Europe. The firm operates on a unique model, leveraging the deep industry experience, networks, and resources of its family business members to provide portfolio companies with more than just capital. They believe in backing founders who can transform traditional industries and create lasting value. The team at Mätch VC combines traditional entrepreneurial values with modern venture investing approaches, creating an environment where long-term thinking meets rapid innovation. They focus on working closely with their portfolio companies, offering strategic guidance and access to a broad network of industry experts and potential partners. Their collaborative approach means founders benefit from the collective wisdom and operational experience of dozens of successful family businesses, creating a support system that extends far beyond typical investor-founder relationships.

R77 Global provides integrated HR infrastructure for companies operating across borders, combining executive search, global payroll processing, and fractional HR leadership under a single service model. The Malta-based firm enables clients to hire, compensate, and manage teams in more than 180 regions without establishing local legal entities - a model designed to reduce the administrative overhead typically associated with international expansion. Core clients span technology, payments, gaming, and finance sectors. The company's service architecture addresses three distinct phases of workforce scaling. Its executive search practice focuses on senior-level placements across its target verticals. The global payroll platform handles compensation and compliance in jurisdictions where clients lack legal presence, processing payments through R77's own infrastructure. Fractional HR leadership and on-demand C-level professionals provide interim strategic capacity, allowing organizations to access executive-level expertise on flexible terms rather than through permanent hires. R77 also offers specialized support for organizational inflection points, including change management programmes and HR workstreams during mergers and acquisitions. This positioning reflects a broader shift in how mid-market and growth-stage companies approach international operations - prioritizing speed to market and capital efficiency over building standalone country operations. The firm's model is particularly relevant for businesses testing new geographies or managing distributed teams ahead of achieving the scale that would justify dedicated local subsidiaries.

Decasonic is the venture and digital assets fund building blockchain innovation. We draw on our decades of experience as both tech investors and operators to help founders in blockchain accelerate product market fit & scale growth. Since 2013, we have been believers, builders and investors in blockchain. We engineer with a systematic approach to iconic growth. People, data and relationships are the north stars of our fund. We take a long term view on our relationships with outlier founders. These relationships become the foundation of our investment franchise. How we invest, advise & build Investing: pre-seed, seed & early stage venture capital pre-sales, private & IEO/IDO token sales liquid digital assets, NFTs & cryptocurrencies​ Advising and building: product-market fit playbooks behavioral centric product development exponential product led growth OKRs & flywheel growth investor-deal fit alignment In blockchain innovation: web3 & blockchain infrastructure open finance & DeFi metaverse & blockchain gaming decentralized applications tokenized world: NFTs Come join us on this journey.

DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. For over twenty years, DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant entrepreneurs applying Deep Tech, from the earliest stage and beyond, to pragmatically and cost-effectively tackle previously unsolvable problems in nearly every industry, especially those that haven’t seen material technological progress in decades. Together, we have created tens of billions of dollars of value while also making the world a markedly better place.

For over 120 years, Air Liquide has been at the forefront of essential molecules that power life, matter, and energy. From oxygen that heals patients in hospitals to hydrogen that propels clean transportation, the company's gases touch every aspect of modern existence. With 66,500 employees across 60 countries serving more than 4 million customers and patients, Air Liquide delivers industrial and medical gases that are fundamental to progress in healthcare, manufacturing, energy transition, and countless other sectors. Climate change, resource scarcity, and evolving healthcare needs represent the defining challenges of our time - and Air Liquide exists to help solve them. By investing heavily in innovation across six global R&D campuses, the company develops technologies that reduce CO2 emissions, enable low-carbon energy solutions, and improve patient care quality. Through the ADVANCE strategic plan, Air Liquide is accelerating the energy transition, advancing healthcare access, and delivering long-term performance while creating sustainable value for all stakeholders.