# Most active investors

The most active growth equity investors in Europe

83 growth-stage investors with at least three growth investments have deployed capital into European companies this year

The most active US VCs in Europe

Between January and the August 26th, 738 US-headquartered investors put capital into European startups

Europe’s 50 most active equity investors in H1 2026

The top investors behind Sifted’s France & Benelux 2026 leaderboard

A select group of investors has backed more than five of the fastest-growing startups featured in the ranking

Top 10 investors behind the Sifted Consumer 100 ranking

The startup ranking lists Europe’s breakout consumer tech startups by mainstream adoption, cultural momentum and global significance

The most active legaltech investors in Europe

Investors including General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Benchmark and Balderton are piling into one of European tech’s buzziest sectors

The top investors behind Sifted’s Southern Europe 2026 leaderboard

Italian public fund CDP Venture Capital leads the ranking, with investments in 15 of the 100 startups

Ranked: Europe’s top investors in climate, B2B SaaS, healthtech, fintech and consumer tech

Sifted’s final roundup of the biggest cheque writers in 2025

The top investors behind Sifted’s UK & Ireland leaderboard

An elite group have more than five of the fastest-growing startups in their portfolios

The most active investors in the Netherlands

Both funding and deal count are on the rise in the country

These were the most active AI investors in 2025

Sifted tracks the 106 busiest cheque writers of the year

European fintech’s most active angel investors

Fintech angel investment has sunk from a peak of $2.7bn in 2022 to just $837m last year

The most active US investors in European tech

Silicon Valley backers ramped up investments in Europe by almost a quarter last year

Ranked: Europe’s most active public funds

Public investors were behind 30% of European startup deals in 2025

Who’s dominating Europe’s €24bn startup debt market?

Meet the investors behind 400+ debt deals in 2025

Europe’s most active secondary investors

Europe’s scaleups are doing more secondaries, but who are the top investors?

The most active corporate VCs in 2025

84 corporate investors struck three or more deals last year

These were the 100 most active VCs in Europe in 2025

A full breakdown of the year’s busiest cheque writers — and the 3,196 deals they made

Europe’s most active LPs since 2020

Sifted found out which LPs have been the most active cheque writers amid the highs and lows of 2020 through 2025

These investors backed the most European unicorns in 2025

Accel, General Catalyst and HV Capital were the most prolific unicorn-spotters this year

These investors have backed the most European AI unicorns

Nvidia, General Catalyst, Atomico: the 12 funds with the biggest AI wins in the region

The investors powering Sifted’s AI 100

Europe’s AI scene isn’t short of hype — or capital — right now

Europe’s most active VCs in Q3

Dealmaking spikes in 2025’s busiest quarter so far

The most active robotics VCs in 2025

From humanoids to warehouse automation: who’s backing the future of robotics?