BrightCap Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in companies with defensible technology and significant global growth potential. Headquartered in Sofia, BrightCap deploys an extended network in Silicon Valley and Europe to assist its portfolio.
Location: Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2018
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 21
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 18.07.2026 | Self Inspe... | selfinspection.com | $13M | United Sta... |
| 03.06.2026 | Paypercut | paypercut.com | $5.81M | Bulgaria |
| 05.05.2026 | DeepInfra | deepinfra.com | $133M | United Sta... |
| 18.12.2025 | GlycanAge | glycanage.com | $13.1M | Croatia |
| 07.08.2025 | WiseBee | wisebee.ai | $2.5M | Bulgaria |
| 22.06.2022 | Kardi AI | kardi-ai.com | $1.65M | Czechia, O... |
| 19.02.2022 | CoLumbo - ... | columbo.me | $2.39M | Bulgaria, ... |
| 13.02.2022 | Novus | novus.world | $1.32M | United Kin... |
| 16.01.2022 | SessionSta... | sessionstack.com | $1.83M | Bulgaria, ... |
| 09.07.2021 | ONDO | Sma... | ondo.io | $1.18M | Bulgaria, ... |
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| - | Diana | Stefanova | Managing P... | linkedin.c... | - | - |
News 34
| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.05.2022 | BrightCap leads Kardi AI's pre-Seed to enable unlimited ECG monitoring | BrightCap is excited to lead Kardi-AI’s €350,000 pre-Seed round. By using commercially available Tomas Skala (left) and Stephen Burke. Image by Kardi AI BrightCap is excited to lead Kardi-AI’s €350,000 pre-Seed round. By using commerciall... |
| 25.05.2022 | LucidLink raises $20m Series B after a year of tremendous growth | We are delighted to have participated in Lucidlink’s $20m Series B round along Headline Image by LucidLink We are delighted to have participated in Lucidlink‘s $20m Series B round along Headline, Baseline Ventures and Top Tier Capital Par... |
| 17.02.2022 | CoLumbo raises €2.1m to scale its AI platform for L-Spine radiology | CoLumbo, an AI assistant for lumbar spine radiology, has raised a €2.1m Seed round CoLumbo, an AI assistant for lumbar spine radiology, has raised a €2.1m Seed round from BrightCap Ventures and Eleven Ventures. Using AI, CoLumbo reads, se... |
| 11.02.2022 | BrightCap backs impact banking pioneer Novus | Novus has raised £2m+ from BrightCap Ventures and fintech angel investors Novus has raised £2m+ from BrightCap Ventures and fintech angel investors from the UK and Switzerland. Novus has more than 30,000 people in their waitlist and has be... |
| 10.02.2022 | Join the BrightCap Ventures Investment Team | BrightCap Ventures is a Sofia-based VC fund on a mission to uncover our region’s vast BrightCap Ventures is a Sofia-based VC fund on a mission to uncover our region’s vast, unexplored potential to incubate dominating technology companies. ... |
| 14.01.2022 | BrightCap invests in product analytics platform Sessionstack | Sessionstack has raised a €750K round led by BrightCap and joined by Telerik co-founder Boyko Sessionstack founder and CEO Alexander Zlatkov (middle) together with the BrightCap team Sessionstack has raised a €750K round led by BrightCap ... |
| 06.01.2022 | Matterport Completes Acquisition of Enview | Enview, a BrightCap portfolio company, has been acquired by Matterport, a leader in spatial analytics Enview, a BrightCap portfolio company, has been acquired by Matterport, a leader in spatial analytics for the built world. Reconstructin... |
| 21.08.2021 | The challenges of tapping into the US market | In this interview with Bloomberg TV Bulgaria, Elina Halatcheva talks about some of the challenges of tapping Image by Bloomberg TV Bulgaria In an interview with Bloomberg TV Bulgaria, Elina Halatcheva talks about some of the challenges of... |
| 20.05.2021 | Lucidlink closes $12m Series A round led by Headline and joined by Adobe | LucidLink, an innovator in cloud file technology raised $12 million in Series A funding to support accelerated growth Image by Lucidlink LucidLink, an innovator in cloud file technology raised $12 million in Series A funding to support ac... |
| 06.05.2021 | Pliant raises $10m in Series A funding led by Osage Venture Partners | Pliant, a BrightCap portfolio company, raised an oversubscribed $10m Series A round led by Image by Pliant Pliant, a BrightCap portfolio company, raised an oversubscribed $10m Series A round led by Osage Venture Partners. BrightCap Ventur... |
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Mentions in press and media 29
| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.07.2026 | Self Inspection Raises $10 Million To Expand Vehicle Condition Intelligence Platform | Self Inspection has raised $10 million to expand its artificial intelligence-powered platform for capturing, analyzing and sharing standardized information about a vehicle’s physical condition. Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, the invest... |
| 03.06.2026 | Paypercut secures €5M to scale cross-border payments in CEE | Paypercut, a European fintech company providing payment infrastructure for online merchants across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has raised €5 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Concentric, Passion Capital and Araya Ventur... |
| 05.05.2026 | Why 500 Global and Nvidia Just Bet €91.5m on Deepinfra’s ‘Token Factory’ | CEE, USA ~ Company: The artificial intelligence gold rush has been defined by the colossal cost of training models, a high-stakes game played by a handful of tech giants. But as companies globally move from flashy demos to real-world produc... |
| 25.02.2026 | RobosizeME: $2 Million Raised To Bring AI Workflow Automation To The Global Hotel Industry | RobosizeME has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by SeedTwo Capital, positioning the company to expand its AI-powered workflow automation platform across the global hospitality sector. The startup is focused on eliminati... |
| 25.02.2026 | RobosizeME Raises $2M in Seed Funding | RobosizeME, an Olomouc, Czech Republic startup designing workflow automation purpose-built to remove the repetitive, manual work from hotel operations, raised $2M in Seed funding. The round was led by SeedTwo Capital, with participation fro... |
| 27.01.2026 | GlycanAge Raises EUR 7.4M to Turn Aging Into Data and Detect Risk Before Disease | British startup GlycanAge with Croatian founders translates glycan science into clinically actionable biological aging diagnostics The company focuses on early risk detection through stable, inflammation-linked IgG glycan biomarkers The com... |
| 19.12.2025 | GlycanAge Secures Major Funding. Reshaping Healthcare with Biological Age Diagnostics. | GlycanAge, a UK biotech rooted in Croatian research, just secured €7.4 million. This significant investment propels glycan-based aging diagnostics into mainstream healthcare. Their "inflammaging" clock, a cutting-edge biomarker, p... |
| 18.12.2025 | UK longevity startup GlycanAge raises €7.4 million to bring glycan-based ageing diagnostics into mainstream healthcare | UK-based longevity startup GlycanAge has raised €7.4 million ($8.7 million) in fresh funding to accelerate the clinical development of its technology and expand access to glycan testing for clinicians worldwide. The round was led by Fifth Q... |
| 18.12.2025 | GlycanAge Founders on Boosting Transition From “Wellness” Biomarker to Hospital Diagnostic | Croatia, UK ~ Company: Glycans, sugar molecules that shape immune response, inflammation and ageing, are well studied in research labs but rarely used in everyday clinical diagnostics. Croatian-founded GlycanAge, a London-headquartered biot... |
| 30.10.2025 | Vestbee’s Winter Pitch 2025 to Connect Europe’s Early-Stage Startups with Leading Global Investors | Vestbee partners with HubSpot to launch the Europe-wide Winter Pitch 2025 Top startups from Pre-Seed to Series A will pitch before leading global investors Exclusive partner perks from Hotjar, HubSpot, Notion, Slack, Stripe, and Zandesk boo... |
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