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BlackWood
Venture capital · Copenhagen, Denmark · Europe
BlackWood is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage founders in Europe. It invests through its own funds and draws on an investor club of over 1,000 angels and specialists for its portfolio companies.
Invests inFintech
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Or find every investor that fitsBlackWood lists 27 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (44%), Industrial & Manufacturing (9%) and E-commerce & Marketplaces (9%). 47% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Arāya Ventures, Angel Invest and Passion Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name BlackWood, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not BlackWood's whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 27. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 20% |
| Seed | 80% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 64th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 80th | 11% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 79th | 44% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 44% | 12% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 7% | 18% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
| Media & Entertainment | 4% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 4% | 8% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Arāya Ventures | 3 |
| Angel Invest | 2 |
| Passion Capital | 2 |
| RTP Global | 2 |
| Seedcamp | 2 |
| Techstars | 2 |
| Timechain | 2 |
| Unruly Capital | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers27100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare BlackWood head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with BlackWood| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 9 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 3 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 11 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 23 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for BlackWood
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in BlackWood's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
27 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides AI for assurance and certification readiness in the metals and minerals value chain. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Boundary Labs develops and provides a stablecoin called USBD for institutional use on-chain | Fintech | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| ComplyPay provides money distribution infrastructure made to scale with API-based infrastructure for embedding accounts, wallets, payments, and compliance into products. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Comundo provides a smarter EPC management solution for commercial real estate | Real Estate & ConstructionSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Flow Global builds the data and technology rails that allow financial institutions to underwrite and deploy fast, reliable credit to small businesses at scale. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Prospa provides business banking, loans, and expense cards for businesses in Nigeria | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Goya provides digital financing solutions for businesses, including factoring and financial management services. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| IVM Markets provides a platform for constructing and analyzing equity derivatives and structured products portfolios | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Juritas reads supplier contracts and provides relevant information to finance, procurement, and legal teams | Legal & ComplianceFintech | Nov 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Kapu operates a supermarket chain where customers can shop and save money | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| KINETK turns video, image and text from the social web into narratives with the evidence behind every answer | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| ODITI publishes and sells high-end authentic prints | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Particula provides independent risk ratings and real-time monitoring to reduce information asymmetry and empower asset allocators with the transparency needed to deploy liquidity. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Paypercut provides online payment solutions for businesses across Europe. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Paypercut provides online payment solutions for businesses across Europe. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Qaptis develops modular carbon capture systems for hard-to-abate industries across mobile and stationary applications. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Rebaba creates local circular battery systems | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Rehuman provides an app to store and manage insurance policies in one place | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- blackwood.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 27
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