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Sparring Capital Partners
Venture capital · Vienna, Austria · Europe
Sparring Capital Partners is a Vienna-based investment firm founded by entrepreneurs and investment professionals. It provides capital and hands-on operating support to European technology companies, with senior operators taking active roles in strategy and execution.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsfrontier technologydefencecybersecurityquantumresilienceeurope
Your fit with Sparring Capital Partners
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Or find every investor that fitsSparring Capital Partners lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Consumer (11%) and Fintech (11%). 33% of its companies are based in Belgium. It invests most often alongside 100IN, AQAL Capital and Accel.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Sparring Capital Partners, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundSparring Capital Partners does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
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| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 92th | 20% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Consumer | 11% | 3% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Food & Agriculture | 11% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 11% | 7% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers480%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company120%
- 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.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 100IN | 1 |
| AQAL Capital | 1 |
| Accel | 1 |
| Alliance VC | 1 |
| Battery Ventures | 1 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 1 |
| Founderful | 1 |
| Geodesic Capital | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Sparring Capital Partners 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 Sparring Capital Partners| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Mar 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Sparring Capital Partners
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Sparring Capital Partners' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Plasmateria develops customized coating solutions for eco-friendly technologies and manufacturing processes. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Backbone connects quality data and provides decision-making capabilities for food and beverage companies | Food & AgricultureAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| World Data Lab forecasts consumer spending and demography for countries and cities around the world. | ConsumerFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| zerothird secures the world’s most critical infrastructure with entanglement-based cryptography, designed to resist both classical and quantum attacks. | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 6 Nov 2026- Site
- sparring.capital
- Last read
- 6 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 23 Mar 2026
- Companies checked
- 5
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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