List of the 10 largest Venture Capital Pension Funds Europe [2023]

This pension fund invests in venture capital funds: South Yorkshire Pensions Authority (UK)

Out of 400 European pension funds, only 11 are mentioning venture capital keywords on their website. One active venture capital fund investor from our database is the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority. As of 2022, the holdings of the pension scheme amounted GBP10.5Bn. In their “Alternative Investments” asset class, the pension fund invests in private credit and private equity as well as infrastructure. Within the private equity section, many venture capital fund investments are pursued. For instance, the fund invested in Longwall Ventures. The UK venture capital fund invests in the verticals health, resilience and sustainability. Portfolio companies include biocleave, Biofidelity and Diamond Microwave.

Based on our pension fund crawler

We created this list with the help of our sophisticated pension fund crawler tool that enables us to analyze the pension fund websites for given keywords. For this list, we analyzed the list for the keyword:

• venture capital
• vc funds
• startup investment
• vc fund
• venture funds

The keyword “venture capital” was found exactly 21 times on the respective websites.