We want to invest in solutions to problems which impact a lot of people.
If you are simply iterating a market, 7percent is not for you. We seek the 200x winners and pass on the less risky, less ambitious opportunities. We are looking for moonshots.
We back the technologies and products that in ten years people will wonder how the world ever lived without - the breakthrough companies and technologies.
What's in a name?
“A good early stage growth rate is 5-7% a week. If you can hit 10% a week you’re doing exceptionally well, but if you can only manage 1%, it’s a sign you haven’t yet figured out what you’re doing“
Paul Graham - Y Combinator
Why take our money
- Maybe don't. Not every entrepreneurial business should take venture funding. The venture capital journey is best for big risk, big outcome businesses. A startup is a company which is different because it is able to g
- Ex-founder led with Silicon Valley ambition. For >10 years we have been investing at pre-seed and seed as angel investors then VC’s. With experience operating as founders in both the U.K. and U.S. we have the confidence to back you to reach for the stars, with access to the expertise and capital via the three networks we co-founded. Read more here.
- Our Mantra: to help not hinder your startup. This is a guiding principle in everything we do. Because our Partners are ex-Founders themselves, this helps us empathise. We have a better understanding than many other investors, of the challenges you will experience when building a company from scratch, because we’ve done it ourselves. We have:
- Founded, grown and sold successful tech startups
- Founded tech startups and failed
- Taken angel or VC investment for our own startups and raised it for others
- Built transatlantic reach across startup ecosystems, from West and Eastern European to North America
- Backed >150 companies over the past 10 years, as a firm or as angels.