AnD Ventures

Alpha Edison is a knowledge-driven venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies using AI, data and behavioral science to provide investable insights and unlock new markets. Through thematic investing and business model innovation, Alpha Edison helps entrepreneurs make better decisions and scale their enterprise. Our cognitively diverse team helps founders understand latent demand, unlock new markets and scale businesses that change our world–for the better.

Mila Ventures is building the Venture Scientist platform: an integrated venture-creation engine designed to translate frontier AI research into world-class companies - rooted in Canada, built for the world. Mila Ventures operates within Mila, a prestigious AI research institute based in Montréal, founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and a pioneer of deep learning. The platform brings together: Mila Venture Studio (co-creating companies with professors, students, and entrepreneurs) Mila Accelerator (early company building and scaling) Venture Scientist Academy (training researchers to become venture builders) The Mila Venture Fund (in formation) We operate at the intersection of AI research, venture creation, and capital, working closely with Mila's globally renowned researchers, students, founders, investors, corporate partners, and public institutions.

Across Ventures is a San Francisco–based venture capital firm that seeks to invest in top-tier micro VCs across frontier technology domains. We empower exceptional micro VC General Partners and their portfolio companies who we believe are enabling the future of innovation — from AI to blockchain to deep tech — while fostering strategic connections with leading Japanese limited partners (LPs). By bridging Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial dynamism with Japan's industrial excellence, we seek to drive meaningful cross-border collaboration and long-term value creation. What We Focus On Seeking to Invest in Exceptional Micro VCs: Seeking to invest in and partnering with top-tier micro VC GPs focused on next-generation technologies and global impact. Enabling Cross-Border Open Innovation: Building bridges between the world's most innovative startups and Japan's forward-looking corporates to co-create the future.

Tectonic Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to solve meaningful problems across the Enterprise landscape through technology-enabled solutions that have lasting value in the networks, data, and platforms they create. We are building a new type of venture firm necessary for the increasing time that founders need to be ready for their Series A. We become trusted advisors and collaborators, nurturing teams as they scale and develop world-class execution. We invest and partner with entrepreneurs from inception to seed stage. We raise small funds of ~$75M at a time and are happy to write the first check into a new idea. We provide experience, an expansive network, and, as entrepreneurs ourselves, the right mindset to help founders realize their vision. Remarkable founders have a vision that will shift the future – our passion is to help make that happen.

We believe that to unlock the profound potentials of AI, a collaborative approach is needed. With our Venture Studio, we are orchestrating the category leaders of tomorrow. How we build After years of research in the field, we have cultivated an integrative approach to building AI ventures. Including all relevant stakeholders during each step of the way. From ideation up until Series A, our process ensures that you as a Founder is best equipped to build a venture that will form a lasting impact. ‍The 5 pillars on which we build AI ventures To bring AI from research into practice, there are five key challenges that need to be overcome. We have cultivated a setup that enables you as a Founder to master these challenges, in order to build the category leading venture of tomorrow. 1. Team We are the leading employer for AI in Europe, attracting both junior and senior as well as generalist and specalist talent from all over the world and thus enable you to assemble a strong team from day one. On average, our ventures see 50+ applicants per engineering hire We ensure that you can assemble diverse teams from around the world Our hiring processes include cross-interviewing with experts and onsite days to help qualify candidates 2. Validation We believe that even the greatest ideas require a very strong initial go to market. This is why we push you in getting a commercial signal from the market fast and provide sparring in validating your product and technical angle. We connect you with external experts, potential costumers and open doors to win the first pilot projects Get proof and sparring from our engineering team to validate your venture case from a technical perspective Our validation process challenges you to answer the right questions and the right time 3. Financing Setting you up for a strong scaling phase, we will invest in the pre-seed and seed rounds of your venture - and connect you with strong other investors. Pre-Seed and Seed round investments by Merantix Use our network to approach the right investors for your deeptech venture Fundraising prep and coaching through us and external experts 4. Network Your Founders journey starts at Merantix, and our community will follow you far beyond that. Exchange with our Founder community to navigate hard times, build resilience, and develop leadership skills Receive mentoring and invest in your personal growth during our bi-annual Founders Retreats Establish your personal network and enter Berlin’s leading network of visionary entrepreneurs 5. Collaboration At the core of our venture studio principle lies collaboration. We believe that by sharing and collaborating we can unlock the real potentials of AI. Open research agreements between our ventures - meaning we share code, contracts and know-how Access our proprietary tech-stack for rapid prototyping and co-work with any experts in our network Engage on our AI Campus Berlin for inspiration, co-creation, talent acquisition and more

Meron Capital is the first-check conviction VC for Israeli founders building category-defining tech. We work with our founders openly and at eye-level, and strive to be the best partner throughout their journey.