We are an active venture capital group with a current emphasis on pre-seed, seed, and series A startups. We’re flexible and on occasion, have also invested in late stage and cross over rounds.
While Arc is geographically agnostic, to date most of our investments have been based in Israel, Europe and the US (outside of Silicon Valley).
Many of our portfolio companies have benefitted from our assistance on strategy, tactics, business development, and even distressed situations.
January Ventures
January Ventures is a VC fund focused on angel/pre-seed in the US & Europe. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, more diverse and more distributed. We back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know. Our vision is an equal opportunity tech ecosystem. Our firm is built on the principles of transparency and access, and we back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know.
Fifth Quarter Ventures
FQV is an early stage VC fund focused on investing in startups from the Western Balkans. Balkan founders around the globe and any startup considering Balkans as their talent competitive advantage. We are operators and once we build conviction around a startup, we aim to be the first sizable institutional money by leading the rounds and taking a board seat to ensure we can move the needle for our portfolio companies in a significant way. Our Approach Three Investment Strategies Each Reinforcing One Another. Investing in startups based in Western Balkans: Top startups from the region with proven founders and business model, startups that currently skip local investors (outgrow them) and we help them with intros to top foreign VC. Balkan founders around the world: Startups run by Serbian and Croatian founders in diaspora who can benefit from our connections to more effectively operate parts of their business from Serbia and Croatia. Startup with presence in the Balkans: Elite US/Canadian startups who need help with product building & faster execution. Here we take an active role in team and product building (setting up teams here in the region) to secure an allocation in a round led by a Tier 1 VC from the Valley.
Ganas Ventures
We write $100K checks to founders with ganas and a big vision to address big problems in growing markets thru a sustainable go-to-community strategy. We help our portfolio companies with sales, community, and fundraising strategies by leveraging our expertise, proprietary tools, WhatsApp, and our Ganas LP, mentor, and support community. We’re on a mission to produce outsized returns con ganas! And, while we’re at it, we’re changing the narrative of who VCs are, who we invest in, and how companies become unicorns by just being us. The fund is run by solo-GP Lolita Taub who is building an early-stage VC boutique franchise; after investing in 91 startups as a scout/angel/VC, and post launching her first fund The Community Fund. Learn more about community-driven companies here.
7percent Ventures
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 moneyMaybe 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.
Creandum
We believe any industry can be disrupted by the right entrepreneur. We believe software will accelerate this. We believe the entrepreneur will make the difference between success and failure. We believe business will become more global. We believe we add value by asking the right questions, not by having all the answers. We believe data makes the difference. We believe in the value of enabling others through technology. We believe doing one thing right is more valuable than doing many things mediocre. We back the companies of tomorrow.
Wave Ventures
Inspired by the recent success stories of young Nordic founders, more and more young people see building a startup as the best and most meaningful way to make an impact. Wave is Europe’s largest student-run VC backing the most exceptional Gen Z founders in the New Nordics at the earliest stage. Founded: 2016 Area focus: Nordics & Baltics Location: Finland, Sweden, Estonia Team: 7 members Stage focus: Earliest - Your First Investment
