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E15 VC is a stage and geographically agnostic Venture Capital fund founded in June of 2017 focused on high Total Addressable Market opportunities sourced through decades of combined industry experience.

Mätch VC brings together a powerful collective of 91 family businesses and entrepreneurs who have united to support the next generation of innovators across Europe. The firm operates on a unique model, leveraging the deep industry experience, networks, and resources of its family business members to provide portfolio companies with more than just capital. They believe in backing founders who can transform traditional industries and create lasting value. The team at Mätch VC combines traditional entrepreneurial values with modern venture investing approaches, creating an environment where long-term thinking meets rapid innovation. They focus on working closely with their portfolio companies, offering strategic guidance and access to a broad network of industry experts and potential partners. Their collaborative approach means founders benefit from the collective wisdom and operational experience of dozens of successful family businesses, creating a support system that extends far beyond typical investor-founder relationships.

DCVC backs entrepreneurs solving trillion-dollar problems to multiply the benefits of capitalism for everyone while reducing its costs. Deep Tech is a potent approach to this challenge that enables more for less - now and for this century. For over twenty years, DCVC and its principals have backed brilliant entrepreneurs applying Deep Tech, from the earliest stage and beyond, to pragmatically and cost-effectively tackle previously unsolvable problems in nearly every industry, especially those that haven’t seen material technological progress in decades. Together, we have created tens of billions of dollars of value while also making the world a markedly better place.

Distro operates an AI-powered recruiting platform designed to automate manual recruiting workflows for companies building remote engineering teams. Led by CEO Chad Ingram, the US-headquartered company positions itself as a remote-first organization focused on combining automated processes with human judgment in talent acquisition. The platform targets the intersection of recruiting technology, engineering hiring, and distributed workforce management. The company's core offering replaces traditional manual recruiting tasks through two primary products: the Distro platform, which uses intelligent vetting systems to surface candidates, and an AI Recruiting Assistant that automates outreach, scheduling, reminders, and follow-ups. The platform is designed to optimize for speed and precision while allowing recruiters to concentrate on relationship-building rather than administrative coordination. Distro's technical approach emphasizes human-in-the-loop integration, positioning automation as a complement to rather than replacement for recruiter judgment. Distro's value proposition centers on operational efficiency claims: enabling faster hiring cycles, reduced costs, and improved candidate quality for globally distributed teams. The platform's intelligent vetting component is positioned to identify qualified candidates that conventional applicant tracking systems might overlook. The company frames its approach as removing procedural bottlenecks in the hiring process while maintaining an emphasis on fairness - specifically highlighting that its system aims to provide candidates with equal evaluation opportunities without bias. As a remote-first organization itself, Distro designs its workflows specifically for companies managing distributed engineering talent across geographies.

VOY Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH is a Berlin-based law firm and tax consultancy established in 2021, serving founders and investors across Europe's startup ecosystem. Founded by André Buchholtz and Johannes Steinacher, the firm specializes in venture capital and private equity transactions, combining legal advisory with tax consultancy through a digital-first service model. Chambers ranked VOY as a top law firm in Germany for 2025, recognizing its position within the country's legal services sector. The firm's practice centers on corporate transactions with particular emphasis on venture capital and private equity structuring. VOY advises companies at every stage of development, from initial formation through fundraising rounds to exit scenarios. The firm has advised on numerous significant transactions, including multi-million dollar seed and Series A financing rounds, providing integrated legal and tax guidance for both capital-raising entities and their investors. VOY distinguishes itself through its digital client experience, emphasizing direct accessibility and streamlined service delivery rather than traditional law firm models. This approach combines technical expertise in corporate law and tax matters with operational infrastructure designed for the pace and requirements of startup transactions. The firm's client base spans founders building early-stage companies and institutional investors participating in private equity and venture capital deals across European markets.

Decasonic is the venture and digital assets fund building blockchain innovation. We draw on our decades of experience as both tech investors and operators to help founders in blockchain accelerate product market fit & scale growth. Since 2013, we have been believers, builders and investors in blockchain. We engineer with a systematic approach to iconic growth. People, data and relationships are the north stars of our fund. We take a long term view on our relationships with outlier founders. These relationships become the foundation of our investment franchise. How we invest, advise & build Investing: pre-seed, seed & early stage venture capital pre-sales, private & IEO/IDO token sales liquid digital assets, NFTs & cryptocurrencies​ Advising and building: product-market fit playbooks behavioral centric product development exponential product led growth OKRs & flywheel growth investor-deal fit alignment In blockchain innovation: web3 & blockchain infrastructure open finance & DeFi metaverse & blockchain gaming decentralized applications tokenized world: NFTs Come join us on this journey.