DraperU Ventures

We are an investment holding company with a long-term vision. Do not confuse us with an investment fund: our approach is different. We invest early and stay close to our founders through the turbulent first years. Naturally, we do not want to be forced into selling our shares once things start getting better and want to keep an ability to adapt our exit strategies and timelines to the reality of our portfolio companies. We are hands-on investors Our entrepreneurial backgrounds enable us to provide our entrepreneurs with insightful feedback and mentoring. Building a company is a tough journey, and founders are not omniscient. It is our job to help them learn and avoid mistakes.

Pillar VC is a venture capital firm based in Boston investing in companies at formation and seed stage with $350 million under management. We believe VC doesn’t have to be the darkside –– we’re happy to own common stock, the same security as the founders we back, and we’re committed to helping founders develop as leaders. We're doing things differently at Pillar. We’ve been involved in building startups for many years. We’ve been investors and we’ve been investees. We’ve had our share of successes and failures. We saw that the traditional VC way was broken. The term VC itself evokes an evil empire - the dark side - a painful lack of alignment between investors and entrepreneurs. In a business where trust is paramount, the dark side created a world that put us at odds with those we needed to trust most. Pillar is fixing that. Our radical hypothesis. If we give founders the investment and support we would have wanted, we'll end up in a really good place. We're aligning incentives with interests and capabilities with needs. We’re delivering the breadth and depth of experience that matches what entrepreneurs want and need. Instead of hoping our own experience aligns with these needs, we gathered a dream team of remarkable CEOs - 40 driven, insightful, connected Founding Pillars - who have been there, done that, and are still there, doing that as we speak. These leaders, co-founders of our fund, know startups and big technology like nobody else. And we won't stop there. We’re going to align our every decision with the interests of our community. This is the starting point of a new way - a capability that will be larger than our small team. Success will take a shared commitment to push for greatness in everything we build - and in how we build it. In doing so, we want to create the next generation of big, important, lasting technology companies. So, if you have a big, ambitious idea you can’t stop thinking about, or if you have a company you want to take to the next level, or if you simply want to be part of something exciting and new, please reach out.

OakStar is a pan-European early-stage venture capital fund with offices in Geneva. We have a notable track record of supporting extraordinary founders and more than a decade of experience scaling companies from pre-seed to Series A. The superposition of technical, financial, and entrepreneurial backgrounds allows us to identify prospective start-ups, speak to the founders' language, and become a trusted partner in their roller-coaster journey. Our investment strategy focuses on leading or co-leading pre-seed and seed investments with initial ticket sizes of CHF 250K to CHF 1M.

SucSEED's investment strategy is primarily targeted at growth stage, post revenue startups involved in innovation for mass or use cases with real problem statements using emerging technology. Our partnership with startups go beyond providing them the capital to support, nurture, mentor and monitor their performance and growth through our periodical meetings and Engage sessions.