Lumen Ventures

As former founders, investors, and operators, we provide deep subject matter and early-stage operational expertise to help companies find success from day one. Our Approach We believe a good venture partner brings more than capital, especially early in a founder's journey. Distributed Ventures was born out of NFP Ventures with the goal of helping entrepreneurs demonstrate product-market fit and accelerate their commercial traction via diverse distribution channels. As a result, our investments align with our strategic partners' subject matter expertise, market perspectives, and distribution strength.

UNIQA Ventures is a return-driven, non-strategic venture capital investor with the single LP to the fund being UNIQA Insurance Group. Our portfolio, currently consisting of more than 40 tech startups and two unicorns, has seen 8 exits since 2016 and has so far delivered a solid double-digit return. Backed by a strong financial investor we are a small but dedicated entrepreneurial team on a mission to provide smart growth capital. Our investment comes with the additional benefit of deep domain know-how in Financial Services, Insurance and Healthcare as well as a strong network in our core markets of Austria/DACH region and central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Our Investment Focus:Target Verticals: FinTech, InsurTech, Digital Health, Mobility Target Stages: Series A and beyond (early growth stage) Target Geography: Europe incl. CEE Business Models: Embedded Finance Solutions; mainly B2B or B2B2C, selectively proven B2C models

We invest across emerging industries with a strong focus on FinTech and InsurTech, Applied AI, Drones and Robotics, where the team has deep domain expertise. Partners John Frankel, Adam “AJ” Plotkin and Alex Katz continue to lead one of the most experienced early and seed-stage venture capital teams in the US. We’ve invested in some of the most successful, high growth companies today including; Socure, Omaze, Rhino, Rescale, Stocktwits, Owlet, and Addepar, taking a highly engaged approach helping our founders build real companies with real business models. True to the “founder friendly” name, our approach, providing deep operational expertise and support, has resulted in a 14 year track of ffVC portfolio companies graduating to Series B at a rate 5x the industry average. Our active portfolio of 86 companies has a combined market cap of over $15bn. ffVC invests at the earliest stage of company formation with initial investments often as the lead investor with active Board participation. Because our funds stop investing at Series B, there are exceptional co-invest opportunities for our LPs at no fee/ no carry.

Antai Ventures is a Barcelona-based venture studio with presence across Southern Europe and Latam. Since 2012 we have co-founded +25 companies including Glovo, Wallapop, Nemuru, PlatanoMelon and Vitaance. Our ventures have raised more than $1.5B in funding, have generated more than $3B in shareholders value and currently employ more than 3.000 people. At Antai, we partner-up and invest in the best co-founders to build global companies willing to disrupt multi-billion dollar industries. In the last 10 years, we have gained experience in a variety of business models (E-Commerces/DNVBs, B2B SaaS, Marketplaces) operating in a wide range of industries including Edtech, Grocery, Healthtech, Fintech, Insurtech, Proptech, Autotech among others.

We believe the largest companies of our time will utilize breakthrough technologies to solve systemic problems in a profitable and scalable way. As entrepreneurs we’ve helped grow household names like Apple, Twitter, and Patagonia. As investors we’ve helped build world positive category disruptors like Beyond Meat, Proterra, and Diamond Foundry. First and foremost, we’re product designers and company operators, and we are on a mission to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs across three investment pillars: Sustainable Systems: Transforming the industrial systems of the global economy to be safer, more efficient, and carbon-free. Healthy Living: Reimagining healthcare, food, and consumer goods in ways that enable healthier lifestyles for all, from outcome-driven personalized care to new consumer wellness offerings. People Power: Reshaping financial services, insurance offerings, and work productivity systems to empower individuals and small businesses with the tools for financial health and success. Our Credo We founded Obvious Ventures on a simple belief that the most valuable companies of our time will be the ones solving humanity’s biggest problems. Our purpose is to support the world positive entrepreneurs building these disruptive solutions. Together we can reimagine huge sectors of the global economy in ways that move the planet forward. We place great value on values and culture. We hold ourselves and our companies to the highest ethical and moral standards. We select for, and cultivate, values-based leadership across our entire portfolio. We practice humility by reminding ourselves we’re not perfect and we will make mistakes. We practice audacity by taking bold risks and investing in companies that we wish existed. We use our operating experience to help define the big vision and sweat the little details. Ultimately, we see profit and purpose as a virtuous circle. In the right combination they form a flywheel that will deliver enormous financial returns while transforming capitalism in a world positive way. How we practice thisWorld Positive Report: Obvious invests in companies with impact baked into their business models. Learn more about the environmental and social imprint they are leaving on the world. World Positive Term Sheet: We encourage entrepreneurs to incorporate their mission and values into our term sheets. Certified B Corp: Obvious is a Certified B Corp and we perform a bi-annual audit to ensure we’re putting our values into practice.

Als VC-Fonds der dritten Generation konzentrieren wir uns auf Ökosysteme mit hohen Synergien untereinander, aktiver Gestaltung von Unternehmensentwicklung, technologischen Themen und Einbindung in ein starkes, aktives Investorennetzwerk. Das SV-Team verbindet Erfahrung, Schlagkraft sowie technische Expertise. Auf Basis der langjährigen Beratungs- und Industrieerfahrung von Dr. Udo Bröskamp gestalten Birger Hechmann, Benjamin Meyer und Eike Gerhardt wirtschaftliche Öksosysteme neu. Die technische Expertise ergibt sich auf der einen Seite aus der Kooperation mit namhaften Forschungsinstituten sowie Universitäten, auf der anderen Seite durch die Einbindung eigener, aber auch neuer Start-up-Lösungen