OakStar Ventures

b2venture is one of the most experienced venture investors in Europe. Backed by an unparalleled community of angel investors, we bring unique expertise, entrepreneurial experience, and hands-on support to our portfolio companies. We draw on the collective power of our angel investor community to help us find and foster the unique entrepreneurs, maverick ideas, and outlier companies from all over Europe. We are the first backer of outstanding European entrepreneurs in the earliest stages and later, supporting them with our own expertise and Europe’s strongest community of angel investors. We invest in the pre-seed, seed and across later stages as well. Our Approach to Venture Investing in Europe Founded in 2000, b2venture is one of the most experienced venture investors in Europe. The firm began its journey as an online platform for angel investors called “BrainsToVentures” before moving into venture capital. The firm has locations in St. Gallen, Munich, Luxembourg, Zurich, and our flagship office in Berlin. b2venture makes early-stage investments through dedicated funds and in the later stages through its direct investment track in the DACH region and across Europe. We Invest in Innovative Ideas and Startups at the Earliest Stages We build partnerships based on trust and a shared vision for the future. We help every team in our portfolio navigate the inevitable challenges with passion and dedication. Together We Fly Our mission has always been to pay it forward to the next generation. We have experienced firsthand how powerful this value proposition can be in creating a virtuous circle: funding the best entrepreneurs connected with the best angel investors not only leads to better companies, but also to a new generation of angel investors motivated to be mentors and custodians themselves.

We believe in your vision before anyone else. The founder’s ally When ambitious ideas meet brilliant founders, there are no limits. From our team’s entrepreneurial experience to our ever-growing international network, everything we do is to create an environment where founders can thrive. The first believer We want to be your first call. To make an impression, all you need is an outstanding team and driven founders with a strong idea. The leading European ideas Good ideas know no borders - and neither do our investments. We’re a European fund with a genuine curiosity for new challenges and founders motivated to solve them. When we investPre-seed: It’s never too early for us to meet a founding team. We often invest before you have the product or revenue figured out. But we believe that the earlier we join, the farther we can take a company on its mission. Seed: We are an early-stage fund with an interest in all industries and sectors across Europe. If your idea seeks to solve the more challenging issues or brings light to emerging ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Our initial investments range between €300k and €3m. Support: A startup’s success isn’t just defined during funding rounds. Once you’ve hit the ground running and it’s time to build a strong team, our specialists and network experts are by your side to help on the most crucial tech and executive hires, strategic decisions, communications questions, and more. Beyond investments, we make connections.

We are firmly committed to living and working by these core values: Honesty: We are honest and transparent, informing each other, as well as our portfolio founders, exactly what we think about work and execution. We provide candid feedback in realtime, and we're straight-talkers. Kindness: We always try to remember that we can never know everything happening in someone's life, and try to approach every difficult situation with empathy and understanding. Ambition: In just three years, we have built the most active pre-seed and seed-stage VC fund in Sweden. Now we look across the world to find the technologies and business models of the future, backing the best founders in the Nordic region. Helpfulness: We endeavor to be as helpful as possible to every entrepreneur we meet, whether or not we ultimately invest in their startup. We also try to work with other investors to help them find relevant deals. We invest in founders who live and work by these values: Relentlessness: You have identified a problem to solve and you are absolutely obsessed with developing the solution. You will stop at nothing to solve problems for your customers, and inspire your team to act similarly. Resourcefulness: You leverage all of the tools, opportunities and advice at your disposal. You will always find a way to get the resource you need, even if it seems out of reach. Your hustle is your primary door-opener. Transparency: You never hide from bad news, always keeping your team and stakeholders informed of both your successes and your struggles. You never allow people to operate in silos, championing collaboration. Compassion: You are able to show empathy towards everyone in your organization, even through turbulent times. You never make disagreements personal, and prioritize the wellbeing of the people you work with.

We leverage our network of over 15,000 contacts providing access to media, customers, and investors to help support and guide our portfolio companies toward quantifiable milestones. INVESTMENT SIZE Our check size ranges from $50K-$100K. We aim to invest as early as possible in pre-seed and seed rounds, and make follow-on investments to support our founders whenever possible. FUND FOCUS We are a generalist fund looking to support outstanding entrepreneurs in their journeys to massively scale their companies. GEOGRAPHY Our Headquarters are in New York City. While the bulk of our investments are in New York, our portfolio companies hail from California to Canada, from Africa to LatAm. CAPITAL DEPLOYMENT We invest in 10-12 companies per year. We reserve rights to follow on in subsequent funding rounds. FOUNDERS We are looking for founders/co-founders with a technical background and/or prior entrepreneurial experience who can self-sufficiently build a company from concept to enormous scale.

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.

We invest at seed stage (pre-seed, seed, late seed) along with other investors, which we can also help you find. Our average cheque is €500k. We help founders define the right strategy, milestones and priorities in their company's journey from seed to series A, and help them connect with capital and talent. We believe founders should be in control of the company they are building. We subscribe to their strategy and align our interests for the long term, while providing a needed critical view. And, if things don’t go as planned, which they often do, we help them through thick and thin.