Oxford Science Enterprises

Financing the next generation of Deep Tech Our Focus: IP-heavy startups emerging from universities and research institutions. Our Role: Closing the Funding Gap between science and business. Our Goal: Sparking innovation in the Austrian spinoff ecosystem. (Your) Research Can Change Tomorrow! Let’s Make It Happen! Austrian research produces excellent results – and this is mostly due to amazing researchers and university staff working on cutting edge topics in research institutions and universities all across the country. Noctua Science Ventures helps to turn some of this research into deep-tech companies by providing early-stage funding to academic startups that have been developed at universities or research institutes in Austria. Think of us as the counselling owl on a sciencepreneur’s shoulder - guiding spinoffs through critical stages, from team building to intellectual property strategy and business scaling. As a joint venture between Speedinvest and the TU Vienna, we leverage a deep relationship with universities and research institutions as well as a Europe-wide investors network. If It Works in the Lab, It Can Work in the World! Are you a scientist or student leading a research project that might be the next big thing? Are you in need of a strong partner for funding and counseling to guide your idea into a marketable product? We are focused on deep-tech pioneers across five key verticals.Software & AI Deep Tech Climate & Industrial Tech SynBio & BioTech HealthTech Our Secret Sauce: Academic excellence + Venture capital What makes Noctua Science Ventures special is the unique interlude between one of the largest seed investors in Europe and one of the best-placed research universities in the world. The combination of Speedinvest’s extensive experience in early-stage investing with TU Vienna’s high-potential research expertise/network is our superpower.

We invest in visionary science start-ups. As part of the xista ecosystem, set up by the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, xista science ventures speak the language of scientist and investor. This makes us a unique partner to fuel founders’ deep tech ideas and help build exciting, scalable companies. Our understanding of academic spin-offs and the deep tech founders landscape, allows xista science ventures to recognise, analyse and propel companies to the next stage. We encourage the cross-fertilisation of startups to inspire new discoveries. Let us learn and profit from each other.

Martlet Capital has invested in more than 65 start-ups, since its launch in 2011. In 2021, Martlet successfully raised additional capital to scale its investment activity. We provide patient capital for early-stage B2B deep technology and life science start-ups, with a primary focus on companies based in Cambridge. Our team is comprised of experienced investors and entrepreneurs. In addition to capital, we can offer support, experience and a network of contacts. We have achieved several exits from our portfolio, from trade sales to global technology companies and IPO’s.

Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California. We make pre-seed, seed (preferred), and A-round investments in startups across software, life science, and deep tech. Our portfolio is very broad. We invest in 3 major areas. We invest in seed stage companies that demonstrate technical differentiation. This means that one of their major reasons for future success will be technical or product-level superiority SOFTWARE LIFE SCIENCES DEEP TECH What do we look for? Strong technical founders: Our first criteria is the quality of the founding team. In addition to favoring strong technologists, we look for a consistent past record of leadership success. Diverse founders: We have had great success betting on immigrant founders, female founders and PhD founders. When a founding team contains diversity among the founders, we tend to lean in. Cross-disciplinary approach: We believe that very large opportunities are created when two disciplines collide. Many of our top investments are in cross-disciplinary areas like autonomous vehicles and synthetic biology.

We invest in opportunities backed by deep science. Xora is an early-stage investment platform of Temasek. We typically invest as a lead or co-lead investor in the Seed and Series A rounds, and later rounds (via our parent company). While we are not limited by geography, we prioritize opportunities that possess a strong linkage with the Singapore science & technology ecosystem. Leveraging the Temasek global network of investors and operating companies, we are active partners to ambitious founders building the next generation of impactful, world-changing companies. Our Team Our team possesses strong technical domain expertise in both physical and life sciences, and the intersection thereof, and are steeped in the nuances of early-stage deep science investing and venture building. We are global citizens with business experience in major markets. Our principles guide our engagement process and our investment decisions.We start with the people on the journey and a shared vision of the future. ​ We look for dogged persistence, unbounded creativity, acute self-awareness, a sense of urgency, and a passion for impact. We embrace both the technical and people complexity of science-based opportunities. ​ We welcome early and frequent contact and appreciate the opportunity to inform an emerging narrative. ​ We prefer brainstorming to pitches, and relationships to transactions. ​ We commit more than capital; we pledge our mindshare and our network.

The Netherlands needs to become more sustainable and more innovative. This requires dedication, patience and capital. But above all, it requires entrepreneurs - genuine entrepreneurs with genuinely good plans for the Netherlands of the future. We are here to finance those genuinely good plans. We are Invest-NL, impact investors, and we make tomorrow possible. Pleased to meet you! About us The Netherlands needs to become more sustainable and more innovative. This requires dedication, patience and capital. But above all, it requires entrepreneurs - genuine entrepreneurs with genuinely good plans for the Netherlands of the future. We are here to finance those genuinely good plans. We are Invest-NL, impact investors, and we make tomorrow possible. Pleased to meet you! We will make the difference. We aim to make an impact by seeking a return. We are not afraid to go for opportunities that others decide against. This is because we are prepared to take risks, we are able to wait longer for our money than others, and we have access to European funds. But also because we are passionate and motivated, we are professional and competent, and we believe in our mission. We provide encouragement, speed things up, create opportunities and remove obstacles. We enable financing for businesses and projects that seem impossible to finance. Rather than competing with others, we work together with them, and this enables us to achieve more than any of us could have done on our own. By taking risk ourselves, we reduce the risks for others. We are an open organisation that thinks broadly and looks ahead. When we look ahead to 2050, the economy we see is radically different from today’s economy. We see an economy that pays greater attention to people, the environment, society and our shared future. This cannot be achieved without major social transitions, confidence in opportunities and long-term thinking. This is something we are responsible for. The entrepreneurs who will create the Netherlands of tomorrow may only just be starting out. The technology that will be required is still in its infancy. This is where we come in and where we will make a difference. We cannot do this alone, nor would we want to. You are welcome to join us in achieving this aim. Welcome to the Netherlands of tomorrow. Focus areas Our ambition is to make the Netherlands more sustainable and more innovative. We aim to achieve this by financing projects and businesses, as well as by providing advice and/or carrying out research on how to enable financing for business cases. As an impact investor, we always focus on the social returns throughout the entire chain. This allows us to gain insight and expertise. This involves learning, making adjustments, reformulating, and refining. Our current market focus has six focus areas. Biobased & Circular Economy: The Netherlands' target is to be 50% circular by 2030 and 100% circular by 2050. We therefore view circularity as a social transition. We research and support the development of markets in which circular solutions can flourish, and we invest in companies that contribute towards these goals. Carbon-neutral economy: The transition to a carbon-neutral economy by 2050 requires radical innovations and is our top priority. AgriFood: The transition towards a sustainable, climate-neutral food system and value chain is key to our strategy. Radical innovations and an integrated strategy are required in order to work towards a circular model with innovative technologies and business models that can accelerate the transition. Deep Tech: For Deep Tech, we launched the specialised Deep Tech Fund (DTF). This fund is particularly interested in start-ups and scale-ups with innovative complex technology that offers solutions to societal challenges. Investments are often made in new, as yet unproven technologies that bear relatively high risks. Life sciences & health: The Dutch healthcare system is not sustainable in its current form. Without intervention, healthcare costs will double by 2040 and one in four Dutch people will have to work in healthcare. This calls for a transition to a different healthcare system. Investment funds: We want to give fast-growing SMEs (start-ups and scale-ups) more and improved access to risk capital. That is why we make investments, some of which are in collaboration with the European Investment Fund (EIF).