Perot Jain

We back tech that powers the future states of industries. Ascend partners with founders to provide support both financially and operationally, collaborating in the storied journey toward scale. How Ascend InvestsCriteria ACTIVE PROTOTYPE MULTIPLIER EFFECT ADVANTAGED PRICING EXCEPTIONAL OUTCOMES MASSIVE GROWTH POTENTIAL Strategy PREEMINENT CAPITAL PARTNERS MILESTONE-BASED INVESTING ENCYCLOPEDIC DEALFLOW OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE LEAD OR FOLLOW Themes FIRST MOVERS NETWORK EFFECTS PERSISTENT TRENDS DATA-CENTRIC TRANSITIONS SUPPLY-INHIBITED ECOSYSTEMS

Pale blue dot is a €87M seed-stage venture capital firm, investing in climate tech startups that reduce and reverse the climate crisis and help us prepare for a new world. Pale blue dot is based in Malmö, Sweden, and invests in early stage companies in Europe and the US. We invest in founders building climate tech companies to build the world we want to live in. It’s simply good business to protect our home - the dot - and it’s not too late. We still have time to use technology to outpace climate change, but we have less than a decade to reduce carbon emissions, reverse the climate crisis and prepare for a new world on the same beautiful blue dot. DetailsStage: Seed and Pre-seed Ticket size: €500k-€1.5M Fund size: €87M Focus: Climate Tech Geo: Europe and US Strategy: Lead or co-lead seed rounds Why? We founded Pale Blue Dot in 2020 as three former entrepreneurs. We wanted to build a better venture capital fund that understood entrepreneurs and channelled capital into founders solving the biggest problems facing humanity: climate change. We have all previously built software startups in Europe and the US and have invested in hundreds of startups and built programmes to support entrepreneurs and their growth. Focus We invest in the best early-stage founders building scalable solutions to the climate crisis. Climate change is the biggest challenge facing humankind right now, and it's also the most significant opportunity for new thinking and where we think the best entrepreneurs are building. So, what is climate tech? Every single industry needs to adapt to climate change. Climate tech is not a vertical itself, it's a lens through which we see all companies. Many industries are built for an old world, and startups are coming in fast to develop better versions or entirely new solutions. Climate positive companies can be found everywhere; food, agriculture, mobility, fashion, supply chain and logistics, fintech, proptech, energy, biotech, and more. We think every industry will be disrupted. We invest in companies with climate impact at the core of their business model. We back companies that decarbonise industries, remove carbon from the atmosphere, or prepare for a new world. We strongly believe the future billion-dollar companies will be built with positive climate impact right at the core, and it is no longer negotiable. We also invest in great leaders. Those who are building defensible ideas in huge addressable markets, and who ask themselves every day if their company contribute to a liveable planet. We strongly believe that profit and impact go hand in hand. We believe that great companies and great people can come from anywhere. We love meeting climate tech founders and corporate activists from all backgrounds. We believe that diverse founders are a moral imperative and give you a competitive advantage. We back leaders who want to build diverse and inclusive companies.

Anamcara invests in companies focused on building technologies that serve and enable SMBs. We are pre-/seed stage venture fund that invests in B2B SaaS, online commerce, marketplaces, fintech, future of work, supply chain management, creator economy and decentralised/Web3 technologies. Anamcara invests across Europe and opportunistically the MENA region. Our distinctive approach is crafted around a curated network of industry leaders, investors and SMB owners. This is the Anamcara flywheel of value. Deep industry expertise and access.

We invest in category-defining mobility startups at seed and early stages. Ev2 Ventures partners with ambitious entrepreneurs on a rapid growth trajectory and the desire to make a sustainable impact on the planet. Our targeted inputs, growth playbook and community of successful mentors enable our portfolio startups to get to the next major milestone faster. Stage: We invest at early to pre-series A stages. Sectors: Smart Mobility ( Electric Vehicles, Connected Supply Chain, Logistics Technology, Micro-mobility, Agri Supply Chain, Warehousing Tech and Sharing Economy ) Post Investment: Sector focus coupled with deep industry knowledge. We bring highly targeted resources to help you get to the next milestone faster.

It's a transformative era for India. Techades of opportunities lie ahead of us. However, industry cannot fully leverage this once-in-a-generation opportunity without fundamentally transforming their value chain. Mobility, Distribution and Employment are 3 key pillars of the value chain that have the highest potential for disruption and transformation, the impact of which will cut across industries and sectors. Technology startups that are optimising these three key aspects of the value chain have significant tail winds behind them. Also, India is moving towards Nett Zero emissions by 2070. This will require the country and the industry to adopt new technologies and transition to EV across logistics & mobility. Our goal is to enable industry find and pilot startup led innovations that will help them navigate the changed market dynamics, and improve profitability, scalability and sustainability.

We help Europe’s deep tech startups gain next-level traction. Industry & Enterprise Focus We don’t just transform industries – we think the unthinkable, and we back technical teams that make it reality. Manufacturing, construction, supply chain, logistics and R&D are all part of Join’s reimagined industrial landscape, led by pioneering founders. Global Outlook With both localized support and an international mindset, we help scale groundbreaking products that address specific global challenges. Founders get a toolkit for maximizing traction worldwide and laying the foundations for exponential growth. Early-Stage Investment We turn scientists and engineers into leaders and CEOs, supplementing their technical expertise with a business instinct that keeps them agile and capable. With our investment, founders have all the resources they need to put the growth wheels in motion. Next-Stage Traction The accomplished experts in our network know what works for selecting talent, developing sales organizations and accelerating change in key strategic areas. They’re around every step of the way in Join’s 360-degree support series Select – Align – Perform – Connect. Select - Surefire recruitment at a key stage. Founders hit the ground running with proven hiring techniques that help bring in the best-fit talent for big positions. No more costly hiring mistakes. No more drains on resources. Just effective strategies that work. Align - Full-on team synchronization. Coaching and discovery sessions help leadership hone in on the essence of their vision and strategy so that the rest of the team can amplify it. It sounds simple because it is: Leaders who connect the organizational dots early on have a more keen ability to execute and scale. Perform - Sales that scale with you. We bring sales and management into the same arena so they can grow together – and the results speak for themselves. High performance scalability becomes second nature when we help teams pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses in the money-making area. Helping entrepreneurs build an agile sales strategy and toolkit accelerates growth and reduces growing pains. Connect - Introductions that matter. The “who’s who” of industrial leaders have put their money where their mouth is, backing Join with substantial capital. Even more importantly, their investment comes with a promise to roll up their sleeves and help our portfolio companies with access to decision-makers in leading companies – from SMB and Mittelstand to top corporates. The ultimate toolkit for technical founders. Many founders’ hearts beat to the drum of deep tech, and no matter their background, we meet them where they are to drive their company forward. We specialise in European B2B software startups at Seed and Series A stages. What we look for is some sign of market fit (up and running pilots, engaged users, positive customer feedback etc.) or high tech solutions with significant market potential. We invest €1-5m as Lead Investor in Seed to Series A stages and commit 50% of our fund to follow-on rounds. To date, we have invested in 17 startups (and exited 3!) across 9 different countries across Europe from Finland to Portugal via the UK. About Join When it comes to our role as a VC, we’re not afraid to get our hands dirty. That means digging in alongside our founders when they’re tackling a challenge, empowering them to take on bigger ones in the future and being there to send champagne when they succeed. A curious passion for earth-shattering tech is what brought that vision together in 2014. Back then, we sought out Europe’s most technical, pioneering founders to support their growth on a global scale. Our practice and vision remains the same today, strengthened at its core by our blossoming portfolio, inspiring international networks and the diverse team we’ve assembled at our bright and cheerful HQ in Berlin. When we invest in a startup, we step into the founding team’s shoes. After all, our involvement isn’t just about funding – it’s about partnership. Our companies now count on us to deliver the industry insight we’ve gained over the years and to keep an eye on the horizon for what’s to come. That’s the essence of Join. It’s why we’re always thrilled when companies hit their stride not just in growth and numbers, but also in areas such as team-building, diversity and vision. We’re now proud to be one a world-leading VC in the industrial space, and we’re just getting started.