Phaze Ventures

We believe that to unlock the profound potentials of AI, a collaborative approach is needed. With our Venture Studio, we are orchestrating the category leaders of tomorrow. How we build After years of research in the field, we have cultivated an integrative approach to building AI ventures. Including all relevant stakeholders during each step of the way. From ideation up until Series A, our process ensures that you as a Founder is best equipped to build a venture that will form a lasting impact. ‍The 5 pillars on which we build AI ventures To bring AI from research into practice, there are five key challenges that need to be overcome. We have cultivated a setup that enables you as a Founder to master these challenges, in order to build the category leading venture of tomorrow. 1. Team We are the leading employer for AI in Europe, attracting both junior and senior as well as generalist and specalist talent from all over the world and thus enable you to assemble a strong team from day one. On average, our ventures see 50+ applicants per engineering hire We ensure that you can assemble diverse teams from around the world Our hiring processes include cross-interviewing with experts and onsite days to help qualify candidates 2. Validation We believe that even the greatest ideas require a very strong initial go to market. This is why we push you in getting a commercial signal from the market fast and provide sparring in validating your product and technical angle. We connect you with external experts, potential costumers and open doors to win the first pilot projects Get proof and sparring from our engineering team to validate your venture case from a technical perspective Our validation process challenges you to answer the right questions and the right time 3. Financing Setting you up for a strong scaling phase, we will invest in the pre-seed and seed rounds of your venture - and connect you with strong other investors. Pre-Seed and Seed round investments by Merantix Use our network to approach the right investors for your deeptech venture Fundraising prep and coaching through us and external experts 4. Network Your Founders journey starts at Merantix, and our community will follow you far beyond that. Exchange with our Founder community to navigate hard times, build resilience, and develop leadership skills Receive mentoring and invest in your personal growth during our bi-annual Founders Retreats Establish your personal network and enter Berlin’s leading network of visionary entrepreneurs 5. Collaboration At the core of our venture studio principle lies collaboration. We believe that by sharing and collaborating we can unlock the real potentials of AI. Open research agreements between our ventures - meaning we share code, contracts and know-how Access our proprietary tech-stack for rapid prototyping and co-work with any experts in our network Engage on our AI Campus Berlin for inspiration, co-creation, talent acquisition and more

Frontier Ventures is a venture fund investing in early-stage technology companies with network effects in the United States and globally. Our investment team is based in the United States. The fund was founded by serial entrepreneur Dmitry Alimov, co-founder of IVI.TV, the largest video service for Russian-speaking consumers worldwide serving over 60 million users globally. Frontier Ventures partners with talented entrepreneurs to help them build global market-leading businesses. We stand out by helping our portfolio companies scale globally in Europe and Asia where our partners have access to strong networks of technology entrepreneurs, investors, and tech company executives. We open these powerful networks to the companies we invest in, which helps them scale across borders faster. We also help our portfolio companies raise follow-on financing by giving them access to more than 1,000 US and global VC, growth funds, and family offices where we have long-term business relationships. Our founding team has more than 30 years of collective experience in venture investing, having backed over 50 early-stage companies. Frontier Ventures is backed by family offices, technology entrepreneurs, and financial investors as limited partners. Most of our limited partners are current or former technology entrepreneurs. WHY ARE WE CALLED “FRONTIER VENTURES”? In the history of the exploration of North America, the term “Frontier” was used to determine the boundary between inhabited and unknown territory, where from the 18th to the 20th centuries, settlers developed new areas. Unlimited free land in this zone was available, and thus offered the psychological sense of unlimited opportunity. This, in turn, had many consequences such as optimism, future orientation, and shedding of restraints due to land scarcity. The development of new land to the West and the North of the United States became a catalyst for the settlement of the North American continent and its subsequent rapid economic development. By analogy, the name of our fund – Frontier Ventures – is intended to symbolize the limitless possibilities that are open to entrepreneurs and investors in the development of the software and Internet. Our team and our entrepreneur partners share the spirit of optimism and belief in success, combined with a rational willingness to take risks to achieve great goals, which at one time united the North American pioneers, during their advance towards the unknown.

Venture Capital should help solve the world’s most pressing problems. Here are our 6 commandments for selecting and supporting world-changing companies: ⁠Backing Tomorrow’s Giants: We specialize in early-stage investments, focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds with investments of up to $2 million. Our approach is concentrated and high conviction. We invest in a few select companies each year, with the belief that only a few stories will truly change industries. When they do, we go all in and double down because we know that extraordinary outcomes comes from deep focus. ⁠Build Something You’re Not Qualified to: We back the outliers, the ones who aren’t "qualified" to build what they’re building but do it anyway, and do it better than anyone else. These are the founders who move at an insane speed, learning faster than anyone thought possible. They don't just think outside the box: they burn the box down and reinvent what’s possible. Build in Europe, Scale in the US: The US is where technological risks and unproven models can be funded with the conviction they deserve. Europe has a strong edge in engineering talents and building deep-tech companies at a fraction of the capital required elsewhere. We help founders bridge both worlds. We Created a Media-led VC to Help you Scale: We are a media-driven, community-first venture firm, with over 1 million listeners across our platforms every month. We've also made the bold bet of assembling a group of over 200 Limited Partners who bring diverse expertise: from deep-tech entrepreneurs who have scaled billion-dollar factories, to CEOs of global corporations. This network is a resource that opens doors, makes introductions, and accelerates momentum. ⁠We Embrace the Chaos: We know what it takes to build something from the ground up. Our team is made up of former athletes, DJs, and entrepreneurs who’ve been through the highs and lows, and we bring that experience to every founder we back. We’ve lived through the hustle, the failure, and the comebacks. We Think Insanely Big, Just Like You: We don’t just want our founders to succeed, we want them to go all the way. We target companies that have the potential to be worth billions, and we push our founders to be just as bullish on their outcomes as we are. We dream big, and we want them to dream even bigger.

It is well known that technology innovation is transforming the consumer experience and disrupting old line industries on a global basis. This is compounded by the rapid interconnection of technologies and markets. TEKTON VENTURES, an international seed investment firm with roots in Silicon Valley, is uniquely positioned to address these trends. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stage investments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world. Geography focus It is well known that technology innovation is transforming the consumer experience and disrupting old line industries on a global basis. This is compounded by the rapid interconnection of technologies and markets. TEKTON VENTURES, an international seed investment firm with roots in Silicon Valley, is uniquely positioned to address these trends. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stage investments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world. Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different areas: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers (London and Israel); and fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India). Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus. We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs. What we look for Iconic company builders: Those who lead and inspire by example, have a natural curiosity, and the courage to sometime ignore conventional wisdom to build category defining companies. Global perspective: Entrepreneurs who understand global trends and know how to address them, applying new technologies and business models

We have a unique setup that combines venture creation and tech investments within a single organization. This advantage enables us to identify new research and deep tech opportunities with both commercial and impact potential, all within Chalmers’ entrepreneurial ecosystem. We are experts in starting up companies based on deep tech and research in the most effective manner possible. This process allows us to cultivate our own high-quality deal flow in which we invest and become active owners. Throughout the entire journey, we function as investors and venture builders until exit. Profits are reinvested through our evergreen model and allocated to Chalmers to support new, groundbreaking research. Our investment processWe identify market potential in research-based tech We match the team We invest in and startup the company We attract competent capital with external VCs We have active ownership until exit Our deal flow criteriaDeep tech / research based tech University spinouts Global commercial and impact potential Our process: from lab to market We use our long experience to create conditions required for a growth company to start up correctly and with the right structural capital. We are then involved in the startup through competence and capital until exit. Simply put: we take groundbreaking research from lab to market. IDENTIFY: We attract, seek out and evaluate research and technology ideas. The technologies with the greatest potential are matched with entrepreneurs. SHAPE AND START: Create the basic conditions to shape companies correctly and build structural capital. We are involved in starting up the companies and provides additional benefits during that first critical period. VALIDATE & VERIFY: Validating business model, working for paying customers and unlocking the business model. Find the right proof points to validate and verify the company’s unique idea to both the market and investors. SCALE: Becoming sustainable growth companies reaching out to an international market. Chalmers Ventures works with its skills as active owners, provides professional governance and syndicates the right growth capital. EXIT: Chalmers Ventures pursues a positive exit strategy at what it feels is the right time. We can focus our resources on those companies with the greatest potential and positive impact on the portfolio.