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We invest in entrepreneurial teams seeking to transform big ideas into game-changing companies. We invest in tech-enabled early and seed stage startups operating primarily in the MENA but also abroad. Why Averroes? Because we don't only invest money, we invest time, which is ultimately more valuable than money. While startups spend their time building their product and strategy, we come along the way and help support them by exposing them to our vast network of connections to help materialize a strategic foundation. We understand our region's ins and outs and we have the necessary connections that pave the way for our startups and accelerate their traction and development. Our team possesses over 150 years of combined experience in global business operation and management across a multitude of sectors to help achieve any and all of your visions.

East Ventures is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm. Founded in 2009, East Ventures has transformed into a holistic platform that provides multi-stage investment, from Seed to Growth stage investments, for over 300 tech companies across Southeast Asia. We also have business operations in Japan. East Ventures is committed to achieving sustainable development and bringing positive impacts to society through its initiatives and ESG-embedded practices. Our Investment Philosophy We have a unique method to assess and decide to invest in potential startups. The firm used the “3P” – People, Product, and Potential Market – to assess the potential investment. However, we realize that “2P” – People and Potential Market – are enough in helping us to evaluate the investment. People: We believe that good founders have three core traits: integrity, high-level self-awareness and paradoxical trait. Potential Market: We always ask the founders about the potential market size and the target of a reasonable market they want to see. The philosophy has carried East Ventures to be a fast decision maker in dealing with investments. The deals can be done within 24-48 hours.

We are an open-ended fund offering flexibility, liquidity, and opportunities that investors and entrepreneurs need now. It’s how respect is earned, honesty is appreciated, trust is gained, and loyalty is returned. Loyal VC is a global venture fund with 220+ investments across 50+ countries. The fund is designed to minimize systemic bias inherent in the investment process, unlocking greater returns. The Loyal Startup Index Fund has delivered strong returns since its launch in 2018, thanks to its collaborative, staged investment process, its network of over 500 global advisors, and its partnerships with the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, and INSEAD, rated the #1 non-US business school for unicorn founders by Pitchbook. Loyal's global start-up index fund is inclusive of a diverse, often mission-driven, group of entrepreneurs. To date, over 30% of the portfolio have a woman CEO, almost 30% are from emerging markets, and around 80% address one or more of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs).

Village Global is not a traditional Silicon Valley VC firm. We’re a network. From how we invest in startups to how we help founders – we don't have a network, we are a network. When you raise money from Village, you’re joining a network of the world’s most successful founders, including: Bill Gates Jeff Bezos Mark Zuckerberg Diane Greene Reid Hoffman Sara Blakely Abby Johnson How we invest We invest in relentlessly resourceful founders at Day 0. When you take money from Village, you're joining a network of amazing people who will accelerate your growth. We lead or participate in pre-seed and seed rounds. We like to be your first investor. We invest pre-revenue across categories and geographies. We're comfortable leading or participating with a typical first check of $250k - $1.5 million. Join Village and build faster - then raise more money later When you join Village Global, you become part of an incredible network. By connecting with exceptional peers and experts, you speed up learning and growth: Access a braintrust of hundreds of other founders working on similar challenges Get help from experts on hiring early employees, landing your first customers, and getting to product-market-fit Leverage white-glove support, intros, and back channeling when raising your next round of funding from top Silicon Valley VCs Village supercharges you to go from zero to one as quickly as possible. Community and Events We're known for hosting some of the most compelling community gatherings in tech, including an epic annual founder retreat, conversations with our luminary LPs, and masterclasses with CEOs and experts. People consistently tell us that a Village event is more than just an event - it’s an experience.

Each individual odyssey can transform a good idea into a global success and an initial business plan into a household name. The decisions made, connections forged, and milestones reached along the way are how young startups earn their place as leaders on the international stage and how some of them can transform our future for the better. We are here to enable you to excel We are on a mission to partner with and accelerate early growth winners, investing as early as Seed and as late as Series B. We are comfortable with writing $1M-$10M checks to ensure the companies we partner with have sufficient runway to grow and thrive. We reserve follow-on capital to continuously support you as you scale. We look for entrepreneurs with expertise and deep understanding in their domain, who have decided to disrupt and reinvent large markets and ecosystems. We partner with entrepreneurs who appreciate and demonstrate integrity, humility and passion, and are willing to embed ESG and DEI values within their organization. Global Presence New Era is headquartered in Tel Aviv and Boston. Our team has many years of experience in North America, Europe and Asia. Leveraging our global experience and connections, we are excited to serve as a springboard for companies with Israeli nexus expanding globally.

Pillar VC is a venture capital firm based in Boston investing in companies at formation and seed stage with $350 million under management. We believe VC doesn’t have to be the darkside –– we’re happy to own common stock, the same security as the founders we back, and we’re committed to helping founders develop as leaders. We're doing things differently at Pillar. We’ve been involved in building startups for many years. We’ve been investors and we’ve been investees. We’ve had our share of successes and failures. We saw that the traditional VC way was broken. The term VC itself evokes an evil empire - the dark side - a painful lack of alignment between investors and entrepreneurs. In a business where trust is paramount, the dark side created a world that put us at odds with those we needed to trust most. Pillar is fixing that. Our radical hypothesis. If we give founders the investment and support we would have wanted, we'll end up in a really good place. We're aligning incentives with interests and capabilities with needs. We’re delivering the breadth and depth of experience that matches what entrepreneurs want and need. Instead of hoping our own experience aligns with these needs, we gathered a dream team of remarkable CEOs - 40 driven, insightful, connected Founding Pillars - who have been there, done that, and are still there, doing that as we speak. These leaders, co-founders of our fund, know startups and big technology like nobody else. And we won't stop there. We’re going to align our every decision with the interests of our community. This is the starting point of a new way - a capability that will be larger than our small team. Success will take a shared commitment to push for greatness in everything we build - and in how we build it. In doing so, we want to create the next generation of big, important, lasting technology companies. So, if you have a big, ambitious idea you can’t stop thinking about, or if you have a company you want to take to the next level, or if you simply want to be part of something exciting and new, please reach out.