We back bold founders building the next trillion dollar companies to fight climate change.
Silence is designed by founders for founders. We’ve experienced the excitement of raising several rounds of capital, the relentless passion to reach thousands of customers, we have built amazing teams with hundreds of talented individuals and scaled operations at the fastest pace. We want to leverage this experience to help you succeed.
How we can help?
We can be as hands on as you want us to be. We trust you 100%. We will let you do your thing unless you reach out to us for help. These are the 5 areas where we can help:
- Fundraising: We've been on both sides of the table as founders and investors. We know what gets investors excited and can help you design the optimal fundraising process for your company.
- Operational excellence: Best practices - We grew from 0 to 1 million B2C users and 55k B2B users in 2.5 years. We can help you build the right processes, methodologies and systems to enable fast scalability.
- People and culture: We built a team of 250 people in 2.5 years. We can help you define your team structure, introduce best in class people practices and build a strong, cohesive culture.
- Go to market strategy: We've built and run 100+ sales and marketing teams. It is not rocket science but there are a lot of mistakes to be made. We can help you avoid making those mistakes and succeed faster.
- Board management: We won't sit on your board, which means that we will remain objective and can help you manage board relationships and guide board meetings towards the right outcomes.
Investment Strategy
Our investment strategy is based on these 10 principles:
- 100% focus on climate tech
- Global fund
- Early stage - seed is our sweetspot but we’ll do preseed and series A opportunistically
- We don't lead deals and we only invest when there is a lead on board
- We move very fast (aim to close the deal in 2-3 calls / same week)
- We work transparently - we share our investment heuristics and strategy and provide 100% honest feedback
- We only invest in 1% of the companies that we see
- We are as hands on as you want us to be
- Average ticket size for seed investments is $300k. This allows us to have a fast and standardized process for efficiency
- We require the following investor rights: pro-rata, information, co-sale and ROFR