Hey B2B tech founders here is what you want to know about us
Multi Single stage - early stage!
We are early stage specialists in B2B Tech – with +75 years of combined experience in doing exactly that. Our incentives are aligned, as we won’t lead your next round. The ticket we invest in your company is meaningful in relation to our fund size. This enables us to laserfocus on tangible value-add.
For Makers, by Doers.
Tier 1 follow-on funding - from SquareOne to NumberOne
60% of our early stage portfolio goes on to raise follow-on funding from US and Tier 1 international funds. It’s our job to lift you off the ground – to get started at SquareOne. Once that’s done, we’ll make sure to introduce you to the right follow-on funds.
“Our superpower? To be the most helpful guys on your captable”
We don’t just invest in founders – we want to become their closest ally, their partners in crime on equal footing. At SquareOne, we don’t get in the founders’ way, but focus our support on tangible value-add. Customers guaranteed
“We play it fair and square”
We guarantee 100% pro rata participation in your next round – or more than that. And we won’t leave your side when the first raindrops fall. We are playing the long term game.
For Makers by Doers. From Day One, we're SquareOne.
At SquareOne we believe it takes hustle and heart for a proper start.
We don't sign deals, we initiate partnerships. If we're in it, we're in it for the long run. In fact, we've been in this since before early stage investing became a trend. So we know, when we say: real success starts at square one.
FAQs
- SquareOne in one paragraph: We strive to find the most promising European founders who are solving complex problems with new technologies in large markets. We want to partner with such teams early-on and provide enough capital and operational support so that they can reach the next inflection point and build the foundation for large and profitable category-leading companies.
- What is the profile of a typical SquareOne investment? We like complementary and authentic teams, which have industry, tech & sales expertise and are obsessed with solving complex problems in huge markets.
- What is SquareOne’s average ticket size? SquareOne typically invests between EUR 350k and 3,5m in B2B Enterprise and Saas Technology companies in Europe.
- At what stage does SquareOne invest? We focus on Pre-Seed and Seed investment rounds - we are excited to be the first institutional investor in the cap table. DayOne with SquareOne!
- In what geographic areas does SquareOne invest? We invest all over Europe.
- Does SquareOne lead rounds? Yes, we lead rounds but we can also co-lead.
- Does SquareOne follow-on? Yes, if we have invested in the pre-seed round, we will **always** do at least our pro rata in the follow-up round. We would like to ensure the right signaling for your fundraising and therefore maximize the probability of it.
- Multi-stage fund vs. single-stage fund: SquareOne is a single-stage fund, which means that we only do Pre-Seed and Seed investments. At early company stages, we recommend single-stage or single-GP funds, as incentives are 100% aligned with the founding team → setting up the base to build a huge company and maximise the probability of follow-up funding. Multi-stage funds, that also do Seed investments, often do not put enough focus and attention on those companies. This is driven by simple math: They deploy small tickets compared to their overall fund size. Additionally, founders take in significant signalling risk, as the multi-stage fund might not follow-up / lead the next round.