Swanlaab USA Ventures

Octopus Ventures is a collective of experts and individuals. Disparate world views and diverse skill sets, yet with a shared purpose; to invest in a world that we, and future generations, can be proud of. Our belief is that you can build a better tomorrow by investing in it. Yet for us, investment is multi-dimensional, and will always be about more than just money. It means giving time, energy and focus, committing to a cause; to a belief, to optimism. With offices in London and New York and a network that spans from San Francisco to China, we’re one of Europe’s largest and most active venture capital investors. Our specialist investment teams deploy more than £200 million ever year, from Seed to Series B, across five areas where we see the maximum potential for growth, innovation, and impact: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. In total, we’ve backed over 140 teams, some of whom have gone on to join forces with the world’s largest businesses including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter.

Founded by principals with decades of investing and operating experience, Navigate Ventures is a venture fund focused on early/mid growth stage capital for emerging B2B Enterprise SaaS & Internet companies between their Series A and Growth rounds, outside of Silicon Valley. Navigate looks to invest in companies with great teams, strong traction, and demonstrated product market fit, where the early venture risk is mitigated. The team is focused on helping entrepreneurs prepare for rapid growth, scaling, expansion, and getting to a growth round. We are sector & stage focused, value-add, founder-friendly investors. We bring significant experience, deep domain expertise, and a broad base of resources and contacts to each investment to help them get to the next level and subscribe to practice of incorporating ESG factors when evaluating investment opportunities. A Unique Thesis & Market Phenomenon Most Startups Never Make It Past Series AEach Year, Hundreds of New, Promising Startups Look for Growth Capital Less than 25% Make it to the Growth Round Lack of Product Market Fit and Team Issues are Common Lack of Access to Growth Capital is the Most Common Issue Size and expectations for Growth Rounds have risen dramatically Growth Round is the hardest to raise as the goal post has moved It takes longer to achieve the required metrics to raise a Growth Round Many CEOs lack the experience, time, resources or relationships to successfully raise a Growth Round The end result is many companies with Good Teams, Product Market Fit, and Strong Unit Economics find they need more Time & Capital to be able to raise a Growth Round.

We are customer-obsessed, relentless about creating winning teams, operators and builders, long-term partners, consistent, and proven. TIA stands for “Thought Into Action” and is the philosophy we live by. Founded in 2014, TIA Ventures is an evolution of the Thought into Action Entrepreneurship Incubator (2009) and our passion for accelerating exceptional entrepreneurs. We are customer-obsessed, relentless about creating winning teams, operators and builders, long-term partners, consistent, and proven.

Contour Venture Partners invests in companies focused on information technology, and the application of innovative software solutions into the enterprise SaaS, vertical B2B SaaS and financial services sectors. The principals at Contour have a long and successful track record, having directly supported over 95 companies through numerous market cycles. We take great pride in the strong bonds we form with management teams, as this is a crucial ingredient to achieving long term milestones while also making the process engaging and enjoyable. We recognize it is the details and pursuit of flawless execution combined with the right long-term vision that makes a company great. We have the experience, intuition, judgment and industry expertise to ensure that the foundation is in place for management to build a great business with a sustainable competitive advantage. We have a deep understanding of how difficult it is to transform even the best ideas into successful enterprises. As a result, we take an active role and bring a team oriented approach to our portfolio companies – providing the operational assistance, transactional expertise, capital, network and overall judgment to maximize the potential for success and profitability. Investment Criteria We seek to work with exceptional entrepreneurs who are highly motivated and experienced leaders, with differentiated, defensible and scaleable products. We look for the long term potential to transform industry segments, the potential to achieve significant market share in large and growing markets and to grow independent of market conditions. Stage: Contour invests in seed and early stage companies that exhibit a clear path to profitability. The professionals at Contour have been active in all stages of venture capital and operations throughout their careers and understand the unique set of challenges facing management teams at each phase as our portfolio companies mature. Industry Focus: We invest in companies that provide innovative technology solutions into Northeast industry hubs where we have a deep understanding of the targeted markets, including financial services, enterprise software, vertical B2B software and digital media. Geography: Based in New York City, we take advantage of the depth of companies, managers and entrepreneurship within the major industry sectors located in the Northeast portion of the United States. Board Representation: The principals at Contour play an active role in the leadership of our portfolio companies. This includes taking a seat on the board of directors where we assist management with recruiting, sales, growth strategies, general operations, business development, finance and exit strategy. We look for opportunities where there is a mutual interest in entering into a deep long-term partnership with management to jointly build successful and sustainable businesses. Management Team DNA: Great entrepreneurs and management teams are critical determinants of success. We look for qualities in our management teams that include deep industry/sector expertise, solid judgment, strong leadership skills, managerial experience and intuition, long term commitment, high level of integrity and passion for their business. Investment Size: Contour invests between $500,000 and $1.5 million per round. We prefer to act as the lead or co-lead investor as well as represent the first institutional capital in the company. Exit: Contour typically invests between $500,000 and $1.5 million in the seed round and supports its companies through additional investment in future rounds. We are prepared to support our portfolio companies for many years.

Our goal is to contribute to the development of a free democratic society, based on equality, freedom and universal welfare. PEV in numbers$300M+ Assets under Management 50+ Years of experience in venture capital $2000M+ Funds raised by PEV portfolio companies 2500+ Jobs created by PEV portfolio companies Investment strategyLead or Co-Investor Role: Target investments approx. 5M – 10M USD per company with board representation Investment Stages: Seed to Series C Target Sectors: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Health Tech B2B Software: We focus on SaaS or quasi SaaS software services and products Geographical Focus: 50% Israel, 25% Europe, and 25% USA Investment ThemeCyber Security Big Data Artificial Intelligence Health Tech

Our Community partners have already embarked on their own crazy race of creating a B2B SaaS, some with a favorable exit outcome, others with a failure outcome, this allowed us to identify a methodology to find challengers of tomorrow. Part of our strategy comes from the business needs of our partners, in a logic of innovation and rationalization of costs it is interesting to look at the case of new players Today our Community partners come from the digital world and together we pool our expertise to identify the hidden value of tomorrow’s challengers Type of assets we are targetingShares: Mainly focused on startups with high potential, one of the key elements in this type of asset is the analysis of the market potential as well as in the team which will be in charge of developing the concept User License: Mainly focused on projects having a Functional MPV and seeking to consolidate it by sharing it with their early adopters, our attention is mainly focused on the execution strategy and the impact of its companies. Token: Mainly focused on web3 projects, this type of asset is generally linked to blockchain and data systems. our focus on this type of asset is focused on the oten linked to the governance and/or the use of a B2B SaaS system.