TandemLaunch

Mila Ventures is building the Venture Scientist platform: an integrated venture-creation engine designed to translate frontier AI research into world-class companies - rooted in Canada, built for the world. Mila Ventures operates within Mila, a prestigious AI research institute based in Montréal, founded by Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and a pioneer of deep learning. The platform brings together: Mila Venture Studio (co-creating companies with professors, students, and entrepreneurs) Mila Accelerator (early company building and scaling) Venture Scientist Academy (training researchers to become venture builders) The Mila Venture Fund (in formation) We operate at the intersection of AI research, venture creation, and capital, working closely with Mila's globally renowned researchers, students, founders, investors, corporate partners, and public institutions.

We are a unique commercialisation fund helping researchers from our partner research organisations turn their ideas into products and services. We support innovations that solve market problems and create a positive impact for our community. Uniseed invests over a broad range of technology sectors and has exited twelve investments, to date. HOW WE HELPSeed capital investment: We invest in your innovation to help you progress and de-risk from both a technical and commercial perspective. Expert guidance: We believe in supporting your progress through collaboration and mentoring. Network access: You will have the ability to access Uniseed’s network of industry experts, co-investors and start-up experts. Commercialisation: We help you build your strategy, manage your intellectual property and identify commercial partners. Rewards & recognition: Boost career profile, publications, conferences, patent publications and increase your visibility. Make an impact: Impact our community by solving market problems through your innovation. Our ProcessMake Contact: Get in contact through your commercialisation office or directly with us. Initial meetings and discussions will start with an Investment Manager. Tell us about your innovative opportunity and we will assist in identifying the most appropriate pathway forward. Pitch to Us: Promising eligible opportunities will have the opportunity to pitch to the Uniseed Investment Committees (which convenes monthly) and receive feedback. Due Diligence & Negotiation: Uniseed conducts detailed due diligence on your opportunity which may include further presentation(s) to our investment committee. We syndicate promising deals with your co-investors (as required) Investment & Growth: Investment capital is provided. Uniseed provides expert guidance and access to networks. We also help to develop, grow and scale your innovation. Impact & Exit: Generate impact through your innovation. Receive awards and recognition. Exit and achieve a return for shareholders.

We are leading the next generation of venture capitalists by seeking to continually innovate and add value that actually moves the needle. We are unafraid of trying new approaches to help our portfolio companies succeed, leveraging our proprietary technology, a proven track record, and relentless hustle to aim to deliver the kind of results we believe you won’t find anywhere else. Consider the bar raised. We aim to provide founder-first capital for innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Specializing in Seed and pre-Seed B2B investments, we work with young founders who leverage information asymmetries to build core technology innovations with the power to transform industries. We promise to seek to deliver more sweat equity per dollar invested than any other investor on your cap table.

Maki.vc is a seed-stage VC firm partnering with deep tech & brand-driven companies obsessed with challenging category norms. We have a sweet spot for early stage founders with scientific advances and customer understanding that looks beyond convention. VC Fund That Doesn't Look for Consensus Maki.vc is venture capital fund founded to fuel the most lunatic visions, to back the most audacious founding teams and defend disputed ideas. We provide seed funding for early stage startups with far-fetched plans that might shake and shape the world, but have likely been overlooked by the industry. To build iconic brands that stand the test of time. We vow to be the VC company that's always on the founder’s side – because we know that entrepreneurship is hard, and it becomes impossible without the right support network. VC funding should always be about investing more than money. That’s why Maki House brings together a global powerhouse of experts, all of whom are eager to support founders in future-proofing their companies. Ready to meet your champions and challengers?

Our Ventures team supports the launch of startups based on University of Michigan technologies and research discoveries. We provide a full suite of resources, services and funding to help you launch sustainable, impactful world changing startups. The Ventures team will engage with you from day one to establish clear and executable commercialization, business formation and funding strategies. As your startup project begins to take form we can provide grant funding and investment capital, as well as business know-how, talent resources and connections to a nationwide network of investors. Whether it is helping you find the perfect team member, investment partner or connecting you with service providers, we have you covered.

Parallel18 is a program of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research Trust, a private non-profit organization created with the goal of maximizing Puerto Rico’s participation and creation of jobs in the global knowledge economy by promoting investment and financing of science and technology research development. The organization manages and hosts over a dozen initiatives that range from grants and technical support to meetups and educational resources for researchers, entrepreneurs, farmers, investors, and other groups. At parallel18, we are changing the narrative of Puerto Rico’s economy by promoting a diverse business community. We believe in creating opportunities for entrepreneurs of underrepresented groups in the innovation ecosystem and support their goals of building a high-impact business that can reach the world.