Volta Circle

VII Ventures is a venture capital group investing in entrepreneurs that are accelerating a shift towards a more sustainable and circular economy. We have a proven track-record of nurturing companies and providing our investors with superior returns on their capital. Our strategy is built on putting together diversified portfolios of technology-based ventures led by winners in their segments and supporting those investments through to a successful exit. Our passion is finding those winning companies that focus on solving complex problems. This can be anything from leveraging technology in India’s grocery market through to the production of melanin to produce new energy sources. We help these start-ups by developing long-term strategies that support ambitious growth and create lasting value. Our global portfolio includes companies in the U.S, India, Canada and Europe. The firm has three General Partners and to date has invested in more than 14 leading start-ups. Our Model Invest in winners: Through our seasoned leadership team and robust due diligence, we identify and invest in those companies that have potential to become winners in their segments. Help them scale: We help these companies refine and productize their offering to expand into new markets. We advise Boards and CEOs on making key strategic decisions, defining growth strategies, and attracting other global investors. Successful exit: Every start-up is different, and an exit strategy will always depend highly on the situation. We will work with the company to identify the best exit event including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offering (IPO), and private offering (Secondary exits).

With each investment we consider the lasting impact on future generations. Our primary focus is on supporting growth companies. Building stronger and more sustainable companies in order to accelerate positive change, our mission is making impact mainstream. Vision on impact At SevenGen, we believe that a sustainable world can be achieved through individual choices. Your choices of today conduct the impact for generations to come. As meaningful impact is driven by innovative companies that offer sustainable solutions to a wide audience, we focus our investments on sectors with the highest positive impact on climate. To achieve this synergy, we rely on our extensive experience and network. Our managing partners have consistently delivered both impact and strong financial returns since 2015. Identifying and supporting impactful opportunities, SevenGen builds upon a rigorous investment approach and solid knowledge of the field, to accelerate positive change through growth capital. Vision on investing SevenGen prioritizes companies with strong management, clear risk profiles, solid governance, high impact potential and a commitment to setting the new standard to their industries. Within our field, we target companies with the ability to be price competitive in order to reach a wider audience and make their products mainstream. How we create value in our portfolio? Through strategic planning for growth and strengthening of teams using our ambassador network. We offer disciplined financial management and pursue international opportunities. Our commitment to transparency and accountability ensures we closely monitor and adapt to financial, impact, and operational metrics, driving long-term success for our investments. Team Allow us to introduce our dedicated and dynamic team: Frederik Deutman, Pieter Smit, and Rass Butt, all armed with extensive expertise in driving positive change through climate impact investments. Core to our success are our joint values of ambition and reliability, connecting to whom we work with and for, thinking beyond generations and adding a bit of fun into each endeavor. Join us on our exciting journey towards impactful and profitable investments.

Capital for an economy that respects planetary limits. Some generations have built cathedrals. Some have navigated across oceans and expanded the frontiers of the known world. Others have had to rebuild war-torn continents. Our generation’s greatest challenge is equally immense: to create an economic system that respects the planet’s limits, and overcome the ecological crisis. If we are to rise to the challenge, we're going to have to innovate. In a radical way. This means taking risks - carefully considered, never unnecessary, ones. Having the courage to take the long view once again. Rewriting the rules of economic activity from the ground up, by standing alongside those who recognize that the greatest ambition of all lies in finding alternative means to create wealth. Our mission is to support the entrepreneurs who are repairing the world - from the very beginning of their journey, and with no time limit on our commitment. How? By bringing together a broad and diverse community of first-rate investors, and steering the flow of capital to where it is most likely to make a difference. One sector at a time, one start-up at a time, thereby increasing the number of tipping points. Allowing what will save us to thrive in the face of overwhelming adversity. So that we can finally initiate the systemwide transformational change which all of us are calling for, without always knowing where to start.

We are financial entrepreneurs. We dream big and set our sights high, doing everything in our power to turn those dreams into reality. Along the way, we inspire our partners and collaborators to dream more, to dare more and to outdo themselves. WE DON'T BELIEVE IN HALF MEASURES. We’re fully invested in a mission of capital importance. For us, excellence is intrinsic to who we are. OUR WORD IS OUR BOND We are genuine and fair partners. We respect our commitments and assume our responsibilities with honesty and transparency. Our relationships with partners and collaborators are founded on loyalty and solidarity, during times of hardship and in success. IMPACT FUND FAMILY A venture capital investment team that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs to build innovative, world-class clean technology companies. Cycle Capital manages over C$0.6 billion CA in early and growth stage funds and ensures an impact assessment of all its investments. Cycle Capital is the Founder of Cycle Momentum, the impact accelerator and innovation engine, and Cycle Central, an innovation zone. BUSINESS ACCELERATOR + INNOVATION ENGINE Accelerator and open innovation platform dedicated to clean technologies. Through its corporate programs, Cycle Momentum also promotes networking between investors and entrepreneurs to accelerate the growth of the most promising companies in the ecosystem. INNOVATION ZONE A community of partners dedicated to collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the cleantech sector. A hub where entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, and companies come together to solve the greatest ecological challenges and shape a sustainable future. The innovation zone will be deployed in the South-West and East of Montreal EVENT DEDICATED TO THE ECOSYSTEM Cycle Innovation Forum brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders to discuss emerging technologies and opportunities and redefine the future of clean technology.

With over two decades of Australian investment in building capability in research and universities, Australia now enjoys some of the most extraordinary talent and globally leading minds. This talent is creating knowledge and has the capacity of solving some of the big problems of our time but if we can’t take this know-how and intellect into the world, then this brilliance is lost and the opportunity we have will remain just that – an opportunity. As business builders and investors, Significant has been taking up this challenge for nearly two decades. Working in collaboration with universities, researchers and state governments, we, as a collective group have a track record in translating this knowledge bank into technology, into products, into services and ultimately into businesses that: Have become global companies Re-shaped markets Solved sustainability problems Created jobs and New career pathways for Australians Significant has the capacity to create high value niche modern manufacturing industries and exports for Australia and are extremely proud of their achievements. Significant leads by example to show that Australia can commercialise its inventions, that sustainable globally competitive businesses can be created in Australia, and that early-stage investment can create immense value for investors, demonstrating that through action Significant is able to attract more capital to invest in this important space and is be able to shift the mindset (read the AFR article) that Australia is great at innovation but not at execution. Backing Australia Our vision is a country that backs its researchers for the intellectual capital advantage they provide. Our mission is to back this talent, entrepreneurs and innovators to take these ideas and concepts to the world and create its own self-funding eco-system that results in the formation of new industries. Through our 4-way all-encompassing unique eco-system, our university investor partners provide us with access to the ‘very earliest’ investment opportunities possible, opening the door to concepts, ideas and innovations well before other venture capital funds. Our investment approach We invest in applied technologies that address high-impact global niche markets and will bring about social, environmental or economic change. Every potential investment must have a pathway to being a sustainable business and contributing impact to the UN Sustainable Development Goals either through the technology or through their business model. We look for technologies that provide a market advantage that is hard to replicate. They will have emerged either from researchers who have had long well-funded R&D cycles or innovators who have deep domain specialisation in an industry and so know their market problem exceptionally well. We are sector agnostic driven by the thematics that arise from the core capabilities of our partner universities and the innovations we uncover. The accelerators Strong market-fit and early industry engagement are imperative. We seek to accelerate the path to market dramatically by sourcing early adopters to validate the market need and aim to achieve market traction within 12-24 months. Our ability to find these early adopters is a key part of Significant’s initial due diligence.

We bring together investors and operators from Silicon Valley & beyond who are at the intersection of climate and technology to accelerate solutions to climate change. Our collective members have built companies like Tesla, Stripe, Google, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, DoorDash, Twitter, Slack, Square, and Airtable, as well as VCs like AngelList, Techstars, 500 Startups, Next Play Capital, and Lyft Ventures.