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Windmill Ventures

About

We invest in exceptional founders and empower them with our expertise and time in exchange for equity, building impactful digital experiences that leave a mark on the world.

Partnering with you

From ideation to launch, we work with you step-by-step to build an innovative business model, develop viable prototypes, and rigorously test your product until it achieves market fit. Our venture strategy, ideation and validation, MVP launch, continuous delivery, and venture growth services are designed to free up your valuable time and accelerate your growth.

Investing more than funds

Unlock the potential growth of mid-stage startups with a proven core business model, focusing on the Wealthtech & Healthtech. We invest more than funds - our expertise supports you in every step of your digital product journey.

Our goal is your success

  1. Understand: Together, we developer an innovative business model, contact potential industry partners, and implement an initial proof.
  2. Explore: We explore viable concepts and prototypes and develop user-centered products that deliver the "wow" factor.
  3. Validate: We rigorously test products with real customers and refine, refine, and refine again until we find the market fit.
  4. Launch: Engagement soars as we implement a future-proofed digital experience that your clients love.

Our offer

Partnering with entrepreneurs and co-founders, we support them as they scale to exit, giving them access to our global networks and services they need to grow.

  • Venture strategy: From your idea to business model to value proposition, we work to find the right product market fit and validate these models and hypotheses with real customers.
  • Venture ideation & validation: We build visual concepts and prototypes from your ideas, test them with real customers, and validate them with real feedback.
  • MVP launch: We identify and define high-value, "wowable" products based on customer validation and feedback, creating a roadmap of clear increments to help the delivery plan.
  • Continuous delivery: We work with founders and teams to successfully execute a continuous delivery and deployment program.
  • Venture growth: We support your growth by working with you to find the right partners and opportunities.

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