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“10x Founders” is a new and innovative European venture company backing early-stage entrepreneurs on their journey of building global companies. Our partners are a team of very successful serial entrepreneurs and accomplished investors with an outstanding investment track record. We genuinely enjoy and are motivated by giving back to, supporting, and collaborating with entrepreneurs and their teams to create global leaders. At the same time, we have the ambition to establish a creative new venture fund that helps to bring European start-ups and entrepreneurship to the forefront of the European and global economy.

MOST VenturesPrivate venture fund in Central AsiaWe are a private venture fund in Central Asia. For more than 10 years, we have been providing financial and non-financial support to technology entrepreneurs, as well as conducting incubation and acceleration programs for the entire region. The Fund focuses on IT startups building an international business. From $50 000 at the Pre-Seed stage From $100 000 at the Seed stage От $500 000at the Series A stage Our advantages Faith in innovators: We believe in innovators and become partners of their businesses. We select the best technology startups that create cool products. We invest for rapid scaling to global markets. A win-win strategy in which high financial risks are justified by the explosive growth of the company. Comprehensive support: We also provide non-financial types of support to startups. By participating in the fund's acceleration programs, a startup gets the opportunity to "package" a project, prepare for receiving investments through mentoring, workshops, individual meetings with professional practitioners, as well as "hack" its growth (today known as growth hack). Strong community: We bring together founders, mentors, experts, representatives of corporations, investors and business angels on one platform. Our startups get access to this community. By holding various meetings, master classes, and training, we are growing together in all directions. Focus: Technology startups from Central Asian region at the pre-seed and seed stages. We are a sector-agnostic fund and we consider startups from different industries. Geography: Founders or startups from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Benefits for founders: Expertise, wide network, packaging for investment, emphasis on growth hack.

WE HELP SUPPORT TALENTED ENTREPRENEURS’ WILDEST DREAMS. WE PROVIDE THEM WITH AN ECOSYSTEM OF GLOBAL PARTNERS AND PURPOSE-DRIVEN THINKERS – ALL WITH SHARED VALUES FOR CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND POSITIVE IMPACT. THE IDC VENTURES TEAM UNDERSTANDS THE POWER OF FOUNDERS AND SHARING PLATFORMS TO BUILD FUTURE WINNERS. Our network is valuable. That’s how we’ve successfully helped investors provide value in deal flow, diligence, and market and industry expertise. As entrepreneurial experts, we’ve enabled partnerships and new opportunities for founders since 2019.

Brinc is a different breed of venture capital and accelerator firm. Core to our business is our belief that some of the world’s biggest challenges can be solved by entrepreneurs, who we like to call GAME CHANGERS. More game changers will make a positive impact on the world if they are given the right backing. And that’s what we’re here for. To support and mentor founders and their teams from across the world and provide investment to help them grow. Today, we believe that technology focused startups, with the right backing and support can fundamentally change how we move, what we eat, how we feel and where we live for the better. Accelerators We run global accelerator programs to help founders solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Funds We invest into Pre-Seed to Series A startups through Partners Funds and our own funds: BrincArtesian & Arkley Brinc VC. Partners We help ecosystems think and act like disruptors by engaging with startups to achieve their long-term innovation objectives.

We have a unique setup that combines venture creation and tech investments within a single organization. This advantage enables us to identify new research and deep tech opportunities with both commercial and impact potential, all within Chalmers’ entrepreneurial ecosystem. We are experts in starting up companies based on deep tech and research in the most effective manner possible. This process allows us to cultivate our own high-quality deal flow in which we invest and become active owners. Throughout the entire journey, we function as investors and venture builders until exit. Profits are reinvested through our evergreen model and allocated to Chalmers to support new, groundbreaking research. Our investment processWe identify market potential in research-based tech We match the team We invest in and startup the company We attract competent capital with external VCs We have active ownership until exit Our deal flow criteriaDeep tech / research based tech University spinouts Global commercial and impact potential Our process: from lab to market We use our long experience to create conditions required for a growth company to start up correctly and with the right structural capital. We are then involved in the startup through competence and capital until exit. Simply put: we take groundbreaking research from lab to market. IDENTIFY: We attract, seek out and evaluate research and technology ideas. The technologies with the greatest potential are matched with entrepreneurs. SHAPE AND START: Create the basic conditions to shape companies correctly and build structural capital. We are involved in starting up the companies and provides additional benefits during that first critical period. VALIDATE & VERIFY: Validating business model, working for paying customers and unlocking the business model. Find the right proof points to validate and verify the company’s unique idea to both the market and investors. SCALE: Becoming sustainable growth companies reaching out to an international market. Chalmers Ventures works with its skills as active owners, provides professional governance and syndicates the right growth capital. EXIT: Chalmers Ventures pursues a positive exit strategy at what it feels is the right time. We can focus our resources on those companies with the greatest potential and positive impact on the portfolio.

Raw Ventures has its roots in Potsdam, a city famous for its thriving tech community, culture of cutting-edge research, and world-renowned universities. Innovation is in our DNA. It takes a visionary to be able to spot the potential and cultivate the ecosystem for innovation. Our team consists of people who walked the walk - accomplished entrepreneurs who have founded and ran successful businesses and teams across different industries. We draw on an exceptional network of people with diverse operational and technical competencies to support our portfolio companies with more than just funds. Our thoughtful, egoless approach to long-term growth stems from our commitment to excellence. Groundbreaking change needs nurturing and timely help, not commanding from above. Experience shows that nothing great is built alone, and we pay the utmost attention to a company’s core team when making investment decisions.