Accelerating Asia

Founded in 2006, Techstars began with three simple ideas - entrepreneurs create the future, collaboration drives innovation, and great ideas can come from anywhere. Today our mission is to make innovation accessible to everyone, everywhere. We do this by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to create a more sustainable and inclusive world. Since 2006, Techstars has invested in more than 2,200 companies and today has a market cap of $27 Billion.

Arieli Capital is a multifaceted investment firm that is focused on being an active investor in the next generation of technology companies. Arieli Capital operates four core businesses: Arieli Family Office, Arieli Innovation, Arieli Advisory and Arieli Innovation Fund. The Arieli team is primarily based in Israel with offices in New York and London. Arieli is a recognized global leader in innovation with deep governmental, academic, and corporate relationships and partnerships. Our unique holistic approach and global network enables our partners to build sustainable economic and social growth engines in the form of innovation centers, incubator programs, accelerator programs, bootcamps, technology transfer platforms, educational impact and job creation platforms.

More than just a South East Asian country with a profoundly distinctive culture, Viet Nam itself is in the golden population period with increasing quality in manpower and an open economy that is always ready to take on new trends. Based on the above competitive advantages, we seek to partner with enterprises/startups in the early stage (Seeding, Pre-series A, Series A) with an investment ranging from 100 thousand to 1.5 million USD. Our only requirements for startups include either of the following: LOCAL SPECIALTIES: The value of local specialties, from the sustainable exploitation of material sources to the application of traditional and regionally characteristic techniques, must be highlighted comprehensively during the production and development process of startups. BREAK-THROUGH TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: The core business model must be based on innovative ground-breaking technologies, can solve the society’s most urgent issues, keep up with trends and have future expansion plans into the international market. INVESTMENT THESIS Based on the above investment strategy, we evaluate the suitability of our partnered enterprise or startup via the following investment thesis: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (ESG): This is the first and also the core element that ITI takes into consideration in our evaluation process: Environmental Friendliness, Community – society development capability (Social), Optimal business management model (Governance). BUSINESS MODEL SERVING LARGE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS: Vietnam is considered a potential market, with a total population of nearly 100 million people, increasingly improving average GDP per capita of roughly 3,694 USD/person (2021) beside the middle class with the fastest growth rate in Southeast Asia (2020). At the same time, total export ranks 16 globally (2020), a growth rate of 16% in value (2021). These key factors prompt us to highly appreciate the attractiveness of both the domestic market and the country’s export capability. As can be observed from our early-stage investment strategy (Seeding, Pre-seeding), ITI Fund seeks elements beyond mere innovative products, services, or business models. We prioritize startups and projects that can satisfy both the domestic and international market HUMAN FACTOR: Human plays the most crucial role in the innovation part of any businesses, accordingly deciding the business’s existence. ITI will, therefore, only cooperate and invest in projects where co-founders have the required in-depth knowledge and practical hands-on experience in their specific field of operation. At the same time, founders must be sensitive and adaptable to market fluctuations, able to connect and coordinate with the company’s pivotal team and uphold the entrepreneurial spirit.

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 offer a supportive environment that promotes growth and success. Portfolio companies receive resources such as funding, office space, and mentorship, as well as networking opportunities to connect with other entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts. More importantly, we help you form strategic partnerships with other organizations that can help bring value to your venture. We invest primarily in sustainable businesses seeking funding to further their growth. We value companies with outstanding founding teams that create highly scalable unique selling propositions. Adopting a disciplined investment approach, we invest only in companies demonstrating strong business fundamentals.

R3i Capital and its Accelerators R3i Ventures and the House of X are a global community of responsible investors, serial entrepreneurs and founders, pioneers, thinkers and doers, logical pragmatists and intuitive visionaries, experts and generalists, and bright lights that together, thrive on transformation rather than incremental change. Our global team combines seasoned track records and lessons learned with passion, creativity, and dedication to helping founders accelerate the impact and progress of the Sustainable Development Goals. Together we live the seven values of integrity, excellence, inclusion, purpose-driven, empathy, teamwork, and camaraderie. Our world is faced with crises. If we deliver the capital that empowers our founders to solve the world's biggest problems and transform our planet, and in so doing, provide extraordinary value to our stakeholders, then that is an excellent purpose for venture capital.