B Capital Group

As capital becomes a commodity with more early-stage investors flocking to Africa, what will make us stand out will be our networks, relationships, and reputations. What we look forLarge Markets: A clear market opportunity that is massive and growing, captured through a scalable business model. We aim at reaching sustainable impact across a large audience by addressing deep markets, or investing in market-creating innovations. Scalable Economics: Tech-enabled businesses with proven, highly leverageable and defensible revenues, coupled with the ability to improve unit economics through cost and capital efficiency are able to achieve top-trend growth more easily than less efficient business structures. We are disciplined in ensuring the unit economics of the business we invest in are sustainable and attractive. Strong Agile Teams: We are looking for founders that combine strategic vision and executional capacity. Strong teams tend to be bound by a cohesive, inclusive, all-hands-on deck culture. We are seeking founders and teams guided by a clear value proposition and differentiated position in the market. Repeatable Growth: Solutions with highly replicable growth models and transferable problem-solution sets can most benefit from our growth investment and market expansion facilitation. As African markets are not uniform, we carefully model and test solution-market fit. How much funding will you get? If you are an African founder of a tech enabled startup that is solving a significant African development challenge please apply here. If you have little or no revenues, we will refer you to our Angel Fund for $10k to $100k funding consideration. If you have meaningful revenues with high growth potential, we may invest $50k-$250k.

Expanding Capital is a growth-stage venture capital fund that invested in breakthrough companies like Coinbase, Clover Health, Astra Rockets, Classpass, Bolt, Cameo, Roofstock, mParticle, EasyPost and many other unicorns. We're sector-agnostic and seek investments across any sector. That's because we have the conviction that the best companies emerge at the intersection of multiple technologies being utilized to attack persistent challenges. We're strongest in B2B/Saas, consumer tech, and eCommerce enablers. One of our competitive advantages is our international scope and presence. Expanding Capital is backed by institutional capital and titans of industry from Brazil and South America. To help portfolio companies, we provide strategic assets, introductions and help our portfolio grow in the emerging LatAm region.

We focus on founders building technologies that are redefining legacy industries Long-Term Capital We invest for the long-term; we’ve guided many of our portfolio companies to IPO or acquisition - and beyond. Concentrated Portfolio Making just four to five investments per year, we run a concentrated portfolio to ensure every company we back receives the resources it requires. Value-Add Partner We leverage our Global 2000 network, extensive experience, and operational expertise to drive value. Target Investment Criteria We've been partnering with founders of industry-disrupting, fast-growing tech businesses since 2006, working with companies that have strong product-market fit and generate $5 million to $100 million-plus in annual sales. We typically take minority stakes, investing between $20 million to $100 million. Investment Size $20 million to $100 million Company CharacteristicsEstablished product-market fit Substantial customers & a large TAM Strong teams with shareholder alignment 20%-100%+ growth Generally recurring or reoccuring revenue High customer retention Strong market position, with competitive moats Solid unit economics Structuring ApproachWe support without seeking control. We are minority investors, with a lead investor mindset who take board representation. We provide capital for growth/expansion, acquisition financing, optimizing capital structure and shareholder liquidity needs.

GTMfund is an early-stage VC fund focused on investing in the most exciting, up-and-coming B2B SaaS companies across the world. Our LP network consists of VP and C-level Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leaders from companies like DocuSign, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Snowflake, Okta, Zoom, and many more. This network acts as 350+ scouts as well as an expert network for conducting due diligence on companies. Our unique value add gives us access to the deal. We help startups with distribution. With a network of proven go-to-market leaders, startups should never have to go at it alone again. We find the best companies and support them with revenue generating playbooks, top-tier candidates, and all around GTM support.

Since 2008, the team of BAI Capital has invested in more than 200 portfolios, including 18+ IPOs and 40+ unicorns. BAI Capital has two main focuses: China-based global companies and China’s structural transformation. BAI Capital seeks to partner with and empower outstanding Chinese companies and entrepreneurs that can leverage the multiplier effect of China’s technology, talent, and supply chain advantages and to expand globally in consumer retail and services, fintech, media and content innovation, Web3 and metaverse. On the other hand, at the turning point of China’s structural transformation, the fund will also seize major cross-cycle disruption opportunities in frontier and infra tech, electric vehicles and autonomous driving, and industrial upgrade driven by enterprise software development. The investor base for BAI Capital includes institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, large insurance companies, internet giants and fund of funds globally, as well as Bertelsmann. BAI Capital has its background from Bertelsmann Asia Investments, part of the Bertelsmann Group. Bertelsmann is a media, services and education corporation that operates in about 50 countries and has 130,000 employees around the world. It aspires to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. BAI Capital will continue to empower portfolio companies with its China expertise and Bertelsmann's vast European and global network, bringing together global resources and perspectives to assist the development of its portfolios.

We build capability with a hands-on and collaborative approach to scale the growth engines of transformative ventures in everyday economy. Our Investment PhilosophyBacking ventures transforming the everyday economy: Everyday economy is the finite set of interactions that all of us experience and engage with everyday We Invest In Opportunities With Recurring Transactional Revenues: We focus on habitual, ubiquitous nature of problem & opportunity We Accelerate The Trajectory Of Exceptional Founders: We relentlessly focus on building organizational capability early on and leveraging the experiences of our managing & venture partners We Come In Early, Becoming the Most Valuable Partner: We make concentrated seed investments and co- investments at pre-series- A & series A rounds for companies which have a proven product-market fit We Don’t Just Seek Ideas, We Seek Founding teams with a Vision: We invest in strong founding teams with a successful track record, an eclectic mix of serial entrepreneurs and industry professionals We Make Strong Commitments, Winning Together In The Long Run: We align our interest with the lead investors and founders for continued hands-on support to win together in the long run Deep Alignment & Flexibility Our investment strategy is purpose-built to collaborate with and create alignment among our founders and co-investors, with flexible check sizes and no strict ownership targets We are conviction driven, focusing on few opportunities at a time and do everything to make the work. You are more likely to find us sweating on a product update than at a conference. Our motto is: “let’s build this together” Outsourced Strategic Finance Support We serve as your strategic finance advisor, doing the heavy lifting to free up time for you and your team to focus on what matters most. We actively help with Go- to-market, strategic growth modeling, KPI dashboards, unit economics analysis, customer and business development introductions, recruiting, and fundraising advice and support Dedicated Extension of Your Team Building a business is challenging requiring immense focus and executional capability. Our founders get access to our experienced managing and venture partners from day one, with the agility to adapt as the ground shifts. We go beyond just telling how we can help – we actively get in the trenches alongside the founders to do the hard work of company building