Better Tomorrow Ventures

We’re committed to helping visionary founders and operators bring their innovative ideas to life. We’re passionate about the transformational power of technology in the financial sector. We believe that by providing the necessary resources and guidance, we can help entrepreneurs drive economic prosperity and create positive change in the world. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, Start Ventures is here to help you turn your vision into reality. Join us on our mission to transform the financial sector. Your team might be the next big thing Passion and boldness are essential traits to any successful entrepreneur. We are here to support your vision and help you scale your business, but the ambition must come from within. We seek out and back visionary founders who think big and are driven to turn their ideas into reality. By leveraging our network, resources, and expertise, we help bring your vision to life and unlock your company’s true potential. You might be the next big thing. Your technology might be the next big thing Transformation is crucial. We support ideas that are born to solve a problem, with an innovative solution based on technology’s greatest potential. We believe startups are at the forefront of innovation, and we are proud to be a part of that movement. Our investment thesis is dictated by what we believe in, and we put a lot of effort in where we can add value from there: Sector expertise and network Our sector focus, deep domain knowledge, extensive network, and hands-on approach are all designed to fuel the growth of our portfolio companies and help them achieve outsized returns. With a strong presence in the financial sector’s ecosystem, we’re uniquely positioned to help pilot your projects and accelerate your first sales. Our LP network and beyond provides a vast array of potential partners and customers, giving your company the exposure it needs to succeed. Hands-on approach We believe in working closely with our portfolio companies every step of the way, from ideation to exit. Our team is dedicated to providing guidance, support, and resources to help you navigate the challenges of growing a successful business. We’ll work closely with you to develop a clear roadmap for success and provide ongoing support every step of the way. Support a soft landing in the EU or US, with turn-key R&D and operational solutions Principled early-stage investment strategy We invest in companies that are on the verge of finding product-market fit. Early-stage companies are poised for significant growth and success, and we’re committed to helping them get there. Sales cycles can be long in the financial industry, but we see this as an opportunity to create a sustainable competitive advantage for winners. By carefully analyzing your economics and providing critical support, we’ll help navigate these challenges and position your company for success. Global Operators We believe in the power of global companies and our team has proven track record of helping early-stage companies achieve global success. One of our key advantages is our privileged access to cost-effective talent. We understand how crucial it is to have a skilled team in place, and we’re committed to helping our portfolio companies access the resources they need to build world-class products and services.

We invest in FinTech founders on a mission to shape the future of Africa.

Dedication, Sweat and Tears. The life of a champion and the realities of entrepreneurship. Founders face many of the same life changing experiences and emotions as athletes. Much like luge racers, founders moving fast, encounter sudden twists and turns , and have to plan their course while in motion. They have to manage risk, overcome fear and thrive on an insatiable desire to win. They strategize, compete with all their energy and push beyond their limits. At Luge Capital, we seek these rare trailblazers in the financial industry. We help these daring and crazy entrepreneurs build global fintech champions. We invest in Seed and Series A, when companies are still planning their course. We believe we can help most by getting involved early, when you can’t see the finish line and the odds are not always in your favor. We’re in the trenches with you from the beginning, when you need us, using every tool in our arsenal. When we invest, it’s for the long term. Your success is our success. Great teams can do great things. We seek passionate teams who are eager to challenge the norms with better ways of delivering financial services, who think big, whose ambition is to solve real problems that affect people globally. We seek out the resilient ones, the agile and the relentlessly optimistic. We search for those who have unique insight about a global market and an unfair advantage. As founders, operators, and investors, we know what it means to walk in your shoes. We understand the sacrifice and dedication it takes to build a global champion. The journey is tough and sometimes lonely. We believe in treating your team the same way we treat ours: with respect, transparency, honesty, and empathy. To help portfolio companies grow, we collaborate with world-renowned financial institutions and investors that provide industry insights and resources. Our strategic LPs can become customers, partners, advisors, co-investors and even future acquirers of our portfolio companies.

OneRagtime is a venture capital fund founded by Stéphanie Hospital and Jean-Marie Messier. Since 2017, OneRagtime has sourced, financed, and scaled +40 startups. Through its unique platform model, OneRagtime enables its community to invest in the most promising French and Europe-based startups, be it through its funds or via its dedicated club deals, simultaneously offering entrepreneurs an unparalleled network and business acceleration support.

We are constantly inspired by relentless founders tackling big problems globally. That's why we decided to professionalize our angel investing side hustle via 10K Ventures - investing our own capital, time, and network as fast and early as possible. Industry agnostic. Geographically opportunistic. Founder-centric. Invested alongside Tiger Global, a16z, Softbank, Alter Global, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, local VCs and angels, and more. Track Record so far: Invested in 20+ early-stage startups directly **** % IRR*= 67+% 1 Exit 🙌 *Vintage: Q1/2019. Estimates as of Q4/2022. Includes both realized and unrealized returns. Portfolio: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/10kv/recent_investments OUR (HYPO)THESIS*:#1: GOAL: 400X RETURN - We aim for $25k tickets to be $10MM outcomes. We have limited capital but ambitious targets, hence we are astute and disciplined in finding these deals. Each deal we make shall be backed by strong convictions that it could return >400x of our investment. #2: We value Quality and ROI as much as Entry VALUATION. We care about returns and probability of success as much as entry valuations. We acknowledge that serial entrepreneurs or repeat founders could demand a higher valuation in exchange for a “de-risked” premium on team and execution. But at the same time, sometimes the big winners are further driven by external forces. Either way, what we’re looking for is to find opportunities backed by a strong conviction of achieving massive total value creation potential… …which leads us to… #3: We like LARGE TAMs, with Low-PMF-High-Execution Risk type of verticals. We like LARGE TAMs as this indicates how big the revenue potential is going to be (=valuation in the long run). We don’t just mean large top-down hypothetical market sizes, we want to have strong convictions that there is a clear path to a certain scale and we do this through bottom-up calculations and clearly understand what needs to be true in order to reach that level of scale and impact. Our bare minimum is for us to see a clear path to at least $100M Annual Rev RR / ARR potential. Typically, these are category-defining or clear emerging category leaders in a particular geography. Usually identifying and finding solutions to what would be the largest problems in >10 years. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.― Buckminster Fuller In addition, we also prefer gunning for a high probability of scaling with a low probability of failure - We need to have strong convictions that this works, but simultaneously notoriously difficult enough that only a few could pull it off. #4: For Low-PMF-High-Execution Risk type of verticals, the biggest de-risking element of the equation: The FOUNDERS. We believe that especially since we are focused on investing in Low-PMF-High-Execution risk verticals, ultimately, we hypothesize that it’s all about getting 💯 conviction on the founders. Here are some hypotheses on what we think resonated with us: We prefer problem space-centric and thesis-driven entrepreneurs. They have built strong convictions on the problem space they’re in (as opposed to the solution), which could indicatively mean they don’t give up easily if certain approaches/solutions don’t work. We prefer serial entrepreneurs. All things equal, we have a preference for founders who has experience in building great products and has experienced both wins and losses over their entrepreneurial journey. We prefer the ones who knows how to sell the vision to investors, talent, and partners; and drive and implement their vision to reality (Note: this doesn’t mean we rule out first time founders. Ultimately, what we like to see is strong track record of exceptional capabilities and/or network.) We prefer those with a strong narrative on founder-market fit. Ultimately, we want to back founders who seemingly are born for it. They immediately have the necessary knowledge, network, and most importantly the empathy and commitment to make their vision happen. And how do we attract founders? #5: On Attracting Founders and winning deals - RELEVANCE and REPUTATION are key. It’s hard to pick winning founders, but it's much harder to be picked by winning founders. The top founders and hottest deals are not only difficult to find and catch, they're also 100 times harder to get in and close. As angel investors, we always aim to be part of the cap table to show our commitment and earn the "badge of trust" from the founders. However, achieving this is often even more difficult. To earn our reputation and the trust of the founders, we must hustle our way to provide value-add. This way, we can stand out from the rest and end up being picked. So far, below are the things we think we could add value: NETWORK. We are constantly building from the ground up a strong network of investors, talent, and BD/partnerships in that we can provide strategic INTROS to founders. SIGNALLING. We strive to have a good reputation and maintain a strong track record of picking winners (vs spray-and-pray approach). NOTHING ELSE 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️. We try our best to be of value-add, but if there’s no need, we don’t push for it. We’re not superhumans who would know all answers to founders’ questions; we’re just superfans for these founders we’d go the extra mile for them when they’re in need of support.

BIP Ventures consistently produces exceptional outcomes for founders and top-quartile returns for investors. We partner with people who share our passion for solving real problems and unleashing the power of innovation to create incomparable value. OUR MISSION We identify and capture opportunities for the people we serve. We are drawn to big problems that impact society and to those who see vexing challenges as opportunities. These are people who dream up ideas and then embrace the real work required to bring them to life. We connect the people who invest in possibility. OUR FOCUS We invest in companies across various stages of growth. Each has the potential to become a category leader in an emerging, high-growth market. BIP Ventures focuses on big problems, big ideas, and the bold founders and innovators who are advancing innovation to solve them. Software and tech-enabled services solving real problems 1st institutional capital (Seed, Series A, Series B) Annual recurring revenue between $100K-$100M OUR APPROACH Different by design. Since 2007, we have continued to refine our value proposition and investment platform to create advantages for investors and founders that other VCs can’t replicate. INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS FOR INVESTORS: We design investment products that increase access to capital and reduce drag on returns, allowing us to do things other VCs can’t. AN ELITE TEAM OF ALIGNED INDIVIDUALS: We balance heart, know-how, and superior experience investing in and scaling category-leading companies. BEST-IN-CLASS DATA SCIENCE: We capture unique data drivers to give our team a distinct information advantage and foundation for guidance. FINANCIAL SCIENCE & REAL OPTION THEORY: Scientific rigor grounds our investment decisions, yielding process advantages and consistent outlier returns. HUMAN + MACHINE PARADIGM: We empower our partners with timely data, producing competitive advantages at the strategic and tactical levels. PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING PLATFORM™: Our Performance Engineering efforts strengthen portfolio company competitiveness and market leverage, resulting in an increased probability of positive outcomes. A PARTNERSHIP MINDSET: We actively seek out and provide economic and social benefits for our founders, investors, and team members. SYMMETRICAL & ETHICAL TRANSACTIONS: We are high-integrity partners who seek the win-win because we are in the business of building together.