Great North Ventures

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.

We engage with all stakeholders in creating new industries, and act as a hub, bringing talent, information, and technology to all our partners to create a platform that drives the next generation of sustainable industry. The “Genesia” in Genesia Ventures is a portmanteau of “genesis,” implying origin and creation, and “Asia”, to represent our commitment to create new business opportunities in Asia. It would be no exaggeration to say that the world has entered a new era through digital technologies, and startups have played and are still playing pivotal roles in this game-changing transformation. The large industries and social infrastructure that have thus far led the world are on the brink of new development through the disruptive potential of the digital sphere. Simultaneously, developed regions are establishing new industries through a digital infrastructure that is not dependent on traditional modalities or assets. Through seed and early stage investment in startups, we believe we can help achieve a thriving society heralded by digital technology, and we are committed to support these startups and accelerate their growth, ushering in a world in which everyone can create wealth and has equal opportunities. Investment As a member of co-creation platform: We are a member of a platform for the creation of a sustainable new industry. As a venture capital company, we carry out investment and provide business support for innovative startups within the platform, become a hub connecting society as a whole and all stakeholders as one team. In this way, we serves the same function as blood circulating within the body. Stage: We are a venture capital firm dedicated to seed and early stage investments in innovative digital startups in Asia

We’re EQT Ventures, a VC built by former founders and operators ready to support the next generation of global winners. Building a global tech company is challenging. We know because we’ve done it too. Without the right people around you, getting to great is almost impossible. That’s why we decided to create EQT Ventures, a new kind of VC, the VC we always wanted on our own startup journeys. A VC that is accessible, supportive and fully committed. A partner that knows what it takes to put everything on the line. A VC built to serve the founders it backs. From offices in Stockholm, London, Berlin, Paris and San Francisco, we invest in and support entrepreneurs building the next-generation of global winners. Entrepreneurs will always be at the core of everything we do. We’re entrepreneurs at heart and there’s nothing we thrive from more than working with founders. No matter where you are on your journey or the challenges you face, chances are we’ve been there too and can overcome them together.

With venture and operational excellence at our core, we take a long view to investing. Having lived through it ourselves, we understand that inflection points are a natural part of a company’s growth and that the best companies are built over time. Our investment goes beyond capital to active company building at every stage. We provide a steady hand along the journey, including through the inevitable bumps on the way. Backing audacious founders and sharing in their creative vision for what the world can be both motivates and inspires us. We are player coaches who understand how to get companies off the ground from the earliest of stages and scale them into enduring companies. We fundamentally believe that meeting the evolving needs of founders and their businesses from seed to growth stage and beyond is critical and will generate the best results for our founders and the limited partners who entrust us to invest on their behalf. Seed-stage companies We back first-time and experienced founders, as well as nascent teams, at the ideation phase of enterprise and consumer solutions with Seed stage investments from $500K to $2M. Early-stage business (<$10M in revenue) Through our early-stage practice, we support companies at the Series A and Series B stages that are focused on new themes and industries ripe for change through innovation and digital transformation. Hatch and Catalyst Advisor Programs Through our hatch and Catalyst Advisor programs, we collaborate with world-class executives to create a new business or identify an existing growth-stage business to transform with them. Through these partnerships and active company building, we can accelerate the trajectory and improve the eventual outcome of a business. Growth-stage ($10M – 100M in revenue) Through our growth-stage practice, we partner with founders whose businesses are at an inflection point and show strong potential for meaningful scale. We work with founders and management teams of later-stage companies to enhance and accelerate growth, manage through scaling their organizations, and to reach their companies’ full potential. Endurance ($100M+ in revenue) As a continuation of our venture expertise, through our endurance practice, we partner with once-in-a-generation companies. These companies have transformed industries and continue to demonstrate the ability to move beyond a first act to second or third iterations of their growth potential. We provide these founders the opportunity to keep their companies private longer, helping them take measured risks to continue their growth trajectory, maintain the agility of a startup while operating with the discipline of a public company, all while preparing for the future. Our valuesDiversity of Thought: Our team is comprised of talented individuals from all walks of life and backgrounds. Where else could an author, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a Fortune 100 CEO, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, experienced operators and founders, and decades-long professional investors not only co-exist, but collaborate and co-create on a daily basis? Diversity breeds creativity and leads to better decisions and outcomes. We believe our quirky diversity is our “eclectic genius.” Creativity of Approach: Our creative approach to supporting founders and building businesses is born of the diversity of thought and experience among our team. Empathy for active company building is at the center of every interaction. We are player-coaches who are able and willing to go deep into a business, while remaining committed to unconventional thinking. Creativity leads to the less obvious answers and connections, enabling us to bring solutions into the world that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Generosity of Spirit: We are openly generous with our advice, experience, and connections - believing that time and effort invested in ambitious, talented people will always bear fruit over the long term. This is true of our interactions with each other, as well as with those outside of our firm. We are personally invested - beyond the investment. Depth of Relationship: We are comprehensively engaged and holistically supportive - personally and professionally - inside and outside of the business. Our lifelong relationships with founders are fueled by the genuine empathy, understanding, and knowledge that comes from our shared experiences starting, operating, and investing in businesses. We intentionally place the same emphasis on our relationships with each other, too, The closeness of our team is rooted in mutual respect and admiration. Audacity of Ambition: Changing the world requires insane ambition. We meet the audacity of our founders with our own formidable ambition. We are an “all in” culture. We never do anything half fast, half right or half hearted. We take what we do seriously. We live it, we believe in it and the change it can make in the world. Mindfulness of Impact: While others might “move fast and break things”, we move intentionally and build things. We never lose sight of our responsibility and the opportunity to make a positive difference - for our entrepreneurs, our investors, our people, and society. The product we make on our best day is change. We aim to create companies, products, and services that endure with people we respect and admire.

We are early-stage investors who partner with visionary founders building technology companies worldwide. We look for founders on a mission to fundamentally disrupt industries and have the resilience required to execute at scale. We believe in Founders We build partnerships with Founders who think differently about the future and work to enable their immense ambition. As Founders ourselves, we recognize the criticisms every Founder faces and the challenges they go through. We understand that Founders don’t have all the answers and will make mistakes. Great Founders are experts with comprehensive knowledge about their companies and their domains. Founders need support and we are here to help them define the future. We exist to enable the ubiquitous companies of tomorrow We seek out the disruptors, innovators, builders, scientists, and technologists. We are techno-optimists, and we look for companies pursuing breakthroughs at the intersection of multiple disciplines and where there are extremely large market opportunities. Outcomes in venture are asymmetric and we seek to partner with Founders who have a radical vision for how to improve the world. We push our Founders to look beyond 10x ideas and build 100x companies with a relentless focus on building sustainable long-term competitive advantages. We believe software continues to eat the World, for the better The rate of technological innovation in the world continues to accelerate and we believe that the compounding of innovation will continue to be a force for good. The rapid convergence of technologies is creating an expanding set of opportunities. We embrace this reality, not just in our investments, but also in how we organize as a firm. Our companies are innovators and we too must innovate. Their businesses are global and we too must organize globally. As the world continues to change, so will we. We choose to go to the moon We don’t do what’s easy, we do what’s hard. We want to have an impact on society and the economy that is much bigger than ourselves and we partner with companies with the ambition to do the same. We are relentless in our desire to be the most valuable partners to our companies at the early stage. We earn the right everyday to partner with the defining companies of tomorrow, work with the most outstanding people, and partner with trailblazing Founders. We build infrastructure that puts our competitive advantages at the service of the Founders we back and coach them to strength. We think in decades, not dollars. We prioritize character We believe that our reputation will be the primary driver of the value we create over the very long term. There are no shortcuts. We have incredibly high standards and our actions and the relationships we build will define our success. We are honest and trustworthy, and we always stand by our commitments. We are never transactional. We seek a high degree of alignment and work only with people who are aligned with us. We treat everyone with respect and always seek to add value, even in the deals we don’t do. We are building a firm, not a fund Our ambition is to build a permanent and preeminent investment firm that companies, Founders, and LPs strive to do business with. We want to win. We do the hard, often unglamorous, work to make things happen. We only work with outstanding and exceptional people who love the work we do. We are building a firm that Founders seek out for the value we add, the expertise we bring, the honesty and respect they deserve, and the actions we deliver.

Unser Fokus liegt auf jungen Unternehmen, deren technologiefokusierte und skalierbare Produkte in der Markteintrittsphase stehen. Als Partner auf Augenhöhe unterstützten wir ambitionierte Gründer-Teams bei Wachstum und Internationalisierung. Frisches Kapital sowie die bedarfsorientierte wirtschaftliche Beratung in Kooperation mit dem Inkubator tech2b eröffnet Hightech-Startups aus der Region Perspektiven. WO INVESTIERT DER HIGHTECHFONDS?Der OÖ HightechFonds investiert Eigenkapital in regionale, technologisch orientierte Startups. Wir investieren in der Markteintrittsphase, wenn ein "Prototyp" entwickelt ist und erste Kundenumsätze realisiert wurden. Unser Portfolio ist offen für zukunftsweisende, skalier​bare Hardware- und Software-Produkte engagierter Gründer-Teams. WAS ZEICHNET DEN HIGHTECHFONDS AUS?Wir sind für unsere Startups immer da, wenn wir tatsächlich gebraucht werden – aber mischen uns normalerweise nicht ins operative Geschäft ein. Wir stellen uns an die Seite der Gründer und bilden die Brücke zwischen regionalen Business Angels und nationalen und internationalen VC-Fonds. Unser öffentlicher Auftrag lenkt unseren Fokus auf nachhaltiges Wachstum. Das Netzwerk unserer Gesellschafter nutzen wir auch für unsere Beteiligungen.