JOIN Capital

Cocoon Capital is a leading, early-stage venture capital firm investing in Southeast Asian enterprise and deep tech startups. We engage deeply with our portfolio companies, acting as trusted advisors. We strive to give founders the necessary resources to accelerate their businesses and personal growth in a holistic environment. How do we work with you? As an active, early-stage investor, we allocate substantial time to each new company post-investment by only doing 6 new deals each year. We act as your trusted advisors supporting you in all aspects of running a business. To help you grow, we put special emphasis on your and your co-founders’ personal development. We enjoy that you are proactive and clearly state what you need from us; in return we will work relentlessly to deliver. We always seek to build long-term partnerships so that we can support you in both good and bad times. How do we source deals? Always on the lookout for the best founders in Southeast Asia, you can find us at events, conferences, demo days and at our monthly mentoring sessions that we do around Southeast Asia. We look for resilient and focused founders who are not afraid to fail forward. Our own founding experience has taught us that a seed-stage startup is a work in progress, so we are more interested in where you are going than where you are at right now. What are we looking for?Strong teams: The best teams have the right mix of deep knowledge & the ability to hustle their way through.And they enjoy working together, understand that success takes time, and can manage risk and stress. Real commitment: We are relaxed and informal but we can also be pretty straight shooters if required. As hands-on investors, we enjoy working committed teams who are ready to listen, learn and test. Exit potential: We generally invest in companies where we believe an exit could happen in 6 to 8 years. This means your market size has to be large enough and that there has to be potential buyers of your business. Scalability: Whether a copycat or an original idea, your business needs to be scalable in a sufficiently large market and be able to reach critical mass within the next 5 years. Enterprise focus: We believe investors do a better job if they stay focused. Therefore, we primarily target enterprise & deep tech companies. We believe these verticals have the largest chance of success in the current market environment. Singapore holding: While we invest in startups across Southeast Asia, companies have to agree to incorporating a holding company in Singapore before we close the deal. How does it work?Apply: We only consider applicants that have gone through our online registration system. Investment amount: We typically invest from S$500k to S$1m, depending on how much your company needs for an 18-month runway. Time frame: If your pitch deck interests us, you’ll be contacted for a follow-up meeting. We will then do due diligence on all the information provided and if everything goes well, we will sign a term sheet. The process then typically takes 8 to 10 weeks until the investment is completed. Keeping it confidential: We commit to keeping your application and all information shared with us confidential. However, we only sign non-disclosure terms as part of our term sheet and will not sign a separate NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) prior to that. This is standard practice across most institutional investors. What are the terms? Ownership stake: We don’t have any strict ownership requirements but we usually target to own more than 20% of the business after the first round of investment. Leading the round: We invest in a limited number of start-ups each year with a high degree of involvement in leading and coaching the teams. We therefore prefer to lead the seed rounds we participate in. Board seat: We always require at least one board seat for all our seed investments. However, we still find that most of our work with our portfolio companies happens outside the board room.

We back tech that powers the future states of industries. Ascend partners with founders to provide support both financially and operationally, collaborating in the storied journey toward scale. How Ascend InvestsCriteria ACTIVE PROTOTYPE MULTIPLIER EFFECT ADVANTAGED PRICING EXCEPTIONAL OUTCOMES MASSIVE GROWTH POTENTIAL Strategy PREEMINENT CAPITAL PARTNERS MILESTONE-BASED INVESTING ENCYCLOPEDIC DEALFLOW OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE LEAD OR FOLLOW Themes FIRST MOVERS NETWORK EFFECTS PERSISTENT TRENDS DATA-CENTRIC TRANSITIONS SUPPLY-INHIBITED ECOSYSTEMS

Anamcara invests in companies focused on building technologies that serve and enable SMBs. We are pre-/seed stage venture fund that invests in B2B SaaS, online commerce, marketplaces, fintech, future of work, supply chain management, creator economy and decentralised/Web3 technologies. Anamcara invests across Europe and opportunistically the MENA region. Our distinctive approach is crafted around a curated network of industry leaders, investors and SMB owners. This is the Anamcara flywheel of value. Deep industry expertise and access.

PalasTree is a team of determined, and independent thinkers driven by intellect, creativity and passion. Our diverse, experienced and passionate team is our biggest strength. We are a small, diverse team with a laser focus on a select number of companies. We are always mindful of the eternal truths we have learned, both the easy and the hard ones. Our advantage stems from the strong network we have built over five decades of legendary founders helping each other. About us Our team is made up of hungry overachievers with a deep-rooted need to win, just like the founders we partner with. We all come from humble backgrounds, and many of us have founded or built our own companies. We all share the mindset of an entrepreneur and know what it means to walk this incredible entrepreneurial journey. We value our work, partners, founders, colleagues, and our entire network of well-wishers. We believe in building long-lasting relationships, and we avoid using terms like “deal” or “exit.” While we are sometimes called investors, we prefer to think of ourselves as builders of ecosystems. We believe that by creating synergistic partnerships over time, we can all achieve more together. Our beliefs are rooted in steady growth, and we are always willing to go the extra mile to provide an exciting and successful journey for our partners at PalasTree. Over the years, we have partnered with a few non-profits, and supporting these charities helps us stay grounded, grateful, and gives our work intense meaning. What We Do Our perception of a company is not just the idea, but a combination of the product or service, the people involved, the market processes, and the economic or financial impact. We understand that initial crucial decisions can have an exponential influence on the curve of success, so please reach out to us directly for an open and frank discussion. We are an entrepreneur’s most valuable and dependable partners. We support founding teams in areas such as fundraising, scaling high-growth companies, and international expansion. Our core team has hands-on experience in building, managing, developing, and retaining teams. We connect investors with the best early-stage companies that have the potential to create long-term value. Our experience has allowed us to identify the most profitable path forward for our portfolio companies. We build high-performing teams and create a positive and encouraging culture across our portfolio. StrengthsPartnership through openness and candor. Engage, support, and grow with entrepreneurs Filter and Cherry-pick portfolio companies Work flexible structures to fit the needs of both the investors and the founders Industry Focus AreasB2B/B2C SaaS based products and/or services Fintech solutions or services Healthcare Industry specially focusing on Digital Health products/services Software Infrastructure Innovative manufacturing industry products, solutions and services Ethical AI products and services

We believe in building out, not building up. The Flyover region is home to people with tenacity, passion, and unrelenting drive. We’re helping them create more success stories in technology right here in our backyard. We look for experienced and curious technology leaders. The ones with an audacious vision of the future, a clear and actionable roadmap, and unfair advantages to make the vision become a reality. A perfect match.STAGE: Initial check of $500k – $2 million in $1-5 million Series Seed and Series A rounds MARKET: High-growth B2B companies transforming industry through tech TEAM: Capable of solving a big problem in an actionable and scalable manner TRACTION: Early signs of a market-validated product or proven customer success GEOGRAPHY: Leveraging the “natural assets” of the heartland, one of the best places to build PARTNERSHIP: Using operating expertise to guide founders through the ups and downs

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.