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Our existing financial system is archaic.. Novel tech stacks have enabled a new form of markets... We bridge Wall Street's top capital allocators to digital finance. We back exceptional teams engineering the next generation of financial markets. We invest in teams building at the intersection of blockchain technology, financial markets, and data at the earliest stages. The digital finance shift is creating billions in economic value via reduced inefficiencies and the creation of new markets. Our firm is solely focused on this evolution.

The Netherlands needs to become more sustainable and more innovative. This requires dedication, patience and capital. But above all, it requires entrepreneurs - genuine entrepreneurs with genuinely good plans for the Netherlands of the future. We are here to finance those genuinely good plans. We are Invest-NL, impact investors, and we make tomorrow possible. Pleased to meet you! About us The Netherlands needs to become more sustainable and more innovative. This requires dedication, patience and capital. But above all, it requires entrepreneurs - genuine entrepreneurs with genuinely good plans for the Netherlands of the future. We are here to finance those genuinely good plans. We are Invest-NL, impact investors, and we make tomorrow possible. Pleased to meet you! We will make the difference. We aim to make an impact by seeking a return. We are not afraid to go for opportunities that others decide against. This is because we are prepared to take risks, we are able to wait longer for our money than others, and we have access to European funds. But also because we are passionate and motivated, we are professional and competent, and we believe in our mission. We provide encouragement, speed things up, create opportunities and remove obstacles. We enable financing for businesses and projects that seem impossible to finance. Rather than competing with others, we work together with them, and this enables us to achieve more than any of us could have done on our own. By taking risk ourselves, we reduce the risks for others. We are an open organisation that thinks broadly and looks ahead. When we look ahead to 2050, the economy we see is radically different from today’s economy. We see an economy that pays greater attention to people, the environment, society and our shared future. This cannot be achieved without major social transitions, confidence in opportunities and long-term thinking. This is something we are responsible for. The entrepreneurs who will create the Netherlands of tomorrow may only just be starting out. The technology that will be required is still in its infancy. This is where we come in and where we will make a difference. We cannot do this alone, nor would we want to. You are welcome to join us in achieving this aim. Welcome to the Netherlands of tomorrow. Focus areas Our ambition is to make the Netherlands more sustainable and more innovative. We aim to achieve this by financing projects and businesses, as well as by providing advice and/or carrying out research on how to enable financing for business cases. As an impact investor, we always focus on the social returns throughout the entire chain. This allows us to gain insight and expertise. This involves learning, making adjustments, reformulating, and refining. Our current market focus has six focus areas. Biobased & Circular Economy: The Netherlands' target is to be 50% circular by 2030 and 100% circular by 2050. We therefore view circularity as a social transition. We research and support the development of markets in which circular solutions can flourish, and we invest in companies that contribute towards these goals. Carbon-neutral economy: The transition to a carbon-neutral economy by 2050 requires radical innovations and is our top priority. AgriFood: The transition towards a sustainable, climate-neutral food system and value chain is key to our strategy. Radical innovations and an integrated strategy are required in order to work towards a circular model with innovative technologies and business models that can accelerate the transition. Deep Tech: For Deep Tech, we launched the specialised Deep Tech Fund (DTF). This fund is particularly interested in start-ups and scale-ups with innovative complex technology that offers solutions to societal challenges. Investments are often made in new, as yet unproven technologies that bear relatively high risks. Life sciences & health: The Dutch healthcare system is not sustainable in its current form. Without intervention, healthcare costs will double by 2040 and one in four Dutch people will have to work in healthcare. This calls for a transition to a different healthcare system. Investment funds: We want to give fast-growing SMEs (start-ups and scale-ups) more and improved access to risk capital. That is why we make investments, some of which are in collaboration with the European Investment Fund (EIF).

Alicorn invests and acquires stakes in technology companies, spanning our expert niches in high-tech, deep-tech and beyond. We inject capital, expertly advise and leverage our partners and network to unlock growth. Our unique investment model blends venture capital funding with private equity techniques.Growth-focused investment Secondaries Targeted expertise Follow-on funding Risk-adjusted returns Growth-focused investment. Alicorn’s unique investment model blends venture capital funding with private equity techniques. Bespoke, purpose-constructed deals that unlock growth in late stage companies. Secondaries. Alicorn specialises in secondary investments to unlock opportunity, provide much-needed liquidity release and give leaders the freedom to refresh their cap table. Targeted expertise. More than capital. Alicorn’s talented team boasts an exceptional track record of instigating growth, unpicking inhibitors and providing expert-level support to leaders. Follow-on funding. Flexible, agile and adaptable. We’re not a silent investor – we’re fans of opportunity, so we back leaders with the capital they need, when they need it. Risk-adjusted returns. Our focused fund delivers investors risk-adjusted returns, from an approach that shields investors from fundamental risk. Alicorn invests in great leaders, proven technologies and in tested markets. The Alicorn advantage Focused investment for risk-adjusted returns. Strategic Investments focused on verticals we know. We invest in established verticals, priming growth-stage businesses for acceleration. Our focused portfolio reflects verticals we know. Secondaries, backed by growth funding. We excel in applying our secondary private equity approach to mitigate risks, driving growth for businesses by addressing growth barriers. Expert investment & operational business advice. Alicorn’s team have been building, investing and operating businesses across software and hardware verticals for decades. Priming technology to flourish on the big stage. Purpose-constructed deals for realising late-stage growth. We invest in established verticals, priming late-stage businesses for acceleration. Our focused portfolio reflects verticals we know. Capital when you need it. Risk-adjusted by our secondary, private equity approach that unpicks growth inhibitors for businesses in the later stages. Keep leaders in control. Our team’s track record speaks for itself. Alicorn’s team have been building, investing and operating businesses across software and hardware verticals for decades. Solutions–not more problems. We’re pragmatic problem-solvers, not a silent investor. We’re here to provide capital, support and solutions to on-the-ground problems. Focused strategies – seizing opportunity. Our investment model focuses on opportunity: supporting confident leaders in realising strategic initiatives. We’re experts in: Adaptable funding (initial and follow-on). A flexible approach that finds high-potential assets (businesses), and uses our talent and expertise to increase value and maximise returns. Leading bridge rounds. Support when you need it. Gear your business up towards a major fundraising milestone with bridge rounds, led by Alicorn and our partners’ extensive networks Cap table recycling & early liquidity release. A flexible approach that finds high-potential assets (businesses), and uses our talent and expertise to increase value and maximise returns. Build investment. Alicorn constructs deals that maximise opportunity – be that through follow-on funding, pure venture capital, secondaries, bridge capital, or through additional funding rounds, we’re a growth partner – not a silent investor.

Through our extensive relationships with family offices and high wealth groups across key locations including the GCC region, the Americas, EU and China, we source private capital for dynamic, high growth enterprise. Disruptive ideas demand smart capital to unlock true potential. Copernican was founded by Martin Thorp, a finance veteran who pioneered the development of corporate finance and transaction-led services by international ‘accounting’ firms whilst serving as Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen global corporate finance practice. Copernican's core team is complemented with our venture partner network providing access to unrivalled networks of investor groups and decades of specialist experience in sectors such as energy, healthcare and technology. Our extensive placing network brings deep relationships with family offices, high wealth groups and ultra high net worth individuals, enabling us to source global private capital to help deliver outstanding returns.

The end-result of our focus markets is a concentrated group of large companies controlling a majority of market share while maintaining healthy steady state margins. Intelligent investments in winner-take-all markets can produce outsized returns as compared to conventional competition markets.

Our mission is to revolutionize access to the asset class – because our grandchildrens' future depends on backing more daring entrepreneurs to drive further innovation, the progress of humankind, prosperity & wealth creation. AlphaQ Venture Capital is an innovative fund of funds dedicated 100% to venture capital In the effort to expand growth and innovation capital, drive future value creation, and democratize related wealth creation, AQVC is a to-be-listed stock company investing in the best and most promising Venture Capital funds around the globe. We research, evaluate and invest capital in VC funds to generate excess returns above traditional asset classes while driving real-world impact and entrepreneurship. We have exclusive access to leading, emerging, and micro funds that have generated ~30% IRR in past generations. We aim to overcome liquidity, collateralization, and transparency constraints of the >$600B p.a. non-public and complex venture capital market. Through the simple purchase of our stocks, investors participate in an actively managed & diversified portfolio of leading VC funds, hundreds of underlying disruptive startups, and world-changing technology.