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Lightscape Partners is an investment firm located in the New York City Metropolitan Area. Founded by thought leaders in the financial services sector, Lightscape applies a proven Prism Investing approach to cultivate relationships with portfolio companies and explore product opportunities. The company actively seeks to invest in innovative artificial intelligence-powered businesses, infrastructure, and deep tech, using partner capital to make decisive investments. We partner with motivated and energetic entrepreneurs in the AI space, leveraging our extensive relationships and industry experience to help shape companies for the long-haul. Our stage-agnostic investment thesis allows exposure across all phases of the startup life cycle.

As Dutch/German scale-up investor we invest since 2006 in European scale-ups across 7 countries. Driven by AI, deep learning, quantum computing and democratized algorithms, we execute on our Intelligent Empowerment thesis. Shift happens; we are supporting those entrepreneurs who drive that change and will shape the future. We have assisted most of our portfolio companies with their Buy & Build based on which 30+ add-on companies have been acquired expending overall into 22 countries. Out of our three homemarkets Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden we invest with our current €303M fund in multiple European countries. We care: entrepreneurs in who we invested for the second time, portfolio entrepreneurs who invested in our own funds, former employees who came back and so on. We strongly believe that growing scale-ups rapidly is all about saying NO to numerous activities. We are PRI signatory and highly value the principles for responsible investments, promoted by the United Nations Endeit Capital stimulates various initiatives to encourage entrepreneurship Based on our ‘Thinking BIC’ philosophy (Believe, Innovate & Internationalise, Collaborate) we stimulate entrepreneurship in numerous ways. Key supporting activities we co-founded are LOEY Foundation (Leading Online Entrepreneur of the Year; co-founded in 2010), Venturepreneurs’ Organisation (serial German entrepreneurs being angel investors; co-founded in 2010) and VEECEE (Young VC professionals; co-founded in 2015). Endeit Capital is also one of the two Founding Partners of ai.nl (making impact disrupting technologies comprehensible). Besides we are involved in various other activities such as Jong Ondernemen (Young Entrepreneurship Foundation), ACE(Amsterdam Centre of Entrepreneurship), #FundRight, Techstars, Accenture Innovation Awards and accelerator programs from Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Microsoft.

We invest in early seed and pre-seed stages, offering tickets of up to €200k alongside co-investors. Our sector focus is broad, encompassing any industry, with a geographic emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). FAQ At what stage do you invest? What do you mean by pre-seed? Ideally, we want to lead the first investment round in your company. Sometimes this is also referred to as an angel round. As for product development, we will generally want to see the MVP and some go to market story or traction. It is great if you can get those first five clients or sell the very first batch of your product prior to our investment. If getting traction is impossible, you still should have a story of progress and achieving goals in your startup. I feel like my company is too early/too late for you. Can we still talk? Sure, you’re welcome to reach out at any point. A lot of startups that we’ve invested in came to us too early, but because we could start those relationships and develop a mutual understanding, it was a lot easier to make the investment decisions later on. If you are too far down the road for us, but you believe we could add some value, feel free to reach out to us as well. We’ll definitely look into what we can do together. What is your USP?Pre-seed investment focus – we are the biggest pre-seed VC fund in Poland and in the CEE region. Competence Hubs – we provide our portfolio companies an unique model of support in the way of 8 Competence Hubs, which are focusing on the following areas: Marketing, PR & Growth; AI & Technology; Finances & CFO on Demand; Legal; Next Rounds & Co-investors; People & Culture; Grants; Exits. Co-Investors – to every investment round in a seamless, efficient process we add co-investors – business angels with a unique background specifically matched with your needs. 120+ investments – we have the unique experience with the largest amount of investments in the CEE region. 100% private capital – we are fully private VC fund, which gives us and our portfolio companies a lot of flexibility. How are you unique?Timing: we are likely the earliest possible institutional investor due to our focus on pre-seed. Acceleration model, built on four pillars: the in-house team ready to help founders all hands in if needed adding co-investors to every investment round in a seamless, efficient process 8 Competence Hubs unique experience from 120+ investments. You mention co-investors. Are they absolutely necessary? Do we have to bring them, or do you help us connect with prospective investors? We believe that adding co-investors at this stage is super helpful for the startup, and we have got a number of cases to prove it. Co-investors will most often be experienced business angels, and we make sure to find the best possible fit. If you bring someone to the table, that’s great. We are also happy to dig through our network. How do you work with portfolio startups? We believe that adding co-investors at this stage is super helpful for the startup, and we have got a number of cases to prove it. Co-investors will most often be experienced business angels, and we make sure to find the best possible fit. If you bring someone to the table, that’s great. We are also happy to dig through our network. Where do you stand on diversity and inclusion We welcome teams and founders from all backgrounds. AIP Seed has also enjoyed great success with a number of female-led startups like GLOV, SiDLY or EduCat.

Enkadon Capital is an emerging global venture capital firm with a bold vision to back the next generation of deep tech and AI-driven innovation. Focused on Seed to Series A investments, we specialise in technology areas.

R3D3 Ventures connects entrepreneurs, technology and market resources and dedicated to investing in global financial technology, digital economy, software services and AI fields. Through integrated technologies such as artificial intelligence, we provide professional advertising information business consulting, investment financial analysis, fund investment and other services for enterprises in the fields of finance, digital and science and technology As the CVC arm of fintech conglomerate Rong360, we offer support in disruptive, cutting-edge technology, operations, and expansion for start-ups at the early, angel, and Series A and B funding stages. Our investment track record speaks for itself, with returns of 13x gross and 3x realized over the past few years. We are actively deploying to the top allocators in Americas (NY, Silicon Valley, Latam) and Asia (Hong Kong & Singapore), with a small allocation to Middle East / Africas

We look to become a vital ecosystem partner for the technological visionary and unleash the power of data together to pioneer a modern, technology-driven society through increased democratisation and augmentation for all. Thesis The evolution of the internet over the times has certainly made our lives easier. However, it is not a perfect world - many inefficiencies still exist despite a continuously-involving user demand. Technological entrepreneurs are here to change the world for the better by eliminating difficulties using their creativity and drive. TRTL Ventures is here to assist these visionary entrepreneurs to realise their vision right from the beginning. We guide them in surfacing user demand to help them develop their best products to reach their full business potential. Investment belief As internet businesses onboard more users by providing unprecedented convenience and accessibility to information, user demands have become more visible in the form of data. In the new business paradigm, it is not merely about convenience, but about augmenting lives too. Unlocking this data through deeper technologies such as AI, blockchain, robotics, quantum computing, biotechnology and more is the key to doing so. TRTL Ventures backs early-stage startups that are building a dominant virtual platform with a solid data acquisition strategy in place, such that they are in the best position to solve problems through DeepTech solutions. Geographical focus India represents the perfect setting for technology to bloom upon her rich and diverse data pool. The importance of data-oriented tactics in a startups’ growth strategy has been more and more critical, particularly in DeepTech development. We highly expect India to leverage her own demographic and deep talent resources of ambitious entrepreneurs, managers and engineers to build a unique DeepTech-based economy to become one of the world’s leading tech-oriented markets. TRTL Ventures aims to nurture the seeds of the Indian story and contribute to the global scaling of these promising startups. Ecosystem for success Throughout the next few decades, TRTL Ventures is looking to build an unique ecosystem connecting all stakeholders, including founders, employees, investors, business partners and end-users, to elevate the tech landscape towards its next step. We are introducing our debut fund to invest in the seeds of the next big innovations to build the foundations of the next economy.