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Hi Inov is a European B2B fund made by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and based in Paris, Lyon and Munich. We support outstanding hypergrowth companies who transform the ever-changing services and industrial landscape with their innovative digital deep-tech technologies. Our highly experienced venture team will guide you from your humble beginnings to becoming tomorrow's industry category leaders. Backed by a strong network of potential clients, partners and experienced advisors, we will not only help you become champions on your home market, but also quickly open the doors to the French and German markets and support your global expansion. We take you from the starting blocks to over the finish line We invest between €2 and €10 million, as lead or co-investor, in startups that provide digital transformation solutions to SMEs and large businesses. We love to support innovative companies at their Series A and B stage. The Hi Inov funds are backed by the Dentressangle family investment holding, successful digital entrepreneurs, family businesses, large corporates and institutional investors. In total we manage a combined capital of over €170 million. We invest in bold, transformative ideas The focus of our digital B2B investment is on strong robust technologies that help our industries accelerate the digital transformation of their core processes. Our investments target major markets that have large technological barriers to entry or innovative business models. We always seek to bridge the gap between the traditional economy and innovation, and want to offer our LP network a unique selection of next-generation companies that help digitize business operations with transformative technology.

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

If you want to build a company with $100M+ revenues – reach out to us! We strive to be the most helpful VC onboard Inovo offers a unique benchmark for world-class startups. We’ve seen many success stories, and we are willing to spend our time helping you figure out things like: How can I scale my business? Which investor should you go to at this round? How fast should my startup grow? What do I need to validate to make the investors in the next round excited? How to set up a company in the US? What does it mean for my culture? What do you need to do operationally to make it happen? How do I build an advisory board? How do I find a good, trusted lawyer and accountant. 👩🏽‍💻 Recruitment We help founders find, evaluate and convince ”A players” to join your startup We have a full-time recruiter working for our portfolio Over 100 candidates have been hired thanks to our introductions and engagement in recruitment processes 💰 Investors Over 70 international co-investors in our portfolio's financing rounds. Over 200 intros handled on behalf of our portfolio companies for follow-on funding. 🤝🏽 Customers Over 30 tech unicorns who we can introduce our companies to Over $2M ARR in contracts based on our introductions 👨🏽‍🎓 Advisors Over 20 world-class advisors work with our portfolio companies to help them grow faster Over half of our portfolio companies work permanently with advisors or angels we have introduces them too We also have partnership programmes for our portfolio companies that can save you $100k+ in different software credits. What do we search for 💰 Investment ticket: €0.5m - €4m This is our first ticket size. We do follow-ons up to €10m for individual portfolio companies, and we can do €100-250k ”discovery tickets” in special cases. 🌱 Stage: ~Seed We invest mainly at the Seed stage (occasionally earlier or later). Our ticket allows us to make some Pre-Seed and Series A investments too. 🌍 Geo: CEE + diaspora We have a GEO focus, invest in startups all over Central and Eastern Europe, and founders from this region who are building startups anywhere in the world. The CEE region includes the following countries: Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Latvia, Kosovo, Estonia, Montenegro. ⚙ Industry: Multi-vertical We aren’t limited to a single sector or business model. However, we are strong in certain areas like: Developer Tools (Maciej), AI/Machine learning (Maciej), Data Science (Karol), Healthcare (Michal), SaaS enabled marketplaces (Michal), B2C and B2B2C (Michal), B2B Enterprise (Tomasz) 💙 What makes us excited YOU:-) We are excited by ambitious founders, large markets, and products that clients love and are just 10x better than anything else on the market. Our Values Founders First We put our founders & companies ahead of ourselves. When we have a decision to make we will act in the best interest of the Founders. Go Big or Fail Forward We aim high and do not compromise for less. We prefer ambitious projects with 100x return potential that have a risk of failure rather than 2-3x “certain return” projects. Commit & Deliver Results If you commit to a task or a project, deliver with high quality results. This value is about putting focus on “delivering results”. It’s not about checklist of tasks that you have to do, but doing your best to achieve the goals - often in a non-standard way. Data Beats Opinion Our decisions are driven by the numbers and data. When we have a decision to make we will look at the market data, benchmarks, and historical data to choose the right thing.

Connected Capital is the partner of choice for B2B SaaS companies based in Europe. Our team has backgrounds in M&A, private equity, law and strategy consulting, as well as years of experience in accelerating growth for scale-ups. Investment is only part of the picture. In addition, we help entrepreneurs to evolve their strategy, overcome any operational hurdles and focus on results. Our investment criteriaBuy-out (majority, profitable) and growth investments in European B2B software Exceptional teams comprising leaders who inspire us Established companies with proven product-market fit and consolidation potential Differentiated technology with intrinsic value

We are entrepreneurs and operators and have been working together for over 25 years. Investment thesis. Focused on Software++ We invest in enterprise software companies building mission-critical solutions for their customers that also have two additional characteristics (or plusses, as we call them) that are truly differentiating: + Transformational tech The first plus is technology that enables transformational, rather than incremental, change. The kind of technology that has the potential to materially impact the underlying value proposition within a specific domain. Technology that is so valuable in its own right that it is both a hedge against the company’s business model and a significant valuation multiplier. + Multi-layered monetization strategies The second plus refers to monetization strategies that go beyond typical SaaS licensing fees. Typically a byproduct of their business model, such companies have other inherent value that goes beyond traditional revenue. That value comes in the form of the unique and proprietary datasets they have created, the technical artifacts they have developed, or the network effect of an ecosystem. We refer to the conversion of these two features as Software++, a combination that consistently gives companies a major competitive advantage while dramatically increasing their upside potential. Stage: Seed and Series A Geography: California and Texas Industry: We are sector and vertical agnostic, and seek out high-performance companies Initial checks: $1 million to $5 million (often the first institutional investor) Follow-on checks: We double down on winners and can invest up to $10-20 million to back them across their entire lifecycle Driven by our values. Teamwork: Venture capital is a team sport. We work with other investors and our LP base to bring founders the support and expertise they need to succeed. Mutual respect: We always have our founders’ backs, and expect them to have ours. Alignment: Our success hinges on staying aligned with our founders and our LPs and working together to everyone’s benefit.