Silas Capital

At Kairon Capital, we were founded on a simple but overlooked truth: some of the most enduring consumer businesses in India aren’t chasing headlines, they’re quietly building profitability, product depth, and customer love long before they raise external capital. These are founder-led, disciplined companies that fall between the cracks of early-stage VC and late-stage growth equity, too real for theory, too early for scale capital. We built Kairon to back them. Our belief is that the right moment to invest isn’t when it’s trendy, it’s when clarity meets conviction. That’s the spirit behind our name, inspired by “Kairos,” the Greek concept of perfect timing. We don’t just bring capital. We bring alignment, operational thinking, and a founder-first partnership mindset. We exist to help high-potential consumer brands scale with purpose, and stay resilient long after the market cycles shift. At Kairon, we don’t chase what’s obvious. We partner with what endures. Our Vision To empower a new generation of consumer-focused ventures with timely capital, deep expertise, and unwavering partnership, championing innovations that shape better everyday experiences for millions.

Tengelmann Ventures is an early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs on their mission to (i) preserve life and environment, (ii) simplify everyday life and (iii) individualize products and services to changing needs. Founded in 2009, Tengelmann Ventures invests primarily in consumer-centric B2C and B2B businesses within the DACH region. TENGELMANN STANDS FORCONSUMER KNOWLEDGE: Decades of experience in dealing with consumers. SUSTAINABILITY HERITAGE: Taking responsibility for sustainability: a track-record in addressing sustainability matters from early days. ENTREPRENEURIAL DNA: An entrepreneurial platform providing freedom and patience – dedicated to long-term growth. EXTENSIVE NETWORK: An extensive high-caliber network of entrepreneurs, advisors and leaders, particularly in Europe and North America. PATIENT CAPITAL: A family business thinking in generations and therefore long-term orientation. ACTIVE INVESTOR: The aspiration to act as an active entrepreneurial partner.

Founded in 1987, Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first. With offices in Cambridge and Palo Alto, Highland has raised over $3B in committed capital and invested in more than 270 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprise technology. Investments include companies such as Rent the Runway, 2U, Catalant, Harry’s, Malwarebytes, nuTonomy, Clearbanc, Scopely, ThredUP, and Turbonomic.

PAPA OSCAR was founded in 2017 and is one of the leading e-commerce accelerators for lifestyle brands in Europe. We offer our portfolio companies not only financial, but also strategic and operational support, as well as access to an international network. To build a successful and sustainable lifestyle company, it is essential to have the right mix of marketing tools, a sustainable organisational structure, operational support and optimised processes. This is why we have developed a new venture capital approach: We combine capital and comprehensive operational support, offering our companies exclusive access to expert teams in marketing (online & offline), sales, business and product strategy, product development and IT. Our goal is to create value from day one - and not just with capital. Who we are looking for We invest in people, not products. You, your team and your ambitions are our top priority. A great product and new innovation is little without a passionate, focused and tenacious entrepreneur. That's why we invest in people, not products. Seed & Early Stage We support creative projects that are in an early growth phase and help you expand your business and build sustainable brands. We are looking for innovative business ideas with ambitious founders. D2C / Lifestyle We work almost exclusively with D2C / e-commerce brands. Our portfolio includes products in the categories jewellery and accessories, sports, men's, women's and children's clothing, home & interior and food. Central and Southern Europe In addition to the original investment focus on the German-speaking region, we have also been investing in founders and brands from the Southern European market since the opening of a further location in Barcelona.

Anthos is a generalist venture capital firm with over $3B of assets under management. Venture capital is what fuels new and innovative businesses, and – since our founding in 2007 – we’ve had the privilege of investing in and working with the founders of Guayaki, Gopuff, Olaplex, Trunk Club, ApplyBoard, VRChat, and dozens of other category-leading start-ups to build their businesses. We purposely maintain a low profile, in keeping with our general ethos of humility and heads-down work ethic. The background of our diverse team possesses a good balance across finance – Goldman Sachs, Luxor, Ares, Summit – and consumer tech – Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snap, Apple, Venmo, and more.

Sixth Sense has a formidable founding team and a strong Centre of Excellence Board. Our core team has a cumulative experience of over 70 years in the wider consumer domain. We believe that the next big wave of dysfunctional growth will be led by entrepreneurs driven by completely different skill sets and capabilities and not necessarily capital. We aim to invest in the Consumer of Tomorrow…Today! We like to back “first generation” entrepreneurs and are flexible regards the stage and size of investments as long as the business addresses the consumer needs “more efficiently”, be it products, services, distribution, analytics etc. At Sixth Sense, we too strongly believe in our intuition and hence our name. Our experience of foreseeing a trend together with deep insights provides us a clear vision of what is needed and how to achieve it – perceiving the value of an idea is now second nature to us. The fundamental values and aim of our business model extend to our logo as well. While the Roman VI represents a global outlook and investments that drive the company, the ‘matra’ identifies with our focus on Indian start-ups that go on to carve a niche for themselves. Our vision “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, to spend the rest of your life like most people can’t!“ We believe that the next big wave of dysfunctional growth will be led by players who are going to be driven by completely different capabilities and not necessarily capital. At Sixth Sense we hope to fill a gap or find some gap for ourselves to actualize that. We would want to back ourselves in identifying a ‘smart ass’ team with a ‘kick ass’ product in a ‘big ass’ market! Our vision is to create an organization that gets recognized as the de-facto medium for investments (angel/ venture/ private/ listed) in consumer centric businesses in India. We take pride in our ability to catch trends and take calculated risks that enable us to create value – both for our investors and investee companies. The businesses we fund can fast track their growth by leveraging the ecosystem we provide, which includes – our strong consumer-centric research and investment analysis, along with access to our Centre of Excellence Board for strategic and operational inputs.