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From idea to execution, we partner with exceptional founders early on in their journey. When is the best time to approach NXTP for a potential investment? It is never too early to get in touch -- even if you are not raising. We first and foremost invest in people so the more we get to know each other, the better. We invest in everything from PowerPoints to Series A opportunities. ‍ The best way to get in touch is through a warm introduction from a mutual contact but a thoughtful cold email or LinkedIn message is totally fine. What types of businesses do you typically invest in? We predominately invest in B2B companies in pre-seed stage and seed-stage companies, usually becoming the first institutional check into the business. We also invest at the Series A stage, although a little less frequently. Our typical check size for Seed rounds ranges from $500k to $3M USD and we like to lead or co-lead rounds. Sometimes, we invest as followers with a lower initial check, but with the optionality to invest more later on. For Series A investments, the typical investment size ranges from $2-5M. Do you focus on specific sectors? Yes. We are a sector-specific and thesis-driven fund (vs. agnostic) and focus on the following domains: Cloud & SaaS E-commerce Enablers Fintech B2B Marketplaces AI and Data-Driven Businesses We believe that in order to be great partners, we need to thoroughly understand what you are building. By exclusively focusing on B2B businesses in certain domains, we have accumulated strong institutional knowledge after having evaluated thousands and worked with 50+ businesses in our core domains. Furthermore, at NXTP, we have developed a wide network of sector-specific experts we put at your disposal to help you sort through the toughest challenges your business faces. Oftentimes, the experts in our network are retained by founding teams to take on more formal roles as advisors, board members, or angel investors. They include people at companies such as Hubspot, Coupa, Stripe, Auth0, Twilio, and Zendesk, to name a few. What do you look for in founders? As early-stage investors, the quality of the founding team is hands-down the most important selection criteria. If you are a founder and are wondering how we evaluate founding teams, here are a couple of pointers: Obsession and unwavering commitment to your company’s mission Strong leadership qualities and ability to inspire and effectively communicate your company’s vision to new hires and investors Clear founder-market fit and domain expertise Intellectual curiosity and hunger to learn and improve Excellence in prior business and non-business-related experiences Data-driven approach to company with a good understanding of key drivers of your business Customer-centric company culture

For nearly thirty years, RRE Ventures has been a leading venture capital firm in New York with nearly $2.5B under management and +400 portfolio companies. With over 25 IPOs and dozens of trade sales through the years, there is a lot going on at any given time. Recent well-known companies include Datadog, Venmo, Braintree, DCG, Noom, Kindbody, Spring Health, Olo, and BuzzFeed, among many other category-defining businesses. We pride ourselves not only on investing in great entrepreneurs and delivering stellar returns to our LPs but also on being supportive partners to our portfolio companies and active members of the venture community.

DayDream Ventures invests in visionary dreamers and founders across the US. We are well-connected to top VCs, founders, creators, and athletes and act as a superconnector fund. We take up a small portion of your cap table, but deliver outsized value by building a village around our portfolio founders. While generalist, we focus on pre-seed and seed companies building in Fintech, AI, Proptech, and Vertical SaaS. We are a thesis-driven fund, identifying key opportunities within industries where we see asymmetric upside potential on a risk-adjusted basis. We have published these theses and you can read a few of them here.

We think like you. Our team are entrepreneurs too, having invested in excess of 100 companies and started around 20 of our own. There’s nothing you will experience that we haven’t been through before. OUR DEALS We love early stage investments. We invest up to and including Series A rounds. Our ticket size limit is 500k per round but typically invest in smaller pre-seed and seed rounds up to 100k tickets. WHAT WE WANT The team is the most important aspect of any start-up; we want passionate owners who care about their project as much as we will. We are interested in your traction to date and the size of the market you are addressing. HOW WE WORK We move fast and use simple term sheets. We do our research but try not to be too demanding. The most important thing is that we add value – we raise the questions that need be asked and help you address the problems quickly. WHERE WE INVEST We have a lot of focus on the UK right now, but we aren’t geographically limited. Most of our investments are inside the EU but we are happy to look at any good idea, anywhere. WHICH SECTORS We are open to any good idea, but we have a particular interest in high growth tech. We have a special type of love for SaaS (we love SaaS), Fintech, Cybersecurity, Legal & Legaltech, MedTech, Apps and Marketplace companies.

We back passionate entrepreneurs who leverage technology to resolve significant friction points for enterprises / society at large. Our playground is the diverse Indian tech start-up community. Consumer Internet Enterprise / SaaS DeepTech FinTech Web 3.0 We partner in the early stages (Seed to Series A) and look to support them in two, or more, subsequent rounds. We look to be true companions, while dispassionately assisting our Founders navigate their entrepreneurial journeys (by staying out of the way, at times!). Inventus to Athera At our inception as Inventus India in 2008, the backdrop was nascent - Internet penetration was <5% and the early adopters were just beginning to consume offerings from consumer Internet/enterprise software startups. 90%+ of the funds deployed in India VC were from the US / overseas. Cut to today, the ecosystem is well past the inflexion point with the number of Unicorns having crossed 100. Indian entrepreneurs, family offices and some institutions are keen to partake in the widespread growth in private markets. All in all, an ideal environment to evolve into an India-centric VC firm. What makes us differentEmpathy: Founder-friendly VCs who walk the (frequently) lonely, wobbly path with our entrepreneurs. Back Sustainable Businesses: That thrive even post our association. Delayed Gratification: Our DNA and a value we share with our entrepreneurs. Objectivity: Transparent, unbiased interactions with our entrepreneurs.

WAV invests in early-stage companies developing solutions across a broad set of sectors including vertical SaaS, infrastructure, security, payments, embedded fintech, digital health, consumer marketplaces, typically with tech-enabled applications and solutions.