FAQ
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Warm intro is always a preferred option over a cold reach-out. At the same time, we understand that especially first-time founders are at the beginning of their journey in the startup world and might lack an investor network. That’s why we enable direct deck submission on our website.
We have a strong preference to lead or co-lead pre-seed and seed stage deals. You can find more about it in the Investment Focus subpage.
As a fairly classic VC firm, we have roughly 10 years of total investment + divestment periods.
Historically we were doing around 6-8 new investments per year and around 25-30 per fund. We intend to keep this pace and this portfolio size.
When you can tell us market-related secrets or mysteries supported by factual data that others are not seeing. Naturally, high growth on key metrics (product usage, user engagement, topline) helps.
Standard investment process would include:
a) 1-3 general business calls;
b) 1-2 targeted calls/workshops focusing on one domain like product, organization, market, sales etc;
c) calls with clients (if applicable);
d) reference founder calls.
Concurrently to the above, we do our own analysis and push a set of questions that are discussed during calls or over e-mail. Last stage before the Investment Committee is a local, on-site visit to spend time with the founding team and understand the nuances of the business even better. The investment process results in an Investment Committee for which we invite founders to pitch and Q&A to the MOC Investment Committee body.
Our fastest investment process took 5 days. On average it takes around 4 weeks.
Currently we are investing from 2022 fund.
Typically we don’t. We are, at the same time, in a reputation-based business and high-velocity business which is far from the perfect environment for sharing, signing and managing NDAs. Having said that, once we enter more serious stage of the investment process and we are looking thoroughly under the hood and check stuff that’s proprietary we don’t mind signing NDAs. Naturally, we have a template for it.
The majority of the team is based in Warsaw, Poland. But you can meet us all over Europe during conferences or our regular visits to major European tech hubs like London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam etc.
Our only obsession are network effects, or to be more precise, potential for them in early-stage companies. They can apply to a broad set of business types like marketplaces, SaaS-enabled marketplaces, online communities, online protocols or online infrastructure. We dig them all.
We invest in European businesses in their early days that are developing various types of software. Find out more in the Investment Profile subpage.
When you can tell us market-related secrets or mysteries supported by factual data that others are not seeing. Naturally, high growth on key metrics (product usage, user engagement, topline) helps.