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Are you an experienced entrepreneur
looking to invest?
We unite Europe’s most active entrepreneurial angels to back the startups solving the world’s biggest challenges - catalyzing the next economy.
Apply as angelCompanies built by our members
Leverage AI-backed collective sourcing, decision and support power. No need to become a full-time investor.
Tap into the expertise of 100+ entrepreneurs and build a 20+ startup portfolio across sectors - taking luck out of the equation.
Back ambitious founders scaling solutions for a better life of future generations.
Flaconi
medneo & OpenRad
ResMed
AI Academy
Solarblick & Eventus Wind
FIEGE Logistik
MINDSET MOVERS
Signavio
ArtNight - Realtainment
Temedica
Mylo
flaconi
"Back then, when we were starting out, we benefited greatly from our angels. Now we want to give something back to the ecosystem."
Kartenmacherei
everdrop
Flaschenpost
Golzern Holding
happybrush
Frontastic
Videobeat
Signavio
Rosental Organics
McMakler
Chewsome
Alchemy
ecoLocked
Lillydoo
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kartenmacherei
opexxia
Lillydoo
lead link
FIEGE Logistik
GoodFace Capital
VITAFY BRANDS
erlich textil & KERBHOLZ
Enginiety
iits-consulting
Clariness
Knälmann Ventures
snabb ventures
everdrop
Ranger Marketing
Knälmann Ventures
lead link
eNugget Ventures
WEPA
junglück GmbH
AGROLAB
HENEMM
Knälmann Ventures
zwei.7
Vitafy
Capnamic
Metalshub
STAGG & FRIENDS
Allbirds
Celebrate Company
Seven Senders
MVST.
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LMP Partners
Zweitag
Perspektiven Wexler GmbH
Spark Coaching
klimja.org & CELL Invest
MS Grund
Neuropreneur Institute
CELL Invest
MVST.
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BabyOne
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Farmers Cut
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IDnow
21Dx GmbH
eBay & knallt
Tent2x
m5invest
ecomply.io
1KOMMA5°
GROPYUS
Ralf Schmitz GmbH
Entrepreneurs are the driving force to build a better world. Let’s help each other succeed. #foundersfirst
better ventures is built around 5 core theses:
1. Impact = Opportunity: The majority of the next 1,000 unicorns will be purpose-driven, fueled by customer demand and regulation.
2. Founders choose founders: Top entrepreneurs prefer backing from peers who add real value - experience over opinions.
3. It’s all about people: Early stage investing is primarily about recruiting high performing teams - successful entrepreneurs have shown how it’s done.
4. Diversified portfolio wins: High returns in early stage venture capital require building and supporting a large portfolio across many industries - it’s tough to do on your own.
5. Traditional VC is broken: It's inefficient, biased, and outdated — our tech-enabled community gives us a significant unfair advantage via proprietary access and intelligence.
📽️ Get a feel for us: Meaningful relationships make the difference
better is designed for entrepreneurs who want to scale positive change and believe in the power of many:
1. Founders & startup leaders: Ambitious founders building fast-scaling business models.
2. Business angels & experienced entrepreneurs: Active or exited entrepreneurs who invest smart money and share knowledge to accelerate purpose-driven startups.
3. Family business leaders & change makers: Individuals who bring industry experience and want to create large-scale societal or environmental impact.
📽️ Get a feel for us: Meet some of our members
1. Apply: Submit your contact details through the form.
2. Connect: We’ll schedule a 20-minute introduction call.
3. Engage: Get access to our platform, events and first curated deal flow.
We look for purpose-driven founders who are on a mission to solve important problems - be it for people or planet. We love both B2B and B2C businesses. Due to the broad expertise among our members we are highly comfortable to assess and invest in startups across a wide range of industries. A comparable breadth and depth of readily accessible expertise across industries and functions is hard to source in-house even for the biggest VCs.
📽️ Get a feel for us: Meet some of our founders
Impact + Return: We believe that a startup can only truly scale (and hence have a large positive impact) if it has a high expected return on investment. Therefore, when we talk impact, we also mean return. To make sure this is the case, the positive impact of a startup must be deeply integrated in its business model.
We believe that impact only scales if there is a high potential for financial returns. That being said, we are by no means restricted by the conventional venture capital fund mechanics and the typical 10+2 years timeline. Therefore, we are not limited to investing only in hyper-growth startups or potential “fund returners”. So, we also look at investment opportunities in smaller markets often allowing a faster route to profitability, which leads to less equity dilution and hence still highly attractive financial return potentials.
The earlier the better - sometimes even ridiculously early. Typically our initial investments are in pre-seed and seed rounds, selectively also in Series A rounds. Follow-on rounds typically go up until Series B rounds. In the end, you decide.
We prefer companies founded in Europe or the US because this is where we can currently support our portfolio founders best. Nevertheless, we also opportunistically invest in other regions.
