Accelerating innovation with smart money
Suricate Ventures is a privately financed venture capital firm with a smart money investment philosophy. We invest in early-stage technology ventures with a focus on Fintech, Defence Tech and Dual-Use, Blockchain, Health Tech and Logistics & Supply Chains. Suricate Ventures combines venture capital, industry expertise and network.
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Investment criteria
#1
highly scalable startups in growing markets
We focus on technology opportunities that will constitute future digital infrastructure and have significant market potential. We are geographically agnostic.
#2
seed & series A
We invest in the early stage (seed and series A). We prefer startups that have demonstrated their fundability through previous investments from private investors. Our ticket is up to 50,000.00 EUR, with a possible follow-up investment of up to 100,000.00 EUR.
#3
post revenue
We do not invest in a pure business idea. Come to us once you have proof of concept and start building your customer base. We consider customer data as key information for our investment decision.
#4
fit & proper team
Suricate Ventures being privately funded means we have our “skin in the game.” That is what we also expect from founders of the startups – a fully committed team of experts and entrepreneurial enthusiasts.
#5
syndicated investment round
We feel most comfortable when we invest in a syndicate with other VCs, business angels or other investors. As industry insiders, we have built close relationships with the top-tier investors – VCs, business angels, private equity firms and institutional investors.
#6
protected IP, plain vanilla ownership structure
We invest in startups that have properly protected intellectual property and a simple ownership structure.
Founders
We are group of friends, each having different backgrounds, from finance and insurance, to legal, information technology, venture capital and private equity, energy and mobility. We call ourselves suricates. In the nature suricates are always on the watch, looking closely at what is going on around them. So we do in business. We monitor technology trends and underlying technologies as an industry insiders.
As a fearless risk-takers we search for the tech ventures which have potential to disrupt the existing value chains. Venture capital is only a part of our commitment. As all of our founders have a distinctive industry competences, we are able to support our portfolio startups with the industry and functional expertise, a strong business and investor network.
