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Honestly, come introduced through someone we know. That works best.

Alternatively, you can use this form here.

DISCLAIMER/FYI: We are not able to respond to all requests. If we are interested, we will reply. Otherwise we won't waste your time.

Only 10% of our investments come through this form.
Yes this sounds low. But this is true for every VC, we are just honest about it.

If you struggle to fundraise right now, read these two articles by us. Maybe they help!
Good luck! Especially fundraising for the first time just sucks.

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Products that are able to get unique mindshare, leverage new technologies or product patterns, and that are slightly overly ambitious.
We especially focus on robotics, automation, hardware, manufacturing, developer tools, and engineering in general.


We look for founders who create companies, because they obsessively care about their problem, not just because it made sense in an research session.

We only invest our time if we actually care about the opportunity. We hope you do the same.

If you need spreadsheets to show us that your product is a good idea, we are not the right fund for you.

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We wrote about our investment decision process here.

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We either join a round early, or set up the round in first place. Very frequently, we are the first to commit.

Facts: About 60% of our investments are first-round investments, in about 1/3 of them we were the first to commit. Only 3% of our invests were later than seed stage. (Series A or later)

Or differently put: We say we invest early-stage in companies, and we actually mean it.

Why? Because it's very much needed in our industry – and it's more fun ;)

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Andreas Klinger was Founder of several companies, as well as founding team & CTO of Product Hunt, VPE of CoinList, Head of Remote at AngelList, and CTO at On Deck.

He writes a fair bit. Eg about Management, Hypergrowth, Efficient Engineering Teams, India, Europe, and investing.

He also runs a YouTube Channel, shitposts too much, tries to improve Europe, and help VCs get a stronger spine.

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This is a fair question.
With Fund I + Fund II we invested globally. About 1/3 Bay Area, 1/3 US, a good part in Europe and a lot in India.

But over the last years it became clear to us that we need to focus on Europe.

Due to its fragmented nature Europe is falling behind more and more against larger blocks like China or the US.
Additionally Europe sold way too much of its core industries to Asia – eg in precision manufacturing.

We believe Europe has one or maximum two decades to fix this situation.

PROTOTYPE is our appraoch to solving this.
We combine media, policy and investment to create a well functioning pan-European startup ecosystem and identity.

We hope you join our efforts.