FOUNDERS WHO BUILD A BETTER WORLD

We believe founders are the driving force to build a better world. We are here to support you.

Angel investing is time consuming and fragmented as founders have to talk with all interested angels separately. By pooling the investment process we save time for all parties involved and make better investment decisions.

Further, a club model provides our angels the flexibility to decide case-on-case and invest when they bring a non-financial value add to your startup.

We check within our angel club to find suitable investors that ideally have expertise in your startup’s field and can not only provide funding, but also valuable support for you as founders to scale your business as quickly as possible. We won’t charge the founders for this service.

Our angels usually invest directly in your startup, meaning no bundling on the captable yet.

io. = impact only. That’s why we look for purpose-driven founders who are on a mission to solve important problems our society faces today and who share within our better angel club.

We love both B2B and B2C businesses and anything that is impact-related - be it people or planet. If you do not perfectly fit into these areas but solve a very essential and impactful problem, don’t hesitate to apply as well.

Most importantly, if we don’t believe we can help, we won’t invest in you.

We also do not invest in exit-first founder mentalities who want to become famous through VC-rounds or founders who only look for financial backing.

Aside from that, we tend to shy away from capital intensive business models, brick and mortar businesses, ad-revenue based business models, or companies without a considerable real net output ratio.

We invest in pre-seed and seed rounds only; however, selectively we invest in later stages of our existing portfolio companies as well.

For the time being, we prefer companies founded in the DACH region. However, we plan to expand our footprint across Europe.

Yes. We are very comfortable being your founding investor. We will support you in finding smart money with the right values within our angel club filled with like-minded entrepreneurs.

On top of our active involvement wherever we can help, we typically invest EUR 100k - 500k depending on angel interest. We base our valuation on traction and your type of business model. We invest in equity and via convertible bonds. Plus, our investments are done 100% remotely.

You can find our standard term sheet here.

For our typical investment process, we ...

… like to hear all about you on this typeform
‍… set up an initial call to get to know you and your business
… have you fill out our Predictive Index personality profiling (explanation below)
… talk to experts in the relevant field and to some of your customers
… conduct intensive research in our own due diligence
… reach out to potential co-investors within our angel club
… have an investment call to dive deeper into questions
… make a decision

As early-stage investors we first and foremost invest in you as founders. That is why we really want to get to know you. The "Predictive Index" is a short online test, which gives insights into your personality and team dynamics. Also, the test will help you as a team to get to know your strengths even better.

We can get all of the steps done in about 6 weeks. If there is strict time pressure, let’s talk anyway and see if we can accelerate the process.

We definitely love founders who have built a minimum viable product (MVP). However, it is not a restrictive requirement for you to apply.

Yes.