<aside> 🐑 Our Venture Scout Community is an opportunity for those with grit and a passion for technical topics, from chemistry over climate to industrial engineering, to get hands-on experience and learn how a VC works.
Venture Capital is often a closed-off system. We want to change this and empower the thinkers and builders of the future.
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We are taking off with our second €50m fund. Driven to do things differently, we add value to our technical founders through money and getting our hands dirty. As engineers turned investors, we understand the products they are building and can rely on our community of experts in the Deep Tech and Industry Tech space.
Our Venture Scouts are crucial to spotting top talent and startups in the DACH region and Europe. As students, startup operators, or researchers, our Scouts are immersed in their local ecosystem or industry, closely following who is about to build something cool next. This way, we get early access to investment opportunities. But our Scouts help us to generally create more awareness of First Momentum within the startup ecosystem. They talk to technical founders at events, hackathons, house parties, or conferences, educate them about our vision of this new kind of VC, and introduce them to our investment team.
<aside> 💰 15% of the investments we made came from our scouts
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<aside> 🛰️ 40% of our community members have a technical background
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<aside> 🌍 We are > 100 hand-selected Scouts across the DACH region (plus a few European outposts)
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<aside> 😎 Most of our scouts want to become a VC (87%) or found a company (72%) one day
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👫 Network Meet founders, startup teams, investors, and other Scouts to bounce ideas or prepare your next step in venture capital, at a startup, or as a founder yourself
🧠 Knowledge Get smarter about technologies and deep tech verticals through different virtual sessions
💎 Experience Learn how a technical VC works through workshops and meetings with the First Momentum core team and on the job by sourcing and reviewing startups (plus 💰 if we end up investing in a startup you suggested)
🥁 Exposure Share your domain and technical knowledge with us when assessing startups in the deal flow but also the community during online sessions
<aside> 👉 Interested? Apply here!
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