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Ethos
We're not your typical Angel Investors Club. Instead, we're evolving the concept into one of collaborative early-stage investment. We believe in helping and collaborating with Founders to increase their chances of success in scaling a company.
Our Members are entrepreneurs, business owners and senior executives who have successfully scaled businesses across key sectors and continents. We carefully select our Members, ensuring they have deep expertise, a broad global network and the right mindset to augment the unique talents of Founders.
We're not your typical Angel Investors Club.
We're evolving the concept into one of collaborative early-stage investments.
Thesis
Our investment thesis prioritizes a unique set of innovative Founders: those tackling real challenges and who demonstrate openness, bravery, and a willingness to adapt based on feedback.
We focus our investments in two primary domains. Firstly, industries where our Members possess deep knowledge, enabling them to significantly contribute to the evolution
and success of startups. These industries include Fintech, Technology & Electronics, Supply Chain, Automotive & Transportation, Healthcare, and F&B. Additionally, we're diving into promising and emergent sectors such as Climate, Energy, and Edutech, where we recognize vast potential and are continuously expanding our knowledge. However, we consciously avoid investing in Gaming, Music, Films, Fashion, Pharma, and speculative Crypto sectors.
As for the investment stage, our main emphasis lies with seed-stage companies. These are businesses where even modest revenues evidence a product-market fit, and where valuations remain under US$15M. That said, we're open to pre-seed ventures with compelling propositions and credible Founders. On occasion, we venture into Series A & B or even turnaround situations when the opportunity is right.
Investment Process
Our ecosystem is enriched by Members, Founders and Partners—including accelerators, VCs, government agencies and other fellow investment clubs— providing a robust source of potential investments to our deal flow.
Our process is driven by individual choice. Members decide whether to collaborate in an investment syndicate. The Investment Committee reviews each opportunity in the deal flow and taps into our Member base for specialized sector insights. Promising ventures lead to pitch sessions with Founders, accompanied by executive summaries and investment analysis documents, that the Members leverage to make their individual investment decision.
When forming a syndicate, we use Carta's digital platform to create a special-purpose vehicle (SPV). This structure offers a streamlined and tax-efficient investment method, simplifying the investment journey for both Founders and Members.
Members have diverse investment options, including direct company equity, convertible notes, and SAFEs. With a clear 15% performance-based incentive, our goals align with yours. Collectively, we don't just invest; we aim to shape a prosperous future for all involved.
Our 40 members have invested in 11 start-ups with median syndication of $215,000.
Membership
Joining seeders & seekers means becoming part of a dedicated community intent on discovering and championing emerging businesses. Members who bring promising investment opportunities can earn a portion of the Club's performance incentive and secure an advisory board position in select startups.
As a member, you'll have the opportunity to directly engage and build relationships with the Founders of exciting new businesses. This is not only a chance to contribute to their success and stimulate the economy, but also an avenue for intellectual growth and personal brand development. We also value the camaraderie among members. To foster this spirit and facilitate networking, we host social events in our Hong Kong and Singapore chapters, including an annual gathering of Members, Founders and Partners for in-depth learning, connection and last but not least having some fun.
Membership expectations include a yearly investment of at least US$30,000.
We charge an annual US$800 fee.
Given the inherent risks of startup investments, Members must go through a KYC process with our SPV platform e.g. Carta.