Alex Davis

It takes more than capital to build real-world, cutting-edge technologies and companies that last. That’s why we commit the full power of our sector-focused investment teams and global network of customers, talent, top-tier follow-on investors, industry leaders, and experienced entrepreneurs to help you scale smarter and faster. With offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Munich, and Abu Dhabi, we are on the ground across EMEA, helping our portfolio companies own their local markets and expand globally. From pre-seed to exit, we partner with bold founders to build category-defining, lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Wayflyer (Ireland), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (US), GoStudent (Austria), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) – together. Speedinvest: The Power of More.

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Polar Capital Holdings plc is a specialist investment management company offering professional and institutional investors a range of geographical and sector funds. The Company’s investment strategies have a fundamental research driven approach. The Company has long only and absolute return funds in its product range.

We take risks on brilliant people and products. We work with founders on a mission to change the one thing they think is fundamentally broken in the world. We welcome young or first-time founders who are technical or domain experts in their field. Our focus is finding Europe’s best early stage tech startups and building them into large revenue, category-defining companies. We believe great companies are built by great teams, not by venture capitalists. Some might call our approach old-school. We lead pre-seed or seed rounds. We invest at fair terms and reserve capital to continue investing through a company’s journey. We typically invest between $500k to $5 million, although we have gone as low as $250,000 and as high as $10 million. We like to aim for an ownership position between 10% to 20%. When we believe in your vision, market and team, we get conviction quickly. We often write the first large check a company receives. We aren’t afraid of being the only investor, but are happy to invest alongside others. We work hard behind the scenes to maximize value. We provide introductions, help make key hires, provide market intel, ink strategic partnerships and handle difficult operational issues. Sometimes we might even spark crazy acquisition offers. Often, our work is providing a sage perspective that comes from living through multiple market cycles, and having the forthrightness to hold honest conversations others shy away from. Having spent most of our working lives in Silicon Valley, we aim to replicate in Europe what we saw work in California. We dream big and are unashamedly ambitious for our companies.