How do we work with you?
As an active, early-stage investor, our goal is to spend substantial time to each new company post-investment. At Zetogon, we act as your trusted advisors supporting you in all aspects of running a business. To help you grow, we put special emphasis on your and your co-founders’ personal development. We enjoy that you are proactive and clearly state what you need from us; in return we will work relentlessly to deliver. We always seek to build long-term partnerships so that we can support you in both good and bad times.
How do we source deals?
We look for solution-driven, passionate and focused founders who are not afraid to think and provide bold solutions to problems facing mankind using technology. Our own founding experience has taught us that a seed-stage startup is a work in progress, so we are more interested in where you are going than where you are at right now.
What are we looking for?
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Strong teams
The best teams have the right mix of deep knowledge & the ability to hustle their way through. And they enjoy working together, understand that success takes time, and can manage risk and stress.
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Real Commitment
We are relaxed and informal but we can also be pretty straight shooters if required. As hands-on investors, we enjoy working committed teams who are ready to listen, learn and test.
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Exit potential
We generally invest in companies where we believe an exit could happen in 6 to 8 years. This means your market size has to be large enough and that there has to be potential buyers of your business.
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Scalability
Whether a copycat or an original idea, your business needs to be scalable in a sufficiently large market and be able to reach critical mass within the next 5 years.
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Enterprise focus
We believe investors do a better job if they stay focused. Therefore, we primarily target enterprise & deep tech companies. We believe these verticals have the largest chance of success in the current market environment.
What are the terms?
Ownership stake
We don’t have any strict ownership requirements but we usually target to own more than 20% of the business after the first round of investment.
Leading the round
We invest in a limited number of start-ups each year with a high degree of involvement in leading and coaching the teams. We therefore prefer to lead the seed rounds we participate in.
Board seat
We always require at least one board seat for all our seed investments. However, we still find that most of our work with our portfolio companies happens outside the board room.