Deep Technology

AppWorks

Check: No personal check size or investment allocation authority is published for Alyssa. Her route for founders is AppWorks' accelerator and its corporate accelerator programs; applicants should verify each current program's funding, equity and eligibility terms rather than assuming the firm's fund parameters apply.

Alyssa's operating thesis is that an accelerator should be a practical lab where founders repeatedly test, learn and build with peers, mentors and corporate partners. She leads AppWorks Accelerator plus Wistron Accelerator and TINC Accelerator and manages a founder network spanning nine Asian markets. Her historical program work helped orient AppWorks' accelerator toward AI, blockchain and Southeast Asia and establish hybrid and vertical corporate formats. This is a founder-development and ecosystem mandate, not a documented personal investment thesis.

Maki.vc (Web3)

Check: Maki Fund III currently states €300K–€3M initial tickets in pre-seed and seed rounds below €5M, with follow-on reserves. This is the active firm's range, not Ilkka's personal or current new-deal authority; his stated remit focuses on existing portfolio companies.

Ilkka co-built Maki around entrepreneurial DNA, technical depth, non-consensus first-round decisions and Nordic founders with global category ambition. His documented portfolio work spans gaming, smartphone diagnostics, industrial ultrasound, simulation and glasses-free mixed reality—teams translating difficult science or engineering into a product with striking customer value. His current role is portfolio advisor rather than the lead for new investments.

First Round Capital

Check: First Round's published firm-wide initial checks are typically $1M–$7M, averaging about $3.5M; it has participated in rounds from $100K to $20M. No personal range or signing authority is published for Maggie.

Maggie's documented lens is research depth: she respects founders who do the work required to understand a problem at first principles and prefers to dig alongside them. Her technical background in signal processing, deep learning, automated pricing, and fraud detection makes AI/ML systems and technically demanding software natural areas of fluency; First Round has not published a personal portfolio or narrower standalone thesis for her.

Shorooq Partners

Check: Not applicable to Selim's documented Shorooq role. He structures vehicles, manages institutional relationships, facilitates co-investments and advises portfolio companies. He separately founded Ghodwa Ventures, an early-stage Tunisian deep-tech angel syndicate, but no ticket range is public and that activity must not be conflated with Shorooq capital.

Selim works on the connective tissue between investment vehicles, institutional capital and portfolio execution. His Shorooq role emphasizes structuring and launching funds, co-investment, investor relations and helping companies reach strategic, operational and fundraising milestones. His separate Ghodwa Ventures activity adds an early-stage Tunisian deep-tech lens, but it is not Shorooq's mandate.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund finances science and business-model experiments, while its Main Fund invests from early to later stages; historical firm commentary described many seed investments around $1M–$2M. These are firm-level guideposts, not Alice's authority.

Alice invests in deep technology and sustainability, informed by mechanical engineering, consumer hardware, and her experience taking a physical product from idea to thousands of retail locations. She is positioned to evaluate whether a scientific or engineering advance creates a meaningful economic advantage, can be manufactured and distributed, and has a low-cost path through its critical technical and market risks.

Indico Capital

Check: Indico currently publishes €500K–€10M technology investments, mostly from Pre-Seed through Series A with selective Series B/C. This is the live firm range, not Rui's personal check authority; exact sizing and vehicle should be confirmed directly.

Rui brings long-running Portuguese institutional venture experience to Indico's early-stage Southern European technology mandate. Public evidence supports a broad rather than narrow personal sector remit: find exceptional founders in Portugal, Spain and Italy, help them build for global markets from inception and reserve later-stage capital for the strongest validated opportunities.

Indico Capital

Check: Indico's current technology range is €500K–€10M, mostly Pre-Seed through Series A and selectively Series B/C. This is firm-level guidance, not Rui's personal commitment range; founders should confirm the applicable fund, initial size and reserves.

Rui combines venture investing with transaction and corporate-finance discipline. Within Indico's mandate, that supports globally ambitious Southern European technology companies from early validation through selective growth: the product and founders must be exceptional, but market scale, financing logic, governance and the economics of building an enduring international company must also hold together.

Indico Capital

Check: Indico's live technology mandate states mostly Pre-Seed through Series A investments of €500K–€10M, with selective Series B/C participation. This is the firm's range rather than João's personal authority; founders should confirm vehicle, initial ticket and reserves.

João evaluates Southern European technology companies through a combined engineering, investment-banking, private-equity and venture lens. The documented firm mandate favors globally ambitious founders in Portugal, Spain and Italy, mostly from Pre-Seed to Series A, whose technical differentiation can become a durable international business rather than a local feature company.

Khosla Ventures

Check: No personal check range is published. Khosla's Seed Fund supports technical and business-model experiments and may incubate companies; historical firm commentary described many seed investments around $1M–$2M. The Main Fund covers larger early and later rounds. These are firm-level references only.

Katie works at the company-formation boundary, incubating and backing early deep-tech and consumer ideas. Her experience spans satellites, AI research, consumer-company formation, entertainment partnerships, fundraising, recruiting, and product at Fei-Fei Li's Astrocade. That combination supports a thesis around technically novel products whose consumer behavior, narrative, team, and initial distribution can be designed together from day zero.