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Our team is built to guide you from 0 to 1, but we're your advisors for life. We provide seed stage founders — from enterprise SaaS to sustainability, health to hard tech, artificial intelligence to infrastructure, consumer to crypto — with the tools to build companies and navigate the venture landscape.

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In today’s global economy, reaching international customers quickly can mean the difference between capturing or missing massive market opportunities. Yet most companies still piece together a complex workflow of spreadsheets, translation agencies, and precious developer time to localize their products—often taking weeks to translate even simple updates. This outdated process means millions of potential customers […]

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