Key Ventures

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We focus on early stage investing with maximum round sizes of 1,000,000 EUR and investment sizes of 50,000-300,000 EUR, backing technical products and services with high entry barriers run by frugal, capital-efficient founders.

Check Size

$50K - $300K

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

Focus Areas

Fintech, Data Infrastructure, Ai Ml

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Investment Thesis

Key Ventures is an informal angel investor syndicate that practices calculated risk-taking in early-stage investing. They believe in backing founders with strong technical products, high entry barriers, and capital-efficient business models. Their approach combines early-stage capital deployment with hands-on value creation through experience, expertise, and network access rather than capital alone.

What Sets Them Apart

Speed and flexibility - can write checks within 24 hours or invest over 24 months
Experienced team with deep domain expertise: telecom/IPO experience, asset management background, and unicorn scaling experience across logistics, data, fintech, and healthtech
Bring more than capital - leverage experience, expertise, and network
Flexible investment structure - invest alone or with syndicates, and selectively back emerging fund managers as LPs
Diverse, sector-agnostic portfolio spanning fintech, healthtech, biotech, education, logistics, and more