{"id":5693,"date":"2024-04-26T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldeneggcheck.com\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2024-04-26T07:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:51:47","slug":"gec-capital-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldeneggcheck.com\/en\/gec-capital-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"GEC Capital: how we deal with risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in startups is obviously risky. With <a href=\"https:\/\/goldeneggcheck.com\/venture-capital-investors\/golden-egg-check-capital\/\">Golden Egg Check Capital<\/a> we aim to mitigate these risks in a number of ways with our investment strategy. In this way we believe we can achieve a strong returns for our investors.<\/p>\n<p>GEC Capital I is a co-investment venture capital fund, we invest tickets up to \u20ac100k together with specialized lead VCs (or\u00a0highly\u00a0relevant angels). Here are\u00a0three\u00a0reasons why we think this strategy works:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Co-investing with conviction-based specialists<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Diversification: investing in 30-35 companies<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Follow-on investments in our winners<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Let&#8217;s discuss a bit further.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Co-investing with conviction-based specialists<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We invest alongside VCs or angels that have deep domain knowledge and often are conviction-based, which means that they cherry-pick a relatively small number of companies to invest in and support them very hands-on. We thankfully leverage their expertise, network and \u2013 quite frankly \u2013 hard work, and join rounds on the terms they\u2019ve negotiated with founders. Our complementary added-value lies in the access to capital as well as\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">in<\/span>\u00a0a\u00a0community of founders that is willing to support each other.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Diversification: investing in 30-35 companies<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We invest primarily in pre-seed and seed stage companies when we expect a strong value increase. Yes, this\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">early\u00a0<\/span>stage is riskier, because often product-market fit\u00a0has not been\u00a0found yet. We therefore focus a lot on the size of the opportunity in the market, the scalability of the tech and, of course, the quality of the founders. Running a startup is very hard, and setbacks *will* happen, so we\u2019re looking for founders\u00a0that have a get shit done mentality\u00a0and know how to hustle\u00a0<strong>hard<\/strong>!\u00a0We will invest in 30-35 companies in\u00a0just\u00a0three years time, to be sure we spread risks well. Currently we\u2019re half way in with sixteen amazing portfolio companies. Our startups are also diversified in terms of business model, market domain and geography.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Follow-on investments in our winners<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>We keep a little over 50% of our fund as reserve for follow-on investments in next rounds.\u00a0This\u00a0way, we can build relationships with our founders, see which companies outperform our expectations and invest in the winners.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit, our investment strategy does come with some drawbacks, primarily due to the relatively small stakes we own in our portfolio companies. However, we place less emphasis on ownership and more on the benefits of having a large portfolio and building a strong community and great relationships with the founders we have backed. We believe this approach makes our investment strategy quite clever \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the good news. We\u2019re working towards the final close of our fund, capped at \u20ac5 million, before summer. We\u2019re still looking for some investors to join our fund. The minimum ticket is \u20ac100k. In other words, and to summarize this long post, if you want to invest \u20ac100k\u00a0or more\u00a0across 30-35 startups (of which sixteen are known already!) in rounds together with top tier VCs, and be part of our community of founders and (ex-) entrepreneurs, do <a href=\"https:\/\/goldeneggcheck.com\/over-ons\/\">contact me<\/a> to discuss!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investing in startups is obviously risky. 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