VALUES

Truth, Love, Growth.

Our mission is to back Europe’s outlier founders at inception. To serve them authentically, we set out to build Europe’s most deeply values-led venture capital investor. Our core values are truth, love and growth. From these follows everything we do: who we work with, what we are excited about and how we interact with you and one another.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what’s essential is invisible to the eyes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Truth.

We believe truth is real: a ground we aspire to correspond to, not something we manufacture. Reality is intelligible, and through reason we discover it together with you. Because truth is relational - made to be spoken - honesty and transparency are, for us, both policy and posture.
We vow to serve you that truth, in speech and in action, with kindness: to challenge you directly, out of respect for your freedom and journey, and always to support you in making the final call.

Love.

The greatest truth in the world is love. And love is never love of an abstraction - not the market, not the user base, but this person, this company, this face. The companies that matter are built from love for the particular: for the customer, for the team, for the journey. The particular can’t be reduced to a formula. It is known by judgment - a reading that gathers many small signs into conviction long before a spreadsheet could prove the case. It is what it means to see with the heart.
We choose founders this way, and we believe the best things are built this way: by a love that both wants the good and gives itself away. You become most yourself not by holding back, but by giving yourself to the work that is yours to do and the people in your care.

Growth.

Growth is the startup imperative. But progress is not an end in itself: like any power - capital, technology, scale - it can do great good or great harm, and takes its worth from what it serves and whom it forms. We believe company growth follows founder growth. To grow is to change, and to be excellent is to have changed often. What truly compounds is character - the devotion and hard work that begins again each morning. So the growth we care about most is the journey from founder to leader: the becoming of a person large enough for what they intend to build. We want to help you strive for that excellence the only way we’ve found that holds: truth and love together, radical candor tempered by kindness - and your own reaching out, giving yourself rather than guarding yourself, toward those you lead and the thing you are called to build.

Truth and love, held jointly over time, becomes growth. Growth is the central startup imperative, the hope of building a large and wondrous outcome. At the core of this growth is the personal growth journey of entrepreneurs from startup founders into world-class leaders of rapidly-growing organizations.