What is Adapt Ventures?
Adapt Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in category definers. We back electric founders with an uncontrollable passion for creating. Adapt is a generalist fund with a global mandate, investing from Pre-Seed to Series A. We have an affinity towards fintech, mobility, B2B Saas, marketplaces, and consumer. We have offices in San Francisco, London, Miami, Dubai, and Mexico.
We've invested alongside many leading funds such as General Catalyst, Foundation Capital, SV Angel, Global Founders Capital, Homebrew and many more. Founded by two brothers who built and sold various startups before in both consumer and enterprise as well as spent time at various venture funds in Silicon Valley, London, and Abu Dhabi, we decided to team up on the investment side. Given our history of being scrappy, our fund operates with the same principle; capital efficiency and producing something out of nothing.
What do we look for?
- Superstars: Our philosophy has always been that all great companies at the root are built by exceptional people. We’ve seen businesses pivot more than you’d think, but it’s the people behind these businesses that catch our eye. Great teams are able to break down complex problems to make wise decisions. We back great teams.
- Speed: We aim to back founders who can move at the speed of light. Successful startups are built at the intersection between doing things right and doing them fast. Moving quick is an underrated competitive advantage in all forms.
- Transparency: Authenticity is incredibly important to us. It’s an input for the outcome of building trust. Achieving candor is an important milestone on both sides of the table in order to align goals to become successful.
- Passion: The truth is that electric founders with an uncontrollable affinity for their craft is what keeps them going for the long haul. We aim to support those founders as early as we can.
- Big Markets: Building great products is pivotal to success, but understanding how large it can scale is something we factor into our decision making.
Our Value
- Business Development: Our firm has a vast network of fortune 500’s and startups globally, making it a seamless process to expand rapidly. Apart from just offering introductions, we get involved to ensure POC’s and sales contracts are locked in
- Strategy: We get as involved as founders need, in various tasks including entering new markets, hiring executive team members, managing cash flow; we’re able to help with it all and a lot more than the average early-stage firm would.
- Fundraising: We are extremely active with founders when it comes to fundraising from mapping out target investors to how to build up a financial plan with a final dollar amount to raise. It’s core to our belief that founders should always focus on company related problems, not diverting their attention towards fundraising. That’s why we come in as a helping hand and assist throughout the process.
- Brand & Marketing: As millennials, we require a higher bar of resonation with brands of all forms to become a customer. Fortunately, we’ve been brand builders for a number of years and are able to assist with all aspects of brand and marketing, such as identifying target customers, accessing target customers, and articulating a strong mission for your company.
- Support System: Family values are often implemented with a concrete support system. Our firm implements those values as a large, growing family. Entrepreneurship is hard. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. We’re well aware of the challenges that founders face on a day-to-day basis. Sometimes, you just want someone to listen to it all and provide unbiased advice. We’re that someone.
A little bit more on us
Our focus is on early-stage companies since we prefer to get involved at day 0, when it really matters. We support our companies in a variety of ways from marketing, hiring, strategy, finance, and fundraising, often playing a role as a silent founding member of the team. Our investment style is unique; we write checks from 50-250k in a first round of financing and embrace a collaborative approach.
Every deal we are able to attain allocation in will be offered to our investor base. We only make a select few investments per year and want to offer the exciting opportunities to the entire Adapt family.
