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Wilbe is the home for scientist leaders. We believe that science should come first and that through education, support and investment we can help scientists build solutions to a large part of the problems that we face today.

Venture Partner

Multiple Capital

Multiple invests in micro and seed stage venture capital funds globally with a focus on European managers. We seek out innovative, emerging, and solo fund managers in niche geographies and verticals that are often overlooked. 

Our portfolio of 30+ funds includes over 700 companies, more than 50 of which are valued at $100M+...including 10 at $1B+.

Venture Partner 

Redstone

Redstone Quantum is a €50M+ investment fund focused on seed and Series A investments in quantum and quantum adjacent technologies.

Member of Advisory Board and Investment Committee, Quantum Fund

QAI Ventures

Empowering the future of computing through global startup investments and collaborative ecosystem building.

Advisory Board Member, Member of Investment Committee

European Defense Investor Network

Members network of venture capital professionals who invest in European defense and dual use technologies.

Member

Various 

Entrepreneur. Some venture-backed, some not. Some exited, some not. 
Mentor over the years in several startup programs including Seedcamp, Startup Bootcamp, Wayra, Techstars, Le Camping, and others.
Time spent on the investing side at Morgenthaler and Advent, amongst others.
Board member on seed funds, VC funds, accelerators, non profits, two schools, a private bank, and dozens of startups. 
Still learning.

Founder, Investor, Mentor, Board Member

QDNL Participations

QDNL Participations is the investment fund of Quantum Delta NL, a €615M Dutch public-private partnership of global tech companies, government agencies, and all major quantum research centers in the Netherlands. Portfolio includes Quantware, Fermioniq, Q*bird, Orange Quantum Systems, and more.

Member of Advisory Board and Investment Committee

Techleapnl

Techleap is a non-profit, publicly funded organisation helping to build a thriving startup ecosystem in the Netherlands. Techleap helps quantify and accelerate the Dutch tech ecosystem, creating the optimal climate for tech companies to scale with programs and initiatives for improving access to capital, market and talent.

Advisory Board Member

Transatlantic entrepreneur turned investor living in and loving Europe. 
20+ years as an entrepreneur and VC. 
Passionate about innovation, technology, and startups.
Specialties: VC, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Deeptech.

Michael Jackson

When you know all the hundreds of billions of dollars in capex is money well spent. 😽

"Patents aren’t the golden ticket. When you start with the market, the mission and the team, the rest, including the right IP, will follow.". 👏 

TTOs regularly overvalue IP. The relevancy of a patent is pretty short, and it's far from being the end all, be all for success in deeptech. Good on Ale Maiano for calling this out. If you're a scientist interested in entrepreneurship, check out Wilbe asap. There's no better place for you. 👩‍🔬 

"The cult of intellectual property (IP) has become a distraction. Too often, founders and investors mistake a patent filing for proof of progress...foundational IP has its place, but it should serve the venture, not dictate it. A startup built around a patent risks becoming a company searching for a problem, rather than a venture solving one. Worse, it often signals that the founding team is motivated more by scientific pride than entrepreneurial instinct." 💯 Amen brother. Shout it loud and shout it proud.

https://lnkd.in/eYtSg_hh

The cyberattack on JLR has had a significant negative impact on the UK economy. The general public in most countries are still naive to the fact that cyberattacks can be more economically destructive than actual physical attacks...and the threat will only get worse with more AI and compute.

Foundership  - Web3 Startup Launcher 🚀

Head - Foundership Ventures

Head Of Capital

New Trinity Coal In

Chief Financial Officer

ESSAR BULK TERMINAL LIMITED

General Manager

Essar Services

Deputy General Manager

Essar Steel

Launching Essar's foray into the ecommerce space with a B2B marketplace portal for goods & services needed by businesses.

Senior Manager - eHypermart

Essar Projects India Limited

Responsible for the 
1) Evaluation of any coal mining related acquisition opportunities 
2) Project development for existing projects of Essar in India, Indonesia, USA and Zimbabwe

Senior Manager - Mining (Business Development)

Working on the acquisitions of the mineral needs of the Essar Group

Senior Manager Business Development (International)

Executive Assistant - CEO & MD

The Mobile Store

Area Operations Manager

Red FM 93.5

Summer Intern

Web3 Investor | Building Foundership Capital | Bitcoiner ⚡️| Former Director & CFO Metals 🏭 & Mining | M&A 🤝| Corp Fin 💲| Strategy ♾| NFTs 🌅 | DeFi 🏦| Crypto 💱| BTC 2️⃣1️⃣Ⓜ️

Besides being a Web3 Investor, I believe in adding value on LinkedIn across the Web3 industry as a content creator & super connector 

If you are a Web3 Startup, Investor, or newbie learner to be updated on Web3

You are scrolling down the right profile

My work as a Web3 Investor 

1. With my team at Foundership Ventures, setting up a web3 fund inviting investors to invest in young startups

2. Interacting with wide range of startups & their founders to identify the highest potential businesses that can be venture funded to outperform their peers

As a Web3 content creator, I have been writing on LinkedIn for 400+ days on the Web3 industry. 

For any questions, you can directly reach out to me on my email ID 

pranav@foundershiphq.com

Pranav Agarwal

Back in the day, IIM first year students had a batch T-shirt which they typically wore back to their term breaks and summer internships, (cause why not show off that you got into an IIM). In our year (2006-08) about 1500 students made it out of 225,000 applicants that appeared for the entrance exam. 

Our batch, had an online contest and many submitted design ideas for the batch Tshirt. Mainak Mukherjee came up with this gem. 

What’s the lore behind the slogan? 

There were only 6 IIMs at that time, Indore (we) were the youngest. The other 5 IIMs abbreviated to BLACK. (Bangalore, lucknow, Ahmedabad,  Calcutta, Kozhikode) 

Therefore this slogan won the design contest and was printed into history. 

Sandeep Kumar Mishra shared these pics this morning when he is back home at his parents house and was given a bag of “old stuff” 

Insane memories!!! Miss those days and the advantage of being 25 with nothing to lose 

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

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People are more fearful about Bitcoin at circa $100k than they were at $50k two years back or $16k 3 years back. 

Why is that? 

Expectation!!  

Everyone thought 2025 is the year bitcoin goes to $200,000. The expectation setup disappointment now that it has consolidated for about twelve months. 

However, Bitcoin has done this before and is doing it again, whenever it gets out of the door, it will explode and then everyone will FOMO in with Greed. 

Long story short, this is the time to add to your Bitcoin stack, not sell!!!

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