Telescopic Ventures

Telescopic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. Its name refers to spotting things that are hard to see, and it looks for technology companies that could have a large effect on the world.

What Telescopic Ventures offers

• Early-stage funding — invests from pre-seed up to Series A, and is happy to co-invest with other early-stage backers.
• Customer development — helps portfolio companies win their first customers.
• Strategy support — advises on business, market and security strategy.
• Product integrations — assists with links that strengthen a company's place in its market.

Who it works with

Founders in any sector, mainly building business-to-business and enterprise applications. The team says most of its members were once entrepreneurs and operators themselves.

Key facts

• Investment philosophy: Applied Frontier Technology, where new ideas meet real-world use.
• Themes: decentralised computing and analysis, automation in traditional industries, faster sustainability and security as a must-have.
• Stage: pre-seed to Series A.