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Connect Ventures
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Connect Ventures is a London-based, partner-only, high-conviction seed fund that backs exceptional 'Product Founders' — builders who are obsessed with users, design for defensibility, and move at venture velocity. The firm leads or co-leads pre-seed and seed rounds of $500k–$5m across Europe, focusing on the largest categories: AI, cybersecurity, deep tech, data & infrastructure, fintech, health, and vertical networks, all united by a core emphasis on product-driven differentiation. As Sitar Teli has articulated, Connect pursues a 'low volume, high conviction strategy' — making fewer bets per year but going deeper with each founder. The firm believes that product-led companies with genuine user love and compounding moats represent the most durable path to category leadership, and it has backed this thesis since 2012 with investments in companies such as Typeform, TrueLayer, Citymapper, Curve, and Dust.
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“We think it's the right size for a seed fund. We have a pretty low volume, high conviction strategy. All the modeling we've done has shown us that this is just the perfect size for a seed fund. I think it produces superior returns to small size funds. It requires you to focus, you don't really bleed into other stages, you stay focused on seed.”
“We're interested in building long term relationships with founders who have the obsession and focus required to build product-led companies, and the ambition to build category leaders.”
“He likes experimenting with new frameworks like his notorious Minimum Viable Category Design.”
Recent investments
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Index Ventures | 3 |
| Point Nine Capital | 3 |
| Seedcamp | 2 |
| Isomer Capital | 2 |
| Molten Ventures | 2 |
| General Atlantic | 2 |
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