Silicon Roundabout Ventures

Overview

Silicon Roundabout Ventures is a community-driven venture capital firm specializing in backing deep tech startups at pre-seed and seed stages across Europe. The firm leverages a robust community of 15,000 founders and engineers, supporting startups through live pitching competitions that have showcased winners now collectively valued at over £6 billion. Their mission is to build a new kind of financial institution at the intersection of venture capital, science, and community, providing super-early investment capital to deeply technical founders based in Europe. The firm focuses on identifying and nurturing innovative startups in critical areas such as computing, defence, and energy. They aim to spot fundamental companies led by contrarian scientists and engineers, solving large-scale global problems at an infrastructural level. Silicon Roundabout Ventures seeks to capture and shape exceptionally disruptive technology growth trends, focusing on enterprises that have the potential to generate over £1 billion in revenue within 10+ years. Their investment strategy emphasizes deeply technical founders who are obsessively building novel technology companies for the long term. Silicon Roundabout Ventures operates with a founder-friendly approach, offering support that extends beyond capital. They maintain close relationships with their portfolio companies, providing guidance and access to a vast network to accelerate their growth and success in the global market. The firm's track record includes investments in various sectors, including batteries, manufacturing, space and aerospace, semiconductor, robotics, AI, logistics, defence, cybersecurity, quantum computing, health, energy, networks and telecommunications, and recycling. Their average investment size ranges from €100,000 to €1.5 million, with a median valuation of £10.2 million for their portfolio companies.