Born Capital

Born Capital, founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California, is a specialized venture capital firm focused on financing early-stage startups. The firm primarily targets companies in the fintech, big data, cloud, artificial intelligence, and robotic process automation sectors. Born Capital aims to invest between $100,000 and $500,000 in pre-seed deals, often seeking to be the sole investor. The firm prides itself on its ability to identify startups with high potential, particularly those led by passionate and determined founders who have demonstrated early traction. Managed by a full-time general partner with extensive entrepreneurial experience and a strong network of advisors, Born Capital leverages its industry knowledge to support innovative solutions in finance transformation.

Wouter Born

Founder and Managing Partner

Marcel Vlug

VC Partner and Chairman of the Investment Committee

6 past transactions

Bedrock AI

Seed Round in 2021
Bedrock AI is software that extracts hard-to-find information in a public company filing like annual reports.

Synder

Seed Round in 2021
CloudBusiness Inc is a fintech software company founded in 2016. It creates solutions for accounting automation and management of business finances for small and mid-size businesses. Synder – is a powerful business management software that is among the top-rated applications on the market, gathering tons of positive reviews on the QuickBooks App Store, Capterra, and Trustpilot. The team behind it participated and won the 2018 London Small Biz Hackathon with a business workflow automation app and was among the Top-10 QuickBooks App Showdown finalists in 2018-2019. Get more details at www.SynderApp.com.

KPI Sense

Seed Round in 2021
CFO solutions built for SaaS businesses. Tech-enabled automation paired with SaaS expertise at one low monthly cost.

Bluelight

Seed Round in 2021
Bluelight is a financial data platform designed to support high-performing startups and home service contractors by automating financial data collection and categorization. The platform addresses the challenge of fragmented financial data, providing users with tools for financial analysis and benchmarking. It offers features such as revenue projections, pace reporting, and variance analysis, which enable users to gain real-time insights into their business performance. By integrating with popular contractor tools, Bluelight helps contractors identify areas for improvement and make informed, data-driven decisions to enhance revenue and expand their customer base.

Pynk

Convertible Note in 2020
MiCardia is a privately held medical device company currently preparing for the commercialization of its first series of products, enCor™, in the European Union. enCor is a unique device that surgically treats mitral valve regurgitation. enCor utilizes the company's patented technology, Dynaplasty™, to provide a "second chance" to the patient who develops recurrent regurgitation. enCor can be activated to physiologically adjust the mitral valve leaflets to resolve regurgitation, minimally invasively, weeks to years later, without the need for the risk and cost of redo surgery.

Skopos.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cyber security has grown old and is ready for disruption. Two key questions come to mind on any organization when it comes to cyber security. First, how vulnerable are we against attacks from professional hackers and script kiddies? Second, what must we do to stay safe? Two important questions. 60% of med-sized businesses experienced a cyber-attack in 2018. Of those attacks, 4 in 5 evade antivirus software. Yet, the majority of medium-sized businesses rely on anti-virus, firewalls and Windows policies like requiring a password. This is clearly not sufficient. Cyber risks are correlated; you cannot separate a vulnerable laptop from the employee or the credentials that are out there on the dark web. Hackers exploit a weakness in a user to get a foothold on a laptop in order to get access to confidential data. For this reason: we believe that to protect an organization, a holistic approach is required. An approach that focusses on employee, websites, devices and organization. The CISO or CTO should have a quick answer to basic clients. For example: How much effort does it take a hacker to breach us? What is the risk of ransomware attacks? What data of our company has been exposed to criminals? How do we perform compared to peers? Skopos helps to answer these questions in real time. We detect the weakest link in your chain by smart pairing of humans and machines. Skopos is the future of cyber security
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.