Partnering with exceptional Founders, addressing significant markets.
Garoud Capital Partners, an independent and active Early-Stage Venture Capital firm based in Luxembourg, partners with daring Founders in the capacity as General Partner and capital allocator.
The firm invests in disruptive Tech-Startups, across sectors, ripe for scaling globally and taking-on major addressable markets.
While being committed in partnering with great Founders, Garoud Capital Partners’ main focus remains investing in the very idea and vision; and thus, equally investing in Founders’ ability in executing commercially.
Being entrepreneurs’ main partner stretches well beyond being an investor and board member; Founders who partner with the firm go from finding a counsel and team-member to accessing Garoud Capital Partners’ institutional network and both internal- and external resources.
Empowering company-builders. Supporting defiant visionaries.
The Firm’s commitment in partnering with company-builders predominantly involves backing Founders who are bold enough to seek-out their visions.
Passion, combined with the strongest urge in winning, prepare these entrepreneurs to a path, which few dare to embark.
These are the entrepreneurs, which Garoud Capital Partners seeks to partner with; and qualities, which ought to be stressed and acknowledged.
The firm’s commitment involves investing from seed-stage and pre-growth, thus supporting visionaries across all stages in seeking-out the very full potential. Knowing first-hand building great companies rarely involves a straightforward trajectory, Garoud Capital Partners remains along the side at all stages, backing Founders throughout the growth-lifecycle.
While working alongside with Founders, Garoud Capital Partners continuously stresses the need of incorporating fundamentals in business plans, and encourages to work around a framework, which in turn focuses on providing a solution with distinct economic benefits, proven technology and commercial scalability.
And this is where many entrepreneurs seem to get somewhat lost. Eccentric pitch decks and staggering multi-year projections, combined with perceiving the business as an acquisition target from one of the majors, usually provide little conviction and in most cases end up over-promising; put shortly, Garoud Capital Partners pays little attention to those.
Instead; what is of great interest are highly articulate business plans and a clear vision, which in turn go to great length in explaining how new users and customers are to be acquired. Is there any continuous monitoring of the company’s cash burn-rate? Are we in a position to leverage the upside?
This is the sweet-spot where opportunities are presented and where Garoud Capital Partners wishes to come in and help out. Taking-on this role involves being the on the courtside and prepared to do a lot of cheering, while also being brutally honest by highlighting what ought to be improved, or scrapped, all together.
Looking for talented Founders and exceptional teams is one thing. Finding those who know their own limits and who possess the awareness in knowing where expertise might be lacking are the type of entrepreneurs Garoud Capital Partners maintains very strong bias towards.
Focusing on cash burn-rate vs. multi-year revenue projections.
Accelerating innovation & potential Committed to performance
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Garoud Capital Partners, an independent alternative investment firm, partners with daring Founders, found globally, by acting in the capacity as both General Partner and capital allocator.
While targeting innovative investment opportunities, Garoud Capital Partners provides access to exceptional Startups and Founders who excel in executing. We support entrepreneurs from Seed-stage and Pre-Growth. This may involve being the sole external investor; or partnering along with angel investors.
The firm seeks long-term partnerships, through minority equity-holdings, which involves investing alongside management throughout all financing rounds and any undertaking of corporate carve-out, as deemed relevant.
Overweighting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Saudi VC Eco-System.
Garoud Capital Partners is an alternative investment firm maintaining geographical bias towards the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Europe.
Regardless of market and region, the firm’s approach towards assessing and sizing the market remains the same. Garoud Capital Partners applies a bottom-up methodology when trying to grasp and gauge the market; this predominantly involves sticking to fundamentals and reasonable assumptions.
Thus, hearing Founders making a clear distinction between its addressable market, which they go after, and the whole size of an industry, is something Garoud Capital Partners is highly fond of, and appreciates a great deal.
CONTACT
For general inquiries, please feel free writing to:
contact@garoudcapital.com
Garoud Capital Partners
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L-2453 Luxembourg
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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Garoud Capital Partners is registered with the CSSF as an alternative investment fund manager