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Index Ventures launches $200M dedicated seed fund to back ambitious founders globally

Index Ventures, a London-based VC firm recently announced Index Origin, a new $200 million (nearly £146 million) dedicated seed fund meant to support founders all over the world to build iconic companies of tomorrow. This fund brings together the focus and community of a dedicated seed fund along with the network, resources and reach of a multi-stage global firm.

Highly collaborative fund

Index Origin, the new fund reflects the ever-changing needs of founders as there is an increasing pressure to grow, hire and sign up customers at a faster rate than ever before. They need to have access to talent, a network of advisors and customers. Also, they need to have more capital to finance the growth of their business.

Index Origin will encourage co-investing with the leading global seed funds, super angels and solo general partners. It ensures founders benefit from a wide range of support and expert advice in the initial stages.

“Right now, as an early-stage founder, you’re making a trade-off between a multi-stage venture fund that invests in seed or a dedicated seed fund,” said Nina Achadjian, Partner at Index Ventures. “Index Origin offers founders a platform that scales with them, from inception to IPO. By offering seed-specific resources and by encouraging collaboration and co-investment with seed funds and solo general partners, we want to set up founders for success from day one.”

Job van der Voort, founder and CEO of Remote, commented: “As a founder, choosing the right VC partner is important at every stage of growth, but probably the most critical at seed. Having Index as part of the Remote team from the very beginning, allowed us to attract top talent, sign up customers around the world and grow faster. They subsequently also led our Series A. Having the backing of a top VC firm like Index is something that I’d recommend to every founder.”

“We decided to partner with Index on our pre-seed round – and every subsequent round – because of their incredible commitment to helping founders build great companies,” said Domm Holland, CEO and co-founder of Fast. “At each step of our journey at Fast, Index has been an essential collaborator. The Index team didn’t just invest their money, they also invested their blood, sweat, and tears right alongside us. We couldn’t ask for a better partner from the beginning.”

Supports from seed to IPO and beyond

Index Origin focuses on three core areas of support including recruitment, early adopting customers, and access to the Index family of founders, operators, and mentors. It supports those who are in the early stages of business, helps founders gain access to key decision-makers and builds an extensive network of specialists, experts, and authorities across product, sales, finance, operations, and engineering. Founders will gain access to this network for help with specific advice.

Index Origin fund supports founders from seed to IPO and beyond. With the launch of a dedicated global seed fund, Index Ventures increases the amount of capital available to seed-stage startups, provides tailored support and counsel, and gives entrepreneurs the best chance at success from the start.

Index Origin brings the total amount raised by the firm in the last 12 months to $2.2 billion (nearly £1.6 billion) across three funds. Notably, Index Ventures is the first institutional backer of many big tech players including Adyen, Deliveroo, Figma, Kong, Robinhood, and Wise (formerly TransferWise). Since early 2020, Index Ventures made 40 seed investments including Common Room, Fast, Goody, Grid, Remote.com, Resistant AI, and Stytch.

The post Index Ventures launches $200M dedicated seed fund to back ambitious founders globally appeared first on UKTN (UK Tech News).

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