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Building ventures together

A research lab, a proprietary AI stack and a working team come in with us. Tell us where you are.

Open calls↓Two thematic callsCall4Ideas↓Propose your ideaWhat we bring↓Research, product, market, capital, computeHow we work↓Building, acceleration, capitalSectors↓Where we investInvestment thesis↓What we look forSubmit your venture↓Answer within 7 business days

Two themed calls

We look for early stage in validation or MVP and pre-scaling: rounds up to €1M, seed up to €700,000.

Open

Fintech AI Product for Banks and Retail Financial Institutions

AI-native products that banks and retail financial institutions can adopt and put in front of their customers.

Onboarding and KYC, credit and risk, advisory and wealth, payments, compliance, operations, customer service. Products with a clear path inside a financial institution, built by founders who know how that institution buys.

This call feeds the incubator programme for banks we are building with Excellence Consulting. Selected ventures enter the pipeline towards pilots and distribution with retail banks.

Our commitment:

Up to €200,000 invested

Who we look for:

  • →Early stage: validation and MVP
  • →Pre-scaling: rounds up to €1M, seed rounds up to €700K
  • →A product a bank can pilot, with the compliance and security basics in place
Open

B2B AI Product

Improving the work of professionals and organisations with AI tools and AI workflows.

Vertical copilots, agents for operations, document and knowledge workflows, sales and customer operations. A clear buyer, a repeatable use case, a measurable improvement.

Our commitment:

Up to €80,000 invested

Who we look for:

  • →Early stage: validation and MVP
  • →Pre-scaling: rounds up to €1M, seed rounds up to €700K
  • →A clear buyer, a repeatable use case and early evidence of adoption

And the general Call4Ventures stays open

Any sector among our focus areas. Up to €60,000 in cash and services: capital plus the time of the product, engineering and go-to-market team.

Two front doors

They are different conversations and we keep them apart.

Call4Ventures

You have a company, a product and an open round. Your pitch enters the dealflow as an investment.

Call4Ideas

You have the problem, not the company. We build it with you and take a stake.

Propose your ideaHow we choose

The capabilities it takes to get an idea to market

A founder who comes in with us has these eight capabilities from day one, without hiring them and without buying them.

Research

In-house AI researchers, published papers, public benchmarks. Agents, models and evaluation pipelines already in production on seven products of our own.

Enterprise-grade product

Software that clears the security reviews of banks and insurers: audit trail, SSO, data residency, SLA. It is the difference between a demo and a contract.

Strategy

Positioning and pricing, plus the business model, picked from B2B licence, subscription, media and metered API.

Finance

Economic model, unit economics, cash plan. The same ones we take to an investment committee.

Commercial tests inside corporates

We work inside large companies as consultants. We put your hypothesis in front of a real buyer before the product exists.

Equity strategy and investor readiness

Cap table, investment instruments, data room, round materials. We incorporate the company and stay to the next round.

Compute

Compute capacity through our network of technology partners: Google Cloud and AWS.

Anthropic Ambassador

We are Anthropic Ambassadors and take part in the Claude for Organizations programme. Our venture builders are Claude-certified, and so are the founders, builders and industrial researchers who work with us.

The capabilities are ours and stay ours. What we build together is yours, with us inside the company.

How we work

We pick a few ventures a year and put research, technology and people on them.

Venture Building

We build ventures from scratch together with founders or corporate partners.

What we bring:

  • →Business model strategy and validation
  • →Product and technology development
  • →Go-to-market and first customers
  • →Dedicated operational team

Ideal for:

  • •Entrepreneurs with strong ideas looking for operational co-founder
  • •Corporates wanting to launch spin-offs
  • •Technical teams seeking strategic expertise

Venture Acceleration

We accelerate operational startups that want to scale fast.

What we bring:

  • →Marketing and performance strategy
  • →Product development and innovation
  • →AI & data analytics
  • →Process optimization

Ideal for:

  • •Seed or pre-Series A startups with traction
  • •Companies wanting to restructure go-to-market
  • •Businesses seeking advanced tech expertise

Venture Capital

We invest in early-stage companies with executive founders and validated business.

What we bring:

  • →Seed/pre-Series A capital, up to €200,000 depending on the call
  • →Ongoing strategic consulting
  • →Network of clients, partners and investors
  • →Support on marketing, tech and product

Ideal for:

  • •CEO with technical expertise in core business
  • •Revenue-generating startups
  • •Geographic and model scalability

Sectors of interest

We stay out of gambling, tobacco and weapons.

Food & Beverage Tech
Software & SaaS B2B
eCommerce & Retail Innovation
Cybersecurity
Fintech & Embedded Finance
Insurtech
Climate Tech & Disaster Management

Investment thesis

✓CEO with technical expertise in core business
✓Revenue-generating startup (even with minimal revenue)
✓KVA target sectors
✓Demonstrated commercial traction
✓Clear and scalable business model
✓Founded after 2020 with at least 9 months of activity
✓Founders aged 26-50 with industry experience
✓Strategic alignment with KVA

Selection process

1

Application

Fill out the form. Tell us about your project, the problem you solve, your team and current traction.

2

Initial screening

The KVA team evaluates the proposal against our investment thesis and responds within 7 business days.

3

Deep dive

If there's strategic fit, we organize a meeting to explore business model, financial data, roadmap.

4

AskMadarAI evaluation

We analyze the startup through our proprietary scoring on 18 KPIs.

5

Proposal & Partnership

We define together the collaboration mode and terms.

Average timeline: 3-4 weeks from application to proposal.

Submit your venture

Here is what we look at. The rest is optional.

Which call

One of the two open calls, or the general Call4Ventures

Contact and startup

Name, email, company, website, stage

Presentation (required)

PDF or HTML: problem, solution, market, team, traction, the round you are raising. A DocSend or Drive link works too.

Supporting documents (optional)

Financial model, founder bios, proposed terms if you are raising a priced round or a Series A. Separate files or one ZIP.

What are you looking for from KVA?

Co-creation / Acceleration / Investment / Other — tell us in the message

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