FUND I

Designed to De-Risk (Diversified & Strong Reserve) & Outperform (Concentrated)

The Synergos VU Africa Fund I is a $50m early-stage venture capital fund which will be investing in early-stage and second-round funding for promising startups in the AgriTech, FinTech and HealthTech verticals on the African continent.

Synergos has used the same basic principles as VU’s existing venture capital fund model, which has proven to be incredibly successful in building its investment thesis. The Fund’s investment thesis is designed to de-risk the portfolio with 20% of the Fund being invested in Initial Seed Capital and 80% allocated for Follow-on Capital to the best-performing portfolio companies. This will translate into 20 to 40 portfolio companies receiving $250K-$500K each, as an initial investment and five to ten of the best-performing core portfolio companies receiving an additional $4 to $8 million as follow-on capital.

VU is Disrupting The Traditional Venture Fund Model: Access & Scalability

Venture University solves the two biggest challenges for the venture capital asset class:

Scale: how to effectively source and evaluate the extremely large volume of deal flow that exists in order to identify the top vc deals per quarter;

Access: how to secure allocations in the top vc opportunities and the most competitive rounds alongside the best-performing investors.

Venture University has achieved unprecedented scale with an investment network of 300 (growing to ~1,000), creating a team that is six to twelve times the size of an average $100M VC fund. Operating in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Hong Kong the model allows for sourcing up to six times more deal flow than a traditional fund. That means up to 20,000 possible deals per year can be considered for funding instead of only 2,00 deals.

Synergos is Building on VU’s Business model: Access & Scalability

By leveraging Venture University’s investor accelerator and VU Venture Partners' investor network Synergos Venture Partners benefits on both scale and access.

Scale: Synergos benefits from the relationship with VU by leveraging VU's large volume of deal flow and review capabilities. African investment opportunities identified by VU are passed on to Synergos for review.

Access: VU shares with Synergos its most promising investment opportunities and by doing so Synergos has the opportunity to co-invest in some of the most competitive rounds VU secures. Synergos also has access to VU's investor network whereby Synergos has access to more than 1,200 investors for investment in the most promising African investment opportunities on offer.