The ATLAS Ventures partnership can involve a wide-ranging support system depending on the stage, strengths and weaknesses of your startup. Usually, there are three phases. Phase 1 is dedicated to setting expectations and assess the needs of the startup. We then determine where we want to go and what needs to be achieved agreeing on a specific timeline and roadmap.

Phase 2 follows the previous roadmap and puts the our hands-on support into action with either a focus on sales or tech support. This largely depends on the capabilities of the founder/founding team and can range from making a MVP come to live, tapping into a global talent pool or developing a scalable and systematic sales process. Additionally and if needed, we do support with best practices that we gathered from our own experiences as well as our partners over the years.

We welcome the most exceptional people from diverse professional and geographical backgrounds. We bring together experienced operators, technologists and serial entrepreneurs to build their next companies. We do prefer location-independent founders as we strongly belief that building startups in a remote fashion is by far the most best way how startups can leverage software, automations, process and people.

Moreover, many of our founders have a non-technical background but possess expertise in a particular domain / industry so that they often can best judge where the particular opportunity and problem to work on lies.

Other than that, we highly value people with a winning mindset i.e. people that showed persistence and determination in the face of uncertainty.

The whole point of building ATLAS Ventures is to support founders in other ways than funding as we believe that funded founders often still lack the ability of efficient capital allocation (especially first-time founders) and that funding is often not the crucial variable that determines success. Rather, it is being resourceful, fast and starting with a clear focus in mind..

However, funding can be a powerful accelerator and we are happy to make the necessary introductions if we see fit.

Not necessarily, we do encourage founding teams rather than single founders as it is often easier to share battle stories and the inevitable mental burdens along the journey. However, we also believe in the million-dollar, one-person business of which we have seen quite a few. A lot of it depends on the business model and market.

There are so many good business ideas out there and starting with a decent idea is important. We can provide assistance by providing ideation support on a case by case basis. Regardless of the idea, the most important variables are the execution, the secular trend (wave) and product-founder fit.

We are vertical agnostic and look to invest in fast-growing companies with a strong regional or global potential. We welcome a wide range of companies across industries. Most companies have a tech component or build on a traditional model that would be aided by a tech component. Even though we are industry agnostic - we do prefer B2B for our hands-on sales support.

We invest a lot of time, resources and effort into your company, and for that investment we receive a 5-10% equity ownership. Thus, founder always retain the majority of their company.