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Discovering Founders,
Building Connections
Relentlessly focused on discovering unusually ambitious founders in Europe, mostly in the deep tech space. DeltaPlus Ventures supports entrepreneurs by (i) identifying business development opportunities and (ii) connecting them to the right investors in US and Europe to scale their business.
Turning outlandish ideas into disruptive change requires a contrarian mindset, an unusual amount of perseverance and … the right connections.
- "Cherish the questions, for the answers will keep changing" Albert Einstein
- "In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk" Peter Thiel
- "Identify the corridors of indifference and run like the hell down them" Martine Rothblatt
- "The highest form of civilization is a seamless web of deserved trust — not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another" Charlie Munger
- “Monopoly is the condition of every successful business” Peter Thiel
- "Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again" Henry Ford
- "Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail" Leonardo Da Vinci
- "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning" Bill Gates
- Mandelbrot's fractals remind us how the tiniest part sometimes holds the seeds of entire new worlds
- "About half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance" Steve Jobs
- "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him" Niccolò Machiavelli
- "All warfare is based on deception" Sun Tzu
- "When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe" Ernest Hemingway
- "An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed" Edwin Herbert Land
- “Observation is a dying art” Stanley Kubrick
- "Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are" Marc Andreessen
- "There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work" David Ogilvy
- “The main prerequisite for real innovation is a minimal respect for the past and a mastery of its achievements” René Girard
- “Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating” David Ogilvy
Kevin Martelli
20 years’ experience in banking and investing. In 2018-19 Kevin advised SEI Torino Forum on the selection of >50 early-stage deep tech founders, including Peptone (translational biophysics), where Kevin personally invested in.
These founders have subsequently raised close to $1 billion. DeltaPlus Ventures was born out of the lessons learned by observing the challenges early-stage founders face in scaling their companies.