STRATEGIC CAPITAL, TANGIBLE IMPACT

TENSEUR manages venture capital strategies focused on generating both significant impact and competitive returns for our limited investment partners. Our primary focus is on mission-driven, seed-stage investments in groundbreaking technologies at the cutting edge of scientific and technological innovation.

For Founders, partnership with TENSEUR means more than capital:
∙ Securing Market Traction: We help you navigate and establish clear pathways to acquire crucial beachhead customers.
∙ Expert Guidance: We leverage our deep, unvarnished industry expertise to provide strategic counsel, rigorously fine-tune technical feasibility, explore options, and refine your business model.
∙ Accelerated Commercialization: Our hands-on approach is designed to significantly reduce the time from lab to market.

We invest $1M to $3M in visionary teams building extraordinary businesses poised to solve humanity's most pressing challenges and enhance long-term well-being.

CATALYZING DEEP TECH FOUNDERS

We partner with visionary, mission-driven entrepreneurs who are redefining critical industries through deep technology. At TENSEUR, investment is just the beginning. We commit fully, offering patient capital, hands-on operational expertise, and a steadfast founder-first ethos.

Think of us as dedicated guides through the complexities of building truly groundbreaking, impactful companies. With TENSEUR, you’re not simply a portfolio company; you’re a pivotal partner in a collective mission to solve humanity's most pressing challenges.

INVESTING IN REGENERATIVE FUTURES

TENSEUR is a Public Benefit Company and Venture Capital firm uniquely structured to forge a new trajectory for industrial progress.

Our core purpose is to champion and support mission-driven entrepreneurs—leaders of a new economic order we call regenerative capitalism. These are the innovators building groundbreaking industrial deep tech businesses, specifically those tackling critical societal challenges head-on.

By fostering this collective, we aim to drive profound and sustainable economic, social, and environmental progress. Our ultimate vision is a thriving future for all humanity.

OUR INVESTMENT CRITERiA

We invest in ventures built on fundamental scientific breakthroughs and sophisticated engineered innovations. These are businesses creating transformative, defensible, and hard-to-replicate technologies that have the potential to define entirely new market categories.

OUR FOCUS AREAS:
We invest early, typically at the critical R&D stage, in frontier ventures tackling global-scale problems. Our strategic domains include:
∙ Earth
∙ Energy
∙ Life
∙ Materials
∙ Security
∙ Space
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WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN A BUSINESS:
1. Core Technology: Solutions must be rooted in unique, protected, or hard-to-reproduce technological or scientific advances—not solely a disruptive business model. This often involves:
∙ Significant R&D investment
∙ Extended commercialization cycles
∙ High capital intensity
∙ Inherent technology risk and complexity
2. Key Enabling Technologies: We value the integration of key enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, bio-sensing, and advanced industrial engineering.
3. Impactful Regenerative Capitalism:
∙ A clear mission-driven and impact-oriented approach.
∙ Demonstrable potential for positive global impact within its industry.
∙ Contribution to at least two United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
4. Stage & Traction:
∙ Minimum Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5: A proof of concept, functioning prototype, or active development towards one.
∙ Pre-commercial or early commercialization: Not having commercialized its final product/service for more than 6 years.
5. Business Viability: While profitability at the time of investment is not required, the business must be designed with a clear path to generate sufficient revenue to support operations and profits to deliver investor returns. When our founders win, our investors win, the TENSEUR collective wins.
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OUR COLLABORATIVE DE-RISKING PROCESS:
To scale these ambitious ventures into global markets, we engage in an iterative de-risking cycle. This involves collaboratively:
∙ Refining the core solution
∙ Validating and proving the market
∙ Optimizing production processes
∙ Building a vertically integrated flywheel (across supply chains, software, operations)
∙ Navigating complex regulatory pathways towards full commercialization

THE FOUNDERS WE SEEK:
We partner with best-in-class industrial deep tech leaders who are:
∙ Ready to bridge the gap between lab-proven innovation and scalable dual-use market solutions
∙ Highly self-aware and intellectually curious
∙ Open to exploration and rigorous feedback
∙ Driven to collapse the deep tech investment life cycle and achieve profitable impact
∙ Becoming exceptional CEOs
∙ Ready to build a regenerative future with us and make the world a better place