Moonstone: Statement

We are convinced that people can use their full potential to improve the ecosystem in which we live.

We want to understand problems at their root and reset the damage that, as humans, we cause every day: the tons of plastic in the oceans, the hundreds of trees cut down, the countless deaths from avoidable causes, the excess of CO2, human rights violations…

We believe in the sensitivity of governments, we believe in technological abundance and enthusiasm, we believe in those who live for their cause, in founders capable of inspiring their team and the world, in those who want to solve a great global challenge within the next twenty years.

This is where Moonstone comes from!

We invest in teams truly driven by problems, and by the desire to make accessible new solutions that solve humanity’s great quests and challenges.

With Moonstone we back Pre-seed and Seed stage startups, with a maximum 50k ticket, as a co-investment with other investors and players.

We believe more than ever in founders, we are their first supporters, and we want to invest in teams that are convinced they can multiply their valuation >x4 in the next 18 months.

We want to accelerate every team with our network of LPs and with our capital.

We want to make 60 investments in two years: building a quantitative and highly diversified portfolio is the key to a better chance of funding new moonshots.
This means getting better returns and, at the same time, getting solutions to unsolved problems.
In a roundabout way, we envision this approach leading us to launch a new fund in 2025 and, to do this, we will be focused on the 60 most exciting teams in Europe over the next two years.

Our approach was born from the experience of founding Aurora Fellows, an organization ‘for impact’ that coaches future entrepreneurs, i.e. young people (u23) who are able to act on opportunities and ideas and turn them into value for others, whether financial, cultural or social, with an individual program of experimentation and growth.
We took inspiration from younger generations, because they are infinitely more aware of the challenges and responsibilities we have to take on, and because they increasingly focus their vocation on truly important and impactful topics.

Our team wants to be recognized for sourcing and for being meaningful to the founding community, which is why we focus on:
- Making things happen
- Connecting the dots
- Building a strong community

We believe that, in order to support our portfolio startups, we need to immerse them in a context of ambitious peers, and we strive to do this proactively.

We like to imagine Moonstone as a fractal: smaller than a large VC, but characterized by the property of reproducing the exact same structure and solidity — on a smaller scale — with the advantage of greater speed and efficiency.

And, as a fractal, we are driven by the enormous ambition that drives the biggest VCs.

Building Moonstone, we took inspiration from existing and successful models:
- Kima Ventures
- Loyal VC
- 1517 Fund

Our quantitative foundations were built on studies such as:
> Should Seed Investors Follow On?
> How Portfolio Size Affects Early-Stage Venture Returns
> Venture Capital Portfolio Construction and the Main Factors Impacting the Optimal Strategy

→ If you’d like to discuss about these and related topics, feel free to reach out at chiara@moonstone.fund