Submissions open · Fund III
Patient capital for technical founders building the European B2B stack.
Decelera Capital backs pre-seed and seed teams shipping infrastructure, developer tools, and applied AI for the workflows that run real businesses. Every deck gets read by a partner.
Thesis · Fund III
What we look for.
Five signals we over-index on. None are required, but the strongest companies hit three or more.
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Technical founders
Engineers, researchers, or operators with deep domain edge — insight earned over years, not weeks.
Signal · strong -
02
B2B infrastructure & applied AI
Dev tools, data infra, agentic workflows, vertical software. Solving real operating pain, not theoretical problems.
Core focus -
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European teams
HQ in EU, UK, or Switzerland. Global ambition from day one — we add the most value in our operating geography.
Geography -
04
Pre-seed to seed
€250k–€1M tickets. We lead or co-lead with conviction and stay close through the next round.
Stage · €250k–€1M -
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Strong wedge, hard problem
A defensible insight or product surface that took years to develop. Easy demos are usually copyable demos.
Defensibility
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