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Overview

Who we are**We are your business co-founder that helps founders from idea to their first institutional venture financing.**
**We are here to solve the fundamental problems of company building: where to find the right people (we’ve got them), the right customers (we know them), and the right funding (we have partnered with them) to start and scale a successful company.**
Value addWe help set up the management and the operating team around founders that will work for 9-15 month period.
Our scientist executives provide the core industry expertise need to build and scale new ventures.
We augment this core team with all of the back office & infrastructure support from finance to marketing/branding.
Finally we leverage our connectivity in the VC ecosystem to help raise the first financing round beginning with our member VCs.
Firm typeStartup studio
Global HQ

3225 Ash Street, Palo Alto, CA 94306

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Application periodicityAll year round
Next deadline to applyN/A

Thesis

Funding requirementsWe work with all deep science and deep technology ventures. We have an immediate emphasis on biotech, life sciences, Tools, diagnostics, engineered biology and synthetic biology.
Funding stages1. Idea or Patent2. Prototype
Check size$250k to $1.5M
Target countries USA UK France Ireland Belgium Switzerland Denmark Sweden Netherlands Spain
Typical termsWe invest $250k-$1.5M as part of a founding investment. We are flexible on method of the investment. We must believe that we can contribute meaningfully to help you build your venture.

Team

Vikram Chaudhery
GP/MD

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Websitehttps://www.generalinception.com
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