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Venture Capital
Seed · Growth · Scale
Venture Capital

We back what’s next — with conviction capital.

ORIGIN III backs founders early and stays through every round to scale — conviction-led capital, an operator’s network, and a built-in path to exit. (Draft copy.)

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Our thesis

We invest with conviction — before the market reaches consensus.

Returns in venture come from being early and being right. We commit to founders ahead of the crowd, then bring the network, discipline and exit experience to help them compound that lead. (Draft copy.)

Where we invest

From first cheque to pre-IPO.

We invest across the venture lifecycle — and follow our conviction from one round into the next. Hover a stage to explore it.

Stage 01

Pre-seed & Seed

$0.25m – $2m

First institutional capital for founders with a sharp idea and early signal.

Stage 02

Series A – B

$2m – $10m

Capital to turn early traction into a repeatable, scaling go-to-market.

Stage 03

Growth

$10m – $30m

Conviction follow-on as proven companies expand across markets.

Stage 04

Pre-IPO

Selective

Late-stage positions in category leaders approaching a public listing.

What we back

Five themes we invest in with conviction.

01Applied AI & Automation
02Fintech & Digital Assets
03Health & Life Sciences
04Climate & Energy
05Digital Infrastructure

Applied AI & Automation

Software that compounds — models, agents and automation reshaping how real work gets done across industries.

AI infrastructureAutonomous agentsVertical AI

Fintech & Digital Assets

The rails of modern money — payments, embedded finance and the infrastructure moving value on-chain and off.

PaymentsEmbedded financeOn-chain rails

Health & Life Sciences

Technology and care models that make health outcomes better, earlier and more affordable at scale.

Digital healthDiagnosticsCare delivery

Climate & Energy

The build-out of clean energy, storage and the industrial transition to a low-carbon economy.

Clean energyStorageIndustrial decarbonisation

Digital Infrastructure

The physical and software backbone of the internet economy — compute, connectivity and the tools developers build on.

ComputeDeveloper toolsConnectivity
How we invest

From first meeting to long-term partner.

Every investment runs the same disciplined arc — conviction through to a partnership that lasts beyond the cheque.

01

Conviction

We form a sharp thesis on where value will accrue, then seek out the founders already building toward it.

02

Diligence

We pressure-test the team, the market and the model — moving fast, but never shallow.

03

Commitment

We lead or co-lead with meaningful capital and a clear plan for the rounds that come next.

04

Partnership

We stay close through scale — hiring, follow-on capital, M&A and the path to a strong exit.

Beyond the cheque

Capital is the start, not the offer.

What sets a venture partner apart is everything that comes after the wire. Here is what founders get from ORIGIN III.

Network

An operator’s network

We connect founders to the people who have already solved the problem in front of them — operators, customers and fellow founders.

Senior operators and sector advisors Warm customer and talent introductions A peer community of ORIGIN III founders
M&A advisory

A built-in M&A desk

Most venture outcomes are acquisitions. ORIGIN III’s advisory team is in the room from the start — so the exit is engineered, not improvised.

Buyer relationships across North America and Europe Exit-readiness built in from the early rounds One team from seed through to sale
FOUNDERS BUYERS
Scale

A clear path to scale

Our capital is sized to carry a company across rounds — with follow-on conviction whenever the thesis is proving out.

Follow-on capital reserved from day one Cross-border reach — New York and London Support all the way to a pre-IPO position
By the numbers

A platform built to back conviction.

$480m+
Capital available to deploy across the strategy
60+
Companies backed since inception
80%
Of breakout rounds we follow on into
2
Investing hubs — New York & London

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Representative portfolio

A snapshot of where conviction has taken us.

Illustrative of the companies ORIGIN III backs across its themes and stages.

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Series A

Applied-AI infrastructure

Artificial Intelligence

Automates back-office workflows for mid-market firms.

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Seed

Embedded-finance API

Fintech

Lets software companies launch financial products fast.

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Growth

Clinical-data platform

Health & Life Sciences

Turns unstructured records into research-ready data.

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Series B

Grid-scale storage

Climate & Energy

Long-duration storage built for renewable grids.

D
Seed

Developer tooling platform

Digital Infrastructure

Ships and observes code with far less overhead.

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Series A

Logistics automation

Applied AI

Optimises freight movement across carrier networks.

Representative of ORIGIN III’s investment mandate — illustrative draft content, not actual portfolio holdings.

Founder perspective
They were on our cap table before we had revenue — and on the phone the week we closed our Series B.
Co-founder & CEO Applied-AI infrastructure company Placeholder — a real founder testimonial will replace this.
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Applied-AI infrastructure Backed since 2023 · draft
Stage progressionSeed → Series B
SeedSeries ASeries B
First chequeSeed · lead
Follow-onTwo rounds
RoleBoard partner
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