At my 6th anniversary in Web 3.0, I am starting TOMORROWerse Capital, a new Venture Ecosystem, being both founder and first investor Newsletter #12
The mantra of TOMORROWerse Capital is "People Before Startups"
Hey online family! Thank you for joining a new edition of Inside My Head Newsletter. I see my professional journey as an entrepreneur & investor, not as a sprint, but rather as a marathon, was not always the best win, but usually the most adaptable, and persistent one. I can't count the days when I was feeling so much anxiety, and stress, and didn't see tomorrow. I had both successes, and failures, good periods, and very dark ones, but what I didn't do was let myself be absorbed by alcohol, smoking, or forbidden substances. As 11 years severe asthma alumni I should not smoke anyway, so rarely you can see me enjoying a Cuban cigar at a fancy event or drinking a glass of wine. Instead, I meditate, train, run marathons, make music, and write, I try to transform any potential bad habit into something which can serve me. My best life coaches, and the members of the "new generation advisory board" are my three kids who help me to keep my mind and openness like 20 years old.
6 years ago, around this period I entered the Web 3.0 space, so I am celebrating this by starting right after Cyber Monday Tomorrowerse Capital, a new Venture Ecosystem, being both founder and first investor with $1M (approximate value on the 29th of November 2022) in digital assets for the token fund. So, in a nutshell, I am celebrating 6 years of contribution to the Web 3.0 space by starting Tomorrowerse Capital. It doesn't mean that I will stop being an entrepreneur. I will stop this when I will be out of this world :). I am keeping my active role in projects, the advisory ones, but I am creating something new in what many people could say is the most unfortunate moment for Web 3.0, when so many platforms are collapsing, and the stats for this year look pretty bad:
$2.2T wiped out from the crypto total market cap ~$17B money lost to crypto bankruptcies $3B+ has been lost due to DeFi/web3 hacks/exploits.
"It's time to build" is part of my drive as an entrepreneur, and investor, the markets have cycles, sometimes we have a bull market, other times bear market, we can't control these, we can only control what we are doing to support the growth of the market.
I trust that TOMORROWerse Capital will attract the right team talent, advisors, investors, startups, tech partners, and ... overall the right people to become a recognizable global Venture Capital brand. Personally, can't wait to learn from people who are smarter, and more advanced than I am in their respective fields, the management style will be decentralized - entrepreneurial, proactivity, and taking responsibility being very important for the success of the ecosystem.
The mantra of TOMORROWerse Capital is "People Before Startups". TOMORROWerse Capital invests based on three criteria:
1. The team - we will bet on the teams before anything else. At least 50% of the projects we will invest in will have to enroll in our incubation program, to know the team better, and how they perform under pressure.
2. The innovation, technical, or business model - we will not invest in copycats, we will invest in new protocols, new blockchains, and Layer 1 projects, we will also only invest in tokens with innovative business models.
3. The potential of mass adoption - still after 12 years you can't buy bread with the Bitcoin wallet, so we will invest in projects with high chances to become category kings in certain niches, and markets, and be mass adopted.
Why TOMORROWerse Capital is different?
# People before startups concept - we believe that if people behind startups are ethical, hard-working, spend years, nights, and weekends on their ideas, and projects, and are working on a brilliant idea, their chances of success are pretty high so these are the types of founders we will search for; overnight success has always few years of preparation so we will search for founders in the preparation (action) process;
#Diversity & inclusion - we aim for 50% of startup founders to be led by women and will pay very special attention to projects coming from underprivileged territories; race, gender, sexual orientation, or the number of tattoos, will not matter, anyone is welcome to apply to be an investor, mentor, partner, technology provider, a startup for funding, startup for incubation, and funding as they're in synch with our vision.
#Beyond the pitch deck - the pitch decks are just conversation starters, they are often created by marketing agencies, and they look like detergent commercials; we will look for passion, grit, track record, history of successes, and failures for the founding team.
TOMORROWerse Capital is in the process of creating two types of funds:
# Centralized Funds Venture Fund & Token Fund (I am the first investor in the Token Fund) # Decentralized Fund with DAO Governance powered by TMRW (Tomorrowerse Token)
TOMORROWerse will invest in illiquid assets including venture equity, early-stage tokens, liquid assets like publicly traded technology stocks, and liquid coins & tokens like BTC, ETH, Defi protocols, gaming & other verticals DEX & CEX listed tokens.
Venture Equity - Equity in companies building products, and services in the blockchain & post-blockchain ecosystems. Early-Stage Tokens - Tokens in innovative Layer 1 projects, or Layer 2 with enhanced business models.
Liquid Tokens - Liquid digital assets listed on DEX & CEX exchanges with good market utility, and potential for mass adoption in certain niches or industries.
TOMORROWerse Capital Startups Incubator
Operational in Q1 2023 when starting the first cohort will run remotely first to make it very easy for the startups to join, so to kick this very fast
TOMORROWerse Capital Investor Network
TOMORROWerse Capital will host investor-only side events along the selected major tech conferences in the world building in the process one of the most valuable investor networks which will create networking opportunities, friendships that will last a lifetime, and a second-to-none peer group atmosphere due to the immersion effect.
The journey of TOMORROWerse is right at the beginning, the pitch deck will be updated under this link, and the center of everything will be the website https://tomorrowerse.com. All success, I will post here from time-to-time updates!