Investment thesis
AI that moves resources, not slides.
We invest in founders building intelligence for assets, machines, buildings, energy, and constrained resources. The opportunity is not more software on top of work. It is new operating capacity inside the work.
Thesis filter
If the product cannot improve a real-world process, resource, or asset, it is probably not ARC.
What we back
Four checks before conviction.
We look for clear evidence that software intelligence becomes physical advantage.
Physical-world leverage
The company touches assets, infrastructure, labor, energy, land, buildings, machines, or measurable resources.
AI with a job to do
Models are part of an operating system, not the product story alone. We look for decisions, actions, savings, safety, or throughput.
Automation moat
Robotics, sensing, workflow control, or closed-loop execution creates a durable edge over dashboards and services.
Greek edge, global market
Built from Greece or with Greek talent, sold into large markets with urgent physical constraints.
What we avoid
Clear no-go zones.
A narrow mandate helps founders know quickly whether we are the right partner.
Horizontal SaaS with no physical asset or operational wedge.
Pure marketplaces that aggregate demand and supply without technical depth.
AI wrappers where the core value is a prompt, not a workflow or system.
Low-urgency productivity tools without measurable resource impact.
Stage and capital
Early enough to shape the company.
ARC is designed for the messy stage where technical promise meets pilots, procurement, hardware cycles, and operational proof.
Pre-seed
EUR 150K-400K
First institutional capital for technical founders validating a physical-world wedge and a clear commercial buyer.
Seed
EUR 500K-1.5M
Lead or co-lead rounds for teams turning prototypes, pilots, or early revenue into repeatable deployments.
Follow-on
Selective reserves
Support into Seed+ and Series A when the company proves operational traction and capital-efficient scaling.
Founder signal
When to reach out.
The best fit is a technical team living inside an urgent, real-world problem.
You are building hardware-enabled or asset-connected automation.
Your customer owns expensive physical assets: equipment, buildings, or energy infrastructure.
You have a paying pilot or a customer who's asked for one.
You want a Greek base or Greek technical edge while selling globally.