Start up your own venture capital fund.

Team up

As company builders we understand the intricate nuances of getting funds off the ground and have actively built multiple of them. We make sure you have everyone and everything you need to get started and consider ourselves part of your team.

Get funded

We are deeply embedded in the international eco-system of institutional investors and family offices and have a long track record of investing in funds. We are committed to bring the funds in our portfolio up to scale.

Avoid the hassle

Paperwork sucks. We spent years pushing pencils to make sure founders and funds get the money they need. We have built workflows, a network of service providers and proprietary technology to take the pain away.

Team up

Get funded

Avoid the hassle

What we offer

Our MODEL

A focused investment approach targeting first-time GPs in VC. From first contact to signed committment in a matter of weeks.

Get the peer group, investor network and service access to get your first VC fund started.

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A1 Summer 2024 - Applications Open

Jun 2024

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Standard Deal

We provide the first money as an anchor investment for your new venture capital fund with our standard deal:

€ 1 m or €2m anchor investment for your fund
1% management fee for you on our commitment
10% carried interest for you on our commitment

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Fund Services

We support fund managers with all the paperwork and administrative tasks of setting up and running a fund.

Currently limited to selected batch participants and funds in our portfolio.

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Who we are

Michael and Felix have been friends and business partners for over a decade. They founded a company together and made every mistake worth making (and quite a few on top).

Together with Paula and Michael, they are committed to spending the next decades making the funds ecosystem more accessible, more diverse, more fun and more profitable.

Michael Ströck

Founding Partner

Michael is a passionate entrepreneur and fund investor. He has been an active venture LP for over a decade, as well as a founding partner and founding investor of multiple funds. Together with Felix, Michael leads the Allocator One Anchor Fund, invests in the best new fund managers all over the world.

Paula Schwarz

Cohort Partner (Anchor Fund I)

Paula is a true impact entrepreneur and investor. She built StartupBoat, one of the leading social incubators . Coming from a family business background, she helped to build funds around the globe and received a scholarship from 500 Startups to finalise her Investment Management Trainee at Stanford University.

Felix Staeritz

Founding Partner

Felix has a long track record as an entrepreneur and investor. He built and exited FoundersLane, the largest independent corporate company builder in the world, creating over €1B in portfolio value across Europe and the Middle East with top-tier entrepreneurs, investors and corporates.

Michael Hwang

Cohort Partner (Anchor Fund 1)

Michael brings 25 years of experience in the tech industry. He's a software engineer, six-time serial founder, consultant, director, and professor. As chairman of the board of Bigbang Angels, Inc. he led investments in over 100 companies, leading to six exits, two IPOs and four more portfolio companies in the pre-IPO phase.

Michael Ströck

Founding Partner

Paula Schwarz

Cohort Partner (Anchor Fund I)

Felix Staeritz

Founding Partner

Michael Hwang

Cohort Partner (Anchor Fund 1)

“At A1, we were challenged to go really deep. Who's our real network, what's our real edge, what do we really want to achieve?”