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Propagator Ventures

We invest in early-stage companies built on breakthrough science and engineering innovations

At Propagator Ventures, we find and fund the the finders of novel technologies and the founders who drive their commercialisation.

As a specialist venture capital firm, we leverage an international network of leading scientific experts and serve as the first port of call for startups at the forefront of their domains. We invest in early-stage companies rooted in groundbreaking scientific or engineering innovation, capable of penetrating substantial markets or creating entirely new ones. 

These deep tech companies hold transformative potential that can reshape industries and deliver innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

Our investment strategy is shaped by key technological and social trends and their impact on the future economy.

Propagator Ventures concentrates on four investment areas that drive the growth of emerging advanced technologies.

We back brilliant minds with high-potential startups, on three continents.

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about us

Propagator Ventures is an internationally focused, specialist venture capital firm. We drive technological advances and their commercialisation by investing in early-stage companies founded on breakthrough science and engineering innovations.

Propagator ventures

Technological advancements are redefining the boundaries of what is possible, creating new markets and laying the foundations for tomorrow’s leading enterprises. Our mission is to be a propagator of such advancements.

We find and fund startups with disruptive technologies that can penetrate substantial markets or create entirely new ones. Hardware is often—but not always—involved.

We seek startups capable of tackling problems of significant complexity and scale, and of solving these in novel ways. We gravitate towards top-tier teams with moonshot ambitions and the capabilities to match.

Propagator Ventures is based in Oslo, Norway.

team

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Anders Frøseth
Partner
PhD Condensed Matter Physics Norwegian University of Science and Technology. PostDoc Paul Scherrer Institute. MBA Norwegian School of Economics. Founding Partner Propagator Ventures. Mentor, Creative Destruction Lab. 15 years international investment experience in private and public markets.
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Eirik Talleraas
Partner
MSc/BSc, London School of Economics and Political Science. 14 years of international experience with the United Nations Secretariat and UNDP, representing the UN with government agencies, political entities, donors, and private sector partners. Engaged in fundraising, advocacy, and leveraging and aligning private sector investments to the SDGs. Prior career in business consulting.
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Andreas Emblem
Partner
MPhil/BSc Economics, University of Oxford & LSE. 20 years + of international management experience from technology-disrupted, knowledge-based corporations, with a focus on strategy, innovation and investments. Board experience from growth stage tech businesses. Led/created SaaS business area through M&A and organic development. Started career in strategic consulting.

NETWORK

We work closely with a top tier network of scientific advisers to identify and evaluate our investments. We co-invest with some of the world´s leading VCs. The ability to leverage global expert knowledge allows us to capture emerging trends and identify the big dogs (and cats) of tomorrow as they approach critical inflection points.

team of advisors

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Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Professor chemistry and computer science
Professor chemistry and computer science, University of Toronto and CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. Director Acceleration Consortium. Professor at Harvard 2006-2018. Co-founder of Kebotix, Intrepid Labs, Axiomatic. Expert in quantum computing, machine learning, and materials chemistry.
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David Duvenaud
Professor computer science and statistics
Professor computer science and statistics, University of Toronto and Founding Member, Vector Institute. Previously Technical Staff Anthropic, Advisor Cohere, Visiting Researcher Google Brain Toronto. Co-Founder of Fable Therapeutics and Invenia. Expert in machine learning leading the development of new methods.
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Florian Shkurti
Professor computer science and robotics
Professor computer science and robotics, University of Toronto. Director, Robot Vision and Learning (RVL) Lab, University of Toronto. Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute. Expert in mobile robotics and in the use of machine learning, vision, and control in robotics.
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Vijay Pande
Founder and Managing Partner a16z BioHealth.
GP Andreessen Horowitz. Founder and Managing Partner a16z BioHealth. Previously, Professor structural biology and computer science, Stanford. Founder Folding@Home & Globavir Biosciences; Board member insitrio, Devoted Health, Freenome, among others. Expert in computational biology and machine learning applications in health.