Aligning Capital
to deliver
What investors want.
What founders need.
What markets demand.
By building better ecosystems.
Our Singular Purpose
"Innovation"
Through Disruption or Collaboration
Confidential – For Accredited Investors Only – Illustrative Purposes – Not an Offer to Sell or a Solicitation to Buy Any Security
FICON: What's in the Name?
FICON represents Five Continents.
Just as the world’s top athletes come together from five continents to compete in the Olympics with a ‘be the best’ mindset, we unite exceptional talent and resources—driven by the same ambition—to create global solutions.
How we got Started
It started with a simple question:
how can we become better investors*?
Year long research and hundreds of discussions, confirmed:
Capital alone is not enough
In addition to Capital, Founders need coaching and capacity to build thriving startups.
Outlier winners is limiting
Relying only on outlier winners (Power Law) limits broader success.
Long liquidity results in regrets
Locking up capital for 12+ years without liquidity leads to missed opportunities.
Our response:
To build a tech-enabled accretive ecosystem that consistently produces more winners - not just one or two star performers.
Why Ecosystem Innovation?
Investors* & founders say Top 3 reasons why startups fail:
- Lack of market demand
- Running out of cash
- Team and talent issues
Could this be a result of a broken ecosystem?
Our Solution:
Better ecosystem using a process that combines facts and imagination, where facts collaborate but do not replace imagination.
Our Operating System:
North Star
Aligning with market demands by creating collaborative ecosystems that are intelligent, intuitive and interactive.
Approach
Our mindset is globalization, and toolset is digitization to drive sustainable growth and profit. Fundamentals NOT fads.
Model
Multi-stage investing to build and scale start-ups, from Inception to Liquidity. We address friction and inefficiencies to deliver intelligent, intuitive and interactive ecosystems that markets demand.
What Makes Us Different?
We are NOT JUST an incubator, accelerator, venture studio, or traditional VC fund - we are ALL THAT and much MORE.
Team
Engineers, MBAs, PhDs with a large network of SMEs
- Proven track record as multiple exited investors*/operators, serial/parallel entrepreneurs and advisors
- Advised 400+ startup founders, multiple exits including unicorns
- Over $1+ billion of portfolio value created
- 100+ patents and 200+ Google Scholar Articles
30+ yrs as engineer, investor, advisor, multiple ventures, serial parallel entrepreneur
Jay Kalke
Dir- Decentralized AI @ MIT Media Labs, 25+ yrs, founder, investor, advisor, 100+ patents
Dr Ramesh Raskar
35+ yrs as engineer, GM, F500 executive, investor, mentor, serial entrepreneur
Kanchan Mhatre
Explore how our approach supports bold innovation
Cultivating meaningful relationships with aligned stakeholders
For Entrepreneurs
Raising capital should not stand in the way of building great companies.
For All Stakeholders
Time to liquidity should be 5-7 years and not 12+ years.
For Startup Ecosystem
Collaboration within and across ecosystems to create more winners with less.
Founders, operators, SMEs, advisors, employees and others
Discover the Ecosystem Revolution!
Innovate. Build. Scale.
In closing...
We do one thing ... Enable company builders to build and investors* to enable. We are the catalyst.
Why? Because ...
Analytics are Good, Insights are Better,
but Actions are the Best.
