Marketing Manager at Global Blockchain Incubator | Start-up Founder | E-commerce Specialist

✋ Founders. Investors. Service providers.

If you’re a founder… you’re forced into cold outreach that leads nowhere—or worse, you get the meeting, but all the pressure is on you because the investor holds the leverage from the start.

If you’re an investor… you’re flooded with irrelevant decks, and cold outreach. Even when a startup fits your thesis, it’s hard to access them because they’re already in high demand—and everyone else you’re seeing just isn’t exciting.

If you’re a service provider… you’re trying to get in front of high-growth startups, but you’re stuck sponsoring events that deliver nothing actionable. You get vanity metrics like email lists, but nothing quantifiable for your business growth.

👉 It’s broken. Too chaotic. And for most people in this ecosystem, it’s a lottery.

We’ve seen it over and over again: founders don’t know which investors to approach; investors can’t filter the noise to find aligned startups; service providers end up pouring money into partnerships that don’t convert.

Perhaps you can relate?

🚀 Over the last 3 years, we’ve helped hundreds of founders, investors, and service providers overcome this chaos:

✅ We’ve hosted more than 70 curated matchmaking events
✅ We’ve facilitated warm introductions—not cold intros, not random pitch lists
✅ We’ve made investors the ones selecting which startups they want to meet
✅ Our founders have raised millions of pounds through the trusted intros we created

And now…

👉 We’re putting it all together into one matchmaking platform.

A platform that leverages trust. A platform that removes the cold outreach lottery. A platform that scales warm introductions.

If you’re a founder → You’ll get 7 curated investor matches that align with your industry, stage, profile, and even your LinkedIn presence. Each match is backed by trust.

If you’re an investor → You’ll get only curated, relevant founders who match your thesis—no applications to sift through, no random decks to ignore.

If you’re a service provider → You’ll get access to a pipeline of pre-vetted startups, every 90 days, through a trusted ecosystem.

And it’s not just “who” you see—it’s how you connect: every connection is a warm introduction, facilitated by our Syrena AI.

We’re soft-launching this platform now, alongside our ongoing monthly events.

👉 We’re inviting quality founders ready to meet aligned investors, investors ready for warm, curated deal flow, and service provider partners who want to support this growing community.

DM me if you’re ready to stop the noise and start making real connections.

Aziz Ben Allala

Here’s what early-stage investors actually see every week.

A typical investor might review:
 • 300+ startups a month
 • 40-60 decks a week
 • 10+ meetings per week

So when a founder thinks,
“They didn’t reply”
“They didn’t get it”
“They ghosted me”

It’s rarely about the business. It’s about volume.

The founders who get through aren’t louder. They’re easier to place.

Clear positioning beats clever storytelling, every time.

When you understand how investors triage opportunities, fundraising becomes a lot more predictable.

That’s the reality Syrena is built around.

We help founders show up with context and relevance before a meeting ever happens, so investors immediately understand why this company belongs on their desk.

When clarity is there from the start, conversations move faster and go further.

Know a founder raising right now?

Tag them below, we’ll send a free sign-up link so they can start getting matched with the right investors from next week.

Helping Founders Raise Faster Through Curated Investor Introductions | Built Syrena to Replace Cold Outreach with Warm Connections | 70+ Events, Millions Raised. Dog lover.

Connecting founders and investors through a community led-fundraising platform. Head of Growth @ Syrena.

There's too much noise in the startup ecosystem. I help founders and investors cut through it. 

www.syrena.co.uk/register

Gregory Dean

🚨BREAKING: Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025

The biggest outcomes are coming from AI, quantum, climate, robotics, space and semiconductors. 

Here are some of the companies listed in the Dealroom 2025 Report:

BioNTech SE – Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Life Sciences)
Celonis – Technical University of Munich (Enterprise Software)
Oxford Nanopore Technologies – University of Oxford (Life Sciences)
Darktrace – University of Cambridge (Cybersecurity)
Abcam – University of Cambridge (Life Sciences)
Ablynx – Ghent University / VIB (Life Sciences)
Olink Proteomics – Uppsala University (Life Sciences)
ICEYE – Aalto University (Space / Deep Tech)
IQM Quantum Computers – Aalto University / VTT (Quantum)
Synthesia – UCL (AI / Deep Tech)
Climeworks – ETH Zurich (Climate Tech)
Oxford Ionics – University of Oxford (Quantum)
Agile Robots SE – TU Munich (Robotics)
Tecan – European academic roots (Life Sciences)
uniQure – University of Amsterdam (Gene Therapy)

📄 Full list in the Dealroom European Spinouts Report 2025.

Now the part people underestimate: the ecosystem impact is wild 👇

167,000+ jobs created
Employment up 3.4× since 2019
$7.9B raised in 2025 alone (on track for ~$9B)
$398B in total enterprise value created

Late stage funding is still lagging, and 50% of growth capital is still coming from the US.

But for early-stage companies, this is where it gets really interesting. 

Every unicorn or $100M-revenue company creates founders with liquidity.
And founders who’ve built and exited become the best angels.

Angels are the lifeblood of the early-stage ecosystem - and 80 breakout spin-outs today = hundreds of experienced angels tomorrow.

Europe’s university spin-out flywheel is just getting started 🚀

Connecting founders and investors | Building the first community-led fundraising platform @ Syrena | Ex VC

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