BADideas.fund

badideas.fund

BADideas.fund invests €50K-€1.5M in pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the Baltics and CEE region with global ambitions, with a particular focus on B2B SaaS and marketplace business models.

Check Size

$300K - $1.5M

Stages

Pre Seed, Seed

Focus Areas

Enterprise Saas, Vertical Saas, Marketplace

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Investment Thesis

BADideas.fund believes in backing ‘bold founders’ with contrarian ideas that initially seem like bad ideas but have significant global potential. Their philosophy is grounded in the belief that ‘all unicorns seemed like bad ideas initially’ (Paul Graham quote featured prominently). They are committed to being ‘the kind of investors we wished we had when building our own startups,’ prioritizing founder empowerment, operational support from experienced builders, and fast decision-making over traditional VC bureaucracy.

What Sets Them Apart

Community of 250+ unicorn builders from companies like Vimeo, Bolt, Wise, Shopify, Printify, and Twilio who provide hands-on mentorship
Hybrid fund + syndicate model enabling both institutional and angel co-investment starting at €1K per deal
Fast decision-making: initial responses in days, decisions within weeks rather than months
Founder-friendly terms: standardized investment documents, no strings attached, freedom to build without interference
Follow-on investment capability: about 20% of deals receive follow-on funding up to €1.5M for scaling portfolio companies
EU co-funding through ALTUM partnership (€20.67M fund) enabling socially-aligned early-stage investment
Exclusive partner network providing discounts from AWS, Make, Notion, HubSpot, GitHub, and others