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Clearly there are core principles which we look for in start-ups which we share with almost all other venture investors regardless of their specialism. Is the market large enough? Does the proposed solution work; and is this the right team of people to execute it? Is the solution scale-able and how defensible is it? Is there some indication of initial traction? Does the start-up’s proposed valuation allow us to reach our target ownership levels? And so on.

That said, unlike many other investors, our decisions are made through the additional lens of focusing our funds on companies whose product and service offerings look to counter what we see as three major economic problems facing the world today: falling labour productivity, increasing workloads and a contracting global labour pool.

We believe that robotics-, automation- and AI-orientated companies will become a significant global economic growth engine as productivity and the availability of labour, which have traditionally driven economic growth on a micro and marco level for the last 50 years, continue to wane. Certainly, over the next decade we believe that companies will seek to automate almost all types of direct labour inputs where there is technical potential to do so, given the widening gap between rising labour costs and falling robotics costs.

As such, to the typical venture fund shopping list above we add two further criteria: Does the start-up’s solution create large scale productivity improvements over existing solutions to the same problem? And can it execute this solution in a capital-efficient manner?

Britbots is a specialist UK based Pre-Seed investment fund, investing in 10 new pre-seed companies per year. We focus on companies using artificial intelligence, robotics or other automation technologies to develop productivity gains

If you are an entrepreneur looking for pre-seed or seed investment in the UK in the automation, artificial intelligence or robotics space please email alex@britbots.com