The manifesto

Who gets to build the future?

The next generation of European champions is being built right now, in space, energy, AI and health. Entire industries will be rebuilt, fortunes will be made, and power will move. Many of the most exceptional founders building them are women. They deserve a partner who sees it first, backs them with conviction from day one, and has the depth, networks and staying power to go all the way with them. This is why we built SISTAFUND, Europe's largest gender-lens venture fund, investing from Pre-Seed to Series B.

Gender lens is our edge

Women-led teams receive around 2% of European venture capital. The rest of the market sees a gap; we see the most mispriced talent pool in European tech. We see these founders earlier, understand them better and back them harder. We are investors first, and this is where the returns are.

We back builders of hard things

Rockets, grids, molecules, machines. We are drawn to founders who turn frontier technology into industrial reality and build companies that could not have existed a decade ago. The harder the problem, the stronger the moat.

Our portfolio has found its shape

Seventeen companies later, four pillars have emerged, where Europe's future will be decided: space and industrial deeptech, with The Exploration Company and Pave Space; energy transition, with Recupere Metals and Rebaba; enterprise AI, with NOTOM and Vizzia; and health, with Orakl Oncology, Waiv and Nūmi.

These are hard, capital-intensive, strategic markets. They reward founders with scientific depth and relentless execution, and investors with the patience and network to match.

Sovereignty is built, not regulated

Regulation sets the rules. Capital builds the champions. Europe's technological independence will come from companies, founders and engineers, and from the investors bold enough to back them.

We open the doors that matter

The first industrial partner, the regulatory wall, the first plant, the next round. We bring corporates, public institutions and co-investors to the table when it counts, and we stay close through every stage. Our network is our product.

Ambition is a strategy

We raised €70 million for our first fund. We are building toward €1 billion, not for the sake of size, but because our founders are building companies that will need serious capital at every stage, and we intend to be there for all of them.

Performance is the argument

The Exploration Company just closed a $450 million Series C, the largest ever raised by a European space company, and our first unicorn. The best European portfolio of tomorrow won't look like yesterday's. We are building it now.

SISTAFUND and SISTA

SISTAFUND is deeply connected to the SISTA NGO, first of all through Tatiana, who was the initiator of both SISTA and SISTAFUND. Since 2018, SISTA has been on a mission to bring forth a generation of diverse leaders by reducing the funding gap between female and male entrepreneurs. Some of SISTA's actions consist of supporting and federating entrepreneurs, but also of producing data to shed light on the reasons for this funding gap. This film, made with Mirova Forward, turns the questions usually put to women onto the men who are rarely asked them.

Eight male executives answering the questions usually put to women — Et si on posait les mêmes questions aux femmes et aux hommes ? A SISTA and Mirova Forward campaign

Technology redistributes power

Capital decides who gets to build. We invest to change who does. Founders, investors, builders: come build what's next with us.