Founder
Unreasonable clarity
Founders who can explain the business in two sentences and defend it for two hours. Clarity compounds faster than capital.
Open to conversations · Barcelona
Amy
Ocen
I put capital and conviction behind founders the market hasn't priced yet.
- Focus
- Pre-seed → Series A
- Geography
- Europe
- Sectors
- Fintech · Sports · Media
- Cheque
- €250k – €2M
01 Sourcing
What I look for
Three questions decide whether a company gets a second meeting. Everything else is detail.
Market
A market that is moving
Regulation shifting, behaviour shifting, cost curve breaking. I want a reason the answer is different this year than last.
Structure
A business that survives contact
Unit economics that hold when growth stops, and a cap table that still works two rounds from now.
02 Diligence
How I work
I have spent my career on both sides of the table — sourcing and underwriting deals, then reporting on them to the people whose money is at stake. It taught me to move quickly and write things down.
Today I invest, advise, and build. My bias is progress over perfection: a fast no is worth more to a founder than a slow maybe.
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01
Screen in a week
First call to decision inside seven days. Founders get an answer, not a process.
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02
Underwrite the downside
Model the case where nothing goes right. If that still works, the upside takes care of itself.
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03
Reference the humans
Off-list calls with people who worked for the founder, not with them.
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04
Write the memo
One page. Thesis, risks, what would change my mind. Signed and dated.
03 Conviction
Track record
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2025 — now
Founder & InvestorBuilding at the intersection of fandom and capital markets.Barcelona
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2022 — 2025
Investment & Investor RelationsDeal pipeline, due diligence, LP reporting and fund operations.Amsterdam
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2019 — 2022
Venture InvestingEarly-stage sourcing and underwriting across European tech.Europe
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Before
FinanceWhere the discipline came from.—
04 Ownership
Where my name is on the line
Companies I have backed, advised, or helped build. Replace these tiles with your own — or delete the section entirely.
Company One
One line on what they do and why it mattered.
Company Two
One line on what they do and why it mattered.
Company Three
One line on what they do and why it mattered.
Company Four
One line on what they do and why it mattered.
Company Five
One line on what they do and why it mattered.
Your next one
Open slot. Pitch me.
Notes
Written positions
Short pieces on the things I am underwriting in public.
Contact
Terms of engagement
- Emailhello@amyocen.com
- LinkedIn/in/amyocen
- Best forFounders raising pre-seed to Series A in Europe. Operators. Fellow investors.
- Response timeWithin 48 hours, always with a real answer.
- What to sendTwo paragraphs and a deck. No warm intro required.