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# Acidic Labs Investment Deck

## Executive Summary

### Vision Meets Capital
An incubator fund investing at the convergence of Web3, AI, and creative industries that creates unfair advantage through technology partnerships and advisory expertise.

### Why Now v1
The $2.25tn creative economy is at breaking point:

- Current systems can't handle basic operations
- AI driving 100x explosion in content creation
- Even simple tech solutions revolutionary in this market
- Web2 transformed how content moves, Web3 transforms how value flows.

### Our Edge: Access & Execution
1. **Direct Technical Access**
 
* Embedded relationships with major blockchain teams
* Pre-public visibility of technical projects
* First look at protocol innovations
* Shared Deal flow with Web3 & AI led VCs
* Direct hackathon and incubator involvement
* Reducing development costs >50% through direct technical partnerships

2. **Global Deal Capture**

* Strategic event presence (HK Consensus, ETH Denver, Paris, London, Token 2049)
* Network of technical & ecosystem partners
* Direct developer community relationships

3. **LP Advantage**
* Direct access to new, niche, deal flow
* Pre-public round participation
* Technology/Product risk mitigation - faster/cheaper builds
* Incubation with proven growth strategy and framework
* Niche deal flow without individual angel vetting hassle

### Investment Focus
- 50-80 companies at pre-seed stage
- $50K-$200K initial checks
- Investing period - extending to 2 or 3 years
- $6M follow-on reserve

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## Investment Strategy

### Portfolio Construction
| Stage | Allocation | Timeline |
| ----- | ---------- | -------- |
| Initial | $4M ($80K x 50) | 12 months |
| Follow-on | $6M reserve | Performance-based |

### Target Returns
- 2% delivering 100x = $8M
- 2% delivering 50x = $4M
- 6% delivering 10x = $2.4M
- Base return: 1.48x from first checks
- Target total return: 3.7x with follow-on

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### Current Pipeline

* View our initial project cohort
* https://www.notion.so/Initial-Project-Cohort-11a5ba97c372801e8423cc39b58c33ae
* 6 projects in technical validation


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## Team

`Content here is unfinished and we need to shape an Advisors / Advisory board page`

### Core 

#### Andy
- Direct L1/L2 development experience
- Chain partnership relationships

#### Leo
- Fund operations background
- Deal flow development / Portfolio management

#### Tim
- Regulatory expertise
- Music industry integration

### Advisory Board / Mentors

 

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## Fund Structure

### Terms
| Component | Detail |
| --------- | ------ |
| Size | $10M |
| Period | 2024-2029 |
| Management | 2% |
| Carry | 20% |
| Minimum | $50K |

### Timeline
- Q2 2024: First Close
- Q3 2024: Initial Deployment
- Q4 2024: Second Close

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## APPENDIX 

### A. Design outline 

####    1. OPENING PAGE
- Fund name + tagline
- Three overlapping circles: Web3, AI, Creative
- Mission statement

#### 2. WHY NOW PAGE
- "$2.25tn" headline figure
- 4 market dynamics points
- Tech transformation visual

#### 3. UNFAIR ADVANTAGE PAGE
- Network map showing partnerships
- Global presence points
- Value flow illustration

#### 4. INVESTMENT STRATEGY PAGE
- Check size range
- Portfolio allocation table
- Pipeline status board

#### 5. FUND STRUCTURE PAGES (maybe 2)
- Team grid (3 core + advisors)
- Key dates timeline
- Terms summary table
- Partner logos


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### B. Additional pages 

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Concept here being that we can add in or take out the optional pages. 
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- Advisory Board
- Crypto networks (proof we are embedded)
- Music Industry 
- Portfolio  

`Add any others here as needed`