Mission-Driven Venture Investment and Advisory
Backing and Advising Visionary Founders
We advise, incubate, and build alongside purpose-driven founders — pairing decades of experience scaling category-defining companies with hands-on partnership when it matters most. Guided by our four values: Planet, Prosperity, Purpose, and Passion.
- $850M+
- Raised across founder-led ventures
- 100M+
- Users reached by our companies
- 27
- Mission-driven companies backed
Beyond capital
How we work with you.
We Advise
Hands-on strategic guidance drawn from decades of operating and scaling category-defining companies across the US and Europe.
We Consult
A full toolkit for scale-ups and market leaders — business model design, go-to-market, sales development, and organizational strategy.
We Incubate
For the boldest ideas, we build alongside founders from the ground up — shaping strategy, systems, and go-to-market from day one.
Track record
Operators who've built at scale.
Deliberate was founded by Caen Contee — a founding team member and executive at category-defining companies including Lime and ChargePoint, and former Senior Advisor at SVB Capital. We partner with founders as builders who've been in the arena.
Our four P's
A deliberate way to build.
Deliberate Ventures was founded to face the greatest challenges of our time by backing innovative, mission-driven companies. Four values guide every decision we make.
Planet
We back companies driving toward a regenerative, sustainable future for people and the environment.
Prosperity
We build durable value by unlocking equitable, shared prosperity — not extraction.
Purpose
Every decision is deliberate: aligned with systemic change and a clear reason to exist.
Passion
We champion the fire of determined, visionary founders building what matters most.
How we work with you
More than capital — a partner in execution.
Founders, CEOs and investors work with Deliberate across four ways of engaging. Choose the one that fits where you are.
Strategic Advisory
Executive counsel and decision-making support for founders and leadership teams.
Consulting
Hands-on execution — from fractional leadership to full transformation projects.
Workshops
Premium, structured sessions on AI, venture building, scaling and leadership.
Speaking
Keynotes and executive events with founder Caen Contee.
Featured company
Lightforce
AI-Powered Software Development
Lightforce is building AI-native tooling that reimagines how software is designed, written and shipped.
Learn about LightforceMission
To compress the distance between idea and working product — making world-class software development radically faster and more accessible.
What it builds
An AI-powered development platform that turns intent into production-ready software, augmenting engineering teams rather than replacing them.
Why it matters
Software is how the biggest problems get solved. By rethinking development for the AI era, Lightforce expands who gets to build — and how quickly bold ideas reach the world.
Deliberate's involvement
Deliberate incubated and backed Lightforce from the earliest days — partnering on strategy, venture building and scaling alongside the founding team.
Portfolio & venture building
The companies we build and back.
Mission-driven companies driving positive change — incubated, advised and backed by Deliberate.
Abakus
Portfolio
A borderless bank built for the 3B+ unbanked and 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants — free instant accounts, free international transfers and globally trusted cards to catalyze financial inclusion worldwide.
Fintech & Financial Inclusion
Lightforce
Portfolio
Building AI-native tooling that reimagines how software is designed, written and shipped — compressing the distance between idea and working product.
AI-Powered Software Development
Dwig
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
Buzz Solutions*
Portfolio
Visual AI software that helps utilities inspect, maintain, and secure energy infrastructure by turning field imagery into actionable asset intelligence.
Utility AI & Infrastructure
Ailo
Portfolio
Modular, clean-powered AI infrastructure providing sovereign GPU capacity, edge LLM capability, and secure high-density compute across global markets.
Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Lime
Portfolio
The global leader in micromobility, partnering with cities to provide a clean alternative to cars — its electric bikes and scooters have powered 250M+ rides across 200+ cities on five continents.
Micromobility
Antler
Portfolio
A global early-stage firm that partners with founders from day zero — co-founder matching, business-model validation, initial capital and follow-on funding across six continents.
Early-Stage Venture Capital
Augment
Portfolio
The MBA for the AI era — a self-paced business school taught by world-class founders and operators from OpenAI, Meta, YouTube and more, built for the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
Education & AI
UNL
Portfolio
A next-gen geospatial startup solving hyperlocal challenges in mapping, addressing and real-time routing — connecting accurate data to micro-precise locations to unlock services for billions once excluded.
Geospatial Infrastructure
Linear Labs
Portfolio
A smart electric motor company whose new motor system delivers ultra-high efficiency — with patented breakthroughs driving 2x torque, greater range and lower power consumption across EVs, HVAC and robotics.
Electric Motors & Mobility
Don't Quit Ventures (DQV)
Portfolio
A pre-seed and seed fund backing overlooked, mission-driven founders with fast, transparent decisions and no ghosting — with a particular focus on the Middle East and Latin America.
Venture Capital
Gabbi*
Portfolio
A women's health company whose consumer risk assessment predicts breast cancer risk in under two minutes, pairing virtual specialist consultations and care plans for early detection.
Women's Health
CloudCycle*
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
Treyd
Portfolio
A fast-growing B2B fintech whose buy-now-pay-later solution removes the pain of paying suppliers upfront, enabling a shift to more sustainable, lower-CO2 freight for consumer goods companies.
B2B Fintech
MobileCoin
Portfolio
Democratizing digital payments with the only mobile-first, planet-friendly platform built for true digital cash — enabling global end-to-end encrypted payments instantly on any phone.
Digital Payments
AngelActivists
Portfolio
An education platform and community guiding angel investors to back purpose-driven startups — united by the five Ps of Purpose, Passion, Prosperity, Planet and People.
Impact Investing
Pano*
Portfolio
AI-powered wildfire detection and situational awareness — helping utilities, agencies and communities spot fires early and coordinate a faster, smarter response.
Wildfire Detection & AI
CoreTx
Portfolio
Building advanced memory architecture for AI through biomimicry — infrastructure for humans and AI to discover and collaborate together, founded by researchers from DeepMind and SpaceX.
AI Infrastructure
ChargePoint
Portfolio
Fusing renewable energy, resilient power and next-generation connectivity into scalable infrastructure across power, energy and digital — accelerating the shift to a cleaner, smarter world.
EV Charging & Infrastructure
MarcoFinancial*
Portfolio
A financial operating system for cross-border companies between Latin America and the U.S. — centralizing USD accounts, FX, supplier payments and revolving credit on one platform.
Cross-Border Fintech
Intrepid Capital
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
The Circle
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
Propitious
Portfolio
Accelerating the transition to sustainable transportation through power-generating suspension technology designed to increase vehicle range while improving efficiency.
Clean Mobility & Energy
KiddieKredit*
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
NFT Oasis*
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
Breakr*
Portfolio
A mission-driven company in the Deliberate Ventures portfolio — full profile coming soon.
Portfolio Company
AsentPay
Portfolio
A payments platform that embeds a dedicated Chief Payments Officer into your team — optimizing transaction fees, acceptance rates and routing to turn payment operations into profit.
Payments
NewNative
Portfolio
An AI-native platform and venture builder that aggregates the latest AI technologies and one of the largest communities of AI developers — helping businesses build and scale AI solutions.
AI Platform & Venture Building
GuardID
Portfolio
A digital privacy service that automatically removes members' personal data from hundreds of data brokers and people-search sites, then continuously monitors to keep it from reappearing.
Digital Privacy & Identity
Building something bold?
We back visionary founders with a cause. If you're building something that matters, we want to hear from you.
Insights
Perspectives on building what matters.
Articles, insights and industry commentary from the Deliberate team — published weekly.
Bring Us In
Tell us why you're here.
Choose the path that fits — and we'll route you straight to the right team.
Strategic Advisory
For founders and executive teams needing strategic guidance and decision-making support.
Consulting
For organisations needing hands-on execution — fractional leadership or transformation projects.
Workshops
For leadership teams seeking structured learning and transformation.
Speaking
For conferences, executive events and keynote sessions with Caen Contee.
Partnerships
For organisations interested in collaborating or partnering with Deliberate.
Have a cause worth backing?
Whether you're looking for advice, a hands-on partner, or a team to build alongside you — Deliberate is built to champion your cause.