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I’ve stopped trying to explain what XFounders is. It’s easier to say what it isn’t. 🧵

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The LP relationship isn't a fundraising problem, but a communication problem that most GPs only diagnose after they have already damaged it.

Venture capital in emerging markets is the highest-leverage bet available when the market is real and the capital hasn't arrived yet.

The best accelerator experience is uncomfortable early, safe enough to fail in, and honest about what the market actually demands.

Deploy AI for basic service access before the governance debate is resolved and you will have outcomes that the countries waiting for regulatory clarity spend a decade trying to replicate.

✍ I'm ready to talk about it: As CEO to an accelerator, I bet my life on founders nobody was paying attention to yet. Already in promising ecosystems, not yet on every investor's map. I believe that the right environment, at the right moment, can change the trajectory of a life. 💡 I ran XFounders around that belief. What followed was 40 portfolio companies across 20 countries. Meeting hundreds of founders. Exchanging thousands of insights. The time has come to close the chapter. The container has been outgrown, and I have learned to trust that signal. 💯 ❤️ To the team, Olga Tyszecka, Artem Logachev, Riccardo Pagano, Nick Cherdyntsev, Ilias Mustaev, you showed up every day for something that mattered. XFounders owes it all to you. What we built together was real, and it lives in every founder who is further along because of the work you did. Immensely proud of each one of you. 🔥 To every founder who left our programs with value, you were the point of all of it. To the partners and believers from the early days, thank you. You made it worth every hour. 💯 What comes next is where I am putting everything I have built. Sixteen years. Three continents. Capital, governments, founders, ecosystems. I have made the bets and made the bets pay off. I know what it takes to build in markets the world is still learning to read, and I am ready to do it again at scale. If you are working on something that deserves that kind of energy in the room, let's talk. 🤜🤛 The chapter is closed. The next one is about to open. 🚀

Seven words that predict whether a founder raises: do they know what they don't know?

The fund that waits for consensus pays for the certainty someone else built.

Fewer resources. Higher stakes. Faster feedback loops. Emerging market founders who reach PMF have been through something their developed market counterparts haven't. That gap is underpriced by every valuation model I've seen.

The GP who built local knowledge in a market before it was on the map is now deploying with an advantage that cannot be bought in a hurry.

AI-powered triage extends specialist care to populations that formal funding systems were never designed to reach. That's an industry shift.

AGI accelerating research 🔥

The best accelerator doesn't give founders answers. It builds the environment where founders find the right questions faster than they would alone.

Innovation policy that moves at the speed of legislation will always arrive after innovation has already moved on.

Accountability isn't a value. It's a practice. Remove the consequences and you have vocabulary.

We are diving deep into the startup ecosystem with Nelson Lopez @lcce01, CEO of XFounders Accelerator and former Global Head of People & Operations at Gate.io and 1inch. Nelson brings massive experience from operating at the intersection of startups, venture capital, and institutional ecosystems. 🌱 Problem > Solution: Stay flexible and pivot based on market signals so you don’t get stuck defending an unviable solution. 🌱 Money without help is just debt: Look for investors who bring operational value and protect your cap table. 🌱 Ditch Transactional Networking: Stop "spray & pray" fundraising. Build genuine relationships by offering value first. Watch the full episode to learn how to successfully navigate the path from startup to sustainable growth! 👇

The coordination layer in emerging markets is the product category that developed market VCs consistently underprice because they have never needed it themselves.

I hear El Salvador is quite nice.

Three years from now the GPs who updated their deployment model for AI-native startups will look prescient. The ones who didn't will be explaining a difficult vintage to their LPs.

A founder who changes their thesis based on who is in the room will never build something worth backing.