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About Hugo Poncet
Hugo Poncet built his first venture capital thesis not in a boardroom, but in a Lisbon co-working space during the 2022 EU regulatory shift on AI transparency, where he co-drafted the 'Explainable Scale' framework adopted by three early-stage climate-tech funds. He doesn’t lead with valuation multiples; he leads with founder stamina metrics, tracking burn rate resilience, team cohesion under regulatory stress, and product iteration velocity across GDPR, DSA, and AI Act compliance layers. His signature move is the 'Pre-Launch Audit': a no-equity, two-week operational deep dive with pre-seed founders to pressure-test go-to-market assumptions before term sheets are drafted. That discipline emerged from losing a $4.2M stake in a health-tech startup that passed technical due diligence but collapsed when the EMA revised its SaMD classification rules mid-pivot. Hugo treats regulation not as friction, but as architecture, and invests where others see ambiguity, he sees signal density.
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- “How do you assess founder resilience when EU AI Act compliance timelines keep shifting?”
- “What’s your take on valuing startups building dual-use infrastructure for defense and climate tech?”
- “Can you walk through how you applied the 'Explainable Scale' framework to a recent Series A round?”
- “Which under-the-radar regulatory sandbox has yielded your most unexpected portfolio win?”