About — Solenne

The bet

Capability is becoming portable. Capital hasn’t caught up.

For most of the past century, the path to building a venture-scale company ran through narrow channels — access, relationships, geography, pattern-match. The companies that got built reflected who could get to the room.

AI changes that. It collapses some of the costs of capability that those channels used to ration. A founder building in Ulaanbaatar or Nairobi or Karachi now has access to the same model weights, the same tools, and increasingly the same software leverage as a founder in San Francisco.

AI is the first technology to genuinely bend the structural barriers that defined every industry of the past century. The women already proven to build under constraint — in every market on earth — are about to become the most underwritten asset class of the AI era.

Solenne is the vehicle that backs them — built around the conviction that the next decade reprices this asset class, and that the firms positioned closest to those founders, with capital ready to deploy, will own the result.

The shape

Two vehicles, designed to work together.

An accelerator and a fund, structurally connected but each serving a distinct function.

The accelerator. Cohort-based, women-led, with two intentional tracks — women in institutional leadership roles, and women-led companies building inside them. AI fluency and capital readiness as the spine. Governance, board posture, and audit discipline as the structural underlay.
The fund. A venture vehicle that follows on validated cohort traction, backing the highest-conviction companies with direct investment. Designed to meet the gender-lens thresholds institutional capital allocators now require.

The two vehicles share infrastructure but not balance sheets. The accelerator earns its place in the founders’ trust through capability transfer. The fund earns its place through capital and the seriousness of follow-on partnership.

Timing

2026 — cohort one, then Fund I first close.

Cohort 1 begins in 2026. Fund I first close is targeted for 2026, anchored on the cohort’s outcomes and a circle of LPs already in motion.

The work being done through 2026 — partnership architecture, cohort design, capital pipeline, governance — is what makes Cohort 1 and Fund I credible when they arrive.

Open to conversations.

For partnership, cohort, or fund-side enquiries, the founding team responds to all serious notes personally. A line of contact lives on the contact page.