Helping ecosystems drive product market fit and grow through strategic investment and program design.

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THE NEW FRONTIER IS TAKING SHAPE

Ecosystems don’t scale by chance. They scale by design.

Lasting impact comes from building systems with intent, integrating new technology into the economy, society, and daily life. We specialize in helping ecosystems do just that.

From turning mobile data into a product

→ To building fintech clusters in South Eastern Europe (SEE)

→ To creating medical device hubs in fast-growing emerging markets

→ To backing & accelerating web3 teams toward getting traction in the real world

We’ve helped frontier tech take root where it matters most.

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OUR APPROACH

We help new technologies go to market in a more impactful way:

• Proven strategies
• Insights from emerging markets and frontier tech
• A focus on long-term behavior shifts driving markets

If you’re building for the next era, we’re here to help shape it.

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Services

• Ecosystem Growth Program Design

  Ecosystem Fund Management: Investment Design for Ecosystem Growth

  • Ecosystem Investment Strategy and Thesis Development
  • Investment Fund Setup & Management - Direct investing and LPing in VCs

• Founder and Builder Support Program Development and Management

  • Fellowships & GTM bootcamps

  Growth Circles: A Scalable GTM Engine for Ecosystem Growth

  • Accelerators
  • Scout Programs
  • University Incubators
  • Community Development
  • Joint Platform Development with Partner VCs

Trusted By

History of Farstar

Farstar is the culmination of projects and team collaborations dating back 15 years, specialising in ecosystem development through venture instruments. The Farstar team is a global community of entrepreneurs and changemakers, brought together by shared values and a commitment to creating positive impact. Together, we operate both as a think tank as well as operator and manager we have collaborated on a wide range of impact-driven projects, expanding from supporting UK and EU-funded initiatives to fostering startup ecosystems in over 25 countries and partnering with institutions such as The Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK and the European Investment Fund.

Our team brings decades of entrepreneurial and venture capital expertise spanning a wide array of industries, with over a decade of experience building on blockchain.

We’ve delivered billions in successful exits, secured hundreds of millions in startup investments, and managed additional hundreds of millions in venture capital fund allocations. Ultimately translating our expertise into becoming the ‘people from industry’ in a variety of major ecosystem development initiatives.

For the past eight years, Farstar has worked in a flexible, DAO-like model with 100+ contributors, 200 mentors, and 1,000 beneficiaries across 30+ countries. Today, our focus is on helping deploy over $40B in Web3 infrastructure treasuries into real application-layer adoption and product–market fit, fast.

Core members

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Lino Velev

3x founder with 15 years of experience in developing startup ecosystems through VC instruments with an economic development focus.

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Ana-Maria Yanakieva

Web3 VC. Former Head of Investment at Outlier Ventures & former Principal at Elixir Capital. Executed on 80+ web3 deals across DeFi, Gaming, Consumer, and Infrastructure.

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Paul Burmester

Entrepreneur who’s driven 7 start-up exits worth $4.7B, has run a $350M CVC fund & created several technology eco-systems.

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