AETHERION Worldwide is the fundraising and landing practice of AETHERION Capital.

Raise your European round.

AETHERION Worldwide is the fundraising practice for startups and scale-ups from outside Europe. We make your company ready for European investors, find the money that does not cost you equity, and raise the round with you.

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AETHERION WORLDWIDE

One route, four moves.

Most companies run these as four separate tracks with four separate advisors. That is precisely where money and time are lost: each track compounds the others.

Move one

Prepare

The equity story, the numbers, the data room, the cap table. What an investor asks, answered before they ask it.

Move two

Fund

Subsidies, tax rulings and grants: the money that does not cost you equity, secured before the round.

Move three

Raise

From the first investor conversation to the closed round, run as a process rather than a hope.

Move four

Land

Entity, visas, banking, housing. Run with specialist partners so the round stays the work.

Corridors

From the markets where the next wave is forming.

Structured corridors from Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore and Istanbul to Amsterdam. Real routes, real programmes, real timelines.

KR JP TW SG TR
Explore the corridors
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What we will not promise you.

We plan around the slow steps instead of hiding them. That is what a structured landing is.

How the route works
Sea fog at dawn erasing a low coastline, only the highest headlands showing through, one thin band of warm light at the horizon

Dutch incorporation takes nine days in the standardised domestic case. For a foreign founder, the same steps run one to two weeks once the document package is complete, and the business bank account, which nobody plans for, can take considerably longer. Anyone who promises you a bank account in nine days has not opened one for a foreign parent company lately.

Source: World Bank, Doing Business in the European Union 2021, standardised domestic case.

Ten lines is all we need.

Every serious company receives an answer within [10] working days.

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The cost of arriving unprepared is measurable.

36%

Of Dutch R&D-performing companies leave the flagship R&D subsidy unclaimed.

Source: WBSO-evaluatie 2025 (Rijksoverheid)

46%

Of seed deals today are bridge rounds.

Source: Carta, Q1 2025

2.1yrs

Median gap from seed to Series A.

Source: Carta, Q1 2025

≈2×

The odds of follow-on VC funding after an early-stage grant.

Source: Howell, American Economic Review, 2017

Sources verified July 2026.

The house

AETHERION Worldwide is the fundraising and landing practice of AETHERION Capital, a strategic advisory and private investment firm operating from Amsterdam and London. With more than EUR 750 million in capital advised, the house brings institutional standards to a founder-sized problem: arriving in Europe properly.

Source: AETHERION Capital.

About the house

AETHERION Worldwide provides advisory services. It does not provide investment services requiring authorisation, and nothing on this site is an offer, solicitation or investment advice.

Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 452. London, 30 St Mary Axe.