About Us

venvivis is angel investor / venture capital firm investing mainly proprietary funds in early stage companies with high potential to become market leaders.

The founders of these businesses are innovative and hard working individuals with a strong vision, exceptional leadership skills and personal integrity. We focus on providing growth capital to young entrepreneurs from United States and Eastern Europe in the following industries: mobile technologies, navigation, design, media and advertising, cloud computing and medical devices/biotech. We strive to build successful businesses by actively advising our portfolio companies on issues related to strategy, development of most suitable business model and efficient operations, hiring of key staff and making key introductions to clients, partners or investors.

Investments – areas, process and portfolio

• » venvivis raised between 2004-2008 equity and debt over $100M for retail and residential projects in Slovakia. As a result of its financial advisory activities, a 40.000m2 shopping center was completed and sold to large international real estate fund.
• The company also advised clients on following matters: global software technology company with customers over $200mil users on it’s market entry to Latin America;
• » venvivis invests since 2008 in early stage businesses, which fulfill the following 3 criteria:
  • 1) People: businesses are mainly about people. The founders must demonstrate above all personal integrity and exceptional leadership skills. They will have strong personalities and drive, will be able to motivate and build teams, hire smarter managers than themselves and gain trust of customers.
  • 2) Innovation: the underlying business must be novel and unique in one or more aspects (technology, process, business model or combination of several factors). The business will improve customers problems, save time, resources or make a strong improvement to status quo.
  • 3) Market: the companies will operate in a scalable market with high growth potential
• » venvivis provides growth capital required for securing key staff, establishing operations and expanding customer base. The responsible portfolio manager also advises also on general strategy, operations, sales and marketing or corporate governance.
• » venvivis has a high quality acquisition team comprised of experts in various market segments, lawyers, finance and tax professionals. The process is very selective but we can act very promptly if the business has all the required ingredients and subject to positives outcomes of due diligence.
• » venvivis “sweet pot” in the investment cycle is usually between the “Friends and Family” financing round and the traditional large venture capital Series A financing. We like to enter when the product is close to completion, first customers are being negotiated and distribution/ marketing strategies are being defined.