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When dating with prospective portfolio companies, we often get asked about our role in our portfolio companies. How much hands-on are we? Do we interfere in the founder’s decisions? Our reply to that is: “As you wish“.
We are a team of entrepreneurs who have seen that and did that. We have deep vertical expertise in different areas, but we do not push anything. If you wanna go your way, fine with us. If you wanna ask for our experience (and then do it your way), even better :-). We seldom ask for extensive veto rights or Board seats. We believe in accountability of the founders and to be accountable, you need to be in the driver’s seat. Our central value is to support the founder: with finance, with experience, with contacts, with being someone they can trust.
Do all of our founders ask for help? Nope. About 20% prefer to be left alone. With the rest we try to help as much as we can.
April 29th, 2024 • Ondřej Fryc
I’m not gonna pretend anything, I was trapped too. It felt good to have our company and myself in the media! It boosted my ego, which grew. There are some people who don’t have that, but I see it in most founders around the age of 30 and let’s be honest – everyone is a bit of a narcissist.
April 20th, 2024 • Eduard Míka
It is said that creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship are the engines of economic development and the future prosperity of any country depends on them. In all neighboring countries, this seems to be the case, but not here.
April 10th, 2024 • Eduard Míka
Every investment transaction is essentially a bet on the person of the founder and their vision. There is usually nothing else in a startup.
December 22nd, 2023 • Zdena Macháčková
At the end of October 2023, a strike for women’s equality took place in Iceland. Iceland is considered a world leader in gender equality. In this year’s World Economic Forum rankings, the island is ranked highest for the 14th consecutive year, yet Icelandic women are striking because they earn significantly less than men.
