Investors in Slovakia

Arca Capital Slovakia, a.s. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in private equity, venture capital, restructuring, mezzanine financing and buyouts investments. The firm prefers to invest in small and medium sized businesses operating in engineering, food processing, energy, special chemistry, biotechnologies, ecology, packaging, IT, media and telecommunications sectors. It prefers to invest in countries located in Central and Eastern Europe. Arca Capital Slovakia, a.s. operates as a subsidiary of Arca Investments, a.s. Arca Capital Slovakia, a.s. is based in Praha, Czech Republic with additional offices in Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.

Oriens is a private equity firm specializing in providing growth and expansion capital at middle market stages. It also specializes in making investments for bolt-on acquisitions. The firm seeks to invest in manufacturing, services, business services, healthcare, media, retail, financial services, macroeconomics, information and communication technology services, energy, and environmental services sectors. The firm typically invests in Central Eastern European businesses with a focus on Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, South Poland, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. It seeks to invest between €2 million ($2.23 million) and €15 million ($16.75 million) in companies with enterprise value between $10 million and $15 million. The firm invests for a period of three to five years. It invests through equity or equity-type securities via capital increases and in some cases, partial buyout of shares. It takes a prudent approach to debt in its transactions. The firm invests in companies where the original owners retain a stake. It acquires controlling stakes in its portfolio companies and takes a seat on their Boards. The firm prefers to take majority positions in its portfolio companies. It also prefers to make follow-up acquisitions and integrate the portfolio companies onto the platform. It provides capital to increase capacity, develop and roll-out a service offering or a product, finance add-on acquisitions, and secure working capital for the growth of the companies. Oriens was founded in 2007 and is based in Budapest, Hungary with additional offices in Warsaw, Poland; Sofia, Bulgaria; Singapore, Singapore; Prague, Czech Republic; and Bucharest, Romania.

Seven2 sas is a private equity firm specializing in middle markets, later stage, carve-outs of business divisions from French or multinational corporations, public to private operations (PtoPs), and leveraged buyout in mid-caps and small and medium-sized companies. It seeks to invest in technologies, telecom, retail and consumer, media, healthcare, and business and financial services sectors. In information technology sector the firm focuses on high-tech goods and services, software technologies, hardware, emerging application segments, and services based on the mastery of new technologies. In specialized retail and consumer, it typically invests in home appliances, household goods and services, specialty retail chains, personal equipment, direct retail and e-commerce, business to business distribution, and consumer goods. In the media sector the firm seeks to invest in professional and technical publishing, broadcasting, business to business publishing, business, scientific and technical information, marketing, research, and design service companies, traditional and online, media agencies, rights, premium content and the supply of Internet content. It seeks to make investments in the telecommunications sector in segments including infrastructure and services, telecom operators, cable operators and technology companies, voice-data-video convergence, and development of new mobile services. The firm also invests in business and financial services in outsourced services focusing on financial services, business process outsourcing, services related to energy and environment. It makes investments in healthcare sectors with a focus on medical devices and services companies including private sector hospital treatment focusing on therapy of new medications or new forms for administering drugs, pharmaceutical laboratories, medical equipment, dermo-cosmetics, galenic development, and services and databases for health organizations, and health services including hospitalization structures, home health care, and medical analysis. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in French-speaking countries including France and Europe. It also invests in Turkey, Australia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, North Korea, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Mexico, Chile, United States and Canada. It prefers to invest in equity investment between €3.47 million ($3.79 million) and €250 million ($273.2 million) in Mid-Market €50 million ($54.65 million) and €250 million ($273.2 million) and Development: €15 million ($16.40 million) and €50 million ($54.65 million) with sales value between $13.34 million and $2732.9 million and enterprise value between $10.88 million and $1113.52 million. The firm may co-invest with others. It seeks to acquire majority or significant minority stakes and a board seat in its portfolio companies. It prefers minority position if the transaction is based on a genuine partnership with the management team, which confers them certain rights. The firm typically invests for a period of five to seven years on average. It seeks to exit its investments through trade sales, IPOs, secondary buyouts, as well as partial sales, and recaps. Seven2 sas was founded in 1972 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Europe.

365.fintech is a fintech venture investor focusing on innovative B2B or B2B2C FinTech, InsurTech, and Big Data startups across Europe, providing both financing and operational support.

startup300 AG is a venture capital firm conceived as a business angel network specializing in start-up, seed and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to take minority stakes and invests in the technology sector. The firm prefers to invest in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as the CEE countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). The firm invests between €0.05 million ($0.06 million) and €0.5 million ($0.57 million) in their early stage program and more than €1 million ($1.13 million) in their growth stage program. startup300 AG was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Linz, Austria.

Cathay Capital Private Equity SAS is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth capital, acquisition, mezzanine, PIPEs, small cap, mid-cap, leveraged buyouts, MBOs, capital increases and capital restructurings, industry consolidation, recapitalization, shareholding restructurings, and international expansion, buy-and-builds, carve-outs, co-investments. The firm seeks to invest in seed, start-ups, middle market, mature, late venture, later stage, growth stage, and midsize companies. It invests in all sectors particularly in business and industrial products and services, fintech, healthcare products and services, life sciences, telecommunication, online consumer electronics retail, online beauty care product & stores, pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, internet service, products & services, data processing & outsourced services for insurance industry, air freight, automobiles, household durables, leisure products, textiles, casino,travel & tourism, B2B commerce, insurance industry related tech hardware, beauty care services, AI software, system software for insurance industry, logistics software, property management software, automation product, security software, communication equipment, consumer brands/retail concepts, software, technology, digital, online insurance service, e-commerce software, financial software, IT consulting services to insurance industry, media, and automotive and mobility ecosystem with a focus on core technologies for cars. In China, the firm targets fast growing companies in sectors including environment, healthcare tech, online bill payment services, online trading systems, educational & training software, children-focused businesses, agri-businesses, logistics, and household equipment that capitalises on rapid urbanisation, with less focus on majority stakes. The firm targets investments globally with a focus on companies in North America, China, Europe, Asia, Africa with a focus on South and North Korea, Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, Austria, Japan, Luxembourg, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Czech Republic, Sweden, UK, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Mexico, Chile, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Switzerland, and German Mittelstand. It seeks to make cross border investments in mid-size French companies faced with a booming Asian economy as well as a partner for an increasing number of Chinese companies seeking a European foothold. It also invests in OECD countries. It seeks to allocate around 40 per cent each to France and China and the rest to Europe, with a core focus on Germany. The firm primarily invests between €5 million ($5.31 million) and €75 million ($79.78 million) in transactions ranging in value from €2 million ($2.12 million) and €15 million ($15.95 million). In cases of growth capital and leverage buyouts the value of each transaction is atleast €120 million ($127.66 million).It invests in companies with EBITDA between $2 million and $30 million and enterprise value of less than €100 million ($111.45 million). It invests in companies with revenues between $4.24 million and €400 million ($425.53 million) and turnover between €20 million ($21.27 million) and €400 million ($425.53 million). It seeks to have a board seat or observation right in all portfolio companies. The firm seeks to acquire minority or majority stakes alone or as part of a consortium of investors. It seeks to invest in companies whose growth can be fostered from new or enhanced cross-border and domestic development strategies. It seeks to co-invest. The firm seeks to be an ethic of sustainable development, based on social and environmental responsibility criteria. The firm holds its investments for five years. Cathay Capital Private Equity SAS was founded in 2007 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Shanghai, China; Beijing, China; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Tel Aviv, Israel; Singapore, Shenzhen, China, Munich, Germany, Berlin, Germany and Madrid, Spain.

Cogito Capital Partners is Venture capital firm specializing in early stage, emerging growth, late venture & growth capital investments. The firm typically invest in growth of B2B technology companies with investments at series B&C, particularly in enterprise software, fintech, healthcare/healthtech, insurtech, and mobility. The firm seeks to invest in European market with focus on Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungry, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and in the United States. It prefers to invest equity between €2.53 million ($2.75 million) and €15 million ($15.62 million). It acquires minority stakes in its portfolio companies. Cogito Capital Partners was formed in 2018 and is based in Warsaw, Poland with additional offices in Luxembourg, Luxembourg and New York, New York.

Eterus Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth capital of growth phase, small or medium-sized company with a history of at least 3 years. The firm only invest in Slovakia. The firm investments in the range of 0.5 - 5 mil EUR ($0.56 million to $5.62 million), while preferred length of investment is five years. The firm enters the companies as a minority shareholder, managerial control remains in the hands of the original shareholders. Eterus Capital is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Expandia, a.s. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management-buy-in, management-buy-out, recapitalization, emerging growth, middle market, industry consolidation, mid stage, later and late stage investments. The firm also invests in real estate, industrial manufacturing sector, financial sector, software and services, automotive, furniture and wood processing, hotels and consumer discretionary. Within real estate, it focuses on building of rentable administrative projects, residential buildings, logistic or hotel projects. The firm primarily invests throughout the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Germany. It typically invests between $2 million and $10 million in its portfolio companies with an enterprise value of $2 million to $20 million. The firm prefers to take majority position in its portfolio companies, but can consider minority positions, if minority shareholder rights are sufficiently protected. It seeks to take a board seat and prefers to exit its investments within three to seven years. The firm makes investments through its personal capital. Expandia, a.s. was founded in 1992 and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Gecad Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed/startup, early stage, expansion phase, and growth capital. It seeks to invest in software and hi-tech companies, including security software, FinTech, cyber security, artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality, IoT, agri-tech, online financial services, financial software, cloud technologies, e-commerce, crypto currencies and payment methods. The firm invests in the Central and Eastern Europe region that includes Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Greece, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The firm typically invests between $1 million and $8 million in equity. It makes balanced sheet and personal capital investments. Gecad Ventures, formerly known as Gecad Group, was founded in 1992 and is based in Bucharest, Romania.

Cudos Capital AG is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in later stage, restructuring, growth capital, growth equity, middle market, buyouts, mid venture, emerging growth, management buy-ins and buyouts, successor issues, mezzanine, and distressed investments. The firm does not invest in real estate and tourism sectors. The firm is industry agnostic but has focus on invest in mechanical and electronic engineering, telecoms, utilities and transportation. It seeks to invest in Dach and CEE regions, Central and Eastern Europe and German-speaking countries with a focus on Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Romania, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Austria, Southern Germany, Switzerland and selected neighboring countries. It seeks to invest in mid-market, small and medium-sized companies with revenues in the last 12 months, minimum €10 million ($11.46 million) and €100 million ($114.66 million) in sales value. The firm typically invest between euro 1 million ($1.11 million) and euro 8 million ($8.91 million).The firm prefers to have seats in management, supervisory or advisory boards depending on the investment situation. It prefers to have a say in strategic decisions and also the portfolio company in which the firm has invested needs to provide financial reporting to the firm on a regular basis. The firm targets stakes range from qualified minorities to full acquisitions. The firm’s investment period per deal is 5 years. Cudos Capital AG was founded in 2011 and is based in Vienna, Austria

We help entrepreneurs build global companies! We founded Neulogy Ventures to finance and develop talented entrepreneurs and help their companies succeed in the global market. Neulogy Ventures builds on our thorough knowledge of the local tech scene, our deep and wide network of mentors and advisors from Silicon Valley to Vienna, and years of realizing equity investment transactions as both investors and entrepreneurs. We know both sides of the early-stage investment world and offer our portfolio companies unique expertise based on our past experience as entrepreneurs, investors and transaction managers. Neulogy Ventures is the first ever Slovakia-based management company to run fully regulated seed and VC funds structured along the highest industry standards. We have a strong commitment to professional, transparent and hands-on approach to working with both our portfolio companies and our investors.

Oktogon Ventures is venture capital firm specializing in seed/startups, early ventures, bridge financing transactions and growth capital investments. The firm seek to invest in e-commerce software, devops, IT security industries. It seeks to invest in central and eastern Europe, particularly in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Tithuania regions. It make investment between 150k ($0.15 million) and $1.5 million. Oktogon Ventures was founded in 2019 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

HKK Partners is a Central European based Private Equity Investor with operations in Bratislava, Vienna and Ljubljana. HKK invests primarily in Austria and Central European Countries. HKK Partners is owned by its managing partners Juraj Koman and Roland Haas.

Luka Bramer Group is a private equity firm and venture capital firm specializing in mezzanine, and distressed assets, start up, and early stages investments. The firm prefer to make investment in energy, waste management, chemistry, agriculture and financial services sector. The firm prefer to make investment all over the world with focus on Central & Eastern Europe. Luka Bramer Group was founded in 1996 and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Rockaway Ventures is a Private Equity and a venture capital firm specializing in Seed to Series A stage startups, early venture, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in Data Processing and Outsourced Services, Internet Services and Infrastructure, Application Software, Systems Software, Media and Entertainment, Real Estate Services, Retailing, Consumer Services, food and staples retailing, health care technology, financials, retail and e-commerce, travel & hospitality, digital logistics, digital media, cybersecurity, defense, CleanTech, and PropTech. It seeks to invest in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Kosovo, Romania, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Switzerland. The firm prefers to take management control. The firm makes equity investments ranging between Euro 1 million ($1.18 million) to Euro 10 million ($11.85 million). Rockaway Ventures was founded in 2013 and is based in Czech Republic. Rockaway Ventures operates as a subsidiary of Rockaway Capital SE.

i4g Investment GmbH is a private equity firm specializing in mature, later stage, emerging growth, middle market, buyouts, and growth capital investments. The firm typically invests in traditional industrial companies active in packaging, machine engineering, automation, and industrie 4.0. It primarily invests in companies based in Austria, Northern Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, and South Germany with a focus on Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The firm invests between €0.5 million ($0.54 million) and €25 million ($26.88 million) in companies. The firm seeks minority or qualified minority stake. i4g Investment GmbH was formed in 2005 and is based in Vienna, Austria.

Zero Gravity Capital is a venture capital fund in Slovakia fuelling early-stage innovations. Zero Gravity Capital cooperates also with other established international funds and takes role of single investor, leading investor or co-investor. Additionally Zero Gravity Capital belongs to 0100 Ventures ecosystem and provides to portfolio companies valuable business benefits & services.Together with funding we organize key European venture capital & start-up conferences or provide software development resources as well as co-working spaces or transaction advisory services

Vision Ventures s.r.o. is a venture capital firm specializing in pre-seed and seed stage investments. The firm typically invests in startups in Slovakia. Vision Ventures s.r.o. is based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

CEE Equity Partners Ltd is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, buyins, expansion capital, development capital, replacement capital, mezzanine, turnaround, project finance, and restructuring investments. It prefers to invest in infrastructure, energy, telecommunications, specialized production healthcare, education, agriculture, manufacturing, waste management, high-tech and innovative business. Within infrastructure it invests in classic infrastructure: roads, rails, bridges, ports, and airports; municipal infrastructure: car parks, terminals, and street lighting; environmental infrastructure: sewerage/water treatment facilities, and waste management facilities; and heat production and distribution plants. Within energy it invests in renewables: wind farms, hydro, biogas, biomass, biofuels, geothermal and other feasible technologies; conventional fuel based (coal, gas, oil) power plants and heat producers; waste-To-Energy facilities; and storage and transmission distribution facilities. Within telecommunications it invests in fibre-optic infrastructure, both backbone, as well as fibre to home and to business; data centres; telecom operators; mobile-telephony infrastructure; and cable operators and their infrastructure. Within specialized production it invests in engineering; automation; equipment used for various sectors: infrastructure, energy, telecommunication; and industrial products and services. It also invests in incinerators, co-generation power plants, PPP ventures, and green energy. It prefers to invest in Central and Eastern Europe which includes Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The firm invests between $20 million and $100 million in equity and can also help arrange debt financing. It typically invests for a period of 5 to 8 years. CEE Equity Partners Ltd is based in Nicosia, Cyprus with additional offices across Europe.

Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content and technology ventures.With our investments in fibre-based and 5G networks we play a vital role in society, currently providing over 85 million fixed and mobile connections and rolling out the next generation of products and services, while readying our networks for 10 Gbps and beyond.We’re creating national champions, combining the best broadband and mobile networks under brands such as Virgin Media-02 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise in Switzerland, Virgin Media in Ireland and UPC in Slovakia.Liberty Global Ventures, our global investment arm, has a portfolio of more than 75 companies and funds across content, technology and infrastructure, including strategic stakes in ITV, Univision, Plume, Lionsgate and the Formula E racing series.Our scale enables us to transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments, creating a dynamic family of brands united in the pursuit of innovation and excellence.And we’re prioritising diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and communities, while reducing our impact on the environment. We are using technology as a force for good; for our people, our partners and the planet

Venture Growth Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage startups, angel, and seed investments. The firm invests in technology startups. It focuses on emerging and developing markets for investments including areas such as Central and Eastern Europe focusing on Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine; South East Asia focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand; Latin America focusing on Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil. It typically invests between $0.04 million and $0.08 million. Venture Growth Partners is based in Canada.

FIDURA Private Equity Fonds is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. Within direct investments, the firm specializes in mid venture, late venture, bridge, expansion financing, growth capital, emerging growth and middle market investments in small and medium-sized companies. Within fund of fund investments, the firm focus on private equity funds and venture capital funds. The firm prefers to invest in IoT, microsystems and nano engineering, big data analytics and automation (automotive, biotech), medical engineering, healthcare and consumer discretionary and material technology. The firm does not invest in drug development. It seeks to invest in Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, and Switzerland. The firm seeks to invest between €0.3 million ($0.33 million) and €3 million ($4.11 million) per transaction in companies with an enterprise value between €1 million ($1.10 million) to €20 million ($22.03 million) and sales value between $1.35 million and $27 million. It invests in accordance with clear ethical and sustainability criteria and normally assumes a minority share in the companies. It also considers larger investments with a co-investor. It prefers to invest in German speaking countries. FIDURA Private Equity Fonds was founded in 2001 and is based in Munich, Germany with an additional office in Grünwald, Germany.

Národný holdingový fond s.r.o. is a venture capital arm of National Agency for Development of Small and Medium Enterprises specializing in seed, start-up, early venture, mid venture, and growth capital investments in small and medium enterprises. It also provides micro loans. It seeks to invest in companies with annual turnover of up to €50 million ($65.73 million) and with total annual value of assets of up to €43 million ($56.52 million). The firm prefers to invest in companies that are involved in the InQb-STU incubator in Bratislava or InovaTech incubator in Sládkovièovo and based in the Slovak Republic. It prefers to invest in companies where more than 50 percent of their capital is in private ownership, number of employess do not exceed 250, and ownership interest or voting rights held directly or indirectly by entities other than SME does not exceed 25 percent. The firm seeks to exit its investments through the sale of capital participation to the original owners or third parties. Národný holdingový fond s.r.o was founded in 1994 and is based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Czech Founders Ventures s.r.o. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage, startup and pre-seed investments. The firm seeks to invest between €0.05 million and €0.35 million. The firm seeks to invest in Czech Republic and Central or Eastern Europe (CEE). The firm takes no more than a 15% equity stake. The firm prefers to take a minority stake. Czech Founders Ventures s.r.o. was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic with additional office in Bratislava, Slovakia.