If you want to build a company with $100M+ revenues – reach out to us!
We strive to be the most helpful VC onboard
Inovo offers a unique benchmark for world-class startups. We’ve seen many success stories, and we are willing to spend our time helping you figure out things like:
- How can I scale my business?
- Which investor should you go to at this round?
- How fast should my startup grow?
- What do I need to validate to make the investors in the next round excited?
- How to set up a company in the US? What does it mean for my culture? What do you need to do operationally to make it happen?
- How do I build an advisory board?
- How do I find a good, trusted lawyer and accountant.
👩🏽💻 Recruitment
- We help founders find, evaluate and convince ”A players” to join your startup
- We have a full-time recruiter working for our portfolio
- Over 100 candidates have been hired thanks to our introductions and engagement in recruitment processes
💰 Investors
- Over 70 international co-investors in our portfolio's financing rounds.
- Over 200 intros handled on behalf of our portfolio companies for follow-on funding.
🤝🏽 Customers
- Over 30 tech unicorns who we can introduce our companies to
- Over $2M ARR in contracts based on our introductions
👨🏽🎓 Advisors
- Over 20 world-class advisors work with our portfolio companies to help them grow faster
- Over half of our portfolio companies work permanently with advisors or angels we have introduces them too
We also have partnership programmes for our portfolio companies that can save you $100k+ in different software credits.
What do we search for
💰 Investment ticket: €0.5m - €4m
This is our first ticket size. We do follow-ons up to €10m for individual portfolio companies, and we can do €100-250k ”discovery tickets” in special cases.
🌱 Stage: ~Seed
We invest mainly at the Seed stage (occasionally earlier or later). Our ticket allows us to make some Pre-Seed and Series A investments too.
🌍 Geo: CEE + diaspora
We have a GEO focus, invest in startups all over Central and Eastern Europe, and founders from this region who are building startups anywhere in the world. The CEE region includes the following countries: Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Latvia, Kosovo, Estonia, Montenegro.
⚙ Industry: Multi-vertical
We aren’t limited to a single sector or business model. However, we are strong in certain areas like:
- Developer Tools (Maciej), AI/Machine learning (Maciej), Data Science (Karol), Healthcare (Michal),
- SaaS enabled marketplaces (Michal), B2C and B2B2C (Michal), B2B Enterprise (Tomasz)
💙 What makes us excited
YOU:-) We are excited by ambitious founders, large markets, and products that clients love and are just 10x better than anything else on the market.
Our Values
Founders First
We put our founders & companies ahead of ourselves.
- When we have a decision to make we will act in the best interest of the Founders.
Go Big or Fail Forward
We aim high and do not compromise for less.
- We prefer ambitious projects with 100x return potential that have a risk of failure rather than 2-3x “certain return” projects.
Commit & Deliver Results
If you commit to a task or a project, deliver with high quality results.
- This value is about putting focus on “delivering results”. It’s not about checklist of tasks that you have to do, but doing your best to achieve the goals - often in a non-standard way.
Data Beats Opinion
Our decisions are driven by the numbers and data.
- When we have a decision to make we will look at the market data, benchmarks, and historical data to choose the right thing.