Savano Capital Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio includes Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, and Toast and has $19 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Boston, Beijing and Bangalore. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio). Our core values guide how we aspire to work together - and with entrepreneurs to lay strong foundations from idea to growth:Curiosity: Curiosity drives us to question and explore, helping us inspire others and overcome our cynicism. It is only with an eager and open mind that we recognize the greatest opportunities and experience the joy of discovery. Learning & Mentorship: Bessemer recognizes that an enduring institution must continually invest in and care for its people, while ensuring an equitable, inclusive environment for individual growth. We recognize that each of us is at once a student and a teacher, with the capacity to learn and mentor throughout one's career and in life. Innovation: Courageous and independent thought spurs the innovation that keeps us ahead of the curve. We welcome divergent opinions, encourage challenges to prevailing practice, and seize opportunities to progress as an organization. Intellectual Honesty: Our most important relationships depend on the mutual trust that arises from intellectual honesty. We strive to obtain and share information with a keen awareness of our cognitive and professional biases. Empowerment: The effectiveness of the organization rests on each of us seizing the opportunity to take ownership of something. We empower and encourage one another to use our best judgment in the pursuit of opportunities and in confronting challenges. Collaboration: Our lasting success is a result of high-performing individuals working in concert. We recognize individual performance and appreciate that our collective performance requires a selfless approach to assisting one another, a diverse team and a genuine commitment to collaboration. Our Diversity Commitment We believe people thrive when they can be their authentic selves. We recognize that privileges and biases influence everyone's life journey. We aim to raise awareness of them and rigorously examine their impact on our culture and decision making. This is our approach to pursue a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment. Diversity: We embrace a range of independent views to reach effective decisions. Therefore, we seek to work with people who represent different races, genders, backgrounds, and other identities. Equity: We take responsibility for our roles in creating equal access to opportunity. We promote practices, policies, and behaviors to address inequality across our community. Inclusion: We want every member of our community to feel they can be themselves, be heard, and be supported. We appreciate that our differences will make us better. We recognize that it will take both hard work and patience to improve our understanding and to achieve the results we seek. We bring a beginner's mindset to this work and are committed to holding ourselves accountable in this journey. Roadmaps. Our working atlas. Fueled by our curiosity to understand the changing world around us, we practice courageous and independent thought through our roadmaps - ongoing deep dives of the technologies and companies that are shaping the future. Honoring the audacious. Our most important relationships depend on the mutual trust that arises from intellectual honesty. We tip our hats to the opportunities we missed and the entrepreneurs we learned from. Forging new connections. Our partners and operating advisors collaborate to help entrepreneurs navigate areas that are critical to building and scaling their business - such as building a leadership team, developing go-to-market strategies, and strengthening product value.

We are a venture capital firm positioned in the heart of Startup Nation. We invest in visionary Israeli entrepreneurs building future-defining technologies. We seek the leaders who are relentless in their quest to disrupt existing markets, industries, business processes, and consumer experiences. They are the pioneers who will shape the way we live, work, and experience the world in years to come. While our founders dream big, execution is the name of the game. We provide our founders with much more than just capital. We are the go-to partner for entrepreneurs who seek our experience, perspective, and mentorship. We have a tailored, founder-friendly approach and offer our portfolio companies a strong support system. As seasoned launch-enablers, we thrive in helping early-stage startups grow into significant businesses. We work to provide mentorship across key milestones leading to launch – from fine tuning product to developing go-to-market processes to building teams. We offer founders our diverse expertise, collaborative ecosystem, and market access to help transform nascent ideas into success stories. Applied Expertise The PICO team brings a diverse set of professional backgrounds and expertise. We are former founders and executives who experienced the meteoric growth of startup to multi-billion-dollar enterprise. Our domain expertise spans enterprise, automotive retail, e-commerce, finance, security, healthcare IT, telecommunications, and more. We leverage our know-how to help entrepreneurs build great companies. During the ideation phase, we deploy our strategic knowledge to help founders identify market-shifting opportunities and refine initial ideas. From there, we impart our launch expertise to help founders bring products to market. We don’t just invest in opportunities – we help founders create and build on them. Collaborative Ecosystem PICO’s ecosystem includes a global business network of experienced entrepreneurs and executives who work hand-in-hand with our founders to ensure success. Our network provides domain expertise, business model and strategy development, and valuable customer connections as founders validate their value proposition and gain traction in the market. Guided by our mission to cultivate entrepreneurship, we’ve established deep roots in Israel’s startup community. PICO Spaces, our co-working spaces in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, are core to our identity as community builders. Our portfolio companies and other early-stage founders share these spaces with the PICO team to access our counsel and tap into the energy of these ecosystem hubs. Market Access As one of the few early-stage VCs in Israel with a team in New York, we provide a unique gateway for our portfolio companies’ entry into the U.S. market. The team activates their network for due diligence on ideas and recruiting key hires. Our business network across the U.S., Europe, and Asia is a huge value-add for early-stage companies that quickly need to reach new customers and partners.

Our approach keeps founders at the heart of everything we do. We areConviction-led: We value independent decision-making and lead all our investments. Long-term partners: We stay fully committed to founders' vision, no matter how long it takes. Sector specialists: We each focus on specific sectors to build a deep, informed point of view that fuels our investment strategy and portfolio support. Transparent: We keep founders in the loop and prioritize honest communication, making us partners they never have to second-guess. Engaged: We believe in staying actively involved through meaningful board participation and functional support. Our journey started like many other startups – in a Bengaluru basement 2016 When we set out to raise our first fund, the Indian VC landscape was shaky at best. Investors were cautious, several foreign VC majors had left the ecosystem, and successful exits were hard to come by. Amidst skepticism about the Indian market, we defiantly believed that the "golden decade" of Indian technology was upon us. We saw an opportunity for VC 2.0 in India – one that was stage-focused, expertise-driven, and committed to prioritizing real growth alongside valuations. Undeterred by a tough fundraising climate, we knocked on 1,200 doors to raise Stellaris’ first fund. These early struggles shaped Stellaris’ culture, allowing us to fully resonate with the fundraising challenges faced by early-stage entrepreneurs. 2017 We launched our first fund of $90 million. From the outset, we established a principle of having specialists on our team, enabling us to tap into deep sector knowledge, spot promising opportunities, and provide tailored support to the companies we backed. Out of our 19 investments in our first fund, 9 surpassed a valuation of $100 million, with several others on track to achieve this milestone. 2021 We closed our second fund of $225M and backed 25 companies, many of which are poised to become the leaders of tomorrow. We also had our first significant exit in the portfolio when 6Sense, a US SaaS company, acquired Slintel, in which Stellaris was the first institutional investor. 2023 Our portfolio company, Mamaearth, which we backed at the Series A stage in 2018, successfully completed its IPO. 2024 We launched our third fund of $300M and are now managing over $600M in assets. We're ready to support the next wave of innovative businesses with the same grit and determination that brought us here.

We target private investment opportunities alongside our investors and provide access to our proprietary deal sourcing. All investments are structured in-house by our team of investment professionals located in Zurich, Vienna, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City. Investment Focus Our focus is on Private Equity, Real Estate and Venture Capital. Corecam invests opportunistically across the entire capital structure. Our investment sweet spot allows for attractive entry multiples, as it is too large for individuals and too small for institutional investors. Private Equity: We focus on mid market companies in uncorrelated industries that are supported by secular growth trends such as software, health care services and technology enabled business services. Together with our partners, we seek to invest in cash generating and recurring businesses, with the potential to pursue a dedicated buy-and-build strategy with a clear geographic multiple arbitrage. Real Estate: In Real Estate we have historically been focused on affordable multi-family, senior and student housing, as well as commercial and opportunistic real estate transactions. We have a strong track record in development and value-add investments globally. Our portfolio spans across the United States, Australia, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, Austria, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Philippines, India and Korea. Venture Capital: We allocate capital to established startups and specialized Venture Capital funds with top tier track records. Corecam’s investment focus lies in uncorrelated business models. Typically B2B companies with a high share of recurring revenues. Over 60% of Corecam’s current Venture Capital portfolio is focused on software companies. We seek high growth, high margin business models partnering with entrepreneurs, who are building technologies for the next generation. Special Opportunities: Thanks to our proprietary network of investors and partners we have access to a wide range of private market opportunities. Our execution speed and structuring expertise allow us to flexibly participate in such investments. This has led to opportunistic investments into infrastructure, pre-IPOs, IPOs, privatizations and targeted non-bank lending.

We partner with innovative entrepreneurs digitizing the consumer industry. We leverage our specialist expertise and industry networks in the consumer and technology sectors to add value above and beyond pure capital to the entrepreneurs that we back. These resources enable our partners to scale faster and more efficiently. We target European mature businesses generating over €10 m in revenues and growing at over 30% CAGR. Our vertical focus on consumer industries and strong industry knowledge and networks allow us to support companies effectively and position ourselves as preferred partner to work with.

As capital becomes a commodity with more early-stage investors flocking to Africa, what will make us stand out will be our networks, relationships, and reputations. What we look forLarge Markets: A clear market opportunity that is massive and growing, captured through a scalable business model. We aim at reaching sustainable impact across a large audience by addressing deep markets, or investing in market-creating innovations. Scalable Economics: Tech-enabled businesses with proven, highly leverageable and defensible revenues, coupled with the ability to improve unit economics through cost and capital efficiency are able to achieve top-trend growth more easily than less efficient business structures. We are disciplined in ensuring the unit economics of the business we invest in are sustainable and attractive. Strong Agile Teams: We are looking for founders that combine strategic vision and executional capacity. Strong teams tend to be bound by a cohesive, inclusive, all-hands-on deck culture. We are seeking founders and teams guided by a clear value proposition and differentiated position in the market. Repeatable Growth: Solutions with highly replicable growth models and transferable problem-solution sets can most benefit from our growth investment and market expansion facilitation. As African markets are not uniform, we carefully model and test solution-market fit. How much funding will you get? If you are an African founder of a tech enabled startup that is solving a significant African development challenge please apply here. If you have little or no revenues, we will refer you to our Angel Fund for $10k to $100k funding consideration. If you have meaningful revenues with high growth potential, we may invest $50k-$250k.