Strong startup activity in EU has attracted substantial venture capital investment amounts in recent years (approximately 500 million EUR in the period 2005 to 2018) and a range of successful exits have rewarded investors for their trust and commitment.
Our portfolio is flexible, but it’s worthwhile to invest. These stories grow above expectations because we have successfully developed their way of working with invested companies. The stories themselves tell about our success.
INVESTMENT POLICY
Many startup founders are excellent in developing products and services, but they have difficulty in promoting and selling. Today, startups are engaged in lower margins, fighting against technology giants, or adding some unnecessary technology to their core product, but only the fact that they need to quickly generate new revenue through their digital marketing or reshaped sales and branding, while growing . To support them after the investment, AlpVent has developed a unique approach to evaluating target companies at an early stage and growth stage with a customized process of due diligence in the field of product market adaptation and GoTo marketing strategy.
AlpVent’s investment policy relates to the operation of an individual startup company in the context of sales, marketing and business, along with compliance with financial criteria. Through past investments we realized that our unique process of monitoring and working with investments means a big leap in the classic monitoring of companies after the received investment. We do this in our own way, with direct work with the company, which, however, means a winning combination for both parties – both the company and us, the investor.
INVESTMENT APPROACH
Investment approach is industry agnostic whereby AlpVent’s investment rationale is based on the premise that the CE markets are characterized by startups with strong product development capabilities that need support to internationalize their business beyond local subscale markets.
HOW WE COOPERATE AFTER AN INVESTMENT AND WHAT IS OUR UNIQUE VALUE?
For each company, the acquisition of AlpVent’s investment is an important milestone, both financially and organizationally. However, this also means that a new partner will be introduced to the company, which will take an active role in it. What does it mean? AlpVent does not take on managerial positions and manages the company’s personnel. AlpVent operates in the background where it strategically helps to grow the company, with the temp increasing the satisfaction of both the employees and the customers that the company has.
VALUE
We are better at selection of startups with support of other KPI’s, related and reflected to financial KPIs. Hands on process enables us to check the progress and success of startup, what is a result of better selection from our startup pool.