<aside> 🌼 Pupava Ventures is an syndicate of VCs, founders, operators and angel investors investing in European pre-seed and seed fintech and b2b SW startups along Tier 1 VCs.

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💪 Investment Thesis

• Geographically investing in broad Europe including CEE and the UK

• Investing in pre-seed & seed stages

• Key verticals are vertically agnostic b2b software (enterprise and SaaS)

• Following in rounds with Tier 1 co-investors

• 100-150k USD per investment

• Founder team quality, track record and cohesion, market opportunity, and signs of traction are the first investment principles

• No FOMO deals

🙏 Our Value Add

You are receiving this opportunity as one of the close people within our network who we would love to have on board as an early member of the syndicate.

This is How We Help Our Founders**:**

<aside> 👀 Access to 100+ Tier 1 early stage venture deals in Europe to help you fundraise.

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<aside> 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are former founders and operators that have built 2 unicorns before.

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<aside> 📈 Exposure to amazing VC deals with tiny tickets.

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<aside> 💺 We are experts in headhunting and hiring C-level execs.

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🔀 Investment Process

<aside> 👇 Our investment process is simple, transparent and quick. This is how it looks like:

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1. Receive Deck: Entrepreneurs submit their investment pitch decks, providing a comprehensive overview of their business model, market opportunity, and growth strategy.
2. Initial Review: Our team conducts a swift but thorough analysis of the received decks, identifying promising opportunities and aligning them with our investment criteria.
3. 1st and 2nd Call: Shortlisted candidates engage in a series of in-depth discussions during the first and second calls, allowing us to delve deeper into their vision, strategy, and potential alignment with our fund's goals.
4. Decision: Following the calls, the investment committee convenes for a comprehensive review and discussion. A final decision is reached, and successful candidates are notified, concluding the 4-week investment process.

🤩 Track Record Highlights

• 10 mil EUR deployed in 20 startups in fintech & SaaS startups and Tier 1 VC funds.

• 🤑 50 mil. EUR+ in follow-on funding raised by our portfolio companies since our engagement (1:16 ratio our investment:follow-on)

• 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 co-investments and follows on from leading VCs Accel, Index Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Speedinvest,

• 😇 angel investments include Sidekick (led by Seedcamp & Octopus Ventures) and Kickresume (currently at 10x TVPI unrealized)

<aside> ❤️  Most importantly; with we proved 3 key hypotheses that are important in what we do: 1 we can identify and access competitive deals 2 founders love working with us 3 we we can add value to our portfolio companies

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