Vesna Deeptech Fund

Nina Dremelj is Managing Partner at the deep – tech Fund, being established as the first Slovenian-Croatian deep tech fund, called Vesna and supported by European Investment Fund. Vesna VC objective si to invest in early-stage innovations and talents to successful commercial and scalable companies, intangible assets such as Intellectual Property and products…solving the planet’s most critical challenges.

She is also the president of Business Angels of Slovenia. Her greatest passion is to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into real, successful businesses. In the last 5 years, she invested as a super angel in more than 18 companies with an average investment multiple above 5x.  She also puts her energy and focuses on Alita Capital, an Investment company, investing smaller tickets but a lot of time and knowledge into extremely early stages or founding teams with a lasting will to bring innovative projects to life. In the past, she co-owned and successfully managed the Swiss seed fund AlpVent AG.

In 2021, under the auspices of business angels, she helped set up the first daFUND venture capital fund, supported by business angels and also invested in it.

Creation of the conditions where existing processes are challenged and where new one can be created in order to improve quality and increase efficiency.

Specialties:

• People, processes and funds management
• Excellent knowledge of the innovation ecosystem
• Very good understanding of the government or the EU administration.
• High knowledge of programming (Basic, Pascal, Fortran, C / C + +, Unix Shell, Applescript)
• Creation and implementation of new IT tools,
• Work in interoperable environment

My professional career started in 2007 in a software development company. In 2008 I took the role of an assistant manager at TECH_PARK Varazdin to write project proposals, manage projects and mentor startups. My international project management experience includes the implementation of over 40 EU funded projects.

In 2015 I participated in a US Department of State’s and WorldChicago’s Professional Fellows Program. The program brings emerging leaders from around the world to the United States for intensive fellowships designed to broaden their professional expertise. In April 2017 I won the Ignite pitch competition held at the International conference on business incubation in Seattle, Washington.

In January 2018 I took the role of TECH_PARK Varaždin managing director to manage the TECH_PARK 4040 sqm reconstruction project and implement new initiatives such as Voogle accelerator, TECH_PARK TrepDays, MakerSpace Varaždin and WorldChicago in-country partnership. In November 2022 I joined the Invento Capital Partners team where I am working on the ideation and implementation of projects and business support solutions in the field of urban mobility and deep tech. I am PMP® certified, using this knowledge at Vesna deep tech Fund for supporting potential iinvestments as Venture Associate.

• EnergyTech

• BioTech

• Water & Marine

• Circular Economies

• AgriTech

• Smart Cities

• TouristTech

• Mobility &
Transportation

• Waste Management

• Hydrogen

• Supply Chains

• Polymers

• Biomaterials

• Smart Materials

• NanoTech

• Semiconductors

• Life Sciences

• SpaceTech

• Big Data

• Robotics

• Additive Manufacturing

• IndustrialTech