Partners and Opportunities

The Fund’s mission is to invest into deep tech projects/startups that will help solve our planet’s most urgent problems or tackle them in a more efficient and innovative way.

We will do this by accessing cutting-edge technologies through our core partnerships with research institutions (RI), and transfer these technologies out to commercially viable products in companies/start-ups by our investment strategy that is in a light of our hands-on startup know-how / full investment lifecycles & industry / expert networks, will be our main tools to
exploit

Today, RIs, professors and scientists are eager for project commercialization and spinoffs, not only to catch up with the EU averages, but also to make a real-life difference rather than just shelved academic research.

R&D Partners

University of Ljubljana

Ruđer Bošković Institute

University of Rijeka

Faculty of Polymer Technology

Industry Partners

Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) Opportunity

Vesna’s aim is to create a ”Geek Community” that wants to tackle the world’s problems with science – our investments. Objectives

• Regular exchanges with scientists & researchers
• Mentor and coach entrepreneurs and spinoffs
• Kick-off the ecosystem with regular gatherings, conferences, workshops and speeches
• Hiring support for our portfolio companies

Who can become Vesna’s super community:

• Serial entrepreneurs
• Scientists & researchers
• PhD & MSc students
• Developers & geeks

Requirements

• Understands both worlds
• Launched su (EIR)ccessfully a commercial product
• Hungry and driven
• Scientific / technical background
• Entrepreneurs fascinated by the science world
• Visionaries who wants to change the world

Find your next opportunity and tell us about your ideal job.

Join- tell us about your ideal role – get recommended and after introduction, your ideal position within new company is starting to role!

Industry Partnership

One of our main post-investment activities is to engage industry partners with our portfolio companies with aim to ensure a fruitful partnership with many outcomes: early access to the most advanced technologies, working on sandboxes, pilots, channels entries and many more…

Benefits for Industry partners:

• • Early intelligence on new technologies
  • De-risked access to research inventions and patents through Vesna VC
  • Constant flow of information on specific subjects and strategic questions to corporate management as opposed to only bottom-up information.
  • In the event of becoming an LP or co-investing
  • Buy “insurance policy” in potentially disruptive technology to business.
  • Identify potential acquisition opportunities.

If you are interested please send us a request HERE