2023年7月4日,

平靜的風暴/合資企業。©米娜船底座平靜/風暴企業與商業天使Hansi漢斯曼有深厚的淵源,Speedinvest, Runtastic。第一次關注HealthTech後,下一個基金融資奧地利最好的創始人。2021年是一個宣傳全球獨角獸的數量翻了一倍,1058年從586年的2020後大量的風險資本注入這些科技公司。一切都是不同的在2022年,當大規模裁員,downrounds,缺乏風險資本占據了報章的頭版頭條。奧地利的創始人和合夥人VC平靜/風暴企業非常了解這兩個波蘭人。綜上所述,Lucanus Polagnoli (ex-Speedinvest) Hansi漢斯曼,阿爾弗雷德魯格爾手槍(ex-Runtastic)重量超過180的投資基金經理和商業天使。在這方麵,可以說一個啟動過山車不會輕易打擾她。名字平靜/風暴是為了表達這種——基金作為一個安全的固定在創業的風暴。“公司成立後,暴風雨來了。你不能避免它,即使有大量的資本。 Right now in the middle of the crisis, young entrepreneurs have to keep calm in order not to go under,” says Calm/Storm Ventures boss Polagnoli. For the passionate sailor, the naming of the early-stage investor was obvious. “Calm/Storm has set out to invest in purpose-driven founders who aim to make a difference in our lives for the better. These founders also do not throw everything away so easily when the first crisis looms on the horizon.” Only on recommendation The concept seems to be working – in 2022 Calm/Storm Ventures was even the most active digital health investor in Europe. If the first fund focuses on digital health, the second is all about the best Austrian founders. Everything is possible, from FinTech to ClimateTech to EdTech, the main thing is that one thing is fulfilled: “We only invest in founders that we know well or have been recommended by our supporting partner network.” Since Calm/Storm Ventures got into startups very early on (pre-seed and seed) it is always very much about the founders themselves. “Unlike other funds, we are a real ‘super early stage’ investor, so we don’t need any sales, and that’s often the case MVP or a proof-of-concept just underway,” says Polagnoli. “The founding team has to convince us. However, since we are a venture capital fund, the sales and market potential must be correspondingly large. That’s why we focus on the Founder/Market Fit. But the most important question is whether the founders can solve a big, important problem digitally.” Digital tsunami expected There are a few warning signs that keep Calm/Storm Ventures from investing. Polagnoli lists: Homogeneous founding teams; difficult starting positions due to “watered down” cap tables; Founders who see fundraising as a necessary evil; and if founders do not want to give full commitment to the respective startup and have other projects running at the same time. Incidentally, Calm/Storm will not remain involved forever either. “For us as a micro-VC, the ROI can, but does not necessarily have to mean a sale of the start-up or an IPO. It is also often the case that in a later round of financing, a larger follow-on investor buys the shares of the early-stage investors in a so-called secondary in order to increase their own shares and enable us to exit,” says Polagnoli. Many investors see the current crisis years as an opportunity for new startups to emerge that nobody thought of in better times. “We don’t think we’re going to see the big innovations in monetization or business models. The disruption is more likely to come from the digitization of major issues such as health, environment/energy and education,” says Polagnoli. “The Covid pandemic has shown us how external effects can accelerate digitization processes that have been overdue for a long time. From our point of view, we will be swamped by a proverbial digitization tsunami.” Calm/Storm Ventures