Vision Ventures

What Vision Ventures does

Vision Ventures is a Bratislava-headquartered venture capital fund focused exclusively on pre-seed and seed investments in Slovakia. Founded in 2019, the firm invests between €100 thousand and €800 thousand in standard rounds, with capacity up to €1.6 million per company, and targets early-stage startups not older than five years at the time of investment. Capital has been deployed across 26 portfolio companies spanning HR technology (Sloneek), contract lifecycle management (Cequence), AI-powered medical tools (Seerlinq), autonomous drones (Airvolute), robotics/automation (Spinbotics), trademark services (TramaTM), restaurant technology (BiteBerry), sales technology (CloseRocket), and additional SaaS verticals. The fund holds investments for 3-8 years, was actively investing through the end of 2023, and has a final closure date of end of 2029.

The firm operates a standard VC economics model: revenue is realized through exits via acquisitions, IPOs, or secondary transactions, with the fund earning carried interest on profits above the preferred return threshold. Vision Ventures explicitly positions itself as an active investor rather than a passive capital provider, offering operational, strategic, and product-development support alongside capital. The senior team comprises Partner Tomáš Bél (Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 in Slovakia, serial entrepreneur, executive education at Harvard Business School and London Business School), Partner Gabriel Horváth (CFA charterholder with Ernst & Young, fund management, and investment banking background), and Investment Manager Jakub Dvorský (law degree, former PricewaterhouseCoopers M&A, due diligence, and restructuring consultant).

Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven: the firm engages founders directly, sources deals via referrals from portfolio companies (Sloneek, TramaTM, Cequence, CloseRocket, theshop), and maintains a visible presence across its website (visionventures.vc), LinkedIn, and Crunchbase, with active participation in Slovak and Central European startup events. The investment mandate is strictly geographic — companies must be based and operate in Slovakia — positioning Vision Ventures as a focused specialist within a small national market. Distribution is direct (no intermediaries), and deal flow relies on the GP's network plus the referral flywheel generated by the 26-company portfolio.

Name

Vision Ventures

Legal name

Vision Ventures

Website

https://www.visionventures.vc/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Bratislava-headquartered venture capital fund focused exclusively on pre-seed and seed investments in Slovakia, deploying €100k-€1.6M per company across 26 portfolio companies spanning HR tech, AI medical tools, drones, robotics, contract management, and SaaS.

Ownership category

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Product category

Venture Capital

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akta.pro primary industry

Early-Stage Venture Capital (Pre-Seed/Seed) (FSANAAAA)

Keywords

• Venture capital fund
• Pre-seed investments
• Seed-stage funding
• Startup investment
• Slovakia venture capital

Headquarters

HQ city

Bratislava

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Investment Returns / Carried Interest: As a venture capital fund, Vision Ventures generates returns through equity investments in portfolio companies. Revenue is realized through exits via acquisitions, IPOs, or secondary transactions, with the fund earning carried interest on profits above the preferred return threshold. The fund can actively invest until end of 2023 with final closure by end of 2029.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Vision Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides pre-seed and seed-stage equity investments to early-stage startups based and operating in Slovakia. Standard investment sizes range from €100 thousand to €800 thousand, with capacity up to €1.6 million per portfolio company, alongside active operational and strategic support to help founders scale globally over a 3–8 year holding period.

Product overview

Vision Ventures operates as a single unified VC fund offering pre-seed and seed investment services to Slovak startups, with investments ranging from €100k to €1.6 million. The fund's portfolio consists of 26 portfolio companies spanning diverse sectors including HR technology (Sloneek), contract lifecycle management (Cequence), drone technology (Airvolute), e-commerce platforms (theshop), trademark services (TramaTM), and various other verticals. The portfolio companies function as the output of the investment services rather than separate product lines.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pre-Seed and Seed Investment Services

Named customers8 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Purple Ventures: Slovak early-stage VC fund that co-invested with Vision Ventures in Sloneek's €3.6M late-seed round. Directly comparable as a domestic VC targeting Slovak pre-seed and seed startups with similar ticket sizes.
• Venture to Future Fund: Slovak VC fund that participated alongside Vision Ventures in Sloneek's funding round. Comparable as a domestic Slovak early-stage investor operating in the same geography and stage.
• Crowdberry: Slovak-Czech equity crowdfunding and investment platform that enables early-stage capital raises for regional startups. Comparable as an alternative early-stage capital provider targeting the same Slovak/CZ founder base.

Regional players

• Credo Ventures: Czech early-stage VC fund focused on pre-seed and seed investments in Central Europe. Comparable as a CEE early-stage specialist investing in startups with global ambitions, though primarily Czech-focused.
• Czech Founders VC: Czech pre-seed and seed fund investing in Czech and Central European startups. Comparable as a CEE early-stage specialist with similar thesis of backing founders building globally, though based in Prague.
• Day One Capital: Hungarian early-stage VC fund focused on tech-enabled startups in CEE. Comparable as a regional early-stage specialist investing across Central Europe, though based in Budapest.
• LAUNCHub Ventures: Bulgarian early-stage VC fund backing seed-stage startups in Southeast Europe and CEE. Comparable as a regional pre-seed/seed specialist, though focused on the SEE cluster.
• South Central Ventures: CEE-focused VC fund (with EU/IPA-backed successor fund) investing in early-stage startups across Western Balkans and CEE. Comparable as a regional early-stage investor with public-fund backing.
• Rockaway Capital: Czech investment firm with venture and growth capital arms investing across CEE. Comparable as a regional multi-stage investor, though generally participating at larger ticket sizes than Vision Ventures.

Broad incumbents

• Speedinvest: Austria-based early-stage VC with dedicated CEE focus and a broad sector mandate. Comparable as a larger-scale pre-seed/seed investor operating in the same CEE geography, with deeper follow-on capacity.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xcrunchbase.com/organization/vision-ventures-9b12
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/company/vision-ventures

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments27 records

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