About

Venionaire Capital

Overview

Venionaire is an entrepreneurial partner for investors, founders, and institutionals. Our partners and team are specialized in Venture Capital and Private Equity investments, with an extensive track record over more than a decade. We offer transaction and corporate advisory services – from due diligence, valuation, deal structuring, (ghost) negotiating to alternative fund management – for investors, corporates, public entities, and growth companies (startups/scaleups). Our track record as entrepreneurs, advisors, and investors shows deals in fields of Corporate Finance (M&A), (Corporate) Venture Capital, Corporate Startup Engagement (CSE), Digital Transformation, and High-Tech Innovation with a total volume of more than a billion Euros. In addition, we serve as trusted partners for scouting, screening, technology-, market- and competitive analysis and valuation for bespoke investors and accelerators in Europe. We are proud of our performance within managed portfolios and increase our high-tech footprint every day to support a future-proof economy.

4,500 +

Founders of largest Pan-European Investors Network

2,500 +

Annual Startup Dealflow

200 +

Network of International Experts and Partners

90%

Success Rate on Transactions

How it all came to be …

History

Venionaire Capital was founded in September 2012, by Berthold Baurek-Karlic (Iridium Family Office GmbH) in Vienna, Austria – a young serial entrepreneur, who managed to become one of the youngest licensed top-managers of a european investment firm in Europe at the time. In March 2015 partners offered Venionaire to make first steps in the United States of America through New York City. Looking back today this was a game-changing moment, which opened a whole world of new opportunities. The company grew its network every year since it was founded and keeps on doing so today. In each major development step new partners like March15 (2015), e&Co AG (2017) and NBT Verwaltungs GmbH (2018) joined the firm and fueled further growth. Venionaire (co-)founded initiatives such as the Business Angel Institute in 2014 and European Super Angels Club (2017) – today one of Europes largest Pan-European Investment Networks – alongside Partners from KPMG Austria. It was always smart and beneficial for us to ride on the shoulders of giants, as we believe in strong partnerships and longterm relationships. We are proud to be a driving force within european innovation ecosystems.

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Investment / Ventures

Alternative Investments – in particular Private Equity and Venture Capital – are regulated under european law (AIFM-D). Funds (AIF), as well as fund-managers (AIFM) need to register at their local financial market authorities and follow specific regulations. Venionaire Investment (Austria) and Venionaire Ventures (Luxembourg) have been established as management entities under this regulation, in order to set-up, place and manage funds within the European Union. Private Equity and Venture Capital, as a special sector within this asset-class, call for an immense amount of attention from a seasoned management team, strong governance and processes to perform well. Each stage of development and strategy needs specific, rare to find, talent to increase values and build a strong portfolio. Our team and network invests directly into our vehicles, as we believe skin in the game matters. Yet, we are always ready to consider new challenges and are happy to support sponsors (such as large Corporates, public entities or SMEs), when setting up funds, structuring secondary transactions or simply support their vehicles as advisors. Ideally we are partners from end-to-end of a fund-lifecycle and bring home success as a team.

Projects we Support

Europes largest Investors Network

European Super Angels Club

2017, Partners from Venionaire Capital and KPMG Austria founded European Super Angels Club. Inspired by the idea to connect Europe in order to shed light on the greatest talents of the European Union and provide necessary funding as a pan-european syndicate with the goal to see them conquer the world, we agreed to start this project. Liechtensteinische Landesbank (originally Semper Constantia Private Bank), Deutsche Börse Venture Network, top international law-firms like sheppherd-wedderburn, Accelerators like Wayra (Telefonica) and many others supported this club from early days until today. Every year roughly 40 Startups pitch in-front of a selected group of investors and some of them raise millions through this initiative and its syndication-fund.

Leading Angel Education

Business Angel Institute

Business Angel and even Venture Capital investing started late in Europe. We didn’t trigger this trend, but we identified a gap in 2014 together with Dr. Herwig Rollett and a number of Universities accross Europe. Most academic papers in the field of angel and venture finance where based on data from the United States of America and United Kingdom (in particular Scotland). European policy needed data to define attractive programs to support and build startup ecosystems and there was a need from academics to help identify investors to support studies and surveys. Years later Europe does well in this sector and our initiative is not only supporting academia, it is also training and certifing business angels to “CERTIFIED BUSINESS ANGELS“.

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Who we are?

Meet the team!

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WHERE TO FIND US

VIENNA, OFFICE (HQ)

Babenbergerstraße 9/12,
A-1010 Vienna, Austria (EU)
office@venionaire.com

SAN FRANCISCO, USA

1355 Market St. #488
San Francisco CA 94103
sfo@venionaire.com

NEW YORK CITY, USA

122 East 37th Street
First Floor
New York, NY 10016
nyc@venionaire.com

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Venionaire Capital exclusively invests through the European Super Angels Club, for more information and application please go to the website. We do not accept direct investment proposals via this website.