Born to democratize investment in startups and bring it closer to all types of investors, Enzo Ventures begins its journey in Barcelona with a top level team and a focus totally focused on discovering the unicorns of the future. Enzo Ventures is led by Edgar Vicente, Iván Fernández and Markus Törstedt, three entrepreneurs in their twenties with previous experience in successfully launching and selling their own startups. The first two were founders of the company DiHola, which was sold to an international group in early 2020. In turn, Markus is the driving force behind the Luna consumer digitalisation SaaS, also recently successfully divested.
It was precisely this previous experience as founders that led Edgar, Ivan and Markus to the conviction that there was a great opportunity to develop around the investment in very early stages. It is in this spirit that Enzo Ventures was born, an innovative and ambitious project that the three of them have embarked upon, which aims to become one of the leading venture capital funds for pre-seed startups in Europe.
Enzo Ventures will start under the initial configuration of a micro-fund, with the initial support of experienced investors and entrepreneurs and will specialise in young entrepreneurs in their earliest stages of entrepreneurship. Enzo proposes to enter into these projects at an early stage, accompanying them with capital, advice and contacts, with the aim of making them rapidly investable by larger venture capital funds. Among other novelties, Enzo will consider the possibility of early exits from some of its investees, for which it will sign dealflow exchange agreements and secondary disinvestment proposals with various international funds. Several top-level European funds have already shown interest in these options.
The area of the under30s, entrepreneurs under thirty years of age, is the area in which Enzo plans to focus most of its investment activity. To this end, it has the support of a global network of experts from different countries and profiles, most of whom are also young entrepreneurs and are aware of the challenges associated with entrepreneurship, which will help to identify and promote the best startups for Enzo, both in Spain and in other markets. Enzo's objective is to invest in a reduced number of startups, with variable tickets per company and very initial assessments. In this sense, Enzo Ventures is inspired by funds such as the American Dorm Room Fund, which is usually the first investor in the startups it enters. Enzo's greater generational proximity to the entrepreneurs of these startups is one of the premises on which it hopes to build a funnel of high-quality opportunities.
The fund already has initial investment committed and first operations under study. The Enzo team is already evaluating various operations, including more than 50 investment opportunities in highpotential European startups. Enzo Ventures' objective is to make the first investments between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021.
A value inherent to Enzo's founding model is to contribute to the democratisation of investment in startups. In this spirit, Enzo Ventures is launching this first fund with a similar philosophy to Sahil Lavigna's American rolling fund. Vehicles that are characterised by being smaller in size and having a short life cycle. In the case of Enzo, the medium-term objective is to ensure that these opportunities can reach any type of investor.
The venture capital sector has not stopped growing in recent years in Europe. Far from stopping its activity, the current crisis derived from the pandemic has given a boost to this type of activity, with the emergence of several investment funds focused on highly innovative projects in their early stages. Within this trend, at the current time of change in the sector, Enzo is starting out with the ambition of becoming a reference player in the field of European seed capital and in the fund to be considered for the young creators of the Amazons and Googles of the future
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