Turn market knowledge into a venture
We are a European venture studio building B2B startups from zero in fintech, insurtech and healthtech, alongside founders from emerging startup ecosystems.
Your co-founder for every stage
We co-found with you and build from zero. We commit engineering only after user feedback confirms the opportunity.
Explore
You bring the market knowledge. We run discovery interviews and build the idea together.
Validate
We run experiments with users until their feedback confirms the opportunity.
Build
Our senior engineers own architecture, security and compliance. AI accelerates the MVP implementation.
Scale
We identify the right investors, secure introductions through our network, and manage the fundraising process.
opportunity not confirmed → adjacent opportunity, or pivot the thesis
Who you build with
In the years before Flash Ventures, our founding team deployed $20M into startups and guided more than 500 startups through early-stage validation.
Jelena brings 10+ years of experience supporting early-stage startups and building innovation ecosystems. Before Flash Ventures, she worked with 200+ startups and tech companies, and she helped their founders access funding.
Her track record includes supporting a portfolio of startups that collectively raised €60M+ in investment, while contributing to €8M+ in funding for new projects and business development. She has led teams and managed a €1M annual BD budget.
Alexander brings nine years of experience across venture capital and company building, with a focus on AI and technology for healthcare. Before Flash Ventures, he was in charge of healthtech investment at two early-stage funds. He sourced companies that combine biotech, IT and data science, and assessed them for investment.
His track record includes investments in three companies that went on to raise more than $200M in follow-on rounds and deliver an exit, with board observer seats through that growth. He also co-founded a healthtech company and raised its first pre-seed round.
Bojan brings 9 years of experience in business modeling, go-to-market strategy, and fundraising support for early-stage startups. Before Flash Ventures, he worked with 150 startups across the SEE region, helping founders validate their business models, find the right market entry, and access funding. He has managed investor relations within a group of 120+ investors, mostly VCs.
His track record includes supporting a portfolio of startups that collectively raised €15M in investment. He has also invested in startups and digital businesses himself. Alongside this, he founded and runs a family business centered on physical products with innovative recipes in food technology in a highly regulated market. This gives him hands-on founder experience beyond software and fintech.
The questions founders ask us
Most accelerators and early-stage funds join once there is already a prototype, MVP, or early traction to evaluate. We partner with experienced individuals at the earliest stage, before the solution exists. We co-identify opportunities, validate market problems, and build the product together with founders from zero, until the next funding round is secured.
We are looking for people with market expertise who are ready to build from zero. Others have already started exploring an opportunity and want to accelerate its development. We partner with people who see opportunities in fintech, insurtech and healthtech: experienced operators, domain experts, engineering leaders, product managers and founders. We focus on founders from markets underserved by startup infrastructure.
We do not ask for full-time commitment until later stages, once the market opportunity is proven. Until then the milestones are problem validation and idea development. The founder runs discovery calls with us, attends our weekly meetings, and joins our ideation sessions. If the experiments do not validate the initial solution concept, we explore adjacent opportunities in the same space, or identify new problems worth solving.
We only succeed when the company succeeds. Our model is equity-based: we validate the opportunity, cover the MVP cost and run the fundraising process. In exchange we take shared ownership in the ventures we build, and we benefit when the venture is acquired.
We are looking for people
- who are passionate about an industry problem and eager to solve it
- who are curious and ready for a fast-changing startup environment
- who know an industry from the inside and want to turn that knowledge into a venture
- who need an experienced co-founder to secure the first investment