Purple Ventures

Do you remember how we mentioned we are working on something big? The time has come to unveil it. And these news are worth of the main page of CzechCrunch 🚀. Long story short we are opening another fund. 🌍 CEE+Baltics region 4️⃣0️⃣ mil EURO 🕵️♀️ Seed stage This time it is also open to public. And we see quite a demand for Investments into Venture Capital.

And it's on 🚀. Our second fund is up and running with its first investments and several more in various stages of the investment process. So far it is investment revolutionizing the energy sector (Delta Green), the second one is in an HR system ready to take on the big competitors, and the last is a startup focusing on running virtual and hybrid events (iVent). Check out more here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ehA_ufKJ

By now, you have surely noticed the Purple group sister companies: Purple Technology, Purple Trading, and Fintokei. But did you know that we also have Purple Foundation, nadační fond, an entity focusing solely on charity and volunteering? It was established in 2018 by one of the Purple Holding CEOs, Jakub Nytra, and in our six years of existence, we have had the wonderful opportunity to support 55 projects with a total sum of over 21 million Kč. Since 2022, we have been organizing the annual Purple Foundation MeetUp, where NGO representatives can meet, share their experiences, and, most importantly, start cooperations that would otherwise have no environment to blossom in. This year, 51 guests from 14 organizations joined us and shared a total of eight presentations. At Purple Foundation, we focus greatly on building long-lasting and quality relationships with the organizations and individuals we cooperate with. We help locally and support projects in the Czech Republic, mainly in Brno and Prague, but we do not shy away from occasionally supporting an important cause abroad. Purple understands the importance of equal opportunities in life, which is why we focus on organizations and projects working for equality in our society. We want to support people from their first moments through childhood, young adulthood, their most productive years, and even in the last moments of their lives. Purple Foundation consists of four team members: Jakub Nytra, co-founder of Purple Holding and the man behind the idea of the foundation itself; Filip Rehor, co-founder of Purple Holding; Krištof Heger, FinTech team member of Purple Technology; and Dana Ševčíková, the managing director of Purple Foundation. A heart made for philanthropy and volunteering is something we all share among us, as well as with our Purple group, who regularly volunteers their time and efforts, e.g., through educating senior citizens in the field of digital awareness, attending charity runs, or contributing to our numerous charity collections.

Team from STIMVIA one of our portfolio companies has successfully completed their study focused on Parkinson's Disease with promising results. 🤞 We have our fingers crossed for further development as Parkinson's Disease affects 1-2 % of people above 65 with steep increase in annual incidence in recent years. Check out more here: https://lnkd.in/e_bJ2JHn

Do you want to know more about our investment to Delta Green? Check out David’s post ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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It’s always pleasure to share knowledge with younger generation.

We are proud partners of one of the best Startup/VC events in the #brnoregion#brnoregion. And we are already looking forward to joining the second occurance. Who are we meeting with tonight? 🛳 Bon voyage

Let's start the week with big news! Sifted selected our portfolio company Choice as member of 30 Fastest growing startups by revenue in Central Europe’s and what a company they are at 👏. Alex Ilyash and the whole team great job 🔥.

For quite a long time whole Purple Group tried to keep a low profile and let the results speak for us. Yet as we are growing we feel the need to uncover what we were building, why Purple, or how it all started 💜 so recently David Kasper, Filip Rehor and Jakub Nytra spoke about it with Michael Mareš. You can discover all of that and much more in Hospodářské noviny both offline or online here: https://lnkd.in/etVUZ6w8 It is our pleasure Purple Ventures can be part of this great and successful story.