What we do
We empower founders
We empower founders
We empower founders
Hands-on no-BS mentoring, coaching, advising and investing
We help investors
We empower founders
We empower founders
Advisory, due diligence & access to quality deal flow
We close deals
We empower founders
We close deals
This is what we live for
Skills
Team
Assists
Speed
Acting like a (Venture) Coach on the floor, we make sure the ball gets to the right person at the right time
Speed
Assists
Speed
Speed matters. Our eyes are constantly at work, checking shot clock and game clock times
Assists
Assists
Assists
Our main role is to protect the ball and to pass, not to score. You score
Offense
Buzzer beater
Assists
We set the pace, organizing offense strategy and tactics
Defense
Buzzer beater
Buzzer beater
Stealing the ball, pressing is part of the job
Buzzer beater
Buzzer beater
Buzzer beater
From times to times we might shoot a killer three-pointer
Frequently Asked Questions
We have developed from scratch a massive network in Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Western Balkans & Moldova.
This region has so many thirsty founders. Massive untapped tech talent within an underfunded and fast growing market. Valuations are reasonable. More & more global investors are looking at our geo. What more to ask?
We are lucky to have served as board members, investors, founders, company directors, operators, principals, business developers, engineers, advisors for 20+ years. This gives us a 360 view. We are learning every single day, this is art not science. We work with Claude as well:-)
Obsession, focus & onboarding great people is key for both. We have seen VCs living comfy off the fees selling cheap wisdom on social media instead of truly helping good founders. And we have met founders running a convenient lifestyle business instead of truly rolling up the sleeves. There is a price to pay for the life you have chosen. If you don't pay the price, chances are this is not going to have impact.
In and out of our portfolio, we provide tailor-made, hands-on & mission-driven advisory and fractional power. Protecting and boosting. We are blessed to have been deep in the trenches and we can offer trusted, boutique services. After tons of energy, time, money we allocated to a variety of diverse and real life cases, we are best placed to guide you:
1. F&f / pre-seed stage teams
- Reality check, clarity & hard truths
- Story
- What (not) to do to be investment ready
- Key insights to navigate the VC & angel investing landscape
- Growth roadmap
- Fundraising path: hands-on guidance
- MVP, PMF
- Go-to-market, partnerships & business development
- Team, captable management
2. Seed & later stage teams
- Solutions to key strategic challenges, guiding & coaching
- Europe/UK VC landscape
- Fundraising strategy & execution
- Partnerships and GtM
- Cutting unnecessary noise, resync
- Preparing to sell, secondaries, exits, M&A
There are many stakeholders out there with the willingness and capability to invest in SEE startups yet with no dedicated or simply not enough resources and focus. We leveraged the power of tenths of VCs, angels, institutional, corporate, individual investors into diverse real deals, some of those highly complex. We are best-placed to help you with:
- Due diligence
- Access to the source & scouting
- Startups active portfolio management
- Support to strategy, execution and completion of the investment process
- Co-investors & follow-on investors deals
- M&A
PointGuard thoughts
Contact Us
Better yet, see us in person!
We love listening, so feel free to ping us for a physical or remote coffee, no sugar, a sweet deck or 1-pager instead. Usually on Fridays.
Hours
Open today | 09:00 – 17:00 |