What we stand for and promise our LPs are no fake silver bullets: a dual team of GPs at the intersection of institutional and corporate investing with a good track record to back it up, a deep and relevant network, and a solid investment process.

A team combining corporate development and institutional investment management experience and top decile track record: Kevin Colas and Alessandro Zago bring over 25 years of experience each, having career-wide managed up to $300M in AUM, and deployed in venture $100M across 77 companies. Snatched Ventures builds on our prior investment platforms: Kevin founded the Empire Angel Collective (EAC) - de facto Fund I - which since 2020 has deployed ~$10M across 40+ startups with strong DeepTech exposure. In parallel, during the same period, while investing with Kevin, Alessandro led Deeptech investments at Chemonics and Hyundai’s CVCs.

An exceptional network across our six thematics of over 150 global corporations, emerging to sovereign venture and growth investors and family offices to help source and win deals, provide portfolio companies support and exit opportunities. And a network of trusted vetted vendors offering us discounted rates to dedicate systematically 5 to 10% of our initial tickets to button-up each portfolio company strategy, branding, advertisement, hiring, and accounting, beyond our continuous support on the life of those multi-years partnerships.

A rigorous AI-enabled investment process using licensed "Jolt.Ninja Platform" developed by Jolt Capital in partnership with Vertex/Temasek to create a global alliance of smart investors in early and early growth deeptech, proprietary “5P” framework (Potential, People, Predictability, Product, Price) and "4Fs" filters conditional of underwriting beyond a 10% ownership minimum: minimum $1M revenue, 50%+ gross margins, a 0.25x cash conversion score, and a 3x revenue-to-capex ratio, ensuring both business and environmental sustainability.

In addition, we could say a lot of things, but you’ve heard them all. A few additional distinctive points. What we like, what we prefer:

• A different style of management: growth at reasonable price, no fomo, no shortcuts to make a deal and squeeze the investment process or skip steps.
• A different approach of sourcing: proactive deep dive focused vs reactive relying on deal flow exchanges and accelerators or incubators.
• A special focus in investment selection: preference for white spaces with small competitive sets, proprietary solutions with multiple defensible patents, novel technological approaches vs me too ones, first mover advantages, opex and capex disruptors changing the existing economics, or strategic catalysts with contracts of distribution or co-development with large multinationals we like to have or bring in deals with us and sharing their point of views and the validation of their R&D departments.
• A pragmatic deal making: each investment needs to be a fund returner for us an LPs to reach the full potential of our funds, and we prefer early deals with the possibility to enter into a step-up approach with first-foot in the door tickets in convertibles at discount to enhance the return before leading the round.
• An active portfolio management: inspired from our experience on public equities markets using secondaries to trim positions above our return target when the road to strategic exit (M&A), financial exit (LBO) or IPO is unclear.
• Fantastic AI driven tools: to back investment sourcing, selection, due diligence and deal structuring.