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Andrej Petrus

Early-stage VC │ CIO @ ZAKA VC │ Newton Venture Fellow │ Forbes 30u30

San Francisco Bay Area

Skills

Investments
Start-ups
Mergers & Acquisitions
Venture Capital
Corporate Finance
Social Entrepreneurship
Project Management
Private Equity
Strategy
Public Speaking
German
Investor Relations
Transaction Advisory Services
Social Impact
Go-to-market Strategy
Product Management
Fundraising
Innovation Management
Business Innovation
Innovation Development

Education

Work Experience

2019

  • Chief Investment Officer

    2021

  • Investment Manager & CFO

    2019 - 2021

    Venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed deals all across EU with main focus on CEE and Baltics. See our portfolio at: www.zaka.vc

  • Venture Fellow

    2023

    Newton Venture Fellowship is learning executive course, community and a joint venture between LocalGlobe, London Business School and Silicon Valley Bank in UK for senior venture capital practitioners to share best practices, network and know-how within the VC industry.

  • Project Manager

    2016 - 2020

    SLOVCA is an association of private equity and venture capital funds operating on the Slovak market and of other professional entities from the ecosystem. The purpose of SLOVCA is to represent the interests of it's members before the government and other institutions and to create networking opportunities for ecosystem stakeholders. As a project manager (part-time), I am closely working with the board of directors to set and execute the agenda of the association. During my presence in SLOVCA, the number of members and budget for the association tripled, Legal & Tax Committee was created and the association got more traction through several activities and events.

CEAi, Inc

2019 - 2019

  • New Venture Research & Internal Consulting

    2019 - 2019

    CEAi is a vertical AI startup studio, which builds ventures with focus in fintech, biotech, real-estate and sustainability domains, based between Prague and San Francisco. Financed by VC company DCVC. Responsible for new venture research and fundraising, part of the internal consultancy group within the studio.

2017 - 2019

  • Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy consulting

    2017 - 2019

    Providing transaction advisory services such as creation of comprehensive information memorandums for investors, identification of most relevant investors worldwide or investment targets, articulation of the investment story and strategy (expansion, acquisition and integration, new business verticals), organisation of virtual data-room for due diligence phase of the transaction. Worked on both sell-side and buy-side mandates of undisclosed companies in industries as energy, transportation, retail and e-commerce. Specializing on start-ups and tech-driven companies in the M&A team.

2016 - 2017

  • Business Consultant

    2016 - 2017

    Rotated across departments of Finance (Audit and Controlling for 3 months), Marketing (customer value management, segment marketing for 3 months) and department of Strategy (competitor analysis in the mobile and fixed internet segment, 6 months). Responsible for monthly profitability reports of all sales channels and for weekly performance reports for the board of directors during my first 6 months in the company. Advanced my data analytic skills and SQL proficiency for the needs of calculation and evaluation of various business cases, internal audits and other internal analyses. Worked closely with CMO to analyse the trends in prepaid telco market worldwide. Responsible for competitor analysis in the fixed internet segment in Slovakia to localize market opportunities.

2016 - 2016

  • Investment Analyst

    2016 - 2016

    Start-up pre-selection and evaluation of investment opportunities. Competition and market analyses in tech-driven and innovative industries. Assessed most important company metrics and valued companies both of our internal portfolio and of possible investment targets.