About the Fund

Poteza Innovation and Growth Fund is a closed-end investment fund which invests its assets in projects with high development potential. In most cases, these are young, small- and medium-size companies with limited opportunities of access to the capital by means of which they could in fact realize this growth. With its contribution, the Fund helps realize the ideas and make them find their way to global markets.

The objectives of the fund are:

• to meet with the companies with strong development potential
• to stimulate, through partnership with these companies, their further development, thus enabling them global as well as regional success
• to be the first choice for entrepreneurs who seek additional financing resources
• to contribute to the development of entrepreneurial way of thinking in the region

Year of foundation:	2007
Fund assets:	EUR 40 million
First round of asset collection:	11.5.2007
Second round of asset collection:	10.1.2008
Expected year of Fund termination:	11.5.2017
Fund Manager:	Poteza Equity Management B.V.

Investment policy:
PIGF invests in innovative growth, where the word “innovative” is defined in a very broad sense. A business model, product, service, unsaturated market, etc. can all be innovative.

Most of all, a company must have perfectly qualified and experienced management with well—conceived vision regarding the development of company, which is prepared to make partnership with the investor. Apart from financial resources, the company also has the “soft” values ensured: operative help in the fields of financial planning, sales and marketing, and strategic development.

Investment regions:
The target investment regions are primarily Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. Otherwise, investment opportunities are actively sought for also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania, as these are estimated to be about to face a new development cycle.

Investment sectors:
The Fund primarily invests in sectors which are distinguished for large global growth:

• The media,
• Internet
• Telecommunications
• Information technologies
• Business services
• Medical and biotechnical sciences...

Still disposable resources: 99%
Height of an individual investment: EUR 0.5-6 million