Team
We apply years of experience in Venture Capital and Private Equity investments in the Polish and foreign markets, co-investing with local and foreign private investors and business angels. We have a proven track record of picking and building winning investment opportunities.
Jacek is a Managing Partner at APER Ventures and has successfully closed over 30 investments, including The Batteries, Talent Alpha, Coolomat and Norsa Pharma. Jacek also serves as a Board Member of Business Angels Europe (BAE) – European Confederation of Angel Investing and founded APER Angels, which is a member of BAE Club. As an individual investor he invested in many companies such as Lemoptix (acquired by Intel Corporation), Sensimed AG (acquired by SEED Co. Ltd) or Faction Collective SA.
Before starting his career in Venture Capital and Angel Investing, Jacek was Head of Product and Pricing in BMW Group, Analyst at Enterprise Investors and Consultant at Simon Kucher and Partners. Jacek is a graduate of IESE Business School in Barcelona and Singularity University in California.
Jacek enjoys American pool and car driving, he completed a special BMW Driver Training. Personally father of three kids - Dawid, Dominik and Magdalena.
Piotrek is Partner at Aper Ventures, Meta Ventures and Aper Seed. He is responsible for structuring transactions, negotiations and cooperation with Fund’s investors. Piotrek has successfully closed over 30 investments, including Surge Cloud and Whisbear where he currently acts as a supervisory board member.
Before joining Meta Ventures in 2013 Piotrek worked at BBI Seed Fund, one of the first VC funds in Poland and PARP where he was responsible for launching first early stage support program for VCs, incubators and business angel networks. Piotrek is a graduate of University of Warsaw and holds a PhD in Management and Finance from Warsaw School of Economics.
Piotr is personally interested in real estate and a father of two daughters.
Over 25 investments worth over PLN 100 million
Founder and CEO of META Group, an international company specializing in managing early stage co-investment funds. The company invests in innovative companies, focusing on R&D and high tech solutions. As a business angel, he is one of nine co-founders of Italian Angels for Growth - the leading Business Angels club in Italy. Since 2016, the CEO of Business Angels Europe.
Ilona is supporting the management team in corporate governance, administration and corporate documentation of the fund and portfolio companies ensuring the efficient operations and external communication.
Before joining Aper Ventures Ilona gained experience in Venture Capital Poland S.A., Alior Bank S.A. and Analizy Online Asset Mangement S.A. She is a graduate of University of Ecology and Management in Warsaw and holds a MA in Environmental Management.
Ilona enjoys time with family and reading science fiction books.
Anna joined Aper Ventures team and is engaged in transactions (follow-on investments, capital raising, exiting investments, structuring and negotiations of legal transaction terms) as well as venture building of portfolio companies (strategic analysis, scaling up internationally).
Anna is financial modeling and valuation expert, certified financial modeling & valuation analyst (FMVA). Previously she worked for investment banking boutiques for Deloitte and BRE Corporate Finance.
Anna was a co-founder and CFO of iQure Pharma – US-based biotechnology start-up that develops breakthrough treatment for neurogenerative diseases with primary indication in drug-resistant epilepsy. She was engaged in fundraising for iQure from the US business angel networks. She has a proven successful record of executing funding round from no 1 business angel network– Keiretsu Forum end-to-end, from process initiation to close. In particular, she prepared investment analysis set: sophisticated valuation model of iQure’s therapeutic candidate, ROI analysis for all subsequent funding rounds, she effectively managed due diligence, was involved in term sheet, investment agreement negotiations, pre-investment interactions with angel investors and transaction execution.
Previously Anna worked for PFR Ventures – VC fund of funds as an Investment Manager. She served as an Investment Committee Member and a Board Member of funds.
Anna is a graduate of Aarhus School of Business in Denmark in finance and international business and a graduate of Warsaw School of Economics. Anna was also an exchange student on MBA program at California Polytechnic State University. Anna holds a PhD from Warsaw School of Economics with a research focus on value creation by VC-backed companies.
Anna is an architecture and interior design enthusiast, personally a mom of two wonderful boys.
We appreciate the power of ideas, always looking for new and better ways to invest. Do you want to work with a team that focuses on long-term success, not short-term benefits?
