Rio Ventures

RIO Ventures Holdings is a BVI private venture fund set up by two businessmen with corporate backgrounds, who say they partner actively with entrepreneurs pursuing ambitious goals. The fund invests in deep technology start-ups, focusing on what it calls unstoppable trends including connectivity, mobility, longevity and sustainability. Within connectivity, it looks at technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data analytics, smart cities and autonomous vehicles. Its personal mobility focus covers mobile-device-enabled solutions across areas such as e-commerce, financial technology, entertainment and cyber security. In the area it calls longevity and wellbeing, the fund is interested in technology aimed at improving healthcare quality, prevention and treatment of disease, and overall quality of life as life expectancy increases.