Vodia Ventures

Vodia Ventures is the direct investment arm of Vodia Capital, with a presence in New York and Boston. It sets up blind-pool and special-purpose vehicle funds to invest in emerging technology companies. The team often takes board seats to help investments develop, and it says the parent has served family offices for over twenty years.

What Vodia Ventures offers

• Seed and Series A investment: usually as the first institutional money, sometimes through convertible debt.
• Follow-on support: possible participation in a later round to protect an existing position.
• Board involvement: roles such as chairman, director or observer at portfolio companies.

Clients

The firm looks for scalable, technology-enabled companies with strong founders and a working prototype. Its stated sectors are food security, clean water, public health, sustainable fashion, urbanisation and energy efficiency.

Key facts

• Based in: New York and Boston.
• Parent: Vodia Capital.
• Portfolio examples: RxWare, Glow Tech, Avandra Imaging, Ecto, Candoo Tech, DemandQ and Circ.