Tilia Impact Ventures

What is Tilia Impact Ventures?

Tilia Impact Ventures is an investment firm based in Prague, Czech Republic, dedicated to fostering systemic environmental and social change on a global scale through strategic investments in high-potential companies within the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. They focus on early-stage and seed investments with an initial ticket size ranging from 0.3 to 1.5 million EUR, primarily in equity or convertible debt formats. Tilia Impact Ventures specializes in providing patient and mission-aligned capital to startups, leveraging their deep impact expertise to help refine impact theses and manage real-world impacts.

With incentive mechanisms embedded within their processes, they ensure alignment of all stakeholders in maximizing impact. Tilia Impact Ventures stands out for its hands-on support to its portfolio companies, backed by a team of experts from diverse backgrounds, including tech, VC, private equity, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and finance.

They offer operational support and provide access to their office within the Impact Hub network.

The firm prides itself on its ‘Impact Tribe’, an extensive network of changemakers, mentors, and connectors, which connects founders to the broader European impact and venture capital ecosystems, assisting in finding suitable co-investors and guidance for growth.

The portfolio of Tilia Impact Ventures, as of Q4 2023, shows significant impact achievements such as benefiting 223,000 people from disadvantaged groups, saving over 700 tons of food, preventing 4.3 million tons of materials and packaging waste, and avoiding 1.1 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

Their impact-focused investments cover a range of sectors, including sustainability, education, social inclusion, health, and well-being.

Tilia Impact Ventures believes in the economic potential of companies that tackle humanity’s biggest challenges and support their portfolio in generating maximal systematic impact, with 29% gender-diverse founding teams and a notable €8.3 million in impact capital unlocked from investors.

The firm’s approach includes setting up business-driven impact KPIs and targets, a key element in adding value to their investors, investees, and the market.

What they say:

We invest in high scale companies in the CEE region which address meaningful social and environmental challenges. Leading pre-seed and participating in seed rounds.