Jan Stanek

Purple Ventures General Partner | Early-stage Startup Investor | YouTube Creator

Brno, South Moravia, Czechia

About

Startup founders, please share your decks via: http://bit.ly/PurpleVC_Pitch_us An investor, creator and entrepreneur fond of people, technology and finance with a bit of global perspective. My professional passion is to contribute to European prosperity and competitiveness via venture capital investments into purpose-driven early-stage CEE+ tech startups. My second passion is to inspire a million people to invest into responsible, self-consciousness future, as a video creator with 20+ mil. views. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Experience

  • Managing General Partner at Purple Ventures
    Jun 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

    Startup founders, please share your decks viahttp://bit.ly/PurpleVC_Pitch_us Purple Ventures invests €250k to 400k into founders of early-stage tech startups leveraging post-AGI business models in both on-line & off-line worlds. Purple Ventures 2 is a €40M fund based in Luxembourg with a target to invest into 50+ startups in 2024 to 2028 period.

  • Non-executive Board Director at Toroto
    Aug 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

    Purple Ventures had the pleasure to become the first institutional investor in Toroto. Toroto is a fast growing startup in a fast growing carbon offset field. Toroto: - runs re-forestation / CO2 capture / water capture field projects with large clients in Mexico, i.e. plants new trees, - manages CO2 capture measurements for rain forest owners on wast areas in Mexico, i.e. scientifically measures annual CO2 absorption of existing forests, - measures CO2 footprint of enterprises worldwide who wish / need to offset its carbon footprint, - sells CO2 offset bonds to those enterprises who want or need carbon neutrality, i.e. sells carbon offsets on B2B voluntary and regulated markets. - develops carbon offset blockchain metaregistry.

  • Video Creator inspiring to investing into responsible self-consciousness future at ElectroDad.cz
    Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

    Žijeme na jednom z nejkrásnějších, nejmírumilovnějších, nejbezpečnějších a nejrozvinutějších míst světa. Naši budoucnost formují globální megatrendy – digitalizace a umělá inteligence, dekarbonizace dopravy, energetiky i průmyslu, demografické změny, deglobalizace, klimatické výzvy či geopolitika. Pokud budeme intenzivně pracovat, učit se, inovovat, adaptovat se a posilovat rezilienci sebe jako jednotlivce, své rodiny, firmy, obce, Česka i Evropy, tak máme budoucnost ve svých rukou. Jan Staněk a hosté přemýšlí o investování do sebevědomé a zodpovědné budoucnosti, ve které chceme žít my i naše děti.

  • Minority shareholder at PurposeFly
    Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

    A sociomapping startup. We believe that prosperous teams master the art of maximizing and balancing the results, expertise, energy, relationships, and purpose. I was a co-founder responsible for sales, finance and operations. Brought in first CZK 1 M in revenues in 2016.

  • Management Consulting at Freelancer
    Sep 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 10 mos

    Consultant to Leaders of fast-growing FinTech and Ecommerce businesses.