Services

I helped build Cavalry Ventures (now NAP) from the ground up – three fund generations, two opportunity funds, multiple SPVs. From first employee to partner.

In practice, that meant: building the investment team, co-owning hiring, shaping operational structures. Supporting the fundraise – especially with private investors and family offices as LPs. And alongside that, over 80 transactions on the deal side.

I don’t know VC as an observer. I learned it from the ground up: from fund strategy to term sheet, from LP relations to board seats.

In 2024, I saw the moment to work independently – under my own name, with my own methodology.

So I stopped evaluating founders – and started advising them.
Stopped pitching LPs – and started listening to them.
Stopped seeing other GPs as competitors – and started supporting them.

That’s how bjolo_ was born.

Principles

— “We add value” is not an answer. Value doesn’t come from showing up. It comes from concrete work – a qualified analysis, a deliberate process, an honest assessment no one else will voice. If you can’t name what you did, you didn’t do anything.

— Insider knowledge carries obligation. I was an active VC. I know how decisions are made and understand that there’s a gap between internal reality and external communication. That knowledge needs to be passed on.

— Independence as a given. VCs and founders have similar incentives, GPs and LPs too – but not always the same ones. I take 100% my client’s side. That was only partially possible as a fund partner. Today it’s the foundation.

Services

investor-intelligence/ · Market intelligence for fundraising processes. For founders, fund managers, and family offices.

advisory/ · Strategic sparring at eye level. Fundraising, positioning, structure.