SHIFT
venture capital & consulting

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About us

We are an independent investment and consulting corporation working in Slovakia and providing services in corporate financing and investment management. We offer consultation, and assist clients in investing risk capital in opportunities with a potentially high level of enhancement. We focus on large projects in various stages of development with obvious scope for improvements in management and processes.

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Strategy

Investments

In all projects we focus on promoting an inventive attitude, flexibility, and highly professional management. Our primary goal is to ensure our investors receive their capital with attractive enhacement. We invest in companies engaged in all phases of its life cycle: green-field, start-up, and the early stage of expansion. We also support growing companies with full recapitalisation.

Clients

Our group primarily focuses on investing our clients' free financial resources in lucrative projects. We select our customers and projects on an individual basis. We adjust the projects to the current market situation. Our flexible and unconventional approach enables us to withstand turbulences in the economic sector.
Our profile clients are courageous, ambitious, and successful managers, or entrepreneurs with free financial resources exceeding 500,000 Euros. They think and act like entrepreneurs. They are talented, enterprising and enthusiastic, thus incorporating the essential elements of success. They also share common moral and social principles. We cooperate closely with our clients and draw their attention to aspects of investment they would otherwise miss.

Projects

The company provides non life insurance brokerage and consulting. Originally the Slovak subsidiary of one of the largest Austrian insurance brokers, SHIFT made a capital penetration in 2007, which was followed by several financial restructuring measures.. The strategic aim is to achieve a strong and stable position in selected non life insurance consultation.
Poystni & MacLer, s.r.o.2007 - ongoing
FVE Solnice s.r.o. is a company that owns a photovoltaic power plant with a total energy output of 2.7 MWp. The power plant uses First Solar panels and Xantrex converters, and it is located in the east of the Czech Republic, not far from the village of Solnice.
FVE Solnice s.r.o.2009 - 2018
Favourable conditions in 2011 opened the door for photovoltaic power plants in Slovakia. SLOVAK PROPERTY GROUP, a.s. decided to take advantage of this boom and invested in a number of power plants in the North of Slovakia with a total power output of 2 x 0.99 MW (ground applications) + 0.36 MW (roof applications).
SLOVAK PROPERTY GROUP, a.s.2011 - 2012
The company is a “start-up” initiative in the field of mining and the processing of construction aggregate. An andesite quarry is located between the towns of Košice and Prešov. Its current annual capacity is from 100 to 150 thousand tonnes of construction aggregate, scalable up to 300 thousand tonnes. The technology employed is partly their own and partly rented.
BLUE SKY MINING s.r.o.2011 - ongoing
100% of the shares of EUROSPECTRUM, s.r.o. were acquired by SLOVAK PROPERTY GROUP, a.s. in order to expand its real estate portfolio, as well as its functioning industrial site. SHIFT, a.s. acted as the sales manager and consultant for SLOVAK PROPERTY GROUP a.s. during the acquisition of the necessary bank funds totalling €1,300,000.
EUROSPECTRUM, s.r.o.2011 - 2012
Client consultancies are being held for an analysis of the procedures and the restructuring method needed for a quarry near the town of Košice, and its subsequent acquisition. The quarry, which is located near the village of Nižný Klátov, was used in the past to mine 40-60 thousand tonnes of high quality amphibolite. Due to the implementation of traffic restrictions in the village, which has made access to the quarry complicated, the production is currently suspended.
KRUŠGEO.SK, s.r.o.2012 - ongoing
SUN ENGINEERING is a Romanian company that owns a photovoltaic power plant with a total energy output of 2.8 MWp. The power plant uses PV Solarsys panels and Power One converters, and it is located near the city of Bucharest. The company’s main motive for taking part in the project was to use the attractive support scheme for RES in Romania.
SUN ENGINEERING2013 - ongoing
Construction of a recreational zone in the village of Liptovské Klačany. The project consists of four phases. The 1st and the 3rd phase involve the construction of chalets to be sold to final clients, while the 2nd and 4th phases deal with the development of the area in order to ensure its exclusivity and comfort for clients. The aim is to develop the entire location, as well as devise marketing and sales strategies.
LipKy, s.r.o2008 - ongoing
This promotion and production agency is engaged in sports and culture; its activities are mainly focused on Eastern Slovakia. SHIFT, a.s. made a capital penetration in 2006 and was strongly involved in devising strategies in the media sector. SHIFT, a.s. exited the project after fulfilling its strategic aims in 2008.
Infiniti media, s.r.o.2006- 2008
Optimum Energy is a Slovak organisational unit of foreign company engaged in a new and growing market - the effective utilisation of energy, and consultation for institutional and individual clients. SHIFT a.s. made a capital penetration in 2008, and also assisted Optimum Energy in acquiring new clients. Our aim is to establish the company's organisation.
Optimum energy2008 - 2009
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“We try to help our partners by providing them with balanced and bilaterally advantageous solutions.”

Martin Wiedermann studied at the Faculty of Accounting and Auditing, University of Economics in Bratislava, and then worked for several private equity and asset management companies.

He is one of the co-founders of SHIFT, a.s. – a Slovak company consisting of physical persons, focused on private equity and venture capital. Martin Wiedermann is a board member of SHIFT Energy and also a chairperson of the investing committee. Apart from the coordination and strategic management of SHIFT a.s., he is in charge of structuring projects, financing, and investors relations. He uses his abilities to locate synergies and hidden opportunities in projects.

Martin Wiedermann

founder

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SHIFT, a.s.

Moyzesova 932/6
811 05 Bratislava, Slovakia

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In addition to skills and expertise, we also emphasize the character and integrity of our people.

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