How we invest
Every project in a separate company. Every decision with a thesis.
MOTIVA ASI invests project by project: every investment goes into a dedicated special-purpose vehicle with its own budget, management board and metrics. An investor can see what they are taking part in — project by project, with no results blurred together in one pot. This architecture also separates risk: trouble in one project does not weigh on the others.
Our filter — five questions before every decision
Does the project strengthen the ability of Polish companies to compete abroad?
Has the team running it delivered results before?
Does the business model scale beyond a single market?
Does the entry price leave a margin of safety?
Do we know realistic exit paths from day one?
Five times “yes” — only then do we start working on the transaction.
Capital is the beginning, not the end
We bring more than money: the operational backbone of an industrial and logistics group, relationships across the markets of Central Europe and the Balkans, and management discipline — supervisory boards, metrics, quarterly reviews. We invest alongside industry partners and financing institutions, and the founders of the companies we enter remain co-owners of their own work.
We think about the exit before we enter
We plan the routes to realising a return at the moment of purchase: a sale to an industry investor, a transaction with a fund, a stock-market listing or a buy-back by the founders. We count the investment horizon in years — and we say so plainly, because capital that can wait is our advantage, not our weakness.
We did it with our own money first
Before we invited investors in, we launched the group's first logistics working-capital financing programme — with our own funds and at our own risk. The Motiva Group runs operating logistics and industrial companies, and the fund draws on their operational backbone day to day. Detailed operating and historical data is shared in the data room, after investor categorisation.