ÉM
ZV-001
Élise Marchetti
Founding Partner / Capital
/ 02 — THESIS
Built to outlive us.
GENEVA · 2017 — PRESENT
14 OPERATING COMPANIES
06 SECTORS
11 COUNTRIES
1,400+ PEOPLE
Zolara Ventures was founded in 2017 around a single conviction: that the most valuable businesses of the next century would not be the most visible ones — they would be the most patient.
We started with one company. We now own and operate fourteen, across six sectors and eleven countries. Our partners sit on every board. Our capital is permanent. We answer to no fund, no clock, and no quarter.
What follows is how we think.
01
PRINCIPLEPatience
We do not chase exits. Our preferred holding period is forever. The right business, properly built, becomes more valuable each decade — and ours alone to compound.
02
PRINCIPLECraft
Every detail of every business under our roof — from the architecture of a hotel lobby to the latency of an inference call — is treated as an act of craft. Excellence is not a strategy; it is the only currency we accept.
03
PRINCIPLECompounding
Capital, talent, knowledge, relationships. We compound all four in the same direction, in the same companies, over the same horizon. Returns are the by-product.
/ 03 — PARTNERS
Hand on every business.
Our partners are operators first. Each holds direct accountability for the companies they oversee — no committees, no proxies.
IK
ZV-002
Idris Khalil
Founding Partner / Operations
HW
ZV-003
Hana Wexler
Partner / Strategy
/ 04 — BY THE NUMBERS
€2.4B
Assets under operation
1,400+
People we employ
11
Countries we operate in
0
Companies sold to date
"The companies we build today are the ones our grandchildren will answer for."