pacifica tech fund
your brigde between innovations and money
Bay Area, San Francisco, California | Photograph by Jarek Buchowiecki © Copyright
To put it simply – PACIFICA TECH FUND (PTF) develops business innovations that provide tangible financial benefits for companies coming from innovative information technologies.
PTF's mission is to provide corporate business with unique ideas, methods and algorithms of new and most promising emerging technologies developed in startup companies in the Bay Area. This task is fulfilled by adapting those innovative products to the requirements and demands of local market corporate clients, starting with the Polish market, and extending them to follow corporate technology policies and standards.
PTF has an innovative formula of functioning, developed from many years of experience in the application of the most advanced enterprise architecture and technologies, and experience of organizing and managing the R&D processes of developing new business applications. A constant and intensive process of staying up-to-date on current technology and industry trends, news and changes on the IT market means that we know what we are looking for and why, and what competitive environment we want to perform it.
Due to the unique combination of experience, passion and the network of business relations built up with technology and investment partners, business experts and clients prepared for cooperation in the ambitious challenges of practical application of emerging technologies in business, PTF provides greater investment safety for shareholders and the crucial competitive advantage for our clients.
The company's name is not accidental. It all started in the small town of Pacifica, 15 miles from San Francisco, at a meeting with a local seed accelerator investing on a wide scale in mobile/Internet technology startups in the Bay Area. The idea of PACIFICA TECH FUND came about as a response to the jointly identified market need and an opportunity for collaboration in the field of inventive and innovative IT products and technologies.
PACIFICA TECH FUND's goal is to run innovative projects leading to introducing in the local market unique and highly specialized business applications, based on new and emerging information technologies. PTF fulfills a specific market need, operating between mutual business demands and challenges on the one hand, and market offerings and opportunities on the other hand, combining single links in the market chain: Corporate Client – local System Integrator – innovative startup company with the unique technology – high-tech investors/BAs.
The emerging technologies provide completely new opportunities for creating innovative products and business services, but they reach the global vendors’ offerings after a long delay, and, in addition, then they are prepared for the widest possible range of customers, often failing to meet the specific requirements and needs of clients on the given local market. Local System Integrators often do not offer such specialized products of their own, due to their business profile and the organizational limitations of the resources required for the research of new technologies and creation of innovative products. And when it comes to the small technology startups, often associated with the scientific environment of technical colleges, they do not have sufficient financial and implementation potential to customize their ideas for specific group of business customers, adapt them to the required corporate technology, or sufficient potential to launch and maintain them on new markets.
Business is changing rapidly. Technology innovations are happening so fast the way we do business is transforming before our eyes.
The world is full of great ideas, but only a few become reality.
Unlike most startup incubators and seed funds, PACIFICA TECH FUND does not organize any public startup competitions nor public calls for proposals to identify the highest-potential ideas for new, innovative business applications. Due to intense time-to-market pressures, emerging technology market is very demanding, that is why we don’t carry out endless rounds of analyzing and judging a huge amount of online proposals with any product idea and any type of business, in any industry, from anywhere in the world.
We at PTF believe that the key to success is the perfect blend of technology and business background, supported by deep market knowledge and extensive contacts. But the single most important thing is in-depth specialization in a particular field of business preceded by very clear understanding of our customers and our competitors.
Therefore, PTF is the party that comes up with new innovative ideas and is in charge of turning those ideas into successful new products.
PTF collaborates closely with stakeholders, partners and affiliated with the business and technology experts in handling entire new business development process. Staying up-to-date on current industry and tech trends, we identify opportunities for new business products & services and recognize specific new client's means in order to find or develop a market niche that has customers who are accessible, that is growing fast enough, and that is not owned by one established vendor already, and not being addressed by mainstream IT providers.
To capitalize on a that niche market, PTF develops a Business Case and selects technology partner having specific prototype solution or having capabilities of providing it in a shortest time possible.
The technological base of new business applications are the highly specialized technologies developed by startup companies from portfolio of PTF's partner from the Bay Area.
After due diligence implementation, the next most critical stage in PTF’s business development is demonstration of new innovative technology to potential customers from local market in order to prove the technology, to validate the Business Case, to obtain feedback on new product’s functionality and to gather detailed business and technology requirements to ensure a successful final solution.
In PTF approach, the final deliverable of our business development is detailed Business Plan approved by investment partners, including, among others:
PTF does not provide any one-off R&D / business / technology consultancy services beyond PTF initiatives, and to businesses in which PTF has no capital commitment.
Our comprehensive approach to creating, implementing and launching new innovative business products is shown in the following infographics:
PACIFICA TECH FUND runs innovative projects that provide corporate clients with business applications that use unique ideas, methods and algorithms of new and most promising emerging technologies developed in startup companies in the Bay Area, by adapting those innovative products to the requirements and demands of local market, and extending them to follow clients’ corporate technology policies and standards.
We know how to gain a competitive advantage. How? In a word – by proprietary algorithms! By obsessively inventing, testing, debugging and improving algorithms! And then by combining these algorithms with cutting-edge ideas and latest emerging technologies.
Therefore, all the business applications we are working on, have proprietary intellectual property which are very effective barrier to entry and difficult for the competitors to copy. And allows us to offer products which solve any given class of business problem our clients have, significantly better and far more effectively than the other business solutions available.
Our expertise is the result of our experience, the extensive market analysis and mutual verification between business & technology.
In the center of PTF interest are advanced information solutions for processing and analyzing data, in particular, large quantities of unstructured information, on AI-based decision support and expert systems, and modern data governance solutions.
We focus our business around sectors with enormous potential for monetization of information associated with massive datasets of customer data: investment companies, banks, insurance companies, other financial institutions, and telecoms industry. PTF takes a strong customer-focused approach to defining the full-potential business opportunities by understanding the drivers of observable customer behavior.
