Technology investor · Košice, Slovakia
We help high-tech projects succeed – including the ones in difficulty.
STI invests its own capital, together with engineering and IP work, in technology companies, research results and patents. We also buy and restart technology businesses and assets in difficulty.
We invest and buy in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and across Europe.
Start with your situation
Where do you stand?
Building an EU consortium? See STI's role in EU projects.
Own capitalNo fund structure. Our offers carry no financing condition.
Industrial engineeringIndustry & Project Engineering s.r.o., 51 % owned
Applied R&DSlovakia Supercomputers s.r.o., 99 % owned, certified R&D entity
Registered in 2006Slovak joint-stock company based in Košice
What we consider
Is there a practical next step for your technology?
We consider technology companies, research results, intellectual property and technology assets where our group can assess the technical evidence and identify a practical next step.
- Fields we know well: industrial and process technology, advanced materials, applied AI and data, embedded systems and IoT, instrumentation, energy and environment, food and bio-based technology.
- Size: special situations typically EUR 20,000 to EUR 2 million; larger transactions with partners.
- What we bring: our own capital, with engineering and IP work from our group.
- Your first message: a non-confidential outline of the technology or assets, your role, the rights holder and any deadline.
Within five working days we tell you whether we will look further. This is an initial screening answer, not an investment decision or a commitment to bid.
Special situations
We step in where other investors step back.
Typical transactions range from EUR 20,000 to EUR 2 million. Larger transactions are possible with partners.
Companies short of funds
Bridge or rescue investment linked to a clear plan, sometimes with a change of control.
Companies in restructuring
New investment in a restructuring plan, or purchase of a viable business unit.
Sales within a procedure
Businesses, patents, software, data and equipment sold by an insolvency practitioner – as a whole or in lots.
Unused and at-risk IP
Patents of dissolved or insolvent owners, unused university portfolios and results of ended EU projects.
Group and portfolio
Built on operating companies
STI owns two operating companies and runs a development project. They provide the engineering and R&D capacity we bring to our investments.
Ganz works, Budapest, 1922 – regional engineering heritage, not an STI site51 % · industrial engineeringIndustry & Project Engineering s.r.o.
Design and engineering for process industries, including the reactivation and re-instrumentation of idle installations.
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University library of the Technical University of Košice – the research base of STI's home city99 % · applied R&DSlovakia Supercomputers s.r.o.
Applied AI, industrial IoT, embedded systems and software. Certified by the Slovak Ministry of Education as an R&D entity.
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Summer landscape near Košice, painted around 1920Development projectNaturePack EO
A natural active-packaging concept for fresh produce, based on essential oils encapsulated in β-cyclodextrin.
More →Why high-tech projects stall
A company can fail while its technology still has value.
Many high-tech projects stop for reasons other than the technology itself: the money runs out before a pilot ends, a partner withdraws, or ownership of the rights is unclear.
Once work stops, value is lost quickly. Patent fees fall due, servers are switched off and the people who understand the technology move on. Speed and technical understanding decide how much can be kept.
How we help projects succeed
- Capital with a quick first answerWe invest our own money. We tell you within five working days whether we will look further.
- Engineers from our own groupOur engineering and R&D companies can assess code and equipment, finish prototypes and plan restarts. Their role is agreed for each opportunity.
- IP put in orderOwnership, assignments, licences, pledges and fee deadlines are checked and cleaned up, so the rights can be used, financed or licensed.
- A route to marketAn investment, a pilot, a licence or a sale to an industrial buyer gives the technology its next step.
The gap we work in
Central Europe invents. Too little of it reaches the market.
Slovakia invests less than half the EU average in research and development and files about one-fourteenth as many European patent applications per inhabitant. These national figures describe the regional context; each opportunity is assessed on its own evidence.
Source: Eurostat, rd_e_gerdtot (updated 29 Sept 2026). EU-27 and Austria: Eurostat estimates.
Source: EPO Technology Dashboard 2025 (data as of 2 Feb 2026). EU-27 value calculated from the EPO country figures.
Invented in our region
The parachute, wireless telegraphy, the Kaplan turbine, the transformer.
Inventors from Slovakia and its neighbours changed the world – and protected their work with patents. We look for the next generation of such inventions, including those that are about to be lost.
Research, industry and investment
Every route stays open.
Inventors and research teams
Validation, IP structure and a first customer – through a new company, a licence or a sale.
For inventors →EU consortia
Exploitation, IP and market-validation work, and a plan for results if a partner fails.
For EU consortia →Co-investors and industry
Co-investment in specific transactions, with engineering due diligence by our group.
For co-investors →Is there a deadline?
Put it first in your message. A short, non-confidential description is enough to start.
