Vision

Prosperity through entrepreneurship

Unleash Sri Lanka’s entrepreneurial potential by 2027

Help create 5000 jobs in 4 years

Overview

Venture Frontier Lanka is Sri Lanka’s first entrepreneurship platform focused on the development of the complete start-up lifecycle through:

Identifying and nurturing the most promising early stage entrepreneurs.

Offering practical training and mentorship in venture development.

Providing seed investment to secure proof of concept.

Entrepreneurs Social & Alumni Network

National Ideation, Celebration & Education in Entrepreneurship

National Startup Challenge & Boot Camps

National Startup Accelerator, Demo Day & Seed Fund

National Early Stage Venture Fund

Our approach

Venture Frontier Lanka is designed to enable the power of grassroots innovation via a network of public and private established partners, as well as the diaspora community.

Venture Frontier Lanka utilizes a Public-Private-Donor (PPD) Partnership structure by bringing together key public and private stakeholders including the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), the private sector, as well as international donors.

Enthusiastic would-be entrepreneurs

Proven entrepreneurs

High profile practitioners

Savvy investors

Sri Lankan Diaspora

Public at Large

Team

Heminda Jayaweera

Co-Founder

Serial Innovator and Entrepreneur, Senior Fellow for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UoM. Under Heminda’s leadership, Mora Ventures has produced 30 startups in its first 5 months.

Senura Abeywardena

Consultant

Partner at L.N Associates, a transactional law firm in Sri Lanka, as well as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Ovidiu Bujorean

CEO

Ovidiu founded OviBees as a venture accelerator company specialized in globalizing most promising early stage tech companies.

Carmen Cucul

Advisor

Carmen Cucul is acting as advisor to Ovibees Ventures. She brings 10+ years of experience working in the healthcare industry as well as the not-for-profit sector. Within the corporate environments of Johnson&Johson and Takeda Carmen has always been acting as an intrapreneur: she created new functions to better serve patients…

Amanda Gant

Program Manager

Amanda is a Program Manager with Ovibees bringing her project management experience in the entrepreneurship field from over 30 countries. Amanda also works full-time at the Latino Economic Development Center as a Small Business Lending Officer where she is a part of a team that provides over 175 loans to small businesses in the DC area each year.