Sonoma · Business Development
Sonoma works with internal and external ideas and investors to create, build and operate profitable businesses in Central Europe and beyond.
Our workCapital from successful exits, invested in excellent management teams with high-impact ideas.
Read moreFounders, managers and major investors in two of Slovakia's most successful telecom startups.
Read moreSince 2005, over 100,000 m² of commercial real estate developed and sold.
Read moreSonoma has put to work the capital earned from the successful exits of its previous projects. We invest in excellent management teams with high-impact ideas.
Sonoma invested seed capital in this Silicon Valley based startup. PEX used its proprietary software to identify, track and monetize video across any platform on the internet. With customers such as Twitter and Warner Bros., PEX set out to revolutionize digital rights management. In April 2025, PEX was acquired by Vobile.
Enahost is an advanced IT services company offering a wide range of cloud solutions, including dedicated servers, virtual servers and virtual desktops. Sonoma provided financing in the form of technology leasing, allowing Enahost to meet customer demand quickly.
Sensoneo is the leading IoT-based smart waste management company in the world, with installations in over 60 countries. Sonoma is an early investor in Sensoneo and works with its management on strategic initiatives such as joint ventures, additional financing and pricing policy.
Sentien is a Prague-based startup with the goal of revolutionizing human-technology interaction. Its first product is a personal audio device with advanced functions customizable in a companion app. Sonoma provides financing for Sentien as well as strategic and financial direction and advice.
Sonoma and its partner are creating an entirely new service for the modern, mobile lifestyle of today's households in Czechia and Slovakia: online self-storage. Storage Port, with one location near the highway in Bratislava and another in Prague, offers storage units of various sizes where individuals and businesses can securely store personal and commercial items, long or short term.
Sonoma has invested in two of the most successful, fastest-growing e-commerce companies in Europe. Both are pioneers in data-driven marketing on social media, building brand images around the products they sell. With excellent management teams and strategies in place to expand into Western Europe, Gym Beam and Footshop will continue to grow their sales and their value in the coming years.
Sonoma was the founder, manager and major investor in two of Slovakia's most successful startups in telecommunications.
Sonoma personnel conceived the idea of the first fiber-optic telecom company in Central Europe, managed it to high profitability and sold it to a regional strategic investor.
Datacube is the largest, most technologically advanced data center in the region, built to meet the requirements of the most demanding IT clients in Europe. Sonoma came up with the idea, created the plan for the data center, supervised its construction and managed operations until its exit.
Since 2005, Sonoma has developed and sold over 100,000 m² of commercial real estate. Sonoma has become expert in every phase of property development: legal and commercial due diligence on land and assets, property acquisition, design and permitting, construction management, leasing and sale, and profitable asset sales.
Sonoma acquired land in Bratislava from an international property fund and developed it into an industrial park for multinational and local clients. Sonoma performed legal, commercial and technical due diligence, arranged project financing, purchased the land, identified clients, obtained permits and profitably sold the land.
Sonoma identified an opportunity to build a retail center in an underdeveloped region of central Slovakia. Excellent site selection and efficient design produced a successful shopping center that has since been expanded with a second and a third phase. The development was sold to the Austrian-Israeli real estate group Alpha in 2010.
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Created in partnership with the Austrian investment fund Immoeast, Sonoma developed a large shopping area in Slovakia's third most populous city, serving as a retail destination for all of northeast Slovakia. Sonoma identified the site, performed extensive due diligence on the property, directed the design, obtained permits and agreed lease terms with all key tenants. The project was acquired by Immoeast before construction started and later sold to local investors.
Sonoma purchased several strips of land in this town near Nitra from their original owners and developed a vibrant local shopping center with Kaufland, Takko, Deichmann and Dracik.
Sonoma developed the first stand-alone shopping center in Slovakia anchored by a neighboring hypermarket. The project was completed in 22 months, from land purchase through permitting and construction to leasing and sale as an income-producing asset.