Integra Ventures

Integra Ventures (IV) began in 1995 as a US non-profit (501c3).   IV was spun out of a long-standing evangelical missions agency, International Teams, which today is named One Collective (www.onecollective.org), as a Business as Mission (BAM) focused entity.  IV focused on the former Soviet Union bloc countries in eastern and central Europe leading with business training and loan capital for committed believers who were nationals as a strategy to reach atheistic (unreached people groups) with the Gospel.  Over time, IV began to focus its efforts in Romania, Bulgaria and Albania.  Beginning in 2005, IV began to identify missional entrepreneurs and businesses in which they could make equity investments and mentor and coach those entrepreneurs.  In 2008, IV led the investment in a missional medical venture in Sofia, Bulgaria which still remains today as IV’s largest portfolio company.  From 2012-2019, IV did not have an executive director and all initiatives were led by its Eastern Europe director of business development and an active volunteer board.  IV’s main activities have been to identify missional entrepreneurs primarily in Romania, Bulgaria and Albania, equip them through training, mentoring and business plan development, and then resource them through capital investments and partner with them through board engagement and ongoing business development assistance.