Donatas Keras took an unusually hands-on path into venture capital, working pizza delivery management and door-to-door sales before starting his own staffing agency, and his first company's quick rise and bankruptcy taught him to understand struggling founders on a personal level rather than just in theory. At Practica Capital, he treats board work as a separate skill from investing, looks for founders who deeply care about their company's success, backed Interactio only after the team was rejected twice, missed investing in Vinted by just four weeks, and points to being an early SpaceTech investor who actually made money in that sector as one of the things that sets his track record apart.