Vivjan Myrto grew up in communist Albania and started his first business at age 7, taught himself to code by 10, and at 11 helped bring the internet to Albania by selling access door-to-door, giving him an unusually deep entrepreneurial and technical foundation from childhood. After surviving cancer as a teenager and being told he had about a year and a half to live, he moved to the U.S. for treatment and now focuses on backing founders who are fighting insurmountable odds, approaching venture capital from his perspective as a serial founder rather than purely as a financier.

• Strong focus on deep tech, robotics, and artificial intelligence applied to physical industries. Frequently highlights investments in hardware-centric software companies like Soft Robotics, Vesper, and RoadBotics, specifically noting when AI is used to solve enormous global problems.
• Commitment to supply chain and logistics visibility. Repeatedly champions portfolio companies like Tive and ShipIn Systems, tracking their progress from pre-seed struggles to major funding milestones as they improve global shipping insights.
• Values customer obsession and execution over pure engineering. Shares advice suggesting that founders should be technologists who love their customers rather than just loving their own technology, and favors action-oriented philosophy like executing a good plan now rather than waiting for a perfect one.
• Pride in early-stage, contrarian betting. Emphasizes entering relationships at day zero or leading seed rounds, such as with Butlr, and recalls supporting companies like Vesper against the general consensus of other investors at the time.
• Connects personally through shared resilience and grit. References his own background as a company bootstrapper and cancer survivor as a driving force behind his excitement for health-tech investments like Elucidata.