RSVP Ventures & Capital

RSVP Ventures & Capital

RSVP Ventures & Capital operates out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and Adelaide, South Australia, founded by Paul Vlasic and Raymond Spencer. The firm draws on more than three decades of combined entrepreneurial management experience, with a venture practice that has now run for over ten years. Its architecture is deliberately cross-border, sourcing founders inside the United States and Australia. RSVP pursues early-stage and growth-stage companies, concentrating on information technology, cleantech, medical technologies that do not require FDA approval, craft spirits, and high-grade natural resources. The firm requires portfolio candidates to exceed $1 million in revenue, carry high gross margins, and field established co-investors. Portfolio disclosures appear limited to a logo wall; specific company names are not publicly detailed. The firm’s website states it manages over a dozen companies across the United States and Australia, with the latitude to syndicate investment deals when a raise exceeds its own target check size. RSVP runs on a compact team led by Vlasic and Spencer alongside Venture Partner Michael Lane — a principal at Pitcher Partners Adelaide — and CFO William F. Weissman, whose resume spans more than 25 years of executive roles. The firm signs itself as a mentor-heavy investor, claiming an active operator role that goes past capital deployment into hands-on operational support. No recent fund closing or discrete deployment number has been made public. RSVP’s structural differentiator rests in its bicontinental grounding. Unlike a generalist, fly-in cross-border investor, the partnership maintains permanent nodes in both markets. That allows it to diligence Michigan clean-energy startups and South Australian spirits ventures through a permanent local lens — a pattern harder to replicate from a single-city headquarters.