Stevan Marković is Chief Commercial & Delivery Officer at AQVC Raise, a capital formation platform operating across venture and private markets.
He manages a community of 300+ LPs, family offices, HNWIs, funds of funds, and sovereign allocators, and leads Narrative Lab, the internal advisory practice where GPs sharpen the positioning and language behind their fundraises.
Promoted twice in under two years at AQVC.
The AQVC Raise Journal, the platform's Substack on fund narrative and LP pitch strategy, is now a Top 100 publication in Business.
He spent six years at Alfa Energy covering UK and European mid-market accounts across 14 countries, winning the GOLD Pipeline Award twice and maintaining a 96–98% retention rate across 150+ clients.
When he left energy, he moved into ecosystem building, first at Mozaik Foundation, then scaling TechSoup's Western Balkans programme from two people to seven, achieving 900% year-over-year revenue growth and lowering customer acquisition costs by 64%. In parallel, he co-founded the first Business Angel Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the first Western Balkans Business Angel Community, after co-organizing the region's first Business Angel Summit.
Through Stevmark Consulting, he works with seed-stage founders preparing for institutional capital, sharpening pitch materials, refining investor positioning, and connecting teams with engineering talent from Southeast Europe.
His coaching draws on formal training in CBT, DBT, and Schema Therapy applied to the specific pressures of fundraising: how to stay sharp after the forty-seventh LP conversation, how to keep the narrative from going mechanical, and how to hold conviction across a process that will test it at every stage.
Ask him about:
What makes an LP say yes, and what makes them say "not this cycle."
The difference between a narrative that earns the meeting and one that earns the allocation. And why most GPs spend more time on the deck than on the story behind it.
