Why PEVio exists.
PEVio started with a decade-long friendship spent discussing how to build more rigorous companies and more disciplined investment firms. As founders and operators, we watched momentum stall inside diligence, with weeks of work lost in versioned spreadsheets, fragmented VDRs, and manually assembled memos. As investors, we saw signal buried under process, institutional memory walking out the door with individual team members, and decisions shaped by partial recall rather than a single trusted source.
We did not want to build a faster data room or a smarter spreadsheet. We wanted to build the system that sits beside the Investment Committee: one that transforms unstructured deal information into explainable, auditable judgement, and that gets better with every deal your fund completes.
The team.
Hichem Frija
Founder
25+ years in capital markets across Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and Carnegie. Built the #1 ranked European special situations team. 40+ venture investments across technology and infrastructure. Hichem brings the institutional lens: how Investment Committees actually evaluate risk, structure debate, and reach conviction.
Christian A. Hvamstad
Founder
Serial founder and former banker across Nordea, SEB, and First Securities. Raised $30m+ across Wastefront and docStribute. Board-level experience scaling ventures from inception to institutional scale. Christian brings the operational discipline: how to build, ship, and scale products that institutional clients depend on.
Andreas Larsson
Technology and Customer Success
20+ years delivering complex B2B SaaS to regulated enterprises. Built Symbrio Norway to 40 enterprise clients and multi-MNOK revenue, leading to acquisition. 50+ enterprise implementations. Andreas ensures that what PEVio promises, it delivers.
Line Hjartarson
Head of Product Design & Delivery
15+ years at the intersection of design and engineering, including Director of Design at Omny and Principal Designer at Cognite for data‑heavy industrial and security software. Leads PEVio’s product design and delivery from MVP to operational platform, shaping UX, onboarding and roadmap so PE, VC and corporate M&A teams can adopt ASI with confidence and minimal change‑management friction.
Technology
Purpose-built for private markets. Engineered for accountable decisions.
PEVio is architected specifically for private equity and growth capital environments, not retrofitted from a general-purpose AI stack.
The platform deploys multiple domain-specific intelligence engines operating in parallel across financial analysis, legal risk, commercial assessment, and regulatory context. Each output is cross-validated against structured investment frameworks and reconciled into a traceable, source-linked conclusion.
The learning architecture is intentionally bounded. PEVio adapts to a fund’s historical decisions and realised outcomes, but only within predefined governance parameters and with human validation embedded at each stage of the workflow.
Every recommendation is auditable. Every conclusion is attributable. Human override remains explicit.
Security and data governance are designed to institutional standards, with deployment models supporting on-premise, private cloud or sovereign infrastructure requirements.