Venture Risk Investigations

Venture Risk Investigations, a specialized division of the Draco Group, is a full-service investigations firm, dedicated to providing its clients with the highest quality investigative, due diligence, competitive intelligence, and security consulting services.  We accomplish this by approaching our clients’ cases from a multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted approach, leveraging our investigators' wide range of backgrounds and skill sets to cover every investigative issue that may arise.

Unique Approach
Venture Risk Investigations utilizes investigators who provide distinct but complementary skill sets based on their diverse experience in law enforcement, legal practice, military service and financial analysis.  By approaching each case, and each client’s situation, from these differing but synchronized viewpoints, we can make sure that each client receives the most robust, well-rounded, and comprehensive investigative and troubleshooting service.  Venture Risk maintains an extensive network of investigators, contacts, and sources throughout the world, ensuring that we can provide responsive, timely, and accurate investigations anywhere our clients’ needs may take us.

Need for Services
Accurate and up-to-date information is crucial to the success of any venture, whether that venture is a business transaction, an investment opportunity, a civil or criminal litigation, a regulatory or compliance matter, hiring a new employee, or a more personal pursuit.  As recent history illustrates, even the most intelligent and savvy individuals can be targeted and victimized by complex fraud schemes. Having a dedicated, highly skilled, and intellectually agile investigative team on one’s side can help to identify, analyze, and mitigate risks, whether those risks are legal, financial, emotional, or physical.
 

Brief Overview of Our Services

•     Background Checks and Pre-Employment Screening
•     Due Diligence Investigations
•     Fraud Detection and Prevention
•     Theft Detection and Prevention
•     Litigation Support Investigations – evidence gathering, witness interviews and fact evaluations, for both civil and criminal cases
•     Litigation Intelligence Investigations - for example, background investigations on litigation adversaries, expert or hostile witnesses, etc.
•     Subpoena and Discovery Compliance Consulting – interviewing, collecting, reviewing, and analyzing documents and materials produced or demanded in response to subpoenas or discovery requests; evaluating evidentiary value; and counseling client as to their weight, red flags, and next steps suggested by the evidence.
•     Corporate Investigations, including Internal Investigations, Ethics Investigations, Investigations of Whistleblower Claims, and Compliance Consulting
•     Trade Secret and Intellectual Property Protection Investigations
•     Competitive Business Intelligence
•     Surveillance
•     Polygraph Services (Lie-Detector Tests)
•     Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (Bug-Detecting)
•     Security Consulting and Executive Protection Consulting
•     Asset Searches
•     Missing Person and Witness Location and Interviews    
•     Law Enforcement Assistance and Criminal Investigations

Venture Risk Investigations has developed and maintained access to an extensive world-wide network of contacts and sources from law enforcement, the intelligence community, the military, and the corporate sector.  These sources enable us to obtain customized, reliable, hard-to-get intelligence and provide investigative services with the highest level of quality and depth of analysis.  Venture Risk specializes in complex investigations including:

•     Criminal Litigation
•     Bribery
•     Trade Secret Violations
•     Civil Litigation
•     Personal Injury Claims    
•     Competitive Intelligence
•     Fraud    
•     Matrimonial & Custody Disputes
•     Judgment Recovery
•     Corruption
•     Sexual Harassment    
•     Industrial Espionage
•     Theft    
•     Discrimination
•     Workplace Violence
•     Breach of Contract
•     Money Laundering    
•     Asset Searches
•     Information Leaks    
•     Financial Misconduct
•     Piracy    
•     Whistleblower Allegations
•     Accounting Irregularities
•     Intellectual Property Infringement


Venture Risk provides its services to individuals, corporations, law firms, and government entities.  These investigations involve surreptitious surveillance, interviews, data retrieval, IT forensics, witness identification and verification, and asset tracing.   Our extensive network enables us to serve our clients practically anywhere in the world.