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Day One Capital

Founders Csaba Kakosy Elek Straub Gyorgy Simo

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Total investments 45
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 3.46
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.36
Exits 4
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Automotive
  • Hardware
  • Robotics
Summary

Day One Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2011. The venture was found in Europe in Hungary. The main department of described VC is located in the Budapest.

This organization was formed by Csaba Kakosy, Elek Straub, Gyorgy Simo. The overall number of key employees were 4.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 2 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Medical Device. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight GAMEE, Commsignia, Tresorit. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - Hungary.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Day One Capital, startups are often financed by PortfoLion, Credo Ventures, Tamares. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Credo Ventures, Inventure, Robert Bosch Venture Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Inventure, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Credo Ventures.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this Day One Capital works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Colossyan

Media and Entertainment
Video Editing
$22M06 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Commsignia

Automotive
Internet of Things
Wireless
$15M05 Sep 2023 San Jose, California, United States

FLOWX.AI

Enterprise
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Insurance
Productivity Tools
Software
$35M22 May 2023 Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Colossyan

Media and Entertainment
Video Editing
$5M27 Feb 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Soleadify

Machine Learning
$6M21 Feb 2023 Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Turbine

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Biotechnology
$23M22 Nov 2022 Budapest, Hungary

Volteum

Mobile Apps
Software
Transportation
Travel
$1M09 Nov 2022 Budapest, Hungary

Webshippy Magyarország Kft

E-Commerce
Warehousing
$3M30 Jun 2022 Budapest, Hungary

Material Exchange

Supply Chain Management
$29M12 Apr 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

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Total investments 45
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 3.46
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.36
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Colossyan

Media and Entertainment
Video Editing
$22M06 Feb 2024 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Commsignia

Automotive
Internet of Things
Wireless
$15M05 Sep 2023 San Jose, California, United States

FLOWX.AI

Enterprise
Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Software
Insurance
Productivity Tools
Software
$35M22 May 2023 Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Colossyan

Media and Entertainment
Video Editing
$5M27 Feb 2023 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Soleadify

Machine Learning
$6M21 Feb 2023 Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania

Turbine

Artificial Intelligence
Biopharma
Biotechnology
$23M22 Nov 2022 Budapest, Hungary

Volteum

Mobile Apps
Software
Transportation
Travel
$1M09 Nov 2022 Budapest, Hungary

Webshippy Magyarország Kft

E-Commerce
Warehousing
$3M30 Jun 2022 Budapest, Hungary

Material Exchange

Supply Chain Management
$29M12 Apr 2022 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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