Day One
Venture Capital
Active
Budapest, Hungary
45
5M
29
3.46
3
0.36
4
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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.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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- 322K — 2M
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 45
- Lead investments
- 3
- Exits
- 4
- Rounds per year
- 3.46
- Follow on index
- 0.36
- Investments by industry
- Software (17)
- Information Technology (10)
- Automotive (6)
- Hardware (6)
- Robotics (5) Show 76 more
- Investments by region
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- Hungary (19)
- Romania (4)
- Sweden (2)
- United States (7)
- Germany (4) Show 6 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 535K
- Group Appearance index
- 0.82
- Avg. company exit year
- 4
- Avg. multiplicator
- 2.01
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Latest deals
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bSafe | 01 May 2010 | Software, Mobile, Location Based Services | Seed | 2M | United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Colossyan | 06 Feb 2024 | Media and Entertainment, Video Editing | Early Stage Venture | 22M | Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| synnada.ai | 28 Dec 2021 | Software | Seed | 2M | United States, Texas, Leander |
| Villaday | 01 Feb 2016 | Early Stage Venture | 773K | Guangdong Province, Futian District, China |
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