Day One

Budapest, Hungary
Venture Capital
Active
Total investments

45

Average round size

5M

Portfolio companies

29

Rounds per year

3.46

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
AutomotiveSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsHardwareMedia and Entertainment

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/Enterprise
Stage focus
SeedSeries A
Geo focus
AlbaniaBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCroatiaCzechia Show 11 more
Check size
322K — 2M

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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)
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Investments by region
  • Hungary (19)
  • Romania (4)
  • Sweden (2)
  • United States (7)
  • Germany (4)
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Peak activity year
2021

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Quantitative data

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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