Day One Capital

Day One Capital is a venture capital firm based in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2011. It specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on technology start-ups and entrepreneurs primarily from Central Eastern Europe. The firm manages privately financed funds and aims to identify and collaborate with promising teams that are pursuing global opportunities, particularly in the business-to-business software sector. Through its investments, Day One Capital seeks to support innovation and growth within the region's technology landscape.

Dóra Branyiczki

Principal

András Fehér

Associate

Milan Golovics

Associate

Csaba Kákosy

Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner

Judit Lucz

CFO

Bernát Nacsa

Principal

Milán Pókecz

Investment Manager

György Simó

Managing Partner

Zsolt Weiszbart

Partner

Past deals in Hungary

Recart

Seed Round in 2021
Recart Technologies Limited Liability Company develops an ecommerce software application. It offers Recart, a messenger marketing tool to recall abandoned carts, send discount offers, shipping notifications, get follow up after sales feedback, and deliver coupon codes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

Recart

Seed Round in 2019
Recart Technologies Limited Liability Company develops an ecommerce software application. It offers Recart, a messenger marketing tool to recall abandoned carts, send discount offers, shipping notifications, get follow up after sales feedback, and deliver coupon codes. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

Commsignia

Series A in 2019
Commsignia Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes cooperative intelligent transportation systems. It offers vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies; and various connected car solutions; Commsignia V2X Software Stack, an embedded solution that provides a modular framework and small footprint for various resource-constrained target platforms. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

Talk-A-Bot

Seed Round in 2019
Talk-A-Bot is an information technology company that provides a chatbot enterprise solution for corporate, company, and brand. The company specializes in messenger bot, online marketing, business development, and chat marketing. Talk-A-Bot was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.

Tresorit

Series B in 2018
Tresorit Ltd. provides solutions to encrypt and share files in the cloud. The company offers Tresorit, a security solution for distributed storage systems that enable users to store and share files in a secure way using the cloud. It offers its solutions for client-side encryption, secure storage, secure transfer, secure sharing, authenticated transactions, and access control. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

AImotive

Series C in 2018
AImotive Informatikai Kft. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven self-driving technology designed for human drivers. Founded in 2015 and based in Budapest, Hungary, the company leverages camera-based solutions that replicate human visual capabilities. AImotive offers a suite of products, including aiDrive, which provides global self-driving functionalities across various weather conditions, and aiSim, which enables developers to test self-driving software effectively. Additionally, their aiWare product consists of AI-optimized hardware that is scalable for both embedded solutions and data centers. By combining expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and 3D graphics, AImotive aims to support industry partners in achieving their autonomous driving objectives, fostering collaboration with its modular and hardware-agnostic solutions.

Now Technologies

Venture Round in 2017
Gyroset™ Glory headset is a proportional head control, enabling tetraplegic or other heavily injured users to control the wheelchair, the environment, computers etc. with a nod of their head instead of having to use all kinds of cumbersome solutions blocking their vision. Now Technologies has been founded to undertake the development, design, marketing, manufacture and support of the GyroSet solution. Paralysis can be a life-changing condition, especially if the injury prohibits the person from going about their daily routine or job as maybe they previously did. Their goal is to provide these people with an affordable solution that can make them independent and enable them to live their lives with mobility and through providing a way to interact with computers again, providing them with the potential to work, create and communicate.

Samebug, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Samebug, Inc. operates a software platform designed to assist developers in finding and sharing solutions to software bugs. Founded in 2015 and based in Budapest, Hungary, the platform utilizes stack trace analysis to identify solutions to coding issues, enabling developers to leverage existing bug-fixing knowledge and adopt new technologies. Users can input stack traces from crashes into the platform, which searches a vast database of solutions to determine if similar problems have been resolved by other engineers. If a solution is available, it is presented to the user; if not, Samebug connects them with experts for further assistance. Samebug, Inc. has been a subsidiary of Rollbar, Inc. since February 2019.

Commsignia

Seed Round in 2016
Commsignia Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes cooperative intelligent transportation systems. It offers vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication technologies; and various connected car solutions; Commsignia V2X Software Stack, an embedded solution that provides a modular framework and small footprint for various resource-constrained target platforms. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Budapest, Hungary.

AImotive

Series B in 2016
AImotive Informatikai Kft. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven self-driving technology designed for human drivers. Founded in 2015 and based in Budapest, Hungary, the company leverages camera-based solutions that replicate human visual capabilities. AImotive offers a suite of products, including aiDrive, which provides global self-driving functionalities across various weather conditions, and aiSim, which enables developers to test self-driving software effectively. Additionally, their aiWare product consists of AI-optimized hardware that is scalable for both embedded solutions and data centers. By combining expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and 3D graphics, AImotive aims to support industry partners in achieving their autonomous driving objectives, fostering collaboration with its modular and hardware-agnostic solutions.

AImotive

Series A in 2015
AImotive Informatikai Kft. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven self-driving technology designed for human drivers. Founded in 2015 and based in Budapest, Hungary, the company leverages camera-based solutions that replicate human visual capabilities. AImotive offers a suite of products, including aiDrive, which provides global self-driving functionalities across various weather conditions, and aiSim, which enables developers to test self-driving software effectively. Additionally, their aiWare product consists of AI-optimized hardware that is scalable for both embedded solutions and data centers. By combining expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and 3D graphics, AImotive aims to support industry partners in achieving their autonomous driving objectives, fostering collaboration with its modular and hardware-agnostic solutions.

Synetiq

Seed Round in 2014
Synetiq helps brands & media producers create high performing video ads from based on biometric data from their target audience and machine learning. Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfO1rtCTGPw Clients include BBC, HBO, RTL, Viacom, AMC Networks, Belgian Television, Tesco, CBA, Spar, Telekom, Telenor, Vodafone, Egis, Merck, Heineken, IKEA, Raiffeisen Bank, CIB Bank, Auchan, EON Energy, MOL Oil, Béres, OTP Bank, K&H Bank, Molson Coors, Teva, Richter, MediaMarkt, Kantar TNS, Young & Rubicam, Havas Media, Mito among others.

AERON

Series A in 2014
AERON is a retailer specializing in women's fashion clothing, known for its unique blend of superb quality, innovative craftsmanship, and effortless elegance. The brand focuses on reinventing traditional tailoring techniques while utilizing fine materials, including its signature suede Japanese leather. AERON's collections feature a range of items that balance work and play, embodying a minimal yet feminine sensuality. Their offerings include high-waisted tailored pants, asymmetrical coats, oversized sweaters, and minimalistic dresses, all designed to meet the needs of the modern woman while preserving the timeless quality of traditional craftsmanship. The company emphasizes a commitment to creating artful pieces that resonate with contemporary lifestyles.

Statzup

Seed Round in 2014
Statzup project is all about the passion of being a real football fanatic. With their apps and sites you will be able to follow your favorites to an extent you could not before: You get all the important news, statistics, records, pictures, you can guess the result of the games and compete with your friends using their brand new scorezup game. And on the top of that, you can set up and manage your own team using real players in their The Fantasy Football (TFF) game.

Genio Studio Ltd

Seed Round in 2014
Genio is a web and mobile development studio.

Now Technologies

Seed Round in 2014
Gyroset™ Glory headset is a proportional head control, enabling tetraplegic or other heavily injured users to control the wheelchair, the environment, computers etc. with a nod of their head instead of having to use all kinds of cumbersome solutions blocking their vision. Now Technologies has been founded to undertake the development, design, marketing, manufacture and support of the GyroSet solution. Paralysis can be a life-changing condition, especially if the injury prohibits the person from going about their daily routine or job as maybe they previously did. Their goal is to provide these people with an affordable solution that can make them independent and enable them to live their lives with mobility and through providing a way to interact with computers again, providing them with the potential to work, create and communicate.

SOPRESO

Seed Round in 2013
SOPRESO aims to turn your presentation into a conversation. Our software empowers your audience to be able to interact with your presentation in real-time through their smart devices. SOPRESO is an audience response system that works as an additional communication layer to any presentation format. Our web-based software enables the audience to raise questions, add comments to individual slides and even rate the entire presentation. SOPRESO has three focuses: 1. Simplicity. Current presentation interaction software can have a tedious set up. Audiences have to either download an app or create an account or navigate to the presentation and by the time they have your presentation pulled up, you’ve completely lost the audiences attention. SOPRESO has a 1-Step Setup that simply requires your audience to enter a shortened URL in their mobile browser. No apps. No Accounts. Just you and your presentation. Unlike other presentation hosting software, SOPRESO simply mirrors your presentation, meaning that any presentation format will work with our software. This also means that any network malfunction will not effect your presentation or result in loss of data. 2. Interactivity. The core purpose of SOPRESO is to engage your audience. This is facilitated through a few key features in our software: Instant Slide Access - Audience members can follow the presenter’s slides on their mobile during the presentation, allowing attendees in the back of the room easy access to the same information as those closer to the screen. If the presenter is moving too quickly, audience members can go to previous slides or skip ahead to what’s coming up. This also can vastly improve the experience for virtual participants. Real-time commenting – audience members can add comments and vote on those that they identify with. This brings the best comments and questions to the top. Digital Business Cards – Audience members can easily garner contact information from the presenter and their fellow attendees. No more wasting time gathering business cards and entering them into your address book. 3. Uniqueness. As a cost effective, easy-to-use service, we believe that SOPRESO would make any presenter stand out from the crowd.

OptoForce

Seed Round in 2013
Started as a university spin-off in the field of robotics, OptoForce designs and manufactures special 3-axis tactile sensors and multi-axis load cells with a novel technology. Their sensors are mostly used in applications with high likelihood of extreme overload and in automation where min. 3 component force measurement is needed.