PortfoLion

PortfoLion is a Budapest-based venture capital and private equity fund management firm established in 2010. The firm specializes in investing in companies within the IT sector and those involved in the digitalization of traditional industries, focusing on scalable business models and growth potential in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). One of its notable initiatives includes the PortfoLion Regional Private Equity Fund, launched in 2012, which aimed at growth and expansion opportunities in Eastern Europe, with a minimum investment threshold set at HUF 150 million. Through its strategic investments, PortfoLion seeks to support innovative companies that can thrive in the evolving market landscape.

Miklos Bonis

Investment Director

Bence Gergely

Senior Investment Analyst

Elemér Gidofalvy

Partner

Tibor Gyorbiro

Partner

Mihály Horváth

Investment Director

Zsolt Mihály

Principal

András Molnár

Chief Executive Officer

Peter Naszrai

Associate

Jeno Nieder

Deputy CEO

Botond Németh

Senior Investment Analyst

Gábor Pozsonyi

Partner

Csaba Páczai

CFO

Márk Pálfalvi

Principal

Aurél Pásztor

Partner

Kinga Szocs

Investment Associate

Past deals in Poland

edrone

Series A in 2022
Edrone is an autonomous e-commerce CRM platform that provides advanced marketing automation solutions. Edrone collects, processes, and triggers customer data to help understand customers' behavior (Customer Intelligence) and engage them (Marketing Automation) with an all-in-one e-commerce marketing cloud, allowing businesses to automate their marketing activities and engage store visitors to increase sales. Edrone's customers include major European online stores as well as developing eStores. Among the Edrone customers are: x-Kom, Eastend, CitySport, Agent Provocateur, Tous, Wojas, Muve, and over 500 other stores. Each month Edrone handles Internet transactions worth over 3 billion Euros.

Mindgram

Seed Round in 2022
Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile application focused on comprehensive mental wellness. It aims to enhance productivity by addressing stress and burnout among employees. The platform provides daily personalized coaching, psychological support, and group workshops through chat or video calls. This enables users to develop valuable skills and effectively manage workplace challenges. By prioritizing mental well-being, Mindgram supports individuals in improving their overall performance and resilience in professional environments.

Packhelp

Series B in 2021
Packhelp sp. z o.o. is a packaging manufacturer based in Warsaw, Poland, founded in 2015. The company specializes in designing and producing custom-branded packaging products, including mailer and shipping boxes made from corrugated cardboard, as well as smaller boxes for items like cosmetics and jewelry. Packhelp provides an online platform that allows users to create and order their own packaging designs through a web application. Its services cater to a diverse clientele, including online stores, physical retailers, agencies, and various enterprises, addressing their specific packaging needs with options for production, engineering, prototyping, and supply chain optimization.

NovaKid

Series B in 2021
NovaKid is a next-generation early English learning platform that allows kids around the world to learn English through remote practice with native-speaking teachers and through engagement with AI-powered games and training apps that promote English speaking and comprehension based on the use of authentic content in the English language. It also offers individual lessons with native speaking certified teachers for children with AI-assisted data extraction and analysis. Incorporated in the US, it has students in over 30 countries, focussing on Europe and MENA with major customer base in Poland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia. NovaKid was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Codecool

Series C in 2021
Codecool Kft. operates a network of coding schools in Hungary and Poland, aimed at addressing the digital talent gap while providing individuals with new career opportunities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Miskolc, Hungary, Codecool offers a comprehensive curriculum that spans 12 months of practical training followed by 6 months of on-the-job experience. The program targets individuals aged 18 to 40 and emphasizes project-based, mastery-oriented learning tailored to meet the demands of the tech industry. Students gain proficiency in essential programming languages such as Python, Java, and JavaScript, along with knowledge of GIT, databases, and agile methodologies like SCRUM. The curriculum is designed to foster both technical and soft skills, promoting teamwork, time management, and problem-solving. Codecool also provides businesses with a channel to source skilled digital talent, facilitating tailored training and a try-and-hire model to assess candidates in real work environments. This approach ensures that the educational content remains relevant and aligned with market needs.

NovaKid

Series A in 2020
NovaKid is a next-generation early English learning platform that allows kids around the world to learn English through remote practice with native-speaking teachers and through engagement with AI-powered games and training apps that promote English speaking and comprehension based on the use of authentic content in the English language. It also offers individual lessons with native speaking certified teachers for children with AI-assisted data extraction and analysis. Incorporated in the US, it has students in over 30 countries, focussing on Europe and MENA with major customer base in Poland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Russia. NovaKid was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, CA, USA.

edrone

Series A in 2020
Edrone is an autonomous e-commerce CRM platform that provides advanced marketing automation solutions. Edrone collects, processes, and triggers customer data to help understand customers' behavior (Customer Intelligence) and engage them (Marketing Automation) with an all-in-one e-commerce marketing cloud, allowing businesses to automate their marketing activities and engage store visitors to increase sales. Edrone's customers include major European online stores as well as developing eStores. Among the Edrone customers are: x-Kom, Eastend, CitySport, Agent Provocateur, Tous, Wojas, Muve, and over 500 other stores. Each month Edrone handles Internet transactions worth over 3 billion Euros.

Codecool

Series B in 2019
Codecool Kft. operates a network of coding schools in Hungary and Poland, aimed at addressing the digital talent gap while providing individuals with new career opportunities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Miskolc, Hungary, Codecool offers a comprehensive curriculum that spans 12 months of practical training followed by 6 months of on-the-job experience. The program targets individuals aged 18 to 40 and emphasizes project-based, mastery-oriented learning tailored to meet the demands of the tech industry. Students gain proficiency in essential programming languages such as Python, Java, and JavaScript, along with knowledge of GIT, databases, and agile methodologies like SCRUM. The curriculum is designed to foster both technical and soft skills, promoting teamwork, time management, and problem-solving. Codecool also provides businesses with a channel to source skilled digital talent, facilitating tailored training and a try-and-hire model to assess candidates in real work environments. This approach ensures that the educational content remains relevant and aligned with market needs.

CloudStorm

Seed Round in 2018
CloudStorm provides robotic process automation solutions. It offers CloudStorm, a process automation software toolkit that connects the systems that employees use and automate their repetitive tasks using software robots. The company’s toolkit is also used for automating tasks, connecting software, excel integration, creating complex workflows, data entry and reporting, and remote workforce applications. CloudStorm was founded in 2016 and is based in Budapest, Hungary with additional offices in Vienna, Austria; and Kraków, Poland. It has cloud datacenters in Germany, Ireland, and the United States.

Codecool

Series A in 2017
Codecool Kft. operates a network of coding schools in Hungary and Poland, aimed at addressing the digital talent gap while providing individuals with new career opportunities. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Miskolc, Hungary, Codecool offers a comprehensive curriculum that spans 12 months of practical training followed by 6 months of on-the-job experience. The program targets individuals aged 18 to 40 and emphasizes project-based, mastery-oriented learning tailored to meet the demands of the tech industry. Students gain proficiency in essential programming languages such as Python, Java, and JavaScript, along with knowledge of GIT, databases, and agile methodologies like SCRUM. The curriculum is designed to foster both technical and soft skills, promoting teamwork, time management, and problem-solving. Codecool also provides businesses with a channel to source skilled digital talent, facilitating tailored training and a try-and-hire model to assess candidates in real work environments. This approach ensures that the educational content remains relevant and aligned with market needs.

Replise

Series A in 2013
Replise provides social media analysis services. Their experts include Internet gurus, developers, market researchers and managers. Over the past four years, their company, shaped by the evolving market, has developed into a major player in the marketplace. Their primary research and development center is based in Budapest, with a regional center operating out of Warsaw. Their West European office in Frankfurt and market research facilities in London provide essential services to their growing clientele worldwide. Their research covers most European countries and languages, while their solutions are also available to fast-growing markets like China, South America and the Middle East. Vast amounts of data are generated for each of these markets daily, waiting to be transformed into market advantage. They analyze social media content in over 40 languages with classic market research methodologies, qualitative and quantitative analyses, based on their experience accumulated in Europe, the culturally and linguistically most diverse part of the world.