The program costs and investment

The cost of the program will be compensated by an initial 5% equity in the participating company. If you do not yet have a company, our legal team will assist you to set up a simple Hungarian limited liability company (Kft) before the program starts. The sample legal documents for our initial investment can be found here.
Our aim is to identify teams in which we can invest in at the end of the program and can work with them beyond the programming order to help them become global successes. We also do follow-on investments in portfolio companies either as single investors or co-investors with the investors from our investor community.
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Program Director and program management team

Andrea Kozma

Program director, Co-Founder,
Group Lead

Building a successful startup is about identifying opportunities and acting on them. Keep being in conversation with your customers and build what they want to buy.

Péter Langmár

Co-founder,
Group Lead

Radical honesty and transparency.

Ákos Deliága

Entrepreneur in Residence,
Group Lead

As a practicing CEO and a father of 3 small kids, my time is extremely scarce and valuable. I still chose to become a resident entrepreneur and group leader in this great program as I live by the #givefirst attitude. You can expect me to be committed, attentive, direct with my feedback, authentic and demanding. I’d like to work with entrepreneurs who are self-driven, who want to achieve tangible impact and who have high ambitions. Let’s enjoy the ride as well.

Márton Báti

Entrepreneur in Residence,
Group Lead

A successful startupper’s motivation is not the cool office or the flexible hours, but the challenge to solve unknown and unexpected issues.

Panna Rozsa

Program coordinator

Our mentors

Achilles Georgiu

Innovation Management Expert & Professional MazeRunner

Every idea is worth as much as we can leverage out of it. I love challenging the ideas and the way how the teams would like to generate value for their clients through services or products specifically when they use or support the usage of AI in new fields.

Boncz
Gábor

Seasoned Executive

A new product or svc must solve somebody’s problem.

Let’s explore together Your one is really up to that so with adding all necessary ops ingredients You will thrive!

Dóra Marosvölgyi

Founder and CEO
at DARE Innovations

I am passionate to work with deeptech start-ups and help them nurture strong business fundamentals, forge an exceptional team, and embrace the power of collaborations to fuel their innovation journey.

György Káli

Co-Founder, Service designer at Humanize.studio

You should ask your target group for feedback on your ideas as soon as possible. For this, you need to build a rapid prototype, which makes your concept testable. Each prototype test will bring new questions and new perspectives to your team’s work. In this way, you can deepen the concept, or you can iterate in a more marketable direction.

László Drajkó

Founder
at Cydrill Software Security

On the quest for finding eternal youth (of mind) business veterans like myself often engage an activity called mentoring. It’s unclears whether it is a social activity, a process or a passionate connection to some creative ideas. One thing for sure, the outcome is a lot of learning. Who is benefitting whether the mentee or te mentor is yet to be found out.

László
Személyi

Executive Partner,
Future-Now Co-Founder
 

Watch carefully – most things you only see once in its current form.

Manuel
Alexander Roth

Management Consultant at AlixPartners / ex-CEE Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan

Looking forward to being your sparring partner in making your ideas come true by building a business around it. Living in Frankfurt — the capital of the European financial industry — I can help you connect the dots to a wider market early on and thereby thinking globally from the beginning. An engineer myself I’m passionate about the forefront of tech. Let’s embark on this journey together.

Szabolcs
Szalay

Partner and Associate
Director at Boston Consulting
Group (BCG)

I have been advising major financial institutions’ executives about technology and organizational transformation for 25 years across 25 countries. I am trained on dozens of post-merger integration projects, hundreds of presentations, thousands of slides, and countless hours of expert discussions. Build your prompt to start downloading…

Walid o. el
Cheikh

Author/Coach of
Pitching For Life

Walid is an expert in pitching and early-stage traction development for startups. He coached over 100k people in 34 countries & 63 cities.

FAQ

This program is for teams who can dedicate their time fully to their project. Many projects start as an “after office hours project” until the founders feel ready to take the leap to fully dedicate themselves to the project. If you are not at that point yet, keep working on your project and apply when you are ready. In the meantime please feel free to register at the @STRT Academy, which provides lots of startup development related educational material.

Yes. In this case we will require that you set up a Hungarian Kft, we will take care of the legal work and costs.
We invest in any company that is set up in an EFTA member jurisdiction or in a US State.
We believe that teams always do better then individuals, no matter how talented they may be. Developing a new product where there is no proven path, you will need many skills and more then a pair of hands. Coming as a team shows that you are willing and can work as a team. Show us that there are more people then yourself who share your vision.
It is absolutely not necessary. Some teams prefer home office and you will need to do a lot of errands around your project, your potential customer, stakeholders anyway.  It is a place which is at your disposal, and it is also an opportunity to connect with peers. We will require that your team show up in whole at the weekly stand ups.
This program is offline, so you will actually need to be in Budapest for this program. Our @STRT Academy provides online learning materials for teams who are looking for remote learning opportunities.
The language of  the program is English. If you can read and understand English and join-in group discussions, you will be fine. You may want to use the time before the program to catch up on your language skills. Our @STRT Academy