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the 3 months intensive program for early-stage startups
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Your application will be considered for the Spring 2024 cohort
STRT LAUNCHPAD
the 3 months intensive program for early-stage startups


Why STRT?

We invested in
50 startups

Total Funds raised by our portfolio companies
HUF11,5B
About the program


The Launchpad program
STRT Launchpad is an intensive 3 months program in English, led by entrepreneurs and seasoned executives. The program is offered to founders who dedicate their entire time to their project during the program

Programme value and investment
The programme value is HUF 2M that STRT covers for all participants and invests a further HUF 1M in each team in exchange for 5% equity. The best performing Launchpad graduates may receive a HUF 5-15 million investment following the DemoDay on December 12, 2023.

The venue and the community
STRT Launchpad program will be held at 1051 Budapest Nádor utca 9, CEU. Graduates become part of our alumni community and will continue to receive support beyond the program
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- help teams with global ambition
- help early stage founders of any background and age
- welcome female entrepreneurs and diverse teams
- make follow-on investments and often co-invest with angels and early-stage investors

Program Director and program management team

Andrea Kozma
Program director, Co-Founder,
Group Lead

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

Panna Rozsa
Program coordinator

Our mentors

Achilles Georgiu
Innovation Management Expert & Professional MazeRunner

Boncz
Gábor
Seasoned Executive

Dóra Marosvölgyi
Founder and CEO at DARE Innovations

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

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

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 established 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 programme to catch up on your language skills.