Hungarian venture capital fund Primus Capital announced its ninth investment. This time rather unusually it is not another technology startup, rather a business development company with the name iCatapult. Its goal is to promote local technology teams to global markets and put them on growth track.
Hungarian venture capital fund Primus Capital provided HUF 400 million funding for the establishment of iCatapult, a technology accelerator and business development company focusing on taking European technologies to global markets, primarily to the USA. The program, as well as the company will be led by former advisors of the venture capital fund Imre Hild and Peter Krajcsovics, while the technical knowhow comes from Digital Natives, represented by Kristof Bardos.Read more »
The popular zooming presentation-making service Prezi has launched localized versions of its website in Spanish, Japanese and Korean and announced that it has surpassed the 17 million users milestone.
Hungarian startup Prezi is growing at a high pace, it took just 1.5 months to increase its user base from 15 million to 17 million.
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In this hectic time when entrepreneurs are all striving to come up with the most memorable and engaging pitch. Imre Hild, partner at Primus Capital compiled a list of must-have words and terms when it comes to a well constructed pitch.
In these hectic times, when entrepreneurs are all striving to come up with a memorable and engaging pitch, I though it would be worthwile to put together a decidedly positive list of must-have words and terms when it comes to a well constructed pitch. This is my list so blame is on me if some good candidate words were forgotten. Here are those words which suggests to your seasoned listener that you know what you are talking about.Read more »
The team will get $40,000 equity-free investment, office space and mentorship for a six month period. Moreover, the community of the hundreds of entrepreneurs from all around the world offers a unique environment to share, learn and develop together.
After receiving more than 1400 applications during the sixth application period that ended on October 8th, Start-up Chile announced that 105 startup companies have been selected to be part of the world-recognized acceleration program’s sixth generation.
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Slush is a two-day startup conference where the best of tech talent from Northern Europe and Russia gets together to meet the leading investors and media from around the world. Slush is taking place on November 21-22, 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. Mailmill, Mcule, and Soometa are attending.
According to the latest news from Slush in Helsinki all the Hungarian Startups of the Startup Sauna Accelerator are among the companies that will pitch in front of 2500 prestigious guests including US based, Nordic and Russian Investors like Accel Partners, Sunstone Capital, Skolkovo or Russian Venture Company. Beside pitching Mcule, MailMill and SooMeta will have the opportunity to be among the 8 selected companies that will be able to take part of the roadshow in the Silicon Valley. About the companies:Read more »
