"We support globally minded founders who dive into the unknown and make history by being the pioneers of change"
About Us
Our Purpose and Vision
Vespucci Partners aims to find and support those Central European startup teams that have a truly disruptive product and are capable of achieving success in the global market. We believe that this market can produce unicorns as well, and we want to be the investors who help grow these potential startups get closer to that stage. We think that success depends on a lot of other aspects next to financial support. So we give our startups more than just money, we provide smart capital with portfolio management experts from all areas, guidance and contacts for a successful international expansion.
FUND SIZE
41 M EUR
Deal size per startup
600k - 4.5 M EUR
Target stage
Seed - Series A
Target number of investments
20
Investment Strategy
What we offer

Fast due diligence and investment process

We know that for a startup time is key. For that reason, our entire investment process takes maximum 3 months from the first contact with the team. We believe that if a startup is suitable for us to invest, we should finance them as quickly as possible and have them start working with the capital.

Active portfolio management

Trusted experts and partners in all areas where a startup might need help (business development, marketing, sales, international expansion, HR, finance, etc.)

Next round fundraising help

We foster and build relationships with international venture capital firms who potentially can be the next investors of our portfolio companies.
Investment Strategy
What we are looking for
  • Strong and agile teams with a vision and capability of executing it
  • Products / services that are scalable and truly disruptive
  • Startups with an international growth potential that plan to grow globally
  • Companies with a potential to exit with a 10x return, within about 7 years
  • Products that provide a solution to a real need

Registration in the dataroom

Investment Process
01
Application
Application for financing by registering into our data room.
Registration
02
Questionnaire + One Pager + Lean Canvas
The teams fill out a questionnaire, upload their one pager and lean canvas. The startups will be evaluated based on these by our analysts.
03
Personal Meeting: Pitch
Two analysts meet with the startup teams in person. They listen to their pitch and then ask questions to have a better understanding of the project. At this point, they mainly focus os assessing the abilities of the team and getting answers to the arising questions.
04
Uploading documents into the data room
The startups upload all of the required documents, so that we can run a deeper analysis and decide whether we find their business plan to be sound and viable. For the list of required documents click on "More Information".
05
Q&A interview with the experts
The startups pitch again and the screening team with experts from different areas will ask questions based on the materials requested.
06
Screening for the GO - NO GO decision
Under the guidance of the Investment Manager, the experts perform the respective analytical tasks for the project (eg. market, competitors, team, etc.) and decide whether it is worth presenting the project to the Investment Committee. If so, they put together a proposal about the startup and the investment opportunity.
07
GO - NO GO proposal and decision
The Investment Manager presents the startup and the investment opportunity to the Investment Committee. The Committee will make a decision about whether they consider the project worth investing in and thus starting the Term Sheet negotiations and Due Diligence process.
08
Term sheet negotiations
Negotiating the investment terms and coming to a final agreement.
Term Sheet
09
Due Diligence and deep screening
Legal, technology, tax and accounting due diligence of the startup. In addition, a deep screening of the risk points of the project identified during the screening process up until this point.
10
Writing the investment and syndicate contract
If the due diligence process has a positive result then the lawyers will write an investment and syndicate contract based on the signed term sheet. This document will provide a guideline for the operation of the startup once the investment is made.
11
Investment Committee's decision about the disbursement
The Investment Manager presents the startup to the Investment Committee once again, but in this round including all the Due Diligence results and the negotiated investment terms. The Committee will decide whether to invest in the startup and disburse the money to them.
12
Contract Signing and Disbursement
Signing the Investment Agreement and disbursing the money to the startup.
Partners
Team
Stickl László
Sohajda Júlia
Szarvas Attila
Macher Péter
Darai Zoltán
Zsigmond Levente
Koltai Kristóf
Advisory Board
Szántó Károly
Molnár István András
Laszlo Horvath


Portfolio
Transcend
Transcend exists to help Engineering & Construction firms (E&Cs) and Technology OEMs automate the preliminary engineering process. Like CRM and ERP before us, our goal is to automate this core business process in order to enhance the bottom line via cost savings and revenue growth. Transcend leverages its software to help transform the culture of these firms so they can systematically assess new technologies and design approaches that help solve our climate crisis.
RocketShepherd
RocketShepherd is an interactive database for comparing Central & Eastern European startup ecosystem stakeholders with their global counterparts to identify gaps between them and get personalized recommendations of products/services that remedy those shortfalls, digital presence and sales. With this automation and personalization, RocketShepherd creates an inter-ecosystem marketplace for innovators.
innoMask
innoMask Technologies is a medtech research and development startup company working in the field of invasive airway management. They’re developing the next generation of laryngeal mask airway devices. This advanced application with its increased atraumatic feature is able to minimize the complications during medical procedures and provides an easier execution for medical professionals.
Haris Digital
Haris Digital is an industry 4.0 company based in Hungary and Austria offering both hardware and software solutions. Their mission is to help small-to-medium-sized manufacturing companies become more competitive by providing them with fast, cheap yet accurate digital data and AI-assisted analytics. They break-down the entry barriers to the world of industry 4.0 by offering state-of-the-art efficiency improvement solution that is affordable and can be scaled up brick by brick.
CMO24
CMO24 aims to make all retail products and services available in one central cloud-based database. This makes life easier for vendors, customers and any other player in the market, with easy access to data that has so far been difficult to obtain or not available at all.
Mollia
Mollia’s mission is to develop a highly adaptive and trainable software for the kinematic control of humanoid robots in a virtual training environment kept within realistic settings. The simulated robot is able to: perform unsupervised learning, adapt its skills to new circumstances, manipulate objects of different weights in physical space, carry out the training through intuitive interaction and practice. The cornerstone of our project is a language-like kinematic learning system that describes human motion in terms of unified geometric building blocks and a set of high-level rules.
About us
Vespucci Partners is a Budapest-based venture capital fund. We invest in Seed and Series A startups, which have global potential. Our goal is to find outstanding startups whom we actively support in their international growth.

Address: Vespucci Partners
1134 Budapest, Váci út 45. G. ép 3. emelet

Email: info@vespuccipartners.com

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