Day One Capital
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Day One Capital is a venture capital firm based in Budapest, Hungary, that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups in Central and Eastern Europe. It focuses on sectors such as AI-native software, robotics, cybersecurity, defense, and creative industries.
Day One Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in AI-Native Software, Robotics, Drones, and Autonomous Systems, cybersecurity and Data Infrastructure and Defense, Security, and Resilience. Its stated cheque size is €300K-2M. €94M under management, as it reports.
“We back CEE founders with conviction capital as they rebuild how the world works, how businesses run, how people create things, how we stay safe.”
— Day One Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- CEE
- Sectors
- AI-Native Software, Robotics, Drones, and Autonomous Systems, Cybersecurity and Data Infrastructure, Defense, Security, and Resilience, Creative Industries
- Cheque size
- €300K-2M
- Founded
- 2012
- Assets under management
- €94M
Where this comes from
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Record 622 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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