High Growth Technology Startups from CEE
One fund, 23 portfolio companies - €184mn follow-on investment
co-invested with Insight Partners, Partech, Lakestar, Lightspeed
we leverage
our local background, operational expertise and global network to help CEE startups realize their fullest potential
We are looking for Hungarian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish, Croatian, Romanian, Slovenian and Bulgarian founders
- Technology-heavy B2B SaaS companies with global ambition from day one
- Outstanding team covering all core areas of the business
- Early stage, but already making money (MRR: €10k+)
- Actively seeking for smart money investor to partner up with (by 'partner up' we mean that the control of your business remains with you. We are aiming for minority share and not interested in buyouts at all, cause we believe that success can only be achieved through motivated founders.)
Why Oktogon?
- Led and co-founded by the entrepreneur behind one of CEE's most significant exits.
- We provide mentoring, coaching, sales, hiring, and fundraising support to our founders.
- We participate with €100k-€400k initial tickets in €0.5mn-€5mn rounds, mostly as co-investors.
- Invest up to €1.2mn per company through follow-on rounds.
- Extensive network of tier 1 US and Western European co-investment partners.
OUR PORTFOLIO
Continuous Integration and Delivery for mobile apps
After connecting your repository, Bitrise scans and configures your project for any mobile platform, be it native or hybrid, so you can start shipping your app immediately.
Sell more with SMS Marketing
Recart’s AI solution lets you send hyper-personalized SMS during each customer's peak buying window based on their past purchase behavior to drive 1.5x-2x more SMS sales.
Race Nutrition Planner
Enduraid is a mobile application, which helps you to draw up the most optimal race nutrition protocol tailored to the challenges of your current race and training.
All-in-one security for your Linux servers
BitNinja is an easy-to-use server security tool mixing the most powerful defense mechanisms. BitNinja gives Linux servers real-time protection against a wide range of threats without the need of any configuration and long hours of work.
The holographic communication
Mixed reality technology that lets you jump into someone else's reality as a full sized volumetric hologram.
The eco-friendly carwash company
App-based carwash solution. Opportunity to save water, clean cars, and create jobs for people.
Web Acceleration-as-a-Service and Digital Asset management brought together
Scaleflex has developed an Acceleration-as-a-Service solution that vastly improves website loading speeds. By optimizing the data-heavy aspects of websites like images and video.
The future of smart energy. Ultra-performance and efficiency
The Hunstable Electric Turbine (HET) is an exterior permanent magnet circumferential flux 4 rotor machine. Innovative concepts are introduced in the magnetic structure and operation at the core of the HET, resulting in a large amount of torque generation.
An easy to use AI video creator
Colossyan develops synthetic media generation technology to maximize conversions by personalizing and giving a face to your communication.
Automated Impact Investing App
FLIT Invest is an automated impact investing app that allows users to align their investments with their values without sacrificing returns.
Play-to-earn
AMG utilizes its in-house AI-based UGC creator and community of thousands of gamers to ship an FPS title called Dfuse.
AI-based on-site catering
Deligo develops and builds cutting edge kiosks with AI product recognition for on-site catering.
Enterprise SaaS upskilling platform
Which uses AI to provide a fully automated, fair and unbiased skill mapping tool.
Electric fleet optimization software
Volteum enables companies to operate their electric cars and vans easily, cost-efficiently and conveniently with its EV optimization solution.
Muj Fres (closed down)
Groceries online discounter
Fres is bringing the classic model of the offline grocery discounter to online. Working with limited SKUs, private labels, planned economy, and bespoke IT solutions enables it to offer customers the lowest prices in the online market and time savings through convenient delivery.
Personalize cancer treatments with artificial intelligence
Defeat cancer in its own game! Case by Case!
Genomate has developed a computational solution to find the right targeted therapy for every cancer patient based on the individual molecular profile of their tumor.
Simple warehouse-native product analytics
Mitzu is a no-code, self-serve product analytics tool that
enables decision-makers to analyze customer usage data
directly from the data warehouse.
Eversync (closed down)
Business Operations Observability
Automate & manage your key processes. Sync tools & data to automate processes and get alerted in case of incidents. AI-enabled, 5-minute setup, no coding required.
Bridging the visitor-to-meeting gap
We address the critical need to interact with your website visitors in real-time, precisely when they are most engaged.
Captiwate provides live user activity insights, empowering proactive human engagement with your visitors through chat and video calls.Real cloud cost management for engineering teams
Rabbit empowers data and platform engineers to manage and optimize their cloud, providing unparalleled depth into Google Cloud Services.
Proactive Workplace AI Safety Software
Surveily transform existing cameras into 24/7 monitoring systems, offering instant insights for early identification and empowering EHS teams to make proactive, informed safety decisions.
Unlock the full potential of your data
Boost.space is a no-code solution for seamless data synchronization and integration across entire toolsets.
Playfully Brilliant afterschool programs that future-proof kids
STEAM Academy provides afterschool programs that future-proof kids aged 4-12, fostering 21st-century skills and inspiring a lifelong love for creative problem-solving.
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