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Piac és Profit KonferenciaBudapest

April 29, 2014

“INCUBATORS

HELP YOU BUILD GOOD COMPANIES”

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Szabolcs ’Sabie’ Valner

• Born in Hungary, lived in 13 countries

• Backgrounds in startups, strategy and VC

• Vatera (2000-2006)

• Digital Factory (2011- ...)• Started by serial entrepreneurs

• Focus on global startups, mostly in web software

• Happy to do early stage

ABOUT US

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WE SPECIALIZE IN GLOBAL STARTUPS (WHERE MOST VALUE WILL BE CREATED)

$ 1 billion

potential

$ 20 M +

potential

(X)

(X)

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DIGITAL FACTORY COVERS EARLY STAGE

Incubation

IDEAProduct / Market fit Scaling Exit

Acceleration Company building

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WHAT’S “INCUBATION” AND IS IT USEFUL?

IDEAProduct / Market fit Scaling Exit

• Co-locationDaily mentoring

• (Testing, re-doing)^7• Operations

99 % 60 % 40 %

Money

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FIRST PORTFOLIO STARTED IN FEB 2014

Cohort

H1 2014

eCommerce

Marketplaces

SaaS tools

Idea Prototype Traction Profitability

Pipeline

eCommerce

Marketplaces

SaaS tools

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(Ecommerce)

• Largest contact lens retailer

in Hungary (after Vision

Express)

• 300% ROC

• Going international

SNAPSHOT PORTFOLIO COMPANIES

(Adtech)

• Zuckenberg’s law: “The

amount of user shares today

is twice the amount they

shared a year ago”

• Mapping social sharing &

Increasing return on

advertising by 100% +

(Logistics)

• Find optimum inventory

(to maximize same-day

service and minimize capital

costs)

• Advanced: demand sensitivity,

daily re-optimization

Stockout Inventory

costs

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THANK YOU!

contact@digitalfactory.vc