Startup and SME investment opportunities
We refer promising SME and startup investment opportunities for Business Angels and seed investors.
Elevator pitch:
We refer promising SMEs and Startups for business angel investors, so that our Accelerator not only provides effective, operative business development resources for the development of companies, but also invests capital as a co-investor.
Performing premoney due-diligence and delegating equtiy mentors to the SMEs and startups, we significantly reduce business risk for our co-investor partners comparing to their individual angel investments. With operational resources and on-site participation, we shorten the scaling period of businesses by years (mainly in the areas of sales, human resources, and organizational development), which results higher returns for our partners. The investment options range from USD 10k to approximately 100k.
Our business offer:
I. For a Success Fee, we refer investment opportunities that meet the investor's personal, unique preferences (e.g. industry, stage, team, investment range - see examples below).
Our success fee is payable in two stages, upon completion:
- Finder's Fee: USD 300+VAT for each SME or Startup lead. The fee is due after each new investor personal meeting (on-line) with a new lead. You only pay if the opportunity meets your pre-defined personal preferences.
- Contractual Fee: 2-5% success fee for the amount you invest (depending on investment range, closing in the one year).
If you are ready to pay in advance, we honor it with special privileges:
II. For Subscription Fee we provide:
- First Call option to new investment opportunities - this option is valid for one year period for subscribers joined until July 2024. Call option order is according to the subscription dates;
- Money-back guarantee concerning annual number of referred investment opportunities: if at least 4 new leads do not take place in the given year, the proportional part of the membership fee will be refunded;
- The detailed premoney due diligence of the referred projects are made available in advance;
- 4 investor meetings for free (which is equivalent to 4*300 USD Finders' Fees)
Our early bird subscription fee is USD 1.200+VAT per year and must be paid in advance.
The Contaratual Fee is also valid for Subcribers.
You can read more about us (references, team, investment targets) by scrolling down.
We will be happy to share more details with those interested in a short online conversation.
By clicking the "Contact us" button below, you can share your investment preferences with us or even pick an appointment date for a personal consultation.
Board of Directors
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Why should you invest with us?
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During BossConnect's 10 years of operation, we have established personal relationships with hundreds of business ideas and talented teams. Thanks to the Mentor Program, we will also have a positional advantage in the future in reaching talents.
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Proving teams of specialized professionals in our BizDev companies, BossConnect impements the scalability into SMEs / Starups like a "mobile rack into a PC". So we can quickly scale them what means for you higher ROI and lower risk on the investment - especially in case of startups still in the "valley of death" phase.
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BossConnect's business mentors are themselves shareholders of the accelerated businesses, with vesting responsibility. Therefore, the capital of our co-investors is not supervised by paid employees, but by self-made senior entrepreneurs who work for their own part of the business in the given company.
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BossConnect's business mentors are involved with operational business responsibility on a weekly basis. This means that we can monitor risks based on real-time and in-depth information (for example, in the field of continuous market acquisition), which means a lower risk for investors.
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We created the BossConnect Accelerator on our own using the "bootstrap" method. This means that we operate exclusively according to the business and professional aspects of SMEs and startups, free from the bureaucratic approach of the state or large companies, which significantly increases the expected return for investors.
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BossConnect has mentored hundreds of businesses for free over the last 10 years - with demonstrable and significant results (see references below). So we realized a social enterprise in which the mentors did not work for money, but nevertheless contributed significantly to the creation of company values worth billions. Our business development community represents not only professional standards, but also values.
Our achievments so far in numbers
- mentored starup / SME
- mentor
- year business mentoring by BossConnect
- accelerator division
Examples of current investment opportunities
The options below are current and open, but presented as examples only.
In our actual campaign, we are highlighting for our investor partners the new opportunities acquiring in 2024. We make these investment opportunities available continuously throughout the year.
Examples from FinTech / B2B Software / Hardware
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Fintech startup with open banking service
The company, which has been operating for a few years, deals with credit rating in-house development and the development of unique projects. In the market acquisition phase, for now on the domestic market.
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IT system operating company
In the starting phase, with a team of routine professionals, in the domestic market. The Accelerator provides them with a mentor and sales development support.
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Online game developer company
We are preparing the next project with a game development team on the market with thousands of active users. The team has already gained experience in publishing and entering the international market in the USA (Silicon Valley).
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Animation development company (3D movies)
Animation film development team, has been operating for several years, their target market is commercial films and USD 50M+ (Hollywood) productions
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SEO optimization application
Cloud-based development that maximizes search term reach with automatic competitor analysis. The software is ready, validated, profitable, and distributed on the domestic and international markets.
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Working time and leave registration application
Cloud-based application with ready-made MVP and live users. It can be connected as a module to existing administration or ERP systems.
Examples from Technology sector
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Hardware developed for printing press lines
The development significantly (in the order of HUF 100 million) reduces the annual costs of flexo printing presses. The prototype is under testing and development and is expected to be scaled on the international market in 2025.
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Implant production with an innovative 3D imaging algorithm
Full engineering-medical management (reaching patients, hospital referral, 3D surgical planning, implant production). Proprietary software algorithm, which reduces the current resource demand and throughput of obtaining CT and MR 3D models by a factor of ten. The MVP is ready, under market validation, the algorithm can be sold on the international market.
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Stem cell therapy medical PRP device
The team is developing an innovative device based on the use of platelets and stem cells. The MVP and market validation are ready, the company is in the scaling phase. It can be sold in both international and domestic target markets.
Examples from Social / Sustainablity
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Industrial franchise for reducing environmental impact
Hungarian franchise startup currently operating in 4 countries and undergoing dynamic expansion. The 2024 plan is to enter the market of the USA and 4 further EU countries.
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Baby-mama social portal
A portal that has been operating for five years and has tens of thousands of regular visitors. The goal for 2024 is further monetization and regional expansion.
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Software for automating the development of EU tenders
The ready-made application fills in hundreds of mandatory application pages instead of the applicant. The bureaucratic chapters independently, as a guide to the content parts, request key information and process them. The target market is mainly international (EU).
Our market research results
among our future investment targets
During a detailed needs assessment with 160 target group members (companies or projects), we assessed the following type and number of needs in each business development area. (The dark blue tiles show data about their current practice, the white ones show their needs.)
Our references (startup / SME)
Business development service
References in sales / bizdev operation with Accelerator's operative teams (divisions)
Mentored nearly 500 businesses
by BossConnect's 80 bizdev mentors (in addition to the examples below - clicking on the tiles will take you to the companies' websites).
We are building a startup micro-ecosystem
We operationally develop businesses in the most important areas of expertise
Based on the mentoring of 500 projects, we have identified four specialist areas where there is often a need to involve ready-made, outsourced implementation teams for rapid scaling:
- B2B sales (mainly through personal meetings)
- B2C sales (mainly with online marketing activity)
- Human resource recruitment
- Organizational development
We searched and created partner companies so that we could achieve a serious step up with accelerated enterprises in a matter of months.
Through the partner companies, we can implement a complete field of expertise in the startups (including human resources), thereby shortening the time needed to level up by launching the given activity.
Our accelerator divisions
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B2B üzletszerzésre szakosodott csapat direkt marketing csatornákon. Főként személyes találkozókat szervezünk nagyvállalati döntéshozókkal (1 Mrd+), valós érdeklődőkkel.
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B2C fókuszú szakmai csapat a kisebb dealméretű vállalkozások fejlesztésére. Mind a 6 online marketing szakágban aktív (SEO, PPC, Content, Social, ...)
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Recruitment- és fejvadász szolgáltatásokkal fejlesztjük a skálázandó KKV-ket és startupokat, legyen szó alkalmazotti létszám bővítésről, a menedzsment erősítéséről vagy az alapító-tulajdonosi csapat kiegészítéséről (inkubáció).
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We support our investment targets with a turnover of several hundred million HUF with organizational and operational development consulting.
CSR and Sustainability
Pro Bono career- and business mentoring
BossConnect was established in 2013 for pro- bono mentoring of talented young people. The video clip below presents one of our meetups.
More about the Pro Bono Mentor Program here:
Startup and SME investment opportunities
We refer promising SME and startup investment opportunities for Business Angels and seed investors.
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