9th. Venture Capital Summit
11th June, 2025.
9th. Venture Capital Summit
Hungary’s premier Venture Capital conference
Welcome to Venture Capital Summit
Topics
War and crisis + Co-Investments + Exposing the routes to exit
and much more.
Well-known international companies and the entire spectrum of major Hungarian VC funds in the program.
Okleveles közgazdász diplomáját 2003-ban a Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Gazdálkodástudományi
karán szerezte. 2005-ban a Community of European Management Schools International Management
Mester szakán diplomázott. Jogi végzettségét 2007-ben a Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Jog- és
Államtudományi Karán szerezte. 2024-ben szerzett PhD fokozatot a Budapesti Corvinus Egyetemen,
értekezésének témája: „Kis- és középvállalatok forrásszerkezetének vizsgálata, tekintettel a vállalkozói
attitűdökre”.
Pályafutását 2002-ben a Tungsram Lighting Zrt-nél kezdte, ezt követően a PricewaterhouseCoopers
(Pwc) tanácsadó cégnél dolgozott, amelynek során tanácsadóként részt vett számos M&A (merger and
acquisition) projektben, többek között a Budapest Airport reprivatizációs tranzakciójában is.
2010-től a Nemzetgazdasági Minisztérium adóügyekért felelős helyettes államtitkárként vett részt a
magyar adórendszer reformjában. Később a Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) alelnöke lett és a
Monetáris Tanács tagjává választották; irányítása alatt született meg a Növekedési Hitelprogram, és
nevéhez fűződik a monetáris politikai eszköztár megújítása is.
2015 és 2020 között az MKB Bank Elnök-vezérigazgatója, valamint az Igazgatóság elnöke volt. Az
MKB Bank az általa felügyelt, később irányított folyamat eredményekképpen került a Bayerische
Landesbanktól a magyar állam, majd – egy összetett reprivatizációs projektet és tranzakciót követően
– magán, -és intézményi befektetők tulajdonába.
2020 júliusától - 2022 májusáig az Opus Global Nyrt Igazgatóságának alelnöke. Vezetésével a
Társaság sikerrel valósította meg két nagy volumenű energetikai akvizícióját, a Tigáz Zrt. és a Titász
Zrt többségi tulajdonrészének megvásárlását.
Vezető tisztségviselőként elnöki szerepet töltött be az MKB Pannónia Alapkezelő Zrt., valamint a
Solus Capital Kockázati Tőkealap-kezelő Zrt. igazgatóságában. Mindemellett a Status Capital
Kockázati Tőkealap-kezelő Zrt. és az Opus Global Befektetési Alapkezelő Zrt. felügyelő bizottsági is
tagja volt.
2016-tól a Magyar Kereskedelmi és Iparkamara igazgatósági tagja, 2024 óta alelnöke.
2020-tól a Budapesti Kereskedelmi és Iparkamara alelnök.
INTRODUCTION
Profit, efficiency, development – the best experts of the financial sector join their forces at a single conference to welcome the representatives of this area at the only independent professional summit during the spring months. On March, 2022 we organized the 8th. Venture Capital Summit conference with an outstanding success. We had 130 investor attendees, joined by some startup entrepreneurs.
ATTEND IF
- You would like to expand your network in the venture capital business
- Your business is already growing, and you would like to run it more efficiently, with a higher profit
- You need an investor
- You would like to expand and strengthen your long-term business network
WHY ATTEND?
INSPIRED. Our speakers are leading real business transformation, driving change across the enterprise and actioning measurable innovation for their businesses. Get motivated from leaders and walk away with new ideas you can implement.
CHALLENGED. Rethink your current processes and business blueprints, the event speakers will challenge your way of thinking and allow you to realise that new methods may be your best way of moving forward sitting alongside your current beliefs.
TRANSFORMED. The conference agenda and speakers are put together as such to reveal insights into how some of the biggest organisations are going about investing, from real business use cases to success stories and where the challenges may lie.
MEET LIKE MINDED PEERS
NETWORKING. It's an invaluable part of events and where real value often presents itself, meeting those who are facing the same challenges and coming together to solve similar issues. Our agendas feature numerous opportunities throughout the day to meet like minded folk from various industries and backgrounds. We have previously had extremely positive feedback from delegates who have found long lasted business relationships with those who they wouldn't normally meet from opposite industries and largely seeking out the same solutions to industry wide transformation sticking points.
THE CONFERENCE TARGETS:
Experts of banks, fund managing companies, and investment companies in Hungary – Executives, CEO’s and other senior management of financial institutions – Managing directors – Directors or strategy – Senior investment managers – Venture Capital executives and senior managers – Private Equity executives and senior managers – Startups before or during investment – State-owned financial companies, ministries – Insurance companies – Law firms – Consulting firms
Dress code: business formal
Organisers: AP Summit Now Ltd.
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Keynote: Demján Sándor Capital Program. - Ádám Balog, PhD (MKIK Capital Fund)
The capital situation of SMEs in Hungary - Demján Sándor Capital Program. Talent, digitalization, artificial intelligence and geopolitical impacts. Have recent geopolitical events changed Hungary in any way? Is there enough ambition for our country to truly compete in the AI race? - Panel discussion - Zoltán Bánfi, PhD (MKIK Capital Fund), Moderator:
Secondaries market and transactions - Péter Oszkó (Oxo Technologies Holding)
Early stage investing: where are the best opportunities today? - How strong is early stage VC today? How do pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages vary within different sectors and geographies?
Growth stage investing: what does it take to become a global leader? - How much more can we expect from European growth investing? Is competition with US firms providing the right stimulus for European GPs? North America & Europe: the perfect place for partnerships, or Asia?
Defense & VC: have we misunderstood the sector? - Are accelerators and other mainstream methods from VC working in defence tech? How much influence is VC having on defence tech innovation, and how does this impact government initiatives?
Pharmaceutical industry, medtech, healthcare: How investments can create value in the health tech sector? What kind of collaborations are pharma and medtech looking for with startups and research institutions? Where have we already invested and what are we planning in this area in the near future? Artificial intelligence can transform patient care, but how soon can healthcare systems fully adopt these emerging technologies? What international trends can be observed in the field of healthcare investments and what we have already here in our country? - Moderator:
Hungarian VC: talent, AI and geopolitical impacts - Has Hungary taken advantage of its best-in-class talent? Have recent geopolitical events changed Hungary in any way? Is there enough ambition for Hungary to truly compete in the AI race?
Institutional capital in venture: what are the ambitions for the asset class? - Are institutions unlocking more capital for venture? What can be done to increase allocations into venture from pension funds?
Dr. Bánfi Zoltán 1997-ben a Pénzügyi és Számviteli Főiskolán pénzügy pénzintézet szakirányon
szerezte meg a főiskolai alap, majd 1999-ben a Budapesti Corvinus Egyetemen, pénzügy
főszakirányon a mesterdiplomáját. 2013-ban PhD címet szerzett, értekezésének a témája a magyar
bankrendszer helyzete volt a válság tükrében.
Zoltán lassan 25 éve dolgozik a bankszektorban. Először az OTP Banknál a Treasury igazgatóságon
dolgozott több munkakörben (FX, equity, opciós- és határidős piacok), majd a Bankcsoport egyik
leánycégénél (OTP Hungaro-Projekt) volt a pénzügyi tanácsadásért felelős vezérigazgató-helyettes.
Ezt bő egy éves MFB Group Treasurer igazgatói kinevezés, majd az életében a legmeghatározóbb, az
MKB Bank következett. Itt először ügyvezetőként, majd vezérigazgató-helyettesként felelt a
Bankcsoport „Befektetési Banki” területéért, hozzá tartozott többek között a tőkealapok rendszere (2
alapkezelő: Solus Capital és MKB KTAK), az inkubáció (MKB Fintechlab), a befektetési alapkezelő
(MKB-Pannónia), a teljes privátbank, az MFB pontok rendszere illetve a teljes MA és IPO terület. A
kockázati tőkealapok esetében – későbbiekben elnök-vezérigazgatói főtanácsadóként kizárólag azokra
koncentrálva – aktívan részt vett közel 50 befektetésben, az MKB Fintechlab oldaláról pedig több mint
10 sikeres inkubációs projektet hajtott végre a munkatársak aktív részvétele mellett. A tranzakciós
tanácsadási terület vezetése során több sikeres rábocsátás, XTEND bevezetés és cégértékesítésben is
közreműködött.
Az MKB kötelékében eltöltött évek legnagyobb sikerének vezérigazgató-helyettesként, majd elnöki
főtanácsadóként a tőkeprogramok beindítását, a kockázati tőkealap-kezelők felállítását és
működtetését tartja. Jelenleg a Platina Consulting Zrt. operatív Igazgatósági elnöke továbbá a Platina
Capital vezérigazgatójaként vezeti a céget, és aktívan részt vesz mind menedzsment, mind tulajdonosi
oldalról az Alapkezelő működésében.
2025-től az MKIK Tőkealap-kezelő Zrt. vezérigazgatója és igazgatósági tagja.
Peter Oszkó is a former Big4 Managing Partner and technocrat Finance Minister of Hungary, currently managing listed European tech investor group, based in Rotterdam and Budapest.
Peter joined Deloitte as partner in 2004, nominated as country Managing Partner in 2007, at the same time also took the leadership of Deloitte advisory business units in the former Yugoslav countries. In the same year he was nominated and selected for the title of Young Manager of the Year in Hungary.
Partly as a result of various public activities, he was invited into the technocrat government of Hungary for a one-year crisis management job in 2009. As a Finance Minister he was involved in a fiscal adjustment of about 4% of the GDP in one year, including pension reform, the financing of local municipalities and the restructuring of the tax system as well. He managed to bring back Hungary to market based financing and not to use the inherited IMF/EU financed loan facility. He also represented the government on specific projects and acquisitions in the energy sector.
From the second half of 2010 he started new professional activity in the emerging Hungarian venture capital industry. He took the leadership of the VC subsidiary of OTP group. In two years, he involved other LPs besides OTP, launched two new VC funds and increased the size of managed assets to EUR 100 million, while he also managed to exit from the first investments at spectacular valuations.
Peter left OTP group in 2014 to launch his independent regional VC firm with various LPs from the tech and financial sector under its own brand, OXO. He formed OXO Technologies Holding as a tech investor group active in the early and growth stage while executing buyout deals as well. OXO group also includes a property investment and an advisory business line and is also active in the creative and cultural industries as well as tourism and leisure besides tech investments as its primary focus. In the core tech segment, the group currently manages an asset value of EUR 150 million and is listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange.
Currently, as the Deputy State Secretary for Technology at the Ministry of Economic Development of Hungary, my primary mission is to design and implement programs which foster the technological maturity level improvement among Hungarian companies. I am also a researcher and a PhD candidate. In the past, as the Chief Innovation Officer to the President my primary assignment was counseling and generating project initiatives related to university-centric innovation ecosystems. As the founder of an international NGO I was dealing with innovation and humanitarian technology transfer. Earlier, as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Valorisation at Express Innovation Agency my role was to make scientific insights available and useable to industry; transforming knowledge and technology into something tangible for the benefit of the society and the economy. I used to be the former Deputy CEO for Innovation and Business Development at EAC Group, the most emerging multi-strategy firm in the CEE region operating consulting, investment and IT technology development arms. Between 2017-2021 as the diplomat for scientific and technological affairs in Tel-Aviv, my job was initiating projects mainly in cybersecurity, fintech, life sciences, mobility and space-industry. I am also the former head of startup relations of the governmental Export Promotion Agency (HEPA) and former head and concept developer of Budapest capital city’s municipal startup incubator and microfinance provider (BVK). At the begining of my carreer I worked as an employment policy expert at the Ministry for Economy and earlier at a parliamentary group. I also am involved in co-managing our family's enterprises.