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$50,000.00Max Investment:
$4,500,000.00Target Investment:
$500,000.00
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Investments
Work Experience
2017
Founder & Managing Partner
2017
Early Game Ventures (EGV) is a top-performing early-stage VC firm investing in pre-seed and seed startups across Europe, with a focus on CEE. We lead rounds in companies building infrastructure, cybersecurity, productivity platforms, and agentic AI. We are typically the first institutional investor (in 99% of cases, acting as the lead investor), taking board seats and working closely with founders from the outset. Portfolio highlights: Bible Chat, ReLock, Bunnyshell, MeetGeek, DRUID AI, Ogre.ai Fund II (€60M), vintage 2024, with backing from EIF and institutional limited partners (LPs). Fund I (€26M), vintage 2019, is fully deployed.
2024
Board Member
2024
• Led the Seed Round in ReLock—a cybersec startup that introduces continuous passive authentication, making 100% of users—internal, external, even on unmanaged devices—resistant to phishing, credential theft, and session hijacking. • No friction, no user action, and deployed in a single day. • 30–50x time-to-value vs. existing solutions • Centralized rollout, instant adoption—no passkeys, no hardware, no behavior-based guesswork, no false positives
2019
Seed Investor
2019
• Led Seed Round of Bible Chat – fastest-growing consumer mobile app in Europe • AI-native product for spiritual engagement, monetized through subscriptions • >3 million MAUs; virality-driven growth; #1 in App Store in multiple countries • Later rounds backed by: True Ventures, Play Ventures, Underline, Silicon Gardens
2019
Board Member
2019
• Lead investor in Bunnyshell – ephemeral environments for cloud-based development • Mission-critical infra layer for AI-generated code and CI/CD workflows • Enterprise clients include global dev teams in financial services and AI tooling • Strategic fit in our thesis around DevOps x AI convergence
2019
Seed Investor
2019
• Led the first institutional round in DRUID – a leading conversational AI platform • Strong enterprise traction across Europe and North America • Latest round at +300 million USD • Co-investors in later rounds: Cipio Partners, TQ Ventures, Hoxton, Karma, Endeavor
2022
Seed Investor
2022
• Led Seed Round in Ogre.ai – predictive analytics & optimization in the energy sector • Clients include largest energy utilities and grid operators in regulated markets • Proprietary data pipeline & ML engine for load forecasting and risk modeling • Co-investors: MMC, Soulmates Ventures, Verbund Ventures (strategic energy investor)
2021
Board Member
2021
• Led Seed Round in MeetGeek – the first agentic AI for meetings • Transforms meetings into prompt sessions for downstream workflow automation • Proprietary infrastructure; no reliance on third-party APIs • Actively expanding in US with $ARR growing organically 2x YoY
2020
Board Member
2020
• Led Seed Round in Instant.Space – AI-powered agents for hospitality, conferences, and events • One-click booking of event halls, catering, and services across any travel platform • Strong network effects and direct integrations with PMS and OTAs • Aggressively expanding into the North American market
2016 - 2016
Co-founder, CEO
2016 - 2016
At Scooterson Inc. we're building the hardware platform and the Human-Machine Interface for the autonomous two-wheelers of the future.
2013 - 2016
Founder, CEO
2013 - 2016
Qalendra is a service that automates travel research, improves results better than any human expert, and delivers it instantly on any platform. The algorithms ingest data from many sources, compare all destinations at once, and identify where the best conditions for vacations and activities are, anywhere in the world, up to 4 months in advance.