daFUND
Investing in amazing early stage B2B start-ups propelled by software
ABOUT DAFUND
daFUND
From entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs!
We have been in your shoes. We understand the pains and pleasures of entrepreneurship better than any financial professional. And we can help with tangible and useful advice.
Proven track record of helping entrepreneurs, growing and scaling companies.
We helped a number of companies succeed – from small start-ups to large enterprises – and all sizes of companies in between. We provide useful and actionable advice on how and where to steer the company on its path. And we have extensive experiences helping to grow and scale companies.
Experience with supporting companies from founding to successful exit.
We founded our own companies and have supported start-ups from other founders from founding onwards. We stayed with the founders and helped them develop, grow and scale up their companies. And we supported them all the way to successful exits as well.
about dafund
daFUND in 5 points
1. Investing in pre-seed/seed across Europe (and even globally in exceptional cases)
2. Industry agnostic, focused primarily on B2B companies solving challenges with SW
3. Initial investment size from couple 10k EUR to 100k EUR – with our LPs' additional investments also up to couple 100k EUR – follow-on investments possible
4. Operated by experienced entrepreneurs, executives and investors
5. Powered by Business Angels of Slovenia and a range of experienced founders and entrepreneurs from across Europe (28 LPs all together)
what are we looking for
Work with us
Coming from Europe
Has the first (paying/pilot) customers
Active primarily in B2B space
Propelled by Software
Has the first MVP
Propelled by software
Has the first MVP
What are we looking for
What to share
Pitch deck
Planned activities with milestones for the next period
Financial plan
daFUND team
General Partner
Darko Butina
“I firmly believe there is tremendous entrepreneurial potential in Europe, but I also see lack of support for the early stage companies and especially lack of support coming from experienced entrepreneurs and businesspeople, such as us, stakeholders of daFUND. Which is one of the reasons, why we launched daFUND.”
Darko is an experienced investor with significant experiences in both executive positions (management board Netcetera, CEO Mimovrste, CEO Elektro Energija, General Manager Trimo UAE, management board Najdi.si etc.) as well as an entrepreneur (Securities Grid – white-label platform for issuance, management and transfer of tokenized securities, DG180 – M&A and strategy advisory, BUDS – boutique advisory, Adeptio – “Povej svoje mnenje!” – Slovenian best business idea award in 2006) and board member (One PM, Securities Grid, Cognism).
Over the years, Darko also advised a number of different companies from around the globe – from US to UK, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Serbia and Macedonia.
daFUND team
Investment Board
Nina Dremelj
Experienced business manager, mentor and entrepreneur and President of business angels of Slovenia
Julien Pache
Experienced early-stage investor who has invested in more than 50 technology companies across Europe
Mark Miklič
Passionate about cutting edge technology and creating lean and scalable products. Googler since 2005.
James Isilay
Electrical and computer engineer by education, quantitative trader by experiences, today successful Founder and CEO with his company Cognism, which today employs over 270 employees and has over 1500 customers globally.
Vladimir Simjanoski
Experienced senior engineer, today Co-founder and CEO of Blokverse, offering next generation solutions for digital transformation in identity, financial technology and education.
our portfolio
Proud investors in great start-ups
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