Ján Búza

VC fund investing in pre-seed and seed stage in Europe and the US, focusing on life sciences, deeptech and industrial technologies.

A boutique communication consulting and training firm working with leading companies, such as Google, Eset, Dell or European Commission.

Trama registers, monitors and enforces trademarks in 120+ jurisdictions at a flat, all-inclusive fee. Around 50 people working remotely across three continents, 38,000+ filings and 1,000+ follow up cases to date. My roles, roughly in order: Customer support. Ran it in the early days, which is where I learned what clients actually get stuck on. Pricing. Built the model that lets us quote one all-inclusive price on top of dozens of separate government fee schedules and currencies. B2B partnerships. Opened the channel selling filing capacity to other IP service providers and trademark firms, who route work through our network under their own brand. Fundraising. Raised €1.5M from Vision Ventures. Partner network. Rebuilt and professionalised our network of local filing agents: qualification standards, renegotiated fees, and performance evaluation across the jurisdictions we cover.

CourtQuant brought transparency into litigation. We employed advanced AI algorithms on proprietary structured data from public and private sources to predict the most critical case attributes.

HubHub is a rapidly growing startup and innovation community, providing state-of-art coworking & meetup space. I joined the team in the idea phase and was responsible for the product, pricing strategy, and management of the sales organization and corporate partnerships. In 3 years, we scaled HubHub from 0 to over 2 300 members in 5 countries and made the brand one of the key players in the CEE market.

A private ever-green venture capital fund Evaluating investment opportunities and interim management roles in portfolio & holding companies (Exponea, HubHub)

Maketing cloud platform Managed initial incorporation, valuation and IP transfer. Later on, prepared of materials for marketing (web copywriting, blogs), sales (lead generation strategy, sales decks, competition research) and investors (successful pitches for leading VCs and UK accelerator). Was responsible for operations and cash-flow management. Acquired by Bloomreach in 2021

A leading global management consulting firm Projects in telco, energy & utilities focused on organizational design, product portfolio restructuring & pricing

A boutique consulting firm specialized on pricing strategy Projects in e-commerce, finance & petrochemical industry focused on pricing, CRM & campaign management

A startup developing productivity tools for management consultants Worked directly with the CEO on product development, conducted market research, prepared teaser presentations, case study for clients, investment pitch and interviewed alpha users