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A key milestone event in the scaling journey for CEE+SEE regions’ most promising companies. Read about what was the 2025 edition about.

Read our event summary from the latest Absolvo × HVCA event, Equity Thursday in May 2025.

Our event provides first-hand insights into VC, private equity, M&A, and company sales in a rapidly changing market in 2023.

First-hand experience - with a cup of coffee

We proudly host Enis Hulli, one of the partners responsible for the CEE investments from e2vc early stage fund that invests in globally minded founders. He shared his first-hand experience based on CEE / SEE companies entering the global market and gave valuable insights.

At our next meetup we took on the agenda another important group of institutional investors the private equity investors focusing on more mature companies and typically looking for deals worth several billion forints and the PE deals.

Series B/C rounds, debt financing to support international scaling An in-depth insight about the later stage opportunities provided mainly by international investors, Series B/C rounds and other investment approaches such as debt financing to raise capital to further support international scaling.

How did Starschema and Gloster do it, and what did the international VC investor say? When capital was raised, dynamic growth gained a “new meaning” and an extra strong accelerator. This certainly presented serious challenges at the organizational level as well…

The Equity Business Breakfast aimed to introduce the processes, details, challenges and milestones of M&A transactions via local and international case studies and best practices and provide you with practical advices to support you in preparation, investor / buyer search, selling your business / shares or exit successfully. The program was interactive; you could address your questions directly to our guest speakers. Number of attendees were maximized to ensure the opportunity of effective, 1-on-1 interactions among participants and invited guests, investors, advisors.