First Monday with Riptides (Kaya VC & PortfoLion)
Join us on June 2 for a fresh First Monday featuring Márton Sereg and Zsolt Varga, Co-Founders of Riptides, in conversation with Karel Zheng (KAYA VC) and Dániel Kiss-Király (PortfoLion Capital Partners).
Riptides just raised €3.3M in Hungary’s largest-ever pre-seed round to solve a huge cybersecurity challenge: managing non-human identities — service accounts, API keys, tokens, certificates, and more. In a world where machines outnumber humans in production, their platform helps enterprises securely govern it all.
The round, led by PortfoLion and Czech-based KAYA VC, will fuel product dev, security research, and early design partnerships.
The founding team knows the game: They have two exits under their belts, previously built Banzai Cloud (acquired by Cisco) and SequenceIQ (acquired by Hortonworks).
Joining the convo are two of their investors:
– Karel Zheng, investor at KAYA VC, a leading early-stage fund backing bold, founder-led startups in CEE and beyond—including Kifi.hu, BetterStack, E2B or Docplanner
– Dániel Kiss-Király, Principal at PortfoLion, the CEE-focused VC investing in ambitious B2B software companies with global traction.
Get the behind-the-scenes of Hungary’s headline pre-seed round and what it takes to raise big in a technical, early market!
Schedule:
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM - Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM - Introduction
6:45 PM - 7:45 PM - Fireside chat with Riptides, Kaya VC and PortfoLion
7:45 PM - 8:00 PM - Q&A
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM - Drinks, Mingling & Networking
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