JB

Jano Búza

Early-stage Investor @ ZAKA VC

Bratislava

Work Experience

2021

  • Principal

    2024

    VC fund investing in pre-seed and seed stage in Europe and the US, focusing on B2B and biotech firms.

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2024

2020

  • Co-Founder, Head Of Business Development

    2020

    Trama provides end-to-end brand protection to entrepreneurs. We register, monitor, manage and enforce trademark rights. Our team filed over 20,000 trademarks in 120+ countries, settled hundreds of follow-up cases and established a global filing infrastructure.

  • Co-Founder

    2016

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

2017 - 2021

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2021

  • Head Of Business Development

    2019 - 2020

    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.

  • Business Development Manager for CEE

    2018 - 2019

  • Business Development Manager for Slovakia

    2017 - 2017

2019 - 2020

  • Co-Founder

    2019 - 2020

    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.

2015 - 2020

  • Associate

    2015 - 2020

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

2015 - 2017

  • Head of Business Development

    2015 - 2017

    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

2014 - 2015

  • Consultant

    2014 - 2015

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

2014 - 2014

  • Junior Consultant

    2014 - 2014

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

  • Business Development Intern

    2013 - 2013

    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