We connect you with potential partners, investors, and industry experts, while helping you validate your solution, secure funding, and prepare for scaling or market launch.
Initium Venture Labs connects early-stage innovators, corporate partners, and entrepreneurial talent with the resources of Obuda University, offering funding, venture building, and strategic collaborations to turn high-potential ideas into market-ready ventures.
We start with an initial consultation to understand your vision, stage of development, and specific needs. This helps us determine the right mix of support, resources, and potential collaboration partners.
Based on your needs, we design a customised support plan. This may include mentoring, business modelling, technical guidance, prototype development, or preparation for investment.
We connect you with potential partners, investors, and industry experts, while helping you validate your solution, secure funding, and prepare for scaling or market launch.
One-on-one guidance from experienced mentors to refine your value proposition, market positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
Guidance and technical support to move from idea to functional prototype or minimal viable product.
Partnering with companies to create spin-offs or internal ventures, leveraging our innovation and commercialisation expertise.
We prepare startups for funding through pitch training, financial planning, and investor engagement.
We provide funding for early-stage deep-tech ventures where Obuda University can add value through research expertise, lab infrastructure, or strategic alignment.
If you have a clear gap to reach your next milestone — whether it’s solving a critical tech challenge or bridging a product-market fit gap — we can help you close it.
Initium Connect, the venture building arm of Initium Venture Labs, is supported by the faculties of Obuda University and NIÜ.
We design and run Proof of Concept stage venture building programs with corporate partners to address industry-specific challenges and create scalable innovation pathways.
Together, we identify market needs, co-create ventures, provide up to €50K in-kind services to deliver first products and prepare them for growth or “scale-in” within partners’ businesses.
We run challenge-driven programs where researchers, engineers, and industry experts work side-by-side with corporates and startups to solve real-world problems.
Whether you bring technical expertise or domain knowledge, joining our Talent Waitlist gives you access to upcoming challenges and the chance to become a co-founder in new ventures.
We invest in the advancement of digitalization across various verticals to make advanced technology more accessible for SMEs.
Reach out to us for an exploratory discussion to see how we could potentially collaborate.