(…)We are in talks to take a majority stake in one company, the founders of which we originally met at the London conference in 2018. We always like a slow approach, preferring boring cargo trains over space rockets.

PEI conferences are a great place to start networking if you are new, or enhance your trust base if you are in the market already.

A very comforting fact is that CEE is no longer a region of local copycats. A lot of proprietary ideas are being financed and developed. A number of those companies will reach critical mass, and we can further help them to grow, optimize and enter new markets.

In terms of strategy, the pandemic does not bring major changes to our strategy, rather confirms that our direction is accurate.