Marbella, Andalusia, Spain
In 1989, at age 11, I painted posters for the new shops opening in our village in Slovakia. They paid me in Czechoslovak crowns. Cash. 35+ years. 5 countries. 10+ ventures. I co-founded Index.hu, one of Hungary's first online publications. I ran A38, the Buda ship that Lonely Planet voted the world's best bar in 2012. I co-founded Bónusz Brigád, the pioneer of Hungary's daily deal market. Today I work in two roles. I co-founded Ipsilon Group (formerly Creative Dock Hungary), and lead the company together with my business partner and CEO, Csaba Schuck. I am responsible for strategy and sales, and serve as the internal sparring partner to the CEOs across our group. We are venture builders. We don't give advice, we build our client's next business with them. We have skin in the game. Just like the bridge builders of old who stood beneath the bridge they had built: if their work didn't hold, they were crushed under the first horse-drawn carriage that crossed it. Our partners include Visa, MVM, Ringier, and OTP Bank. We work primarily in fintech, insurtech, retail, construction, manufacturing, and energy. Our clients are enterprise CEOs, owners, and innovation leads — people who want to build, not to be advised. Learn more: https://ipsilon.group As a Business Sparring Partner, I work with senior executives, founders, and business owners. Not a coach. Not a consultant. The intellectual personal trainer. Someone who has built a HUF 4 billion-revenue company from the ground up, and has also gone bankrupt and lost everything. I also run leadership trainings, workshops, courses, and keynotes. Learn more: www.kaprinay.com We should talk in two scenarios: If you are a CEO, founder, or owner, and you carry a question your environment can no longer answer honestly: let's have a coffee and see where I can support you. If you are building enterprise innovation, scaling a new vertical, or rethinking growth, and you don't want advice: let's see where we can create real value for you.
I am the co-founder of Ipsilon Group (formerly Creative Dock Hungary). My business partner, Csaba Schuck, leads the company as CEO, while I am responsible for strategy and sales, also serving as an internal sparring partner for the group’s managing directors. We are venture builders: we build companies. We do not hand out advice; instead, we work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients to create their next business line. We put our own skin in the game, just like the bridge builders of old who stood underneath their newly finished structures: if they miscalculated, they perished under the first passing carriage. Top-tier enterprises and mid-market leaders do not lack ideas or strategy. However, launching new ventures is a distinct trade that demands the exact same discipline and predictable execution as any other industry. Thanks to our methodology, continuously refined since 2017, we build corporate-backed ventures with high predictability. We do not just talk about the solution; we build it, and we own the responsibility for it. We do not put numbers in Excel just because a client wants to see them or to make the math look good on paper. We write down what we can actually deliver and what we can stand under. In practice, we isolate the real business question, map out the go-to-market strategy, the business model, and the pilot phase. We then build the team, the MVP, manage the scale-up phase, and stay in the deal long enough that our own success directly depends on the venture working. Our partners include Visa, MVM, Ringier, and OTP Bank, with project experience spanning fintech, insurtech, retail, construction, and energy. We are chosen by enterprise CEOs and owners who want to build, not be advised. For more: https://ipsilon.group
I work with leaders, founders, and business owners who struggle with questions their environment can no longer answer honestly. This is not coaching. It is not consulting either. I am an intellectual personal trainer who has built a 4-billion HUF revenue company from scratch, but has also experienced bankruptcy and lost everything. We built Hungary's leading daily deals platform, scaled it to over 4 billion HUF in annual revenue over ten years, then watched COVID drop us to near-zero overnight. The price of saving the company was a restructuring, the transfer of my ownership stake, and, on the other side, personal bankruptcy. The work I do today stands on this ground and on the experience I have gained over the past 35+ years. What I bring to a sparring session: a mirror you cannot find inside your own organization; a sharpened understanding of how leaders actually think under pressure; and a structured way to move from "stuck in the same loop" to "named what is true, decided what is next." I also run leadership trainings, workshops, and keynotes for executives. For more: www.kaprinay.com
In 2017, together with my Czech business partner, I co-founded Creative Dock Hungary, the local subsidiary of the CEE region's largest venture builder. We built turnkey ventures with large enterprises and SMBs with revenues above 10 billion HUF. We worked with real skin in the game, not just as advisors. Our projects spanned fintech, insurtech, retail, construction, manufacturing, and energy. Our clients were corporate CEOs, owners, and innovation leaders who wanted to build, not just to be advised. In September 2023, I bought out my business partner, and Creative Dock Hungary transformed into Ipsilon Group, which I currently own. More on our venture building approach: https://ipsilon.group
DOKIO was Hungary's most successful eHealth project. We built it as an Ipsilon Group venture building engagement for OTP Bank, launching at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As Co-Founder and Strategic Sparring Partner, I shaped the venture building strategy and worked alongside the operating team on the key decisions: positioning, market entry, clinic partnerships, team scaling, and the acquisition that defined our exit path. What we built: Hungary's first and only AI-based symptom checker (CE-approved medical device covering 700+ medically reviewed conditions), real-time private doctor appointment booking integrated into clinic scheduling systems, and a localized medical knowledge base that gave Hungarian patients a trustworthy alternative to "Dr. Google". What we delivered in 24 months: 500+ private doctors onboarded, 20+ integrated clinics (Istenhegyi Klinika, Medicina, Budai Egészségközpont, Wáberer Medical, Emineo and more), 96% customer satisfaction, and a 14-person operating team built from zero. The strategic move: we acquired FoglaljOrvost, the leading Hungarian online doctor booking platform, for our client. On November 2, 2022, DOKIO was merged into FoglaljOrvost.hu, consolidating market leadership in Hungarian eHealth.
Bónusz Brigád is Hungary's leading daily deals and group buying platform. I co-founded it in 2010 with Gábor Heller, at the peak of the global group buying boom that redefined how consumers discovered local services and how small and mid-sized businesses reached new audiences. What we built: a marketplace that connected Hungarian consumers with thousands of local restaurants, wellness providers, travel companies, and retailers, offering curated deals at substantial discounts while giving SMBs a high-volume sales channel they could activate quickly. At its peak, the business reached €10M in annual revenue. Why it mattered: most group buying companies launched in the early 2010s vanished within a few years as the global wave receded. Bónusz Brigád is one of the few platforms in the region that outlasted the wave, evolved with the market, and remained a relevant consumer brand for over a decade. Then came COVID-19. Lockdowns wiped out our core categories overnight, revenue dropped close to zero, and the company had to file for insolvency protection. We saved Bónusz Brigád. It still operates successfully today. But the price was high: I had to transfer my ownership stake, and personally, I went through bankruptcy to carry the load. That decade, and especially its ending, is the foundation of the work I do today as a Sparring Partner for CEOs, founders, and owners. I lost the company I had built. I rebuilt myself from zero. It is why I can sit with leaders in the middle of their own existential moments, and why I share what I learned publicly, so others can use it as ground to stand on.