KT11 Venture is an independent advisory and venture-building boutique working with financial institutions and technology companies across CEE, DACH and wider Europe.
Companies across financial services need to develop today's business while also deciding which emerging opportunities deserve management attention, time and capital. KT11 Venture focuses on that second perspective: understanding structural market and technology developments, identifying concrete opportunities and turning them into robust decisions about what to pursue — and what not to pursue.
Not every relevant development needs to become a New Business. The right outcome may equally be a strategic decision, an external capability or partner, further observation — or a decision not to proceed.
Our work moves across these domains as technologies, business models and market structures increasingly intersect.
KT11 Venture works with financial institutions on strategic questions around material market and technology developments, new propositions, business models and potential new businesses — from understanding relevance through focused evidence to a decision that can actually be made.
Explore Advise →KT11 Venture works across financial institutions and technology companies to identify relevant capabilities, support market access and create commercial connections across CEE, DACH and wider Europe.
Explore Connect →KT11 Venture selectively originates and develops new-business opportunities — bringing together judgement, evidence, technology, specialist expertise and, where required, the founders and operators needed to take them further.
Explore Build →KT11 Venture was founded by Thomas Bümsen, drawing on three decades of international experience across institutional finance, senior leadership, technology innovation, entrepreneurship and new-business development.
Founder-led. AI-native. Network-enabled.
We develop views on structural changes across our domains and explore specific new-business opportunities that may be worth taking further.
Questions and developments we are examining to understand what is changing — and what it could mean for new business.
Core Question
How is AI changing brokerage — and where does it actually change the business?
Core Question
Tokenised securities are becoming more real. Where does that create real economic value — and where could it become new business?
Specific new-business opportunities we believe are worth exploring further.
Selected written Insights — observations and points of view from our work on developments, questions and opportunities across our field.
Explore Insights →From 2016 to 2018, Smart People brought together people from financial services, technology and Budapest's emerging startup ecosystem — in places such as Mosaik and Brody Studios. In 2027, KT11 Venture will bring Smart People back — reconnecting with people from its earlier years while creating new conversations, events and gatherings designed for today's questions.
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