Barnabás Málnay is partner at the startup seed investor Smartware.Tech and business development advisor at ELTE's School of Engineering. Earlier he was business developer at the pan-European digital innovation and international business development organization EIT Digital, managing director at the Hungarian Mobility and Multimedia Cluster, partner at the startup advisory and investment formation White Summers Cofounder; business development director at AVEC, a startup accelerator launched by one of Hungary’s then largest VC groups, the DayOne-Portfolion Group; director of external relations and development at Kitchen Budapest, Magyar Telekom’s innovation lab; and senior advisor at Magyar Telekom’s Innovation and Business Development Directorate. He studied social and political theory at ELTE and CEU in Budapest, and at Stanford University, where he also worked as a teaching assistant and instructor in various teaching programs.