NetCore - IT infrastructure and network management

Investing in NetCore offers exposure to the fast-growing network automation market, backed by a product with proven market traction. The company stands out for its strong product-led approach and disciplined execution, consistently delivering new capabilities while maintaining compatibility across a broad range of network devices.

Take the opportunity to own a direct equity stake in NetCore. Given the investment's risk profile, the target return is 25% p.a. NetCore is well positioned to capture a meaningful share of a market that has yet to fully transition from manual to automated network management.

By investing in NetCore, investors acquire a direct equity stake in the company. Returns are realized upon a future liquidity event (exit), when the value of the equity stake is monetized.

• Investment structure: Equity
• Minimum investment: €4,130
• Target return: 25% p.a.
• Total funding round: €1.8 million
• Target outcome: 4x invested capital or more
• Liquidation preference: 1.3x invested capital, payable after first-round investors
• Source of returns: Company exit

Use of Proceeds

• Expand the engineering team for both Unimus and ArkMap.
• Build a technical sales team to support enterprise customer onboarding.
• Scale marketing and brand-building activities to accelerate customer acquisition.

• 90%+ license renewal rate, supporting highly recurring revenue; average annual revenue growth of 40%, including 19% growth over the past six months.
• More than 90% of enterprise networks are still managed manually, creating significant demand for automation solutions such as Unimus.
• The EU's NIS2 Directive is driving demand for secure, centralized network management, creating a strong regulatory tailwind for NetCore's solutions.
• More than 1,700 paying customers, with over 80% of the customer base in the U.S. and Europe.
• ArkMap, the company's second product, is already commercially deployed with enterprise customers across Europe and the U.S.
• The founders previously worked as network administrators and architects, developing Unimus to solve a real operational challenge they experienced firsthand.

NetCore has only a limited customer base in Slovakia. Its products Unimus and ArkMap are used by large enterprises across the U.S. and Europe, with more than 80% of its 1,700+ paying customers based in these markets. Companies that compete in highly specialized global niches while maintaining a low profile in their home markets are often referred to as "hidden champions."

NetCore was founded to solve a real operational challenge. Its founders previously worked as network administrators and IT architects and lacked a solution to automate the repetitive manual work involved in configuring routers and switches. They developed that solution themselves. Today, Unimus is used by more than 1,700 paying customers across 3,700+ active deployments worldwide.

Market Opportunity & Regulatory Tailwinds

Every organization today depends on its network infrastructure—from internet connectivity to mission-critical internal systems. As networks become larger and more complex, the cost of downtime increases significantly. Yet more than 90% of enterprise networks are still managed manually, one device at a time. For large organizations such as telecommunications operators, even a brief network outage can result in losses of millions of euros.

At the same time, the EU's NIS2 Directive is driving demand for more secure and centralized network management. NetCore has been serving this market for years with a solution that, in management's view, offers a breadth of functionality unmatched by competing products. The company also holds ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 23001, PCI DSS and NIS2 certifications, with additional security certifications currently in progress.

Customer Use Cases

Supporting U.S. Railways, Critical Infrastructure and a Pacific Island

Unimus enables organizations to remotely configure, audit and reboot thousands of network devices simultaneously.

One of its customers is a U.S. railway operator that manages infrastructure across approximately one-third of the country's rail network. Unimus manages 65,000 network devices across its infrastructure and can automatically restore remotely controlled railway switches in the event of a failure.

The software also manages the only internet connection serving a Pacific island that hosts a U.S. military base. In addition, it is deployed at a major U.S. seaport handling approximately 13% of U.S. maritime cargo.

Due to the critical nature of these deployments, NetCore cannot disclose the identities of these customers, as they operate critical infrastructure under strict confidentiality agreements.