Hungary startup ecosystem
Hungary's startup scene is anchored in Budapest, which combines low costs, strong technical universities, and a growing community of angels and micro-VCs. The city has particular strengths in fintech, edtech, and enterprise SaaS, and serves as a bridge between Western and Eastern European markets. The directory currently lists 58 organisations across 1 cities.
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OXO Ventures
OXO Ventures is the venture capital arm of OXO Group, a Budapest-based multi-stage technology investment platform founded by former Hungarian Finance Minister Péter Oszkó. Established in 2017 with a €50 million EIF-backed fund, the firm takes a sector-agnostic approach to early and growth-stage tech investments across the CEE, DACH, Benelux, and Nordic regions. OXO Group combines an accelerator (OXO Labs), an angel network (OXO Angels), and the VC fund under one roof, enabling investment from the earliest stages. Notable portfolio exits include Commsignia, which raised a Series B from LG Electronics, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Qualcomm Ventures.
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Parkl Digital Technologies
Mobility app founded in 2016 that combines on-street and off-street parking, EV charging across 170,000+ stations and highway vignettes in one platform, with B2B offerings for office buildings and fleets.
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PastPay
B2B Buy Now Pay Later fintech that lets merchants offer business buyers deferred payment terms of 15-90 days while the merchant is paid instantly, handling credit risk and collections.
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Péter Takács
Marketing and consumer-behaviour specialist at Diverzum, focusing on Generation Z shopping behaviour and how younger consumers engage with online retail brands. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
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PortfoLion Capital Partners
PortfoLion is the venture capital and growth equity arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, managing approximately €440 million in AUM across three distinct funds targeting seed, growth, and turnaround stages. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Budapest, it is the most prominent institutional VC in the CEE region by assets under management, with 64 portfolio companies across Hungary and wider Central and Eastern Europe. Its seed fund deploys €500k–€3 million per ticket and the growth fund €5–30 million, with notable investments including SEON (which went on to raise $150 million from Creandum and IVP) and Tresorit (acquired by Swiss Post). The firm has a team of 33 professionals including five partners.
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Prezi
Prezi is a Budapest-founded visual communication and presentation platform that introduced a non-linear, zoomable canvas as an alternative to traditional slide-based presentations. The company has expanded beyond its original presentation product into Prezi Video, which overlays visual content alongside a speaker's live video feed for more engaging virtual presentations and meetings. With over 100 million users globally, Prezi is one of Hungary's most recognized consumer technology brands and an early example of a Central European startup building a globally adopted SaaS product. The company has raised over $70 million and continues to innovate in the visual storytelling and remote communication space.
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Radim Zhoř
Business development professional at Mergado, a product-data and feed-management platform serving online merchants across Central Europe, with a focus on AI-powered shopping experiences. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
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Richard Bradshaw
British software tester, trainer and public speaker known as the Friendly Tester and co-creator of the Automation in Testing namespace, currently a senior architect in quality engineering at Slalom Build. He is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
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SEON
SEON is a Budapest-founded fraud prevention platform that helps online businesses detect and block fraudulent transactions, account takeovers, and synthetic identities using real-time digital footprint analysis and machine learning. The platform enriches transaction data with social media signals, device intelligence, and behavioral patterns to score risk without adding friction to legitimate users. SEON has raised over $100 million and serves customers across fintech, e-commerce, iGaming, and digital banking. It is one of Hungary's most prominent cybersecurity startups and demonstrates the country's strength in building globally competitive fraud and risk management technology.
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Shapr3D
Shapr3D is a Budapest-based developer of 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software, founded by István Csanády. The product began as an iPad-first 3D modeling app and pioneered professional CAD on the iPad Pro, later expanding to run natively on Windows, macOS, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. The software is built on the Siemens Parasolid geometric modeling kernel and offers sketching with constraints, 3D modeling, 2D drawings, physically based rendering, augmented reality and collaborative review features. It serves industrial design, product design, manufacturing, 3D printing and woodworking users, positioning itself as CAD simple enough for beginners yet powerful enough for engineers.
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Shift+Enter Summit 2026
One-day community conference on Microsoft tech (Power Platform, Azure, Fabric, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Copilot) plus AI and career skills. Multi-track sessions in English at Mixát, Budapest.
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Steve Watson
Senior quality engineering manager at easyJet responsible for testing strategy and standards in the airline operations area, with over 28 years of testing experience across banking, trading and travel. An award-winning conference speaker, he is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
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Tresorit
Tresorit is a Budapest-founded end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and file-collaboration company that positioned itself very early as the privacy-first European alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive for regulated industries: law firms, healthcare, financial services, and — notably — government and defense teams in Europe that cannot legally store sensitive files with US hyperscalers. Founded in 2011 by István Lám, Szilveszter Szebeni, and György Szilágyi, the product is built around zero-knowledge client-side encryption, so files are encrypted before they leave the user's device and Tresorit itself cannot read them even if compelled. The company famously ran a public one-million-dollar hacking challenge to demonstrate the robustness of its encryption, and has since been repeatedly cited by European regulators and data-protection authorities as a model for GDPR-aligned cloud collaboration. In 2021 Swiss Post acquired a majority stake in Tresorit as part of its digital sovereignty push — one of the most strategically significant Hungarian deep-tech exits.
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Turbine
Turbine is a Budapest-based biotech company using AI-powered simulated cell technology to accelerate drug discovery and identify novel cancer treatment combinations. The platform creates virtual cell models that simulate how cancer cells respond to different drug interventions, helping pharmaceutical companies identify promising candidates faster and with fewer costly wet-lab experiments. Turbine has partnered with major pharma companies and raised significant funding to expand its simulated biology platform. The company is a standout example of deep-tech life sciences innovation emerging from Hungary and one of the most technically ambitious AI-for-drug-discovery startups in Central Europe.
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VisualLabs
VisualLabs is a Hungarian technology company founded by Balazs Horvath, specializing in Microsoft Power Platform, Business Intelligence, and data visualization solutions for enterprise clients. The company develops custom solutions leveraging Power BI, Power Automate, and AI-driven agent systems on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. VisualLabs is an active sponsor and contributor to the Hungarian Microsoft community and the Shift+Enter Summit in Budapest.
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VRG Therapeutics
Biopharma R&D company using AI-driven protein engineering and wet-lab directed evolution to design highly selective miniprotein therapeutics targeting disease mechanisms resistant to small molecules and antibodies.
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Xeropan
Xeropan is a Hungarian edtech company offering an AI-powered app for learning English, Spanish, French, German or Hungarian through interactive lessons. Beyond general language learning, it offers specialized courses in business, IT and legal vocabulary aimed at professional fluency, and its app has tens of thousands of App Store and Google Play reviews.
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Zoltán Pogátsa
Hungarian economist and university lecturer specialising in international political economy, European integration and the economic environment for business. He is an announced keynote speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest, where he addresses the macroeconomic and political context shaping the online retail sector.
