Budapest, Hungary · Startup AImotive (originally Adasworks) is a Budapest-based deep-tech company building a full-stack automated driving platform — perception, prediction, planning, and control — designed as vendor-neutral software that OEMs and tier-one suppliers can integrate alongside their own hardware rather than buy as a locked Nvidia or Mobileye stack. Founded in 2015 by László Kishonti, AImotive also develops aiSim, a production-grade simulation environment used by automotive customers to validate ADAS and self-driving stacks, and its own NPU IP (aiWare) aimed at efficient neural-network inference for automotive workloads. The company has partnerships with Volvo, Bosch, and other tier-one automotive players, and was acquired by Stellantis in 2024 to become part of the group's in-house software and AD stack — one of the most strategically significant European automotive AI exits of the decade and a capstone story for Hungarian deep-tech.
Startup Growth AutomotiveAutonomous DrivingDeep TechAISimulation
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Founded by the creator of syslog-ng, Axoflow provides an observability and security-data routing layer for modern SOC teams. The platform helps enterprises filter, transform, and route telemetry intelligently to reduce SIEM cost pressure and improve incident investigation performance.
Startup Growth CybersecurityBig DataObservability
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Barion is a Budapest-based licensed e-money institution and payment processor that offers online card acquiring, wallet-based payments, and embedded-payment APIs for e-commerce merchants, marketplaces, and software platforms in the CEE region. Regulated by the Hungarian central bank (MNB) and passported across the EU under its e-money license, Barion is one of the few independent merchant-acquiring alternatives to Stripe, Adyen, and the big international PSPs for merchants that specifically want a Hungarian-language, locally supported, lower-fee payment rail. The company has been growing steadily into neighboring markets and into B2B verticals like iGaming and SaaS, and serves as the local reference for fintech founders who want to understand how small EU markets can build their own regulated payment infrastructure rather than reselling others'.
Startup Growth FintechPaymentsAcquiringE-money
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Bitrise is a Budapest-founded mobile CI/CD platform that automates the build, test, and deployment pipeline for iOS and Android applications. The platform enables mobile development teams to ship faster by providing pre-configured integrations, automated testing workflows, and release management tools purpose-built for the complexities of mobile app development. Bitrise has raised over $80 million and is used by thousands of mobile teams including companies like Virgin Mobile, Grindr, and Transferwise. As one of Hungary's most successful developer tools companies, Bitrise demonstrates the depth of Budapest's engineering ecosystem in building infrastructure software adopted by global development teams.
Startup Growth Developer ToolsMobileDevOps
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Colossyan is a Budapest-based generative AI company focused on turning written scripts into professional video content with AI avatars. Its core value proposition is practical enterprise video production rather than entertainment-first experimentation: teams in learning and development, internal communications, sales enablement, and customer education can produce multilingual training or explainer videos in minutes instead of coordinating studios, cameras, actors, and editing workflows. The platform supports scene composition, localization, voice selection, and collaboration features that fit recurring corporate publishing processes, which gives it a stronger operational use case than many general-purpose GenAI tools. In the European context, Colossyan represents the application layer of the region's growing creator-infrastructure stack, especially across Central and Eastern Europe where strong engineering talent has translated into globally relevant AI products. Its positioning also complements audio-first AI companies by handling the visual delivery side of synthetic media. That makes Colossyan a useful addition to the directory because it shows how CEE startups are not only building foundational models, but also creating workflow software that helps enterprises deploy AI in everyday business functions.
Startup Growth Generative AIVideo TechEnterprise SaaS
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Commsignia is a Budapest-based V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communications company that builds the hardware, stacks, and testing tools that let cars, road infrastructure, and roadside units talk to each other using ITS-G5 and C-V2X standards — the technology layer that sits underneath cooperative driving, smart intersections, and safety-critical traffic use cases. The company sells DSRC/C-V2X OBUs and RSUs, a protocol stack used by automotive tier-ones, and a conformance-testing toolset that has become one of the most widely adopted quality-assurance environments for V2X implementations globally. Commsignia has partnered with major automotive players, smart-city deployments, and government road-safety programs in Europe and the US, and is one of the most internationally respected examples of a niche but strategically important European deep-tech company built entirely from Hungary. It pairs naturally with AImotive as the 'cars that see each other' half of the autonomy stack.
Startup Growth AutomotiveV2XDeep TechSmart CityWireless
Budapest, Hungary · Startup EHS&S compliance software provider spun out of EY Denkstatt in 2021, offering a cloud platform for environment, health, safety, ESG and CSRD reporting used by 500+ companies across 30 countries.
Startup Seed SaaSClimate TechEnterprise Software
Budapest, Hungary · Startup EvoCRM is a Hungarian software company focused on CRM and business automation solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The company develops and implements customer relationship management tools for businesses across Hungary and Central Europe, helping organizations streamline sales and customer engagement processes. EvoCRM is an active participant in the Hungarian Microsoft partner ecosystem and a sponsor of community events including the Shift+Enter Summit.
Startup SoftwareCRM
Budapest, Hungary · Startup GetTech is a Hungarian technology company offering cloud architecture consulting and implementation services with a focus on Microsoft cloud technologies. The company specializes in Microsoft 365 deployments, Power Platform implementations, and cloud adoption strategies for enterprise clients. GetTech is a sponsor of the Shift+Enter Summit and an active contributor to Hungary's Microsoft technology practitioner community.
Startup Cloud ComputingTechnology Consulting
Budapest, Hungary · Startup AI platform that maps, documents and modernises legacy enterprise software entirely on-premises, keeping source code and data inside the customer's environment. Built for regulated banking, insurance and energy; raised a $6.6M seed led by VentureFriends.
Startup Seed AIEnterprise SoftwareDeep Tech
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Warehouse-native product analytics platform that runs directly on data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, letting teams analyze funnels, retention and usage without moving data or writing SQL.
Startup Seed SaaSAIDeveloper Tools
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Netrisk Group is a Budapest-based digital insurance comparison and brokerage platform that helps consumers compare policies from multiple insurers and purchase coverage online. The company operates across Central and Eastern European markets and is the leading insurance aggregator in Hungary, covering auto, home, travel, and health insurance products. Netrisk simplifies a traditionally opaque buying process by providing transparent side-by-side comparisons and instant quotes. The group has expanded through acquisitions and organic growth to become one of the most significant insurtech players in the CEE region.
Startup Growth InsurTechFintechMarketplace
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Molecular diagnostics company developing next-generation sequencing assays and software for HLA typing in transplantation, including the Holotype HLA and NanoTYPE systems for clinical labs.
Startup Growth HealthTechDeep TechEnterprise Software
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Series A MobilitySaaSClimate Tech
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Series A FintechSaaSE-commerce
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Growth ProductivityVisual CommunicationSaaS
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Growth CybersecurityFraud PreventionFintech
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Series B SaaSB2B SaaSProductivityEnterprise Software
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Growth CybersecurityPrivacy TechCloud StorageEnterprise SaaS
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Growth BiotechAIDrug Discovery
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup SoftwareBusiness Intelligence
Budapest, Hungary · Startup 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.
Startup Series A HealthTechAIDeep Tech