Hungarian-founded DiffuseDrive announced a double milestone today raising €3.15 million in seed funding and multiple successful deployments with Fortune 500 companies. The company’s generative AI platform turns data scarcity into data abundance automating photorealistic content in hours.
“The era of generic synthetic data is over,” said Balint Pasztor, co-founder and CEO of DiffuseDrive. “We’ve solved a core business challenge – delivering scalable, realistic data solutions in hours, not years. Fortune 500 companies are already seeing the impact and ROI.”
Hungarian founders bring vision AI to Silicon Valley
Founders Balint Pasztor and Roland Pinter, vision AI experts, relocated from Hungary to the Silicon Valley to address the robotics and AI data market opportunity projected to reach over US$124 billion by 2030 (Grand View Research) quickly captured the attention of investors Outlander and Presto Tech Horizons.
“I look for companies with the potential to reshape entire industries and DiffuseDrive is doing just that. They are untapping a massive opportunity in physical AI by solving one of the fundamental challenges: data scarcity. In a market where speed, realism, and scale matter, they’re not just ahead of the curve, they’re building the curve,” shared Jordan Kretchmer, Senior Partner at Outlander.
To date, DiffuseDrive has raised $4.5 million with prior funding from E2VC.
Hungarian duo tackles data scarcity in autonomous systems
Founded in 2023, Hungarian entrepreneurs Balint Pasztor, an engineer, and a physicist Roland Pinter, shared a common vision in solving the autonomous systems data scarcity challenge. The co-founders met while working at Bosch, where they witnessed firsthand lack of available data and the limitations of synthetic data for autonomous driving.
DiffuseDrive’s generative AI platform is designed to analyze existing data, identify gaps, and generate high-quality photorealistic image data using its proprietary diffusion models. This approach helps accelerate advancements in autonomous systems by providing realistic training data for machine learning.
Strengthening leadership with key board appointment
In addition to the funding news, DiffuseDrive has appointed Jordan Kretchmer, Senior Partner at Outlander VC on the board. He brings years of entrepreneurial and technology expertise in the digital and robotics industries to the team.
“Advanced GenAI is transforming how machines make decisions – from the driver’s seat to the frontlines. Virtualized training and decentralized decision making are becoming mission-critical,” said Vojta Rocek, Partner at Presto Tech Horizons. “And with the automotive industry needing to crunch ever-growing volumes of data to improve passenger safety, DiffuseDrive is not only positioned to thrive on a global scale, but also at the forefront of saving human lives across both automotive and defense.”
