Funding activity for Hungarian startups was uneven in 2025, with the majority of funding rounds concentrated in the first half of the year, followed by a noticeable slowdown in H2.
Compared to 2024, Hungarian startup ecosystem presented a more stable profile. The focus verticals were finance, cybersecurity, and health, supported by increased state funding and maturing accelerators. Overall, the ecosystem needs more consistent private capital and stronger global integration to mature.
Below, you can find the biggest 2025 funding rounds raised by Hungarian startups, along with key details about the startups. Check the rest of the Central and Eastern Europe 2025 mappings here.
This article is part of the CEE funding mapping series, done with the support of Dealigence platform. Please feel free to contact us if we missed something: [email protected]. / If the deal’s original currency wasn’t the euro, we convert it to the ratio listed on the publishing day.
SEON Technologies
About: Fraud prevention and AML compliance platform for companies that enriches customer profiles, flags suspicious behavior, and streamlines compliance workflows. Leverages proprietary real-time data signals to enable deeper coverage and higher-precision risk decisions.
Founders: Tamas Kadar, Bence Jendruszak
Vertical: RegTech
Latest round: €67.5 million
Stage: Series C
Investors: Sixth Street Growth, Creandum, Firebolt Ventures, Hearst Ventures, IVP
Total funding: €157.7 million
Zocks
(Hungarian co-founder; USA-based, San Francisco)
About: A meeting assistant designed for financial advisors that captures details during client meetings, prepares follow-ups, and integrates notes into CRM and task management systems.
Founders: Ákos Ratku (CTO), Mark Gilbert (CEO)
Vertical: Finance, Productivity
Latest round: $13.80M (€11.73M)
Stage: Series A
Investors: 14Peaks Capital; Lightspeed Venture Partners; Entrée Capital; Motive Partners; Ascend VC; Global Founders Capital; Expanse Venture Partners
Total funding: $19.3M (€16.41M)
XUND
(Hungarian co-founders; Austria-based, Vienna)
About: Connects patients to appropriate care using API-first medical devices, enhancing the entire patient journey from prevention to diagnosis.
Founders: Tamás Petrovics, Lukas Seper, Dominik Rosinger
Vertical: Health, Medical
Latest round: €6M
Stage: Seed
Investors: Lead Ventures; MassMutual Ventures; Peak Pride; J&T Ventures; MMC Ventures
Total funding: $17M (€14.45M)
Axoflow
(Hungarian founders; USA-based, New York)
About: Provides a security data curation pipeline that helps hybrid enterprises simplify and reduce costs by over 50% by automating data curation.
Founders: Sándor Guba, Ferenc Hernadi
Vertical: Cybersecurity
Latest round: $7M (€5.95M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: EBRD Venture Capital; e2vc; 500 Emerging Europe; Credo Ventures; Notion Capital
Total funding: $10.14M (€8.62M)
Semeris – Legal AI for Finance
About: Delivers a combination of software, natural language processing, AI, and human curation to address challenges associated with reviewing legal documents in finance.
Founders: Szabolcs Sam Daroczy
Vertical: Finance
Latest round: $4.30M (€3.66M)
Stage: A-Round
Investors: QVentures; Puma Private Equity
Total funding: $4.35M (€3.70M)
DiffuseDrive
(Hungarian founders; USA-based, San Francisco)
About: An end-to-end automated data solution is developed to aid computer vision developers in creating autonomous machines more efficiently, utilizing generative AI to streamline data infrastructure and significantly reduce time-to-market.
Founders: Balint Pasztor (CEO), Roland Pintér (CTO)
Vertical: Developer tools
Latest round: $3.50M (€2.98M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: Outlander VC; 500 Global; Presto Tech Horizons
Total funding: $3.50M (€2.98M)
Riptides
About: Provides a universal and transparent non-human identity solution to secure connections between workloads and services.
Founders: Marton Sereg (CEO), Zsolt Varga (CTO), Janos Matyas (Head of R&D)
Vertical: Cybersecurity; IAM
Latest round: $3.30M (€2.81M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: PortfoLion; KAYA VC
Total funding: $3.30M (€2.81M)
Qneiform
(Hungary-based; Budapest)
About: A talent data and intelligence platform designed for talent professionals, combining advanced data technology with human research to provide comprehensive talent datasets. It enables financial institutions and executive search firms to effectively map talent markets and enhance hiring decisions.
Founders: Thomas Percy
Vertical: Recruitment
Latest round: €3M
Stage: Seed
Investors: PROfounders Capital; Samen Slimmer Alliance; DFF Ventures; Slimmer AI; Day One Capital; Keen Venture Partners
Total funding: $4.08M (€3.47M)
Kodesage
About: An enterprise-ready solution assists engineering teams in swiftly comprehending complex software projects and modernizing legacy systems.
Founders: Gyorgy Szilagyi (COO), Gergely Dombi, Miklós Szurdi
Vertical: Software Development
Latest round: €2.30M
Stage: Pre-Seed
Investors: PortfoLion
Total funding: €2.30M
Genomate Health
(Hungarian founder; USA-based, Cambridge)
About: Develops AI-driven computational models for personalized cancer treatment, enabling standardized decision-making based on individual patient data. The flagship product enhances N-of-1 treatment decisions in precision oncology by automating data management and synthesis.
Founders: Istvan Petak
Vertical: Health
Latest round: $2.25M (€1.91M)
Stage: Seed
Investors: Oktogon Ventures
Total funding: $10.03M (€8.52M)
