Budapest's startup ecosystem shows a strong mix of industries, from enterprise software to artificial intelligence. The city supports both newly founded companies and more mature ventures.
Mobile DevOps platform Bitrise leads with $83.5M in funding. Close behind is AImotive, an automated driving company that has raised $67.6M.
Below is our list of 49 Budapest startups worth keeping an eye on.
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Get the Sheet for $50Bitrise provides a mobile DevOps platform designed to help teams build, test, and deploy mobile applications more efficiently. Their platform automates the entire mobile development lifecycle, from code integration to app store submission.
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Founders | Barnabas Birmacher, Daniel Balla, Viktor Benei |
| Funding Amount | $83.5M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Insight Partners, Y Combinator, Partech, OpenOcean, Oktogon Ventures |
AImotive develops a complete technology platform for automated driving, offering solutions that scale from assisted to fully autonomous systems. Their product suite includes a modular software stack, a photorealistic simulation environment, and a specialized data management toolset.
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Laszlo Kishonti |
| Funding Amount | $67.6M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Draper Associates, B Capital, Bosch Ventures, Inventure, Cisco Investments |
Axoflow builds a high-performance data pipeline that gives security teams control over their observability data. Their platform, from the creators of the open-source tool syslog-ng, helps organizations route and transform log data to better detect threats.
| Year Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Balázs Scheidler, Ferenc Hernadi, Neil Boyd, Sandor Guba |
| Funding Amount | $10.2M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Seed |
| Top Investors | Notion Capital, Credo Ventures, 500 Emerging Europe, e2vc, EBRD Venture Capital |
Ominimo provides AI-powered car insurance through a digital platform designed for simplicity and speed. The service is supported by some of the world's leading insurance companies to offer customers reliable and transparent policies.
| Year Founded | 2024 |
| Founders | — |
| Funding Amount | €10M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Zurich Insurance Group |
Riptides builds a cybersecurity platform to eliminate static credentials for machine-to-machine authentication. Their system replaces vulnerable, hardcoded passwords and keys to create more secure communication pathways between machines.
| Year Founded | 2025 |
| Founders | Janos Matyas, Zsolt Varga |
| Funding Amount | $3.3M |
| Startup Size | Founding Team (1-10) |
| Last Funding Status | Pre-Seed |
| Top Investors | KAYA, Portfolion Capital Partners |
PastPay built a B2B payment solution to help businesses get paid on time without the wait. Their invoice financing service turns outstanding invoices into immediate cash, helping companies stabilize their cash flow.
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Benjamin Berényi, Bálint Réti |
| Funding Amount | €17.1M |
| Startup Size | Founding Team (1-10) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Hiventures, Mark Ransford, Advance Global Capital, BnL Start Partners, MBH Bank |
BOOKR Kids develops an app-based library of interactive e-books to inspire a love of reading in children. Their platform is designed to boost literacy, social-emotional, and cognitive skills through animated stories and educational games.
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Dorka Horváth PhD |
| Funding Amount | €3M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Seed |
| Top Investors | Bonitás Ventures, Hiventures, Baconsult, STRT Holding Nyrt |
Qneiform builds an AI-powered sourcing platform designed to help recruiters find candidates. The software automates the search process, allowing teams to identify the right people for open roles in minutes rather than days.
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Thomas Percy |
| Funding Amount | €3.8M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Seed |
| Top Investors | DFF Ventures, PROfounders Capital, Keen Venture Partners, Day One Capital, Slimmer AI |
41 Additional Budapest Startups Worth Following
Our top picks only scratch the surface of what's happening across the city. Many other founders are building companies in areas like AI and biotech, raising more than €200 million combined.
Some of these companies are just getting started, while others have been growing for years. Here’s a look at the other startups that are shaping the city's scene.