# Top 25 Angel Investors in Hungary in May 2026

## Marton Hegedus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Training, E-Learning

Marton Hegedus

## Jared Schrieber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Hospitality

Jared Schrieber - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Numerator

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Marton Szoke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, EdTech

An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.

## Leo Nilsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Computer, Security

Leo joined one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies, iZettle, in 2013. His initial roles focused on launching the company’s flagship products in new markets, including Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands and France. He later transitioned from this commercial role into product management, becoming Chief Product Officer in November, 2016.Prior toworking at iZettle, Leo’s background was in financial services — most recently at Merrill Lynch in the investment banking division. As CPO for iZettle, Leo oversees both product management and product marketing.

## Christian Dahlen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

## Vishal Gulati
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Biopharma, Life Science

Vishal Gulati: Vishal serves as a venture partner specialising in digital health at DFJ Esprit, Europe's leading Silicon Valley style venture capital firm with over $1b under management. Since 2012, Vishal has been Europe’s leading promoter of investment into the emerging digital health sector and chairman of Digital Health Forum, whichsupports the best in class digital health companies to grow into global enterprises. Vishal serves on several boards including Horizon Discovery Group PLC (Cambridge, UK), a gene editing company; Fluidics Analytics (Cambridge, UK), a next gen protein discovery engine, Frameshift a healthcare information flow platform (London, UK) and EcoEos (San Francisco, USA), a consumer genomics business. His previous investments include Napo Pharmaceuticals, Glenmark, Renovo and Phagenesis.

## Peter O' Higgins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, B2B, Credit

Peter O' Higgins

## Stefan Jeschonnek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Internet

Before Zeitgold, Stefan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief product officer. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of St. Gallen.

## Balazs Fejes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Security, Collaboration

Balazs Fejes - VP, Chief Technologist APAC @ EPAM Systems

## Laurence Krieger
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Computer, Security

Laurence Krieger is the chief operating officer (COO) at Tide, the online current account for small and medium sized businesses. Krieger has more than 12 years of experience working in senior roles at fast-growing fintech start-ups.Prior to Tide, he was COO of Revolut, where he helped to rapidly scale the business from initial start-up to over800,000 customers. He was previously founder and CEO of payment business Cobalt where he delivered high profitability and grew annual revenues to more than £100m. He launched one of the first prepaid cards into the UK with Moneysupermarket and has also held senior roles at Yahoo! UK and IE.

## Valentin Stalf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Grocery, Big Data

Valentin Stalf is co-founder and CEO of N26. In 2013 he founded N26 with his longtime friend Maximilian Tayenthal. Back then already, both shared a vision of building a bank that the world loves to use. Since the initial product launch in 2015, N26 has grown to include more than 2.5 million customers across 24 European markets — with plans toenter the US in 2019. The firm has raised more than USD 500 million from some of the world’s most well-known investors, including Insight Venture Partners, GIC - Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Tencent, Allianz X, Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures, Earlybird Venture Capital, Battery Ventures, in addition to members of the Zalando management board, and Redalpine Ventures. N26 has more than 800 employees based in in Berlin, New York and Barcelona, who are concentrated on reinventing the banking experience for the digital generation. With its full banking license, state-of-the-art technology and no branch network, N26 is redesigning banking for the 21st century.
Before N26, Valentin was an Entrepreneur in Residence for Rocket Internet, an incubator and investor in online startups. There he helped to develop several companies in the mobile payments industry, including payleven and Paymill GmbH. Moreover, he worked in strategy consulting and investment banking. Valentin has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management and a master’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of St. Gallen. He is currently a member of the advisory board at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

## Charles Delingpole
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

## Maximilian Tayenthal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

## Gareth Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018. Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com. Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

## Peter Csillag
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Human Resources, Information Technology

Peter is the founder of Starchema.

## Guzel Gumerova
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Her profound experience in investment banking and transactions, CEE background and competitive spirit make Guzel a versatile FinTech expert. As a Partner at Speedinvest, Guzel brings in important expertise and unleashes the potential of promising tech startups. Back in 1997, Guzel worked as an Assistant Director at CA IB Corporate Finance anddeveloped her knowledge of investment banking. In 2003, she joined Vienna Capital Partners (VCP), a leading independent corporate finance advisor in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Guzel went on to work as a VP for Business Development at Finstar Financial Group, and, since 2007, has been a Board Member of Dirigio, an independent investment and advisory firm that provides strategic advice to investors, startups, corporations, and asset management firms.

## Eamon Jubbawy
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Payments, Software, Apps

Eamon Jubbawy is the co-founder of Onfido.
In 2016, Eamon was named as one of Forbes' ‘30 Under 30’, and as the Digital Entrepreneur Awards' 'Young Digital Entrepreneur of the Year'. Eamon is Deputy Chair of Tech Nation's Fintech Delivery Panel.

## Daniel Waterhouse
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Daniel joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2013 and he currently sits on the boards of Revolut, ROLI, Lovecrafts, TrademarkNow, Tictail, Thread, and Workable and also works with Instabridge and Curious.AI.Prior to Balderton, Daniel spent 5 years as a partner at Wellington Partners and invested in a number of fast-growing companiesincluding EyeEm, Hailo, YPlan, Bookatable (also a Balderton portfolio company, sold to Michelin), SumAll, Readmill (sold to Dropbox) and Qype (sold to Yelp).Before Wellington, Daniel was a sector partner at 3i where he worked on all of their venture and private equity investments in the internet sector in North America and Europe.And before that, he was at Yahoo! for six years from 1999, covering strategic development and M&A across the European region. He has a PhD and MA in applied mathematics from Oxford University and a Chartered Diploma in Accounting and Finance.

## Jan Deepen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Internet

Before Zeitgold, Jan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief commercial officer. Before SumUp, he was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group. Jan received his doctorate from the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Trevor Owens
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Trevor Owens is a Managing Partner at Stacks Accelerator.

## Enrico Krog Iversen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Series A
- Focus: Industrial Automation, Robotics, Drones

Enrico Krog Iversen is the CEO of On Robot.

## Zsolt Weiszbart
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: CAD, Apps, Software

Zsolt Weiszbart - Partner @ Day One Capital

## Aksel Kastoryano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Training, E-Learning

Aksel Kastoryano

## Thorbjorn Ronje
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Software, Consulting

Serial entrepreneur

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