# Top 30 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Hungary in October 2023

## PortfoLion Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Big Data

Portfolion is a CEE-focused multi-stage investor with a flexible fund structure that allows it to back companies from or before 1st client until the end of their journey. The fund manager has backed some of the CEE region’s most successful companies including SEON, Novakid, Tresorit, Packhelp, and Starschema.

## OXO Technologies Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

OXO Technologies Holding is an investment firm in the tech sector in the CEE region. It includes a network of business angels as well as various financial and strategic investors as equity partners. The firm's investment policy targets the funding, partial or full buyout of early-stage tech ventures, accelerate their growth and marketexpansion and prepare them for subsequent funding rounds and exits.

## Day One Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

We are an early-stage technology investor, managing privately financed funds.  We seek to find and join the most exciting Central Eastern European teams on their global mission.

## Delin Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

We invest in early stage technology businesses and, in exceptional cases, will create them from scratch with outstanding partners. We pride ourselves on being open minded and ready to support ideas orthogonal to consensus views.

## Accel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere

## XTX Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

XTX Ventures is the venture capital arm of XTX Markets. XTX Markets is a leading, innovation-driven algorithmic trading firm.XTX Ventures focuses on early stage startups (Seed to Series A) applying machine learning and leverages XTX Markets’ deep expertise in ML and financial technology to help grow and enhance
those businesses. We are geographyand industry agnostic.

## Atlantic Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Information Technology

Atlantic Labs supports and invests in mission-driven founders working on transformative technology ventures.&nbsp;<br><br>We partner with founders early, providing the capital, tools and network necessary to growing their companies and accompanying them on their entrepreneurial journey. We are currently active in areas including Digital Health, Future of Work, Machine Learning, Decentralized Networks, Mobility and Industrial Applications.

## O2h Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Pharmaceutical

Focused on seeding early stage biotech therapeutics and related AI opportunities. The fund will invest in companies qualifying under EIS and covering novel...

## Jared Schrieber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Hospitality

Jared Schrieber - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Numerator

## Oktogon Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence

We leverage our local background, operational expertise and global network to help CEE startups realize their fullest potential. Our Scope in Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Bulgaria. Founding team and core technology exist and have ‘zero to one’ potential. Product has global appeal from day one. Early stage.Capable of achieving extraordinary growth. Focus on technology-heavy plays. Our portfolio companie: Bitrise, Recart, Enduraid.Why Oktogon?
Led and partially funded by the entrepreneur behind Hungary’s largest-ever startup M&A success
Regional network of potential co-investment partners
Principals and mentors with proven startup and entrepreneurial experience
Strong connections to US and Western European tier 1 VCs, Angels and partners
Access to a large network of local technical and management talent

## Bonitás Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Education, Software

Bonitás is more than an investor. Our team helps the brave founders to pursue their dreams and build extraordinary companies. We push because we respect. Partnering with Bonitás, founders can benefit from our unmatched network and gain experience in management support. Bonitás is proud that our backed companies also propel great causes.

## MassMutual Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

MMV is a multistage, global venture capital firm investing in enterprise software, cybersecurity, financial technology, and digital health companies. We help accelerate the growth of the companies we partner with by providing capital, connections and advice.

## 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.

## Lead Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based venture capital firm, specialist of financing scale-ups in Central Europe. Its mission is to support the region’s most promising ventures with capital, experience and a wide-ranging professional network, enabling them to transform their industry with innovation. Lead Ventures provides equity financing tocompanies in their scale-up phase, the typical ticket size is between EUR 2-10 million. Lead Ventures is searching for dynamic teams with a unique story, outstanding growth potential and solutions tested and validated by the market. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the mobility, energy and sustainability as well as b2b services and software sectors, however, Lead Ventures is open to support teams active in other areas as well.Lead Ventures has EUR 100 million under management invested by MOL, the most successful energy company in CEE, and two financial institutions specialised in supporting the startup ecosystem - the Hungarian Development Bank (MFB) and Eximbank.

## 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.

## Impact Ventures Hungary
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Waste Management

Impact Ventures is a specialist fund manager focusing on Impact Investments. Our mission is to catalyze social impact by supporting and investing in high-growth social SMEs in Europe, addressing areas of social inclusion, education, employment, health and environmental sustainability.

## 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.

## Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (MGHIF) is a growth investor partnering with innovative digital health and data science companies that facilitate and optimize biopharmaceutical operations with the goal of improving patient care.

## European Commission
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

The official website of the European Commission, providing access to information about its political priorities, policies and services

## Andgo Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: 3D Technology, Software, 3D Printing

Andgo Partners is a team of serial entrepreneurs with strong track record in founding and developing businesses across various industries. They provide smart money to technology-driven, mostly Hungarian startups to help market entry and international roll-out.

## FastVentures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology

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## Inventure
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Since 2005, Inventure has backed over 90 companies including Wolt, Swappie, Jobbatical, aiMotive, and more.

## Bosch Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Invented for life: we want our products to spark enthusiasm, improve quality of life, and help conserve natural resources.

## Boston Millennia Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software

Boston Millennia Partners (BMP) has a long and successful history of growth capital investing on a national scope. Our Core Company Investment Strategy, combined with our international network of relationships and deep industry expertise, sets us apart from other investor groups and enables us to contribute meaningfully to our portfolio companies.The company focuses on investment opportunities within the healthcare and business services industries. Outsourcing and software as a service business companies are of particular interest for investment.Boston Millennia Partners' goal is to be supportive and effective investing partners, and establish productive relationships with its business partners that create long-term value.The company seeks to partner with entrepreneurs who share our goal of building enduring, large-scale businesses that result in personal fulfillment and superior financial returns. Over the past thirty years, it has implemented an investment approach that centers on active participation with our portfolio companies. Its goal is to be supportive and effective investing partners and establish productive relationships with its business partners that create long-term value.

## Solus Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care

Solus Capital is a seed & early growth VC investment company

## 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.

## Credo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We partner with outstanding technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe to help them realize their global ambitions.

## Mercia Fund Managers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Henley In Arden, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

## Google
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Grant, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Google is a multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. Their products address a wide range of use cases, including email, navigation, cloud computing, web browsing, video sharing,productivity, operating systems, cloud storage, language translation, photo storage, video calling, smart home, smartphones, wearable technology, music streaming, and more.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

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