Top 20 Biotech Startup Investors in Hungary in October 2023

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• Iskra — Iskra offers web3 gaming opportunities using blockchain and rewards its stakeholders based on their participation.
• On Vacation — On Vacation is a chat-based concierge service where customers may get help making reservations and getting personalized and optimal tours from travel specialists.
• NextChapter — NextChapter is a digital commerce platform that acquires and operates Coupang and Naver-based online native brands in Korea. NextChapter is backed by BlueRun Ventures/BRV Capital Management, Goodwater Capital, Klim Ventures, Fast Ventures and Sandbox Network.NextChapter was founded in 2021 by Joshua Kwon and Jay Chung and is headquarteredin Seoul, Korea.

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• Umedeor — uMed is a technology platform embedded across a global network of healthcare providers that automates the process of building prospective, protocolized patient registries. This enables sites to participate in dozens of programmes simultaneously without increasing overhead or burden on staff. For life science companies, uMed provides access toregulator quality data, where patients within those datasets can be compliantly re-engaged to support the aims of R&D and post-market teams
• Turbine — Turbine builds a platform to understand the inner mechanisms of cancer, enabling the discovery of novel protein targets, precision biomarkers, and better translation to patients. Turbine uses its proprietary Simulated Cell technology in combination with Artificial Intelligence to build a faster and deeper biological understanding of therapeutictargets or indications, untangling the complexity of cancer.
• Ori Biotech — An innovator in Cell and Gene Therapy with a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform to enable widespread access to lifesaving treatments

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• SureIn — small business insurance manager
• Colonia — Colonia is a logistics company that brings all global trucks and trailers into one shared fleet.
• Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.

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• deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
• Renewabl — Renewabl is the platform that allows companies to meet their decarbonisation targets quickly and efficiently by matching renewable energy certificates directly from hydro, wind and solar on a 24/7-hour basis.
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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• PharmEnable — Designing the next generation of small molecule drugs. Replicating the specificity of biologics in the scalable form of a small molecule.
• Five Alarm Bio — Five Alarm Bio is a drug discovery company. Five Alarm intends to use discoveries to provide secure and efficient remedies for a variety of age-related illnesses and limitations. Five Alarm Bio is creating a small molecule strategy to strengthen the body's defense against aging.
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Antavo is an Enterprise Loyalty Cloud, providing best-in-class technology to manage experience-based, paid, and lifestyle loyalty programs.
• Hunch — Hunch empowers you to automate your creative production and media management, to get performance uplifts faster than ever. Get started now.
• Prefixbox — Prefixbox makes eCommerce search easy. Easy to integrate search modules increase conversion rates and online revenue within weeks.

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• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
• Aaritya Technologies — Because when you trade, we want you to trade like a pro.

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• Livlia — As Hungary’s first hybrid real estate service, portal, and ecosystem, Livlia’s goal is to revolutionize the Hungarian and the regional real estate market with their automatized working methods, modern solutions and professional real estate experts. The platform is launching today with the aim of digitalising and revolutionizing and the entire realestate industry.Ads optimization, developed price strategy, pre-identified customers, all of which can be traced on the platform which is complemented by a dedicated real estate expert. As a result of their modern and digitalised solutions and working methods, they thrive working for one of the most competitive success fees (1,5%) within the Hungarian real estate industry offering more, for less.
• MITE-CHEM KFT. — Manufacture of pesticides and other agrochemical products
• Gremon Systems — Digitalize your production with Gremon: discover the highest agricultural IT inventions in crop production, monitoring and evaluation of data. Be the first!

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• Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
• Tallarium — Tallarium - The definitive pre-trade data and analytics platform for OTC energy markets, driven by data science
• BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

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• Pragma Bio — VastBiome is a biotechnology company that mines microbiome drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.The company employs its proprietary methods in genomic sequencing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology to discover biomarkers and therapeutics for challenging immunologic disorders. It offers a platform that aims to aggregate publicand private data in order to generate a microbiome database and leverages analytical processes to discover connections between distinct and biologically related data in order to increase statistical power and drive discovery. In addition, the platform can be used to identify novel biomarkers to risk-stratify patients and predict clinical outcomes.It was co-founded by Peter McCaffrey, Kovi Bessoff, Ayin Vala, and Kareem Barghouti in Millbrae, California in 2018.
• AeroSafe Global — AeroSafe Global delivers cold chain solutions to the biopharma industry with zero temperature excursions for every patient, every product, every time.
• Octave — Octave has developed the first of it's kind precision care solution focused on neurodegenerative diseases beginning with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

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• Cardata — Fully-managed vehicle reimbursement programs and software that are transparent, reliable, and efficient, so you save time, money, and headaches.
• Immix — Immix engages in scaling web3 trading through next-generation technologies.
• Rapid Applications Group — Heavy Equipment and Machinery Software: Rapid ERP Systems is used to dispatch and manage more concrete pumping jobs in US & Canada than all other solutions combined.

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• Vianode — Vianode is a producer of sustainably engineered battery materials.
• Devnya Cement — Devnya Cement is a cement company that operates in the wholesale construction products industry.
• Angelini Pharma — Angelini is committed to identifying health solutions with a prevalent focus on the areas of Central Nervous System (CNS), including pain, and Rare Diseases. The Company is also a leading player in the Consumer Health sector,

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• Omixon — Omixon is a biotechnology company that specializes in high-resolution HLA genotyping.
• Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
• Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming

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• Augure — Augure by Launchmetrics' software and social data help brands and agencies to bridge the gap between traditional PR and Influencer Marketing. Every day, more than 1,000 Communication, PR, and Public Affairs teams use the Publisher platform to engage relevant influencers, manage their campaigns, improve efficiency and increase their presence inthe media and on social networks.The Augure by Launchmetrics' data services team compliments the Publisher software as the people behind the technology, offering consulting services that help clients to make sense of the data and apply it to their Influencer Marketing strategies.Founded in 2002 in Paris, Augure operates in Europe and Latin America. Its clients include Orange, Thales, AG Insurance, Pierre & Vacances, Château de Versailles, Amalthea, Hill+Knowlton and many others that span across the corporate sector.
• Force-A — FORCE-A designs, produces, and sells optical sensors for the assessment of physiological and health status of crops. It offers crop sensors for nondestructive assessment of leaf polyphenolics. The company also provides multiparameter noncontact sensors-based on leaves or fruits, and berries autofluorescence measurements. Its multiparameternoncontact sensor provides inputs for decision support systems for a range of crops, including fertilisation needs, weed infestation, crop diseases, and crop yield and quality forecast. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Orsay, France.
• METRIXWARE — Metrixware has, since 1995, been providing software maintenance & quality management solutions to CIOs and IT professionals through its System Code range of application management tools. The company provides global organizations with information, indicators and diagnostic to streamline decision making and implement best practice and compliancestandards.

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• Unaric — Unaric buys, builds and grows Salesforce based SaaS companies and is backed by leading global investors.
• Turbine — Turbine builds a platform to understand the inner mechanisms of cancer, enabling the discovery of novel protein targets, precision biomarkers, and better translation to patients. Turbine uses its proprietary Simulated Cell technology in combination with Artificial Intelligence to build a faster and deeper biological understanding of therapeutictargets or indications, untangling the complexity of cancer.

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• CubeWorks — CubeWorks’ mission is to accelerate the future of IoT and build a world connected by ubiquitous sensor technology through millimeter-scale smart sensing solutions. In 2013, following a decade of research on ultra-low-power circuitry at the University of Michigan, CubeWorks was founded to advance the next generation of IoT sensors. Today, with thedevelopment of the CubiSens™ Platform, CubeWorks brings to market a portfolio of ultra-small wireless smart sensors. These sensors offer limitless potential across a broad range of applications and provide access to mission-critical information exactly when and where it is needed.
• KAID Health — KAID Health offers and specializes in artificial intelligence and natural language processing for healthcare organizations. KAID allows providers and payers to collaborate to achieve their individual clinical, operational, and financial goals, including revenue optimization and bending the cost-curve.
• Atropos Health — Atropos Health rapidly provides personalized real-world evidence for any clinical decision

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• Flourish Collective — FlourishFund is a digital platform that empowers and supports new and expecting families. The platform consists of two parts: a marketplace with evidence-based goods and vetted maternal wellness services and a funding mechanism for friends and families to contribute to a positive birth and parenting journey.
• Drusolv Therapeutics — Drusolv Therapeutics is a clinical-stage drug company developing a novel, high-dose statin for early intervention in age-related macular degeneration. Their product ocustatin is aimed at patients who are still in the intermediate stage of the disease and currently have very limited options to prevent progression to late-stage vision loss. Ocustatinwas developed at Harvard University and has been validated in a very successful proof-of-concept clinical trial that showed a 75% reduction in progression to late-stage blindness. John Edwards, the founder and CEO of Drusolv, is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in AMD.
• Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.

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• VRG Therapeutics — VRG Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on miniprotein-based medications and cellular and gene therapy (CGT) technologies.

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• FLOWX.AI — FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it incredibly easy for enterprises to create web and mobile front-ends for mission-critical business flows. The revolutionary AI-enabled Apeiron UX engine is able to automatically create a modern, intuitive front-end for customers and employees, helping to consolidate in a unified UI all thebusiness logic cross-systems.This enables companies with complex technology landscapes to create and launch mission-critical digital products fast, and then facilitate an easy path forward to full digital transformation.The revolutionary novel approach is 100x faster and cheaper than existing alternatives. FLOWX.AI allows delivery of enterprise-grade mobile and web digital front-ends as fast as 10 weeks, and requires much smaller engineering teams.
• Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
• Commsignia — Commsignia specializes in the research and development, manufacturing and distribution of cooperative intelligent transportation systems. Its product line includes a V2X Communication Software Stack and Commsignia’s own security stack implementation, Hybrid V2X/ADAS Safety Applications, a V2X Simulator, On-Board Units (OBU) and Roadside Units(RSU).The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

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• Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
• Alphadoc — Interactive documentation that converts. Explain APIs and SDKs in a single environment. Keep your docs in sync, reuse content, powerful AI, and more
• comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.