# Top 25 FinTech Startup Investors in Hungary in May 2026 ## PortfoLion Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Euroventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Budapest-based Euroventures is one of the longest-established and leading independent private equity and venture capital firms in Central Europe, with a proven ability to achieve international exits over two decades in a fast-changing environment. It has advised or is advising five investment programmes totalling over €180m since 1989, with a focuson funding INNOVATION and GROWTH in Hungary and Central Europe. The investors in Euroventures funds have been international institutional Investors. Euroventures' nearly 50 current and former portfolio companies illustrate the commitment to provide steady support through the cycles of the regional and global economy. Its professional team members have many decades of private equity / venture capital experience between them. Recent investments have targeted growing businesses with innovative technologies in the fields of medtech, big data, security, and IoT among others. Euroventures has had an outstanding track record in supporting its portfolio companies entering global markets. As a result, it has delivered highly successful exits, including IPOs (Vienna, NASDAQ, NYSE) and several dozens of trade sales to international corporations. Euroventures is a founding member of the Hungarian Venture Capital Association and complies with the conduct, governing principles and valuation/reporting guidelines of Invest Europe. ## Admitad - Type: VC Fund - Location: Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Marketing, E-Commerce, Software Admitad provides opportunities for long-term partnershipand the development of your business. ## Solus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Health Care Solus Capital is a seed & early growth VC investment company ## 365.fintech - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic) - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 365.fintech is a boutique VC focusing on pre-seed & seed API-first, infrastructure & b2b/b2b2c fintech in broader CEE & Baltics. ## 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. ## Gossamer Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet Gossamer is an early stage venture capital firm investing in startups that are building the future of dApps, DeFi, NFTs and the Metaverse. ## Advance Global Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance Advance Global Capital, a financial services company based in the UK, specializes in trade receivables financing in emerging markets. ## 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 ## Fiedler Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, iOS, Transportation We are a first check investor helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems defy the odds and create breakout companies. ## 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. ## 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. ## Creandum - Type: VC Fund - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond. ## OXO Technologies Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Discovery Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce Micro VC supporting outstanding technology entrepreneurs across the globe. ## 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. ## 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. ## Mark Ransford - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Angel Investor ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Studio1 Startup Factory - Type: VC Fund - Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Web Development, Information Technology Startup Factory ## 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. ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co