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Top 20 Payments Startup Investors in Hungary

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Payments startups based in Hungary. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Hungary. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Payments Startup Investors in Hungary

Investor	Payments Hungary investments
PortfoLion Capital Partners	4
Leo Nilsson	1
ABCDE	1
Laurence Krieger	1
Gossamer Capital	1
Jan Deepen	1
Stefan Jeschonnek	1
Solus Capital	1
OXO Technologies Holding	1
Bonitás Ventures	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Creandum	1
Charles Delingpole	1
Eamon Jubbawy	1
Peter O' Higgins	1
Valentin Stalf	1
Fiedler Capital	1
Maximilian Tayenthal	1
Discovery Ventures	1
Trevor Owens	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Big Data
Series A, Seed, Series B
Hungary, Poland, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.
Mindgram — Mindgram is a science-based platform and mobile app for complete mental wellness.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Big Data, Computer, Security
Series A
Hungary

Portfolio highlights

SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

ABCDE invest in builders of the future.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform
Seed, Pre-Seed
Singapore, Hungary, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nubit — Nubit is a provider of data availability layer for bitcoin-native data.
CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
Bitlayer — Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin second-layer network, based on BitVM, offering ultra-scalability and L1 security, aiming to be Bitcoin's computing layer.

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.

Investment focus

Big Data, Computer, Security
Series A
Hungary

Portfolio highlights

SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

Gossamer is an early stage venture capital firm investing in startups that are building the future of dApps, DeFi, NFTs and the Metaverse.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, India, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

NeoSwap — NeoSwap is a multi-party, multi-item NFT swap platform that redistributes items in a win-win-win manner, using minimal currency. It provides neo-barter solutions to unlock value within existing marketplaces and enable marketplaces where they were previously unsustainable. It was founded by John Ennis.
DLC.link — We are building a bridge that will let Clarity contracts settle on Bitcoin, unlocking a trillion dollars of Bitcoin to be used for DeFi (Decentralized Finance).
NeoSwap AI — NeoSwap, the ai-powered trading platform for web3 projects.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Hungary, Argentina

Portfolio highlights

sento.io — sento.io builds infrastructure to enable effortless B2B data exchange
Rebill — Rebill provides merchants with a unique control panel, and an API (programmatic environment) as well as pre-made payment pages so they can sell online in multiple regions very quickly, integrating with the financial entities and payment gateways they want.All customer's information, including non-sensitive card and subscription information,are stored at Rebill. Who, in turn, manages the recurrence of the collection of subscriptions, monitoring of card expiration and automatic collection retries to avoid delays and securing a predictable revenue model.Rebill is the last mile solution to improve the shopping experience for international stores. Provides flexibility to change providers: banks, or payment gateways, without losing information and in a matter of minutes.From Rebill, businesses can integrate multiple cloud services such as CRM (for customer management), or ERP (for business management), as well as local invoicing systems, among others.
SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, France, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

sento.io — sento.io builds infrastructure to enable effortless B2B data exchange
Rebill — Rebill provides merchants with a unique control panel, and an API (programmatic environment) as well as pre-made payment pages so they can sell online in multiple regions very quickly, integrating with the financial entities and payment gateways they want.All customer's information, including non-sensitive card and subscription information,are stored at Rebill. Who, in turn, manages the recurrence of the collection of subscriptions, monitoring of card expiration and automatic collection retries to avoid delays and securing a predictable revenue model.Rebill is the last mile solution to improve the shopping experience for international stores. Provides flexibility to change providers: banks, or payment gateways, without losing information and in a matter of minutes.From Rebill, businesses can integrate multiple cloud services such as CRM (for customer management), or ERP (for business management), as well as local invoicing systems, among others.
SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

Solus Capital is a seed & early growth VC investment company

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Health Care
Seed, Series A
Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Quino — AI-Powered Study Tool Package & Library for University Students. Summarize & chat with any document instantly with referencing. Learn fast easily.
Duelbox — Customized games for any event. Build an unforgettable event with our ever-growing game universe that's made to be personalized.
YourAnastomosis — Why are we needed?Until recently, there were no objective methods to evaluate the quality of the practice of vessel anastomosis (vascular suture) for cardiac surgeons, vascular surgeons, and surgical trainees. It was not possible to know how one surgically created vessel suture will behave, and what its long-term effectiveness will be.How arewe solving these challenges?Our technological innovations provide objective feedback about the quality of anastomoses during surgical training. Our method can be used as a convenient and gamified system, for surgical education and training for attendees, learners from all stages of training and levels of expertise. What do we offer?Your Anastomosis offers anastomosis (vascular suture) analysis for surgeons, surgical trainees and medical students. Our technology provides simulated environments, by digitizing and blood flow conditions, and evaluating short and long-term results of the specific vessel. The innovation in our technology allows for an objective assessment of an anastomosis, creating clear surgical and technical suggestions for improvement.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Series A
Hungary, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

iconicchain — iconicchain is on a mission to turn regulatory compliance into an automated, real time process. We disrupt the manual, sample based, Big Four consulting dominated approach by using private, distributed ledgers / blockchains shared between regulated companies, auditors, and regulators.
BitNinja.io — State-of-the-art server security with an all-in-one platform - Eliminate false positives and experience the proactive full-stack Linux protection
Blue Colibri — With the Blue Colibri App and engage your workforce! Our cloud based, secure multi platform solution creates a meaningful connection with your non-desk colleagues.

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.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Education, Software
Seed, Series A
Hungary

Portfolio highlights

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Utila — Utila is an enterprise-scale self-custody platform that manages your organization's crypto strategy with safe, chain-agnostic wallet infrastructure.

We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Series B, Seed
Sweden, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
atla — Advance the potential and safety of AI
Kosmik — Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
Morphoses — Unlocking Potential: Empowering 6-17 Year-Old Learners with Future-Focused Soft Skills for Education and Employability
Juniper — Juniper is the radically accessible new way to offer your whole team reproductive health cover. Simple, affordable and built for every body.

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

Peter O' Higgins

Investment focus

FinTech, B2B, Credit
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Canada, France, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
Pillar — Pillar is a fintech credit platform that allows retail consumers to monitor, build and grow their credit footprint as well as access a credit facility through the Pillar credit card.
Pillar Financial Technologies — All-in-one Financial Platform for Small Businesses

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.

Investment focus

Retail, Grocery, Big Data
Seed, Series A
Germany, Hungary, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
Kitchenful — Kitchenful is an app for personalized recommendations of recipes, which gets users the ingredients delivered from their local supermarket. Kitchenful's algorithm always suggests the most popular recipes that are 40% cheaper than meal kits.
SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

We are a first check investor helping overlooked founders from peripheral European ecosystems defy the odds and create breakout companies.

Investment focus

Software, iOS, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Hungary, Serbia, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
Collabwriting — Collabwriting is a simple browser extension that helps you share, comment and collaborate on content you find online
Munch - (B)eat food waste! — Munch operates a marketplace for restaurants, supermarkets, bakeries and cafes to sell their surplus food to consumers at a discounted price.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
beatvest — An investment platform supporting do-it-yourself portfolio building with education and tools

Micro VC supporting outstanding technology entrepreneurs across the globe.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Due — Discover our global payment platform. Powered by open, decentralised and interoperable networks.
Due — Due is a blockchain payment service provider that is developing a platform to connect domestic payment channels utilizing open and interoperable blockchain protocols.
Naro — Discover how we make Money Matter through out innovative fund infrastructure, enabling fair and redistributive earnings in the ETF and fund market.

Trevor Owens is a Managing Partner at Stacks Accelerator.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed, Seed
Egypt, India, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
DLC.link — We are building a bridge that will let Clarity contracts settle on Bitcoin, unlocking a trillion dollars of Bitcoin to be used for DeFi (Decentralized Finance).
BlockSurvey — BlockSurvey is a private, secure, and anonymous way to get your audience involved in questionnaires, assessments, online forms, and surveys.

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