Lead Ventures
VC Fund
Budapest, Hungary
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 200 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.
- Total investments:
- 32
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 66%
- Fund size:
- $109M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Lead Ventures invests in
Stages Lead Ventures invests in
Countries Lead Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.6M–$11M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$5.9M
- Series B
- $4M–$90M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (38%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (19%)
- SaaS 5 (16%)
- Big Data 4 (13%)
- Analytics 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (31%)
- Seed 6 (19%)
- Series B 6 (19%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Country
- Hungary 7 (22%)
- United Kingdom 5 (16%)
- Croatia 2 (6%)
- Lithuania 2 (6%)
- Slovakia (Slovak Republic) 2 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ádám Csuhai
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Balázs Haszonics
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
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Brigitta Illés
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Diána Bene
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Henrik Néninger
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 8 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALTEO offers energy investments, energy production, and trading services. They engage in the production and trade of energy using natural gas and renewable energy sources, as well as energy services and development that are suited to the demands of certain corporations. The business offers energy supply based on the responsible use of renewableenergy to its clients, which include both small and large organizations. | Post-IPO Secondary / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| XUND enables healthcare organizations to digitize patient interactions and turn data into actionable insights. Founded in 2018, the Vienna-based company provides better prevention, faster diagnosis and integrated monitoring with its Patient Interaction Suite.By leveraging cutting-edge Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology, we canautomatically analyze millions of medical publications to process data on 4,000+ condition concepts and thus reach unparalleled medical quality.The NLP technology results from more than 5 years of R&D and is a fundamental part of XUND's product development process as a medical device manufacturer. | $6.5M / Seed / Mar 05, 2025 | ||
| Meet Oxla, the world's fastest-distributed database, designed to handle large amounts of data with ease. Our unique, simple structure allows 10x faster query execution than the current state-of-the-art solutions (e.g. Snowflake) and data infrastructure cost reduction by up to 70%.Our solution is perfect for companies processing largeamounts of data in industries such as business intelligence, IoT, cybersecurity, ad tech, data science, or AI/ML coaching. | $11M / Seed / Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| RedTrack.io is privacy first, SaaS ad tracking and conversion attribution platform providing marketers with real-time data, alerts and automation to maximise return on ad spend, capture the customer journey and evaluate marketing performance across all digital channels. | $3.2M / Series A / Oct 09, 2024 | ||
| AdScanner made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to increase effectiveness, transparency, speed, reduce manual, complicated, delayed reports and also to make TV more interconnected and comparable with digital channels. Our approach is to combine proprietary technologies and data. | $11M / Series B / Oct 02, 2024 | ||
| Leanpay is an omni-channel POS financing company that aims to disrupt consumer loans segment, and help consumers buy products they need. Existing BNPL players are financing average basket size of around 150 EUR. Leanpay is focused on segment of bigger purchases up to 5.000 EURm, with average basket size 4x bigger compered to BNPLs. Today, thatsegment is mostly covered with traditional consumer loans provided by banks. Leanpay is able to disrupt the segment because it is regulated credit company with high competencies in providing in-dept credit analysis for its clients, preventing over-indebtedness and assuring Leanpay position as responsible lender. Leanpay has focus on markets in CEE region. | $10.8M / Series B / Jul 30, 2024 | ||
| Parkl is a digital platform, which integrates parking and e-mobility services in a single system and optimizes the utilization of these capacities. Parkl application connects these capacities with drivers, who can manage every process conveniently and cashless with their phone whether it is on-, or off-street parking or EV charging.OFF-STREETPARKING -Park easily with your mobile phone at Parkl partner car parks and manage the entire parking process from the comfort of your car, from opening the gate to payment!PUBLIC PARKING -Forget zone hunting and coin finding, Parkl makes street parking easier with automatic zone recognition and cashless payment!ELECTRIC CHARGING -Use the Parkl map to find the nearest electric charger to your location, then manage the whole process from charging to payment from your mobile.PARKL OFFICE -A digital parking solution that deals with all the parking challenges of an office building efficiently and helps achieve ESG goals, by providing full scale e-mobility services too.PARKL FLEET -Managing parking and charging for the entire company fleet in one app! | $4.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 22, 2024 | ||
| CloudTalk is the fastest-growing AI-powered calling solution and call center software for modern businesses. CloudTalk was founded in 2016 to help businesses connect seamlessly with customers over the phone and make customer experience the greatest competitive advantage for driving more revenues. | $28M / Series B / Jan 17, 2024 | ||
| ROKSH is a B2C grocery delivery marketplace that transforms everyday shopping into a fast, convenient, and personalized experience. Operating in Hungary and Austria, ROKSH enables users to order from over 200,000 products across top retailers like ALDI, PENNY, and METRO, all delivered the same or next day by personal shoppers. The platform offers aunique hybrid model—combining a decentralized logistics network using partner stores (not warehouses or dark stores) with real-time, human-driven customer service.ROKSH’s personal shoppers not only pick and deliver groceries but also communicate with customers about product substitutions or quality issues, ensuring a high-touch, high-quality experience. Backed by AI, ROKSH offers intelligent shopping list creation, recipe recommendations, and real-time chat support to streamline the online grocery journey. With 360K+ orders delivered and €10M+ in GMV, ROKSH is the market leader in the CEE region and is now scaling to new European markets, aiming to redefine grocery shopping with speed, trust, and personalization. | $2.6M / Seed / Oct 04, 2023 | ||
| Neuron Soundware is a deep tech startup in AI and IoT using audio analysis to detect broken machines.Neuron soundware develops a detection system that detects machine problems. By recording audio data via sensors and the subsequent automatic evaluation, failures or abnormal behaviors of machines are detected and production breakdowns areprevented.Neuron soundware was named “Idea of the Year 2016” in the Czech Republic for the combination of artificial intelligence and IoT (using acoustic sensors). Founded in 2016 by Pavel Konečný in Prague, the company received EUR 600,000 investment by J&T Ventures in 2017. In 2018, Neuron soundware was classified as a “Cool Vendor in Acoustic Technologies for Predictive Maintenance” by Gartner. And one year later the company closed Round A with EUR 5.75 milion investment from INVEN CAPITAL and LEAD VENTURES.We are proud to work with clients such as Airbus, Siemens, BMW, Skoda, MVV Energie, Bosch, LG or Daimler."We listen - so you can fix it before it breaks." | $6.2M / Sep 04, 2023 | ||
| See all 32 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Lead Ventures invest in?
Lead Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hungary. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Lead Ventures invest in?
Lead Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$11M at Seed, $1.4M–$5.9M at Series A and $4M–$90M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Lead Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Lead Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Lead Ventures?
The team at Lead Ventures includes Ádám Csuhai (Principal), Balázs Haszonics (CEO) and Brigitta Illés (CFO), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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