# MKB Fintechlab

> MKB Fintechlab is a VC fund in Budapest backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Oct 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janospereczes
- Website: http://www.fintechlab.hu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mkbfintechlab

MKB Fintechlab is a Budapest-based startup accelerator backed by MKB Bank. Our 12-week acceleration program is focused on bringing fintech startups to the next level and bringing them commercial partnerships with MKB Bank. Besides workshops, mentoring, workspace and tons of door openings, the accelerator provides a sandbox which is an API platformfor startups to access MKB Bank’s development and testing environment.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 4 | 67% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 67% |
| Payments | 2 | 33% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| PaaS | 1 | 17% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hungary | 4 | 67% |
| Poland | 1 | 17% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Janos Pereczes | Founder, Managing Director | 0 | — |
| Mary Alcantara | Head of Startups | 1 | — |
| Norbert Gaal | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norbert-gaal |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PastPay | Péntech is an invoice financing start-up enabling SMEs to increase their liquidity at the ease of clicking a button. | $121K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |
| PastPay | PastPay is a FinTech startup that provides B2B payment solutions. The company's Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services enable flexible payment terms for business transactions, enhancing liquidity for small and medium enterprises across the European Union. | $120.3K | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2019 |  |
| PastPay | PastPay is a FinTech startup that provides B2B payment solutions. The company's Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services enable flexible payment terms for business transactions, enhancing liquidity for small and medium enterprises across the European Union. | $66.9K | Pre-Seed | Apr 26, 2019 |  |
| ff.next (previously Family Finances) | ff.next offers design-driven mobile banking solutions for financial innovators with a special focus on younger customers, including off-the-shelf, boxed solutions that are all easy-to-customise, design-driven and white-label as well as an end-to-end service from UX research, through UX/UI design to implementation. These solutions enable banksand fintech companies to engage younger generations, Millennials & GenZ customers with design-oriented digital interfaces.The company has two flagship products called Flint and RocketMoney.Flint is a mobile-first, end-to-end remote lending solution, which is capable of executing credit scoring through a mobile platform, therefore loan application can take only 20 minutes. The solution uses public registers, therefore most of the user data is automatically filled in and its cleanliness is also guaranteed. RocketMoney is a family banking solution we offer together with GoSave, a Californian fintech startup. We together cover the whole youth banking lifecycle by serving the 6-12 years old with a next generation piggy bank and the 12-18 years old with an allowance management application helping youngsters manage, save and also make money in a smart way. Our vision is to conquer the youth banking space with our GoSave and provide financial innovators with the right solutions to increase financial consciousness and literacy. | $12K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| FintechBlocks | FintechBlocks is a banking innovation platform which enables banks to integrate with fintechs in a faster, easier and cheaper way. |  | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| bNesis | bNesis sets up a hub on credit institution’s premises that allows data transfer from multiple data sources (payment, eCommerce, social media, credit bureau and banking systems) to different, external and internal scoring engines. Risk department can test external scoring engines on the top of the current ones and choose the best, based on theactual results. Thus, will improve the accuracy and make the credit process automated and convenientbNesis combines multiple payment, eCommerce, credit bureau, scoring, social media and banking systems with all their functionality into a single solution, using their APIs. Instead of connecting necessary systems separately, wasting a lot of time and money on each of them, our customers need to connect bNesis only. In result, they will save time and money on integrations and their support. With bNesis, banks get ready to use credit application platform. Any borrower (including enterprises) can easily apply for a credit online in several clicks. At the website or in the app of the bank, the borrower gives the consent to analyze his expenses, income or any other data by just simple typing his login and password. Data from accounts in other banks, eCommerce platforms, social media, credit bureau and payment systems will be analyzed by multiple scoring engines. Credit decision will be made in minutes and automatically. Choosing the best scoring systems and providing them with an access to multiple sources of data with accurate metrics, increases the credit scoring accuracy rate. The bank will have less bad debts, will simplify the whole credit application process and will make it more convenient. Thus, bank will generate better interest margin and income | $439K | Seed | Dec 14, 2017 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [365.fintech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/365-fintech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nestholma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nestholma) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [bValue Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bvalue-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [SpeedUp Venture Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedup-venture-capital-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does MKB Fintechlab invest in?

MKB Fintechlab invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Payments startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hungary. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact MKB Fintechlab?

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### Who are the partners at MKB Fintechlab?

The team at MKB Fintechlab includes Janos Pereczes (Founder, Managing Director), Mary Alcantara (Head of Startups) and Norbert Gaal (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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