# Smart Future Lab

> Smart Future Lab is a VC fund in Budapest backing Energy and Hardware. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Sep 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Dec 2017
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Sep 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/26998559/
- Website: http://www.smartfuturelab.hu
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mvmsmartfuturelab/?fref=ts

Smart Future Lab is a VC fund in Budapest focused on Energy and Hardware. The Smart Future Lab helps startups through support contracts, which contain initial/seed investment and/or mentoring.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $106k–$162k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 1 | 25% |
| Hardware | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Automotive | 1 | 25% |
| Electronics | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hungary | 2 | 50% |
| United States | 2 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| István Márton | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/istv%C3%A1n-m%C3%A1rton |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Poizo | EDISON Light Up! competition winner. Innovative heating. | $149.5K | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2017 | https://www.poizo.co |
| Smart Charging Ltd. | Support the users of plugin electric cars to plan charging their electric cars in order to reduce anxiety coming from restricted range, support smart metering functions in order to enable to save time/and or charging cost. | $171.5K | Seed | Dec 05, 2017 | http://smartcharging.hu/ |
| Drone Technologies Inc. | Drone Stringing would enable open wire power line construction to be more efficient by using drone technology in the procedure of pulling the wires between two pylons, where there is an physical obstacle in-between them, such as roads, railways, other utilities, rivers…etc. The innovation focuses on putting together a complete technologicalsolution to substitute helicopters and other traditional technologies in wire pulling procedures with a more efficient solution. This new feature is supported by an advanced visual analysis tools combined with a powerful design and engineering support tool provided also by the drone technology. | $105.6K | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2017 | http://www.dronetechinc.com/ |
| Power-to-Gas Hungary | Founded in 2016, Power-to-Gas Hungary Kft. is an innovative technology start-up company aiming to develop commercially viable and disruptive solutions for utility-scale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse. Power-to-gas is an emerging technology, which is able to provide balancing services for the power grid by using the surpluselectricity to create bio-methane and feeding it back into the regular natural gas grid. Based on the great capacity of the natural gas grid and flexible controllability of power-to-gas, this technology provides a uniquely robust energy storage methodology, which also uses carbon dioxide as an input, contributing to the decarbonisation of the energy industry. | $162.4K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2016 | http://www.p2g.hu/ |

4 of 4 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Smart Future Lab invest in?

Smart Future Lab invests primarily in Energy, Hardware and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Hungary. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Smart Future Lab's check size?

Smart Future Lab typically joins rounds of $106k–$162k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Smart Future Lab participates in.

### How do I contact Smart Future Lab?

Public channels for Smart Future Lab include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Smart Future Lab?

The team at Smart Future Lab includes István Márton (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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