Today we turn our attention to Budapest. The Hungarian capital has been brimming with energy for some time and it shows in the quality and variety of the startups emerging from there.
Hungary has emerged as a notable innovation hub in Central and Eastern Europe, fostering a startup ecosystem that combines technical excellence with growing entrepreneurial ambition. With access to highly skilled talent, favourable operating economics, and founders increasingly focused on international markets, the country is generating companies that develop solutions to significant challenges across industries worldwide.
Presented in alphabetical order, we highlight 10 of the most promising Budapest-based startups founded from 2021 onwards that are making positive impacts not only in Hungary, but across Europe.
ABZ Innovation is a European AgTech company founded in 2021 focused on unmanned aerial systems (UAVs) for precision agriculture, particularly crop spraying and field monitoring. It emerged from engineering and robotics expertise aimed at addressing labour shortages and efficiency challenges in agriculture through drone-based automation.
The company sits in a growing European segment of agricultural UAV and precision spraying technology, alongside companies in France, Germany, and the Nordics that are also developing drone-based alternatives to traditional crop protection methods.
Having closed a €7 million round in January of this year, ABZ Innovation in order to scale production, speed up product development, and expand in key global markets.
Allonic is a robotics hardware company building a manufacturing platform to automate the design and production of complex robot bodies, especially soft, compliant, human-like ones. Their core idea is to replace slow, costly, multi-part assembly with a single automated process.
The startup, founded in 2021, has found itself in good company, being backed by the likes of OpenAI with €6 million in pre-Seed funding earlier this year. With their technology, multiple materials can be integrated into a single structure, enabling elastics, wiring and sensing elements to be embedded directly into robotic bodies during production.
This unlocks a new operating model for manufacturers, startups and researchers wherein robotic hands, arms and other manipulators can be designed, produced and replaced on demand, reducing downtime and eliminating lengthy maintenance cycles.
Axoflow is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2023 providing an autonomous security data layer for SecOps. In plain English, it automates security logs and telemetry so teams get cleaner, detection-ready data with less manual pipeline maintenance.
Their pitch is that this helps organisations improve threat detection and response, cut SIEM/storage costs, and avoid brittle regex/parser work. They also say their platform supports on-prem, cloud, Kubernetes, and air-gapped environments.
Founded in 2021, denxpert is a startup which provides software for EHS and ESG compliance management. In practice, it helps companies replace manual processes with a centralised platform for legal compliance, chemical and waste management, safety tasks, sustainability reporting, carbon footprint tracking, and CSRD-related workflows.
In doing so, the company aims to reduce risk and improve operational transparency. The company completed its latest funding round in 2024 and has raised over €900k.
Operating in the growing market for AI-driven software modernisation tools, Kodesage addresses a major challenge facing enterprises burdened by ageing, poorly documented, and business-critical software.
After successfully closing a pre-Seed round of €2.3 million in early 2025, the company more recently secured €5.67 million to support European and U.S. expansion.
Proofminder is an AgriTech startup developing a leaf-level crop monitoring platform that uses AI, drone imagery, and visual data to give growers more precise insights into plant health. Founded in 2021, the company collaborates with global seed producers, food companies and agronomy teams to identify risks, standardise decisions and protect crop quality at scale.
Citing the rising costs of agriculture, in addition to climate challenges and labour shortages, Proofminder says growers need smarter tools to stay competitive. Their AI-powered platform processes ultra-high-resolution imagery from drones and cameras to deliver real-time insights like weed detection, yield forecasting, stand counts, weather and wildlife damage, precision spraying maps, and more.
With a total €410k in funding so far, aims to scale its AI-powered farming platform.
Qneiform is a talent data platform building tools and infrastructure for AI-native systems. Founded in 2022, the company focuses on how intelligent agents, models, and applications are deployed and integrated within enterprise environments. Its work sits in the broader AI infrastructure layer, aimed at improving how modern AI systems are structured and operated at scale.
In practice, it’s used to find the best next hire faster, spot talent gaps, track competitor activity, and forecast departures or succession needs.
Redmenta is an AI-powered education platform that helps teachers create, evaluate, track, and personalise learning activities in one place. Founded in 2022, they focus on adaptive and personalised education, with tools for worksheets, assessments, competency tracking, and feedback that support both digital and paper-based classrooms.
By automatically grading work, creating curriculum-aligned tests, and tracking student progress based on specific skills and competencies rather than just percentages, the platform saves teachers time. The platform integrates with major learning management systems and complies with GDPR, allowing students to use it without mandatory registration.
Founded in 2025, ClimateTech startup Resoloon is a high-altitude balloon platform for Earth observation and monitoring. It uses stratospheric balloons and optical sensors to provide high-resolution imagery and change detection over large areas, aiming to give near-drone-level detail with satellite-scale coverage at lower cost.
The balloons use proprietary AI to forecast winds across 15 layers of the atmosphere, navigate with high precision, and stream real-time data-unlocking applications in critical infrastructure monitoring, disaster response, national security, and beyond.
In February of this year, the company secured €550k in pre-Seed funding to refine their product and use-cases.
Riptides is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2025 developing an identity-based security platform for machine-to-machine communication and AI-driven workloads. The company focuses on replacing static credentials with short-lived, verifiable workload identities.
Riptides offers a unified identity layer that automatically issues and rotates identities, enabling secure authentication and encrypted communication across services, infrastructure, and AI agents. By enforcing identity at the OS level and integrating with standards like SPIFFE and cloud-native environments, the platform reduces credential sprawl and boosts visibility in distributed systems.
To date, the company has raised over €2.7 million ahead of its broader market rollout.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/budapests-brightest-10-hungarian-startups-making-us-take-notice/
