Best FinTech Companies in Hungary
The 95 best FinTech companies in Hungary in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: PastPay.
Hungary's FinTech scene doesn't get the coverage it deserves, but this directory ranks the best FinTech companies in Hungary by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum — 95 tracked, $29M in total disclosed capital. The global market sits at roughly $113.4B in 2025 and is forecast to reach $461.6B by 2034 at a 17.21% CAGR, and even if Hungary's slice looks modest against that, the demand drivers are identical: PSD2's SCA requirement, OEM-Pay adoption, and the platform banking shift that's pulling traditional lenders toward cloud-native infrastructure. PastPay leads the local pack at $13M raised, with Barion close behind at $10M. So you're looking at two companies accounting for nearly 80% of all tracked funding in the country.
What does that concentration tell you? Honestly, it tells me the ecosystem is early but directional. Hiventures and the OTP Startup Partner Program are the most active backers here, which means state-adjacent capital is doing the heavy lifting while private deal flow builds. Globally, consolidation is accelerating fast, with PB Fintech moving to acquire MyLoanCare and stack up account aggregation capabilities — exactly the kind of platform banking move that signals where the next cycle is heading. Hungary's founders watching that playbook would do well to position early on data aggregation and next-gen banking rails before the window tightens.
- Statista
Our analysis of 1,006 FinTech companies
$195.5b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Hungary
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PastPay Provider offering payment solutions for e-commerce merchants | $13M | 21 mo ago | Series A | Benjamin Berenyi Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | WebflowSentryAmazon ALB+21 | 1 launch |
| 2 | Barion Wallet and gateway service. | $10M | 72 mo ago | Series B | Tamas Biro Co-Founder | 2013 | Builder.ioApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+24 | 1 expansion |
| 3 | Cellum Provider of mobile payment solutions and secure transaction platforms | $2M | 177 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 2000 | — | — |
| 4 | Hellocristo.hu Online usage-based auto insurance platform for individuals | $1M | 71 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — |
| 5 | TrustChain Digital onboarding & contracting solutions provider | $870K | 76 mo ago | Deadpooled | Gergely Romhany CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | Peniech Solutions Online marketplace for invoice factoring | $839K | 69 mo ago | Seed | Benjamin Berenyi Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | — |
| 7 | Brickflow Personal loan comparison platform | $335K | 60 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | HubSpot CMS HubBootstrapcore-js+19 | 3 partnerships |
| 8 | Complytron Artificial intelligence based financial fraud prevention solution provider | $275K | 72 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 9 | Biosec group Manufacturer of multi-modal biometric authentication systems | $253K | 117 mo ago | Funding Raised | Peter Gyorgydeak CEO | 2012 | — | — |
Top 12 FinTech companies in Hungary
#1
Series A · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2019$13.3Mraised▾
Provider offering payment solutions for e-commerce merchants. The platforms provides solution which allows B2B customers to handles payment-related tasks such as overcome payment constraints, reduces outstanding receivables, and more.
- Sep 2024Series A$13.3M
#2
Series B · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2013 · 49 employees$10.2Mraised▾
Barion is a wallet and payment gateway service provider, which allows users to register, and save their payment details while allows merchants to accept payments via Barion. The gateway service is an API that can be integrated with the website. Payment acceptance by Barion allows merchants to even accept cards as well. The service is available online and offline (at POS) as well.
#3
Seed · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2016 · 9 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Cristo is an online usage-based auto insurance platform for individuals. It provides insurance coverage for breakage, theft, battery damage, and broken glass. It offers claims processing services through the app. Their app is available for Android & iOS devices.
- Jun 2020Seed$1.3M
#4
Seed · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2018 · 12 employees$839Kraised▾
Developer of a digital factoring platform designed to digitize and facilitate the company's financial management and financing processes. The company's platform offers online administration with effective terms, bank loans, receivable management, and financial advice, it offers flexible payment terms to business buyers while receiving payments instantly, enabling businesses to obtain reliable and quick financing, drive e-commerce revenues, and reduce associated buyer risks at their own convenience.
#5
Deadpooled · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2017 · 6 employees$869.5Kraised▾
Developer of a digital contracting platform designed to build a reliable business community. The company's platform transforms non-digital, external business activities into digital, automated internal processes, enabling clients to offer cost-effective, future-proof user authentication and digital smart contracts.
#6
Late Stage · Szeged, Csongrad County · founded 2000 · 18 employees$2Mraised▾
Provider of mobile payment solutions and secure transaction platforms. It offers a secure transaction platform supporting various funding sources and major mobile platforms, available for white-label use. The platform facilitates diverse payment methods including QR code-based transactions, online checkouts, peer-to-peer transfers, and in-person payments. Solutions are designed for various sectors, such as transportation, commerce, and fundraising. The company also provides SoftPOS technology enabling contactless payments via smartphones.
#7
Seed · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2012 · 23 employees$335Kraised▾
Brickflow provides a personal loan comparison platform. It compares loans from various lenders. It offers real-time tracking of applications. It calculates development finance by loan to gross development value, loan to cost, client equity contribution, and day one land constraint. It ranks the loan according to the price order.
#8
Acquired · Racalmas, Fejer · founded 2019 · 4 employees$275Kraised▾
Artificial intelligence based financial fraud prevention solution provider. It provides an AI-driven tool that provides AML and KYC screening on any entity based on its website codes. The features include automated background checks, real-time checks against sanctions data drawn from multiple sources, data extraction, etc.
#9
Funding Raised · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2012$253.4Kraised▾
Manufacturer of multi-modal biometric authentication systems
- Sep 2016Grant (prize money)$253.4K
#10
Seed · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2016 · 9 employees—raised▾
Online tax filing platform for businesses. It features services for VAT calculation, deadline management, threshold calculator, automated data extraction, and more. It also offers different subscription plans.
#11
Funding Raised · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2017—raised▾
Developer of a crypto relational database software designed to secure data with immutable certification and sure state. The company's technology provides relational blockchain, optimizes resources, facilitates 0.2 seconds fund transfer, unlimited scalability system and proof of integrity and offers security in access and funds transfers with biometric inputs and recovery nodes physical server allocation, enabling financial institutions, public and government bodies, industries and private individuals to create synergies among cryptocurrencies and to adapt to their specific needs, splitting and rejoining itself.
#12
Deadpooled · Budapest, Budapest Fovaros · founded 2017—raised▾
Parking payment & access control solution
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of FinTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Fintech is moving in Hungary
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 60 Hungary-affiliated papers.
- Financial Research13
- Széchenyi István University10
- Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem10
- University of Debrecen7
- Corvinus University of Budapest7
- Interpretability1
- Adaptability1
- Financial services1
- Boosting (machine learning)1
- Artifact (error)1
- Financial services14
- Financial inclusion10
- Financial literacy4
- Payment4
- Inclusion (mineral)4
- Financial services1→7
Where fintech is researched across Hungary
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.