69 Budapest Startups to Watch (and Work for) in 2023
Europe's entrepreneurial landscape continues its upward trajectory. Amidst this backdrop, Budapest stands out, having witnessed remarkable activity in its startup ecosystem over the past years.
In 2022, Budapest startups raised $160 Million in capital (after raising $150 Million in 2021). So far this year, they've raised $21 Million, reflecting the growing investor confidence in the region.
This list features the top Budapest startups of 2023 — updated as of October. It includes companies like Turbine, VRG Therapeutics and AImotive, covering all sectors and business models. We update it monthly by tracking all startup activity in our database of 17,000 technology companies in Europe and sort companies dynamically using our Seedtable score, ensuring objectivity. Whether you're an experienced investor, a determined founder, or a resourceful operator this list of top 69 tech startups is worth exploring.
Changelog
Last update: November 2, 2023. Updated the Investor Score. See changelog .
Rankings are calculated using our Seedtable score – a 1 to 100 score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points (examples are money raised or employees over time) to signal the momentum behind a company. A score closer to 100 indicates a company worth watching closely.
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Platform to understand the inner mechanisms of cancer enabling the discovery of novel therapies.
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Latest Funding
$6 Million · Series A
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Employees
11 to 50
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Investors
Accel, MassMutual Ventures, Day One Capital, Atlantic Labs
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Business Model
B2B
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Industries
Health Tech, Biotech
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Locations
Budapest
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Contact
•••••@turbine.ai
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64Featured
Biotech R&D specializing in miniprotein-based pharmaceuticals and cellular & gene therapy (CGT) products
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Latest Funding
$5.5 Million · Series A
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Employees
11 to 50
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Investors
Széchenyi Capital Fund Management
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Industries
Biotech, Pharma
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Locations
Budapest
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Contact
•••••@vrgtherapeutics.com
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54Featured
Developer of AI-driven automated technology.
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Latest Funding
$20 Million · Series C
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Employees
101 to 250
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Investors
Draper Associates, Inventure, Prime Ventures
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Industries
Hardware, AI, Mobility & Transportation, Manufacturing
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Locations
Budapest
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Contact
•••••@aimotive.com
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Latest Funding
$94 Million · Series B
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Industries
Fintech, Privacy and Security
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
101 to 250
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Investors
Creandum
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Contact
•••••@seon.io
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50Conversational generative AI technology.
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Latest Funding
$2.2 Million · Series A
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Industries
AI, Ecommerce
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
51 to 200
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Investors
Euroventures
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Contact
•••••@prefixbox.com
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50Shapr3D is taking CAD to the 21st century.
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Latest Funding
$6 Million · Series A
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Industries
Proptech & Real Estate, Mobile, Manufacturing
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
51 to 100
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Investors
Creandum, Point Nine Capital, Lifeline Ventures
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Contact
•••••@shapr3d.com
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50Mobile DevOps platform.
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Latest Funding
$60 Million · Series C
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Industries
Mobile, Developer Tools
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
101 to 250
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Investors
Insight Venture Partners, Partech Ventures, Fiedler Capital, Y Combinator, OpenOcean
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Contact
•••••@bitrise.io
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39Property audits platform.
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Latest Funding
$1.1 Million · Seed
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Industries
Proptech & Real Estate
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Business Model
B2B
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Investors
Hiventures
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Contact
•••••@access4you.io
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39Document platform for teams.
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Latest Funding
$12 Million · Series B
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Industries
Enterprise Software, Productivity Tools
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Investors
Creandum
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Contact
•••••@craft.do
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37Doctor24 is a provider of occupational and outpatient medical services.
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Latest Funding
$48 Million
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Industries
Health Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
101 to 250
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Contact
•••••@doktor24.hu
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34Enabling companies to operate EV fleets easily and cost-efficiently
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Latest Funding
$1.3 Million
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Industries
Travel Tech, Mobility & Transportation, Energy & Nuclear, Business Intelligence
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Investors
Day One Capital, Techstars
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Contact
•••••@volteum.io
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25Webshippy is an order fulfillment company that helps e-commerce companies and online store owners to build scalable businesses.
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Latest Funding
$3.1 Million · Series A
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@webshippy.com
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25Chameleon is the future's smarthome system that fits to every households with a reasonable price.
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Latest Funding
$2.1 Million · Series A
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Industries
Hardware, Manufacturing
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@chameleon-smarthome.com
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25AerinX is an innovative aircraft inspection system, a smart technology that helps in reducing inspection time.
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Latest Funding
$2.3 Million · Seed
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Industries
AR / VR, Mobility & Transportation, Manufacturing
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Contact
•••••@aerinx.com
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21We believe you should sell more with your ecommerce store
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Latest Funding
$3.5 Million
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Industries
Sales and Marketing, Business Intelligence, Ecommerce
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Business Model
B2B, SAAS
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Contact
•••••@recart.com
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18Blue Colibri put the whole employee lifecycle in the pocket of employees with mobile platform which supports internal communication.
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Latest Funding
$740 Thousand · Seed
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Industries
Hiring and Recruitement
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@bluecolibriapp.com
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18Online experince service delivering sweets and associated products with refrigerated vehicles
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Latest Funding
$1.1 Million · Seed
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Industries
Foodtech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Contact
•••••@edesvaros.hu
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18International franchise network teaching kids programming
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Latest Funding
$980 Thousand · Series A
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Industries
Edtech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
51 to 100
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Contact
•••••@logiscool.com
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18BOOKR Kids inspires a love of reading whilst boosting literacy, social-emotional and cognitive skills through interactive e-books.
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Latest Funding
$1.2 Million · Seed
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Industries
Edtech, Publishing
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Contact
•••••@corp.bookrkids.com
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18Interactive, job-relevant security training with real-life security labs to increase the security skills of development teams
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Latest Funding
$1.3 Million
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Industries
AI
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Contact
•••••@avatao.com
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18DLC.link enables developers to use native Bitcoin in their DeFi applications
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Latest Funding
$1.1 Million · Pre Seed
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Industries
Crypto & web3
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@dlc.link
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18Briefly is the all-in-one toolkit for working with freelancers. A freelancer team management tool with unlimited talent pool.
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Latest Funding
$600 Thousand · Pre Seed
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Industries
Hiring and Recruitement
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@briefly.work
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18Crypto Robo Adviory
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Latest Funding
$390 Thousand · Pre Seed
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Industries
Fintech, Crypto & web3
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@moonbit.ai
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18Automating checkout process at self-service restaurants with robotic vision
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Latest Funding
$1.7 Million · Seed
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Industries
AI
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@deligovision.com
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18RealMonitor is a web application supporting real estate agencies.
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Latest Funding
$1.2 Million · Series A
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Industries
Proptech & Real Estate
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@realmonitor.hu
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12Rendi is an online platform for home cleaning services.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@rendi.hu
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12Balabit, a One Identity business, is a leading provider of Privileged Access Management and Log Management solutions.
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Industries
Privacy and Security
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
101 to 250
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Contact
•••••@career.balabit.com
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12Barion Payment provides electronic payment solutions and serves as an electronic wallet.
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Industries
Fintech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@barion.com
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12Lyme Diagnostics offers reliable, standard diagnostic system for diagnosing Lyme borreliosis.
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Industries
Health Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Contact
•••••@lymediagnostics.com
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12Flexible office provider
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Industries
Proptech & Real Estate
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
101 to 250
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Contact
•••••@newworkoffices.com
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12AquaJet Ltd. has been established to exploit a technology for recycling truck and bus tires that have reached the end of their useful life.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@aquajet.hu
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12Artklikk is a research and development company focusing on applied research and product development in mobile telephony.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@artklikk.com
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12Bankmonitor Kft. is a provider of financial services.
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Industries
Fintech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@bankmonitor.hu
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12CloudAgents provides multilingual customer support services with at-home agents worldwide.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
251 to 500
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•••••@cloudagents.com
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12Gravity R&D provides recommendations solutions that enable businesses to deliver better user experiences.
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Industries
Data and Analytics
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@yusp.com
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12HandInScan commercializes a hand hygiene system named Hand in Scan for direct and objective evaluation and control of hand washing.
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Industries
Health Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@handinscan.com
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12Maven7 integrates the latest results of Network Science and Data Mining into its business applications and services.
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Industries
Data and Analytics
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@maven7.com
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12MaxWhere is a software company that provides a 3D virtual platform for browsing, learning, and presentation.
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Industries
AR / VR
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@maxwhere.com
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12Neticle Enterprise Text Analytics - We automate business with our low-code text data and AI platform
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Industries
Data and Analytics, Sales and Marketing
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@neticle.com
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12NowTechnologies turns electric wheelchair control systems into a multipurpose, modular onboard platform.
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Industries
Health Tech, Hardware
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@nowtech.hu
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12Pocketguide is a mobile service that offers audio tours with voice navigation for cultural cities in Europe.
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Industries
Mobile
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@pocketgui.de
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12zLense offers 3d scanning technology.
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Industries
AI
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@zlense.com
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12Sell more and give less with a gamified sales chatbot
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@alkubot.com
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12BIX Index increases accountability and transparency, reducing risk and increasing efficiency.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@bixindex.hu
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12Campsule ptovides a weatherproof, compact and easily installable accommodation.
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Industries
Travel Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@campsule.com
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12Machine learning powered response recommendation engine for chat agents
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Industries
AI
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@chatler.ai
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12Digitalized on demand, eco-friendly car washer.
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Industries
Climate Tech & Green Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Contact
•••••@cleango.hu
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12Creating an automated office using robotic process automation (RPA)
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Industries
Hardware
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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Contact
•••••@cloudstorm.io
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12CodeBerry Programming School offers computer programming courses online.
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Industries
Edtech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@codeberryschool.com
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12Codie is dedicated to inspire the next generation through teaching creative coding.
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Industries
Hardware, CPG & Consumer Goods
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@getcodie.com
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12Compocity provides a gamified sustainability serive for companies who would like to transform their food leftovers into value.
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Industries
AI
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@compocity.help
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12CraftUnique is a Hungary-based company that primarily works to develop both 3D printing software and hardware.
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Industries
Hardware, Creative Tools
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@craftunique.com
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12DentistRobot Kft develops a robotized system for tooth reshaping by using custom CAD software and robotic arm for dentists.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@dentistrobot.com
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12AI based Diabetes management app with blood glucose precition
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@diabtrend.com
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12DreamJo.bs help you to really see the company you are applying for and to find a job that you will love!
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@dreamjo.bs
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12Cardiovascular Remote Patient Monitoring with pulsewave analysis - in the field of pregnancy, chronic cardiovascular diseases, lifestyle change and research.
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Industries
Health Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@emed4all.com
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12Data and document certification on blockchain
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Industries
Crypto & web3
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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Contact
•••••@everprove.com
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12sensors and deep neural network based software
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Industries
Health Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@evoaid.com
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12Falcon-Vision develops industrial image processing solutions.
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Industries
Manufacturing
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@falcon-vision.com
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12Design-driven mobile banking apps for banks with a special focus on younger customers including boxed solutions and E2E product development.
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Industries
Edtech, Data and Analytics
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@familyfinances.hu
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12Fitpuli makes workplace prevention more effective by opening a new dimension in digital healthcare.
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Industries
Health Tech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@fitpuli.hu
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12The easy and fast way to solve any problem around your life. fix24.hu is a service provider, service search website.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@fix24.hu
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12Flight Refund assists air passengers to enforce claims against airlines for delayed or cancelled flights.
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Industries
Fintech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
11 to 50
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•••••@flight-refund.eu
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12Videogame developer and publisher based in Europe.
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Industries
Gaming
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
101 to 250
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•••••@gaijinent.com
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12GRAPHISOFT is the developer of ARCHICAD, a leading BIM software application used all over the world.
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
251 to 500
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•••••@graphisoft.com
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12An ethical hacking platform, which helps the companies to reduce cybersecurity risks by using the power of a global hacker community.
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Industries
Cybersecurity
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@hckrt.com
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12HubScience offers hybrid solution that boosts the human literature reading by combining of manual curation with the speed of AI.
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Industries
AI
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
1 to 10
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•••••@hubscience.com
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12Ice Shot is a food & beverages company that makes & sells alcoholic ice creams & also offers special non-alcoholic ice creams.
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Industries
Foodtech
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Locations
Budapest
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Employees
51 to 100
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•••••@iceshot.hu
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12IFEX Tűzvédelmi develops and manufactures firefighting technology patents, the pulse quick fix and instant foam extinguishing systems.
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Locations
Budapest
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•••••@ifexkft.hu
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