Yesterday’s product meetup was all about AI, product discovery and building tools people actually use. Boróka Kupper (Docplanner) showed how personalisation in AI products like Noa Notes makes testing and measuring quality harder, and why understanding your users matters more than ever. Gergő Horányi (Wise) cut through the AI hype and walked us through how Wise uses AI to solve real problems for more than 15 million customers, from discovery all the way to delivery. Thank you to our speakers and our amazing community!

Our November edition asked a big question: what can the state actually do for Hungarian startups? Tamas Kadar (co-founder & CEO, SEON) and Györkő Zoltán (President, Startup Hungary, ex-Balabit) took the stage to talk about the policy decisions that shape where companies get built. We covered a lot of ground. We started with the wealth tax and our amendment packages now in Parliament, then moved to flipping and why most Hungarian startups past Series A end up with a US or UK holding. We also looked at what’s at stake for VC-backed companies in the EU Inc negotiations.

The Frontier Fellowship kickoff brought together researchers, engineers, and aspiring founders at Turbine HQ for an evening exploring the journey from scientific research to building a global TechBio company. Turbine’s founders Szabolcs Nagy, Daniel Veres, and Kristóf Szalay joined Ramzi Rizk from Work In Progress Capital to share their different paths into entrepreneurship and the challenges of building a venture-scale startup. The evening continued with four expert tables covering TechBio trends, founding team dynamics, the transition from academia to entrepreneurship, and product thinking for hardware and medtech, with the latter led by Gergő Bagaméry from Mediso. The event marked the launch of Startup Hungary’s Frontier Fellowship initiative.