# Startup & founder events in Budapest

Curated by [foundercal.com](https://foundercal.com/). Only events worth a founder's time: conferences, demo days, founder dinners, meetups and workshops. Generic networking filler is filtered out. Updated daily.

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4 upcoming events as of 1 September 2026.

## HVCA Equity Thursday: AI Reshaping Venture Capital Decision-Making

- Date: Thursday 10 September 2026, 18:00 (Europe/Budapest)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: Bródy Sándor utca 10, 1088 Budapest
- Organizer: [Hungarian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HVCA)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/hungarian-venture-capital-and-private-equity-association-hvca)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/hvca-equity-thursday-ai-reshaping-venture-capital-decision-making-2026-09-10
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9082?p=md

Equity Thursday is the monthly evening where Hungary's venture capital and private equity community shows up, and the association puts founders in the room on purpose. This edition, hosted with LEAD Capital, walks through a real AI-native investment workflow: where AI already sources and screens…

## Budapest Webflow Meetup #2: MCP Workflows & Custom Webflow Builds

- Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 18:00 (Europe/Budapest)
- Type: Workshop
- Venue: KAPTÁR coworking - közösségi iroda, tárgyaló bérlés, workshop helyszín, Budapest, Révay köz 4, 1065 Hungary
- Organizer: Personal
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/budapest-webflow-meetup-2-mcp-workflows-and-custom-webflow-builds-FOAAcJKY3F1d6AE
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9669?p=md

🗣️ Language: Hungarian (the presentations and discussions will be held in Hungarian) Join us for the second Budapest Webflow Meetup, an evening focused on MCP workflows, AI-assisted Webflow operations, and custom development beyond Webflow’s native capabilities. As MCP becomes increasingly…

## ScaleupFest 2026

- Date: 16 September 2026 – 17 September 2026
- Type: Conference
- Organizer: [ScaleupFest](https://foundercal.com/organizers/scaleupfest)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/scaleupfest-2026-2026-09-16
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9081?p=md

Around 250 CEE and SEE scaleup founders, C-level operators and investors, most of them invited, across several downtown Budapest venues for two days. The agenda is unusually concrete for a regional conference: winning enterprise customers from CEE, whether to flip to the US or UK, cross-border tax…

## Compass AI & Tech Summit 2026

- Date: 1 October 2026 – 2 October 2026
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Eiffel Art Studios, Kőbányai út 30, 1101 Budapest
- Organizer: [CraftHub](https://foundercal.com/organizers/crafthub)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/compass-ai-and-tech-summit-2026-2026-10-01
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9083?p=md

CraftHub, the team behind Craft Conference, runs its autumn summit inside the Eiffel Art Studios, a 19th-century locomotive hall now used by the Hungarian State Opera. Roughly 1,300 people and 70+ speakers across five tracks: AI and ML, product, data, engineering leadership and UX, with…