Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Person Adel Al-Saleh is the CEO of SES Satellites, one of the world's largest satellite operators headquartered in Luxembourg with a fleet spanning geostationary and medium Earth orbit. He also serves as Vice-Chair of the Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA), giving him a prominent role in shaping global satellite industry policy and regulatory affairs. Al-Saleh has led SES through major strategic initiatives including the O3b mPOWER medium Earth orbit constellation expansion and the high-profile C-band spectrum clearing in the United States. He is a widely recognized executive voice in the global space and telecommunications sector.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Event One-week fast-track bootcamp at the LHoFT for 10 selected green fintech firms, co-facilitated with LSFI. Participants pitch to investors, meet sustainable finance decision-makers and join the annual LSFI Summit.
Wickrange, Luxembourg · Event A deep-tech summit powered by Technoport that brings together Europe’s lab-to-market actors, including research institutions, technology-transfer offices, funding partners and entrepreneurs, to co-create structured deep-tech pathways. The invitation-only event features pre-arranged one-to-one matchmaking, an exhibition showcase and a demo zone of breakthrough technologies.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Doctena is a Luxembourg-based healthtech platform that enables patients to book medical appointments online across multiple European countries. The system connects patients with doctors, dentists, and specialists through a unified booking interface while providing healthcare practitioners with schedule management, patient communication, and practice administration tools. Operating across Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria, Doctena has become one of the leading medical appointment platforms in the Benelux region and a key example of how healthtech can scale across fragmented European healthcare systems.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based digital platform for company incorporation and accounting. Enables entrepreneurs to register a SARL or SARL-S 100% online in five days with no paperwork, paired with a smart accounting dashboard for VAT tracking, invoicing, and expense management from €90/month. Designed by Luxembourg fiduciary professionals.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based AI company specialising in neural network compression and optimisation for autonomous driving and computer vision applications. Its technology maintains model accuracy while dramatically reducing power consumption and inference costs, enabling deployment of advanced AI on edge devices in vehicles and robotics.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Venture Capital Expon Capital is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alain Rodermann, Jérôme Wittamer, Lily Wang, and Marc Gendebien. The firm has deployed over €90 million across 33 companies in 14 countries through successive Digital Tech Funds, with Fund IV planned for 2026. It backs seed and early-stage tech startups across cybersecurity, fintech, regtech, digital health, and edtech, with a particular focus on Luxembourg-origin companies. Notable portfolio successes include Salonkee, which grew to 250+ employees and raised a €28 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital after Expon's initial investment.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event The fifth-anniversary edition of LHoFT’s flagship recruitment and networking fair at LuxExpo The Box, connecting students, graduates and professionals with leading fintech and finance employers. The fair gathers thousands of attendees and recruiters around careers in finance, fintech, AI, data, blockchain and digital transformation, with company pitches, keynotes and talks.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based social-impact startup using AI and positive psychology to build youth mental resilience. Its tools are designed for schools, families, and public health agencies to provide preventive mental-health education for children. Named among the Global Top 30 AI Impact Solutions at the AI Impact Summit 2026. Founded by Luanna Eroles.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Event Cross-border healthcare conference and trade show organised by the Federation of Luxembourg Hospitals at Luxexpo The Box. Brings together hospital leaders, IT and HR directors, healthtech startups and researchers around digital health, innovation and patient experience.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Innovation Hub A 6,000 m² campus in Luxembourg City's station district that federates the country's main incubators, accelerators, and startup support organisations under one roof. Opened in June 2018, it hosts between 150 and 200 startups and is home to Luxembourg-City Incubator, LHoFT, Le Village by CA, and the International Climate Finance Accelerator. Backed by the City of Luxembourg and Chamber of Commerce.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event Luxembourg's largest tech conference held at the European Convention Center, attracting 5,000+ attendees from the fintech, space tech, and cybersecurity sectors. Strong institutional presence from EU bodies and Luxembourg's financial regulators. Features a startup pitch zone and investor meetings. Tickets from EUR 200.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Accelerator A public-private partnership created in May 2018 by Luxembourg's Ministry of Finance, Ministry of the Environment, and twelve private financial sector entities. The ICFA supports emerging fund managers focused on innovative climate finance investment strategies, providing coaching, training, and financial support to help them reach scale. It selects cohorts annually and expanded in 2024 to also include a parallel International Social Finance Accelerator track.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Job Today is a Luxembourg-registered mobile-first hiring platform focused on the hourly-and-service segment of the labor market — retail, hospitality, warehouses, logistics, beauty, care — where traditional job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed have always been an awkward fit. The product lets candidates build a one-tap profile, browse open roles around their location, and chat directly with employers inside the app, effectively turning the recruiting process into a messaging experience closer to Tinder or WhatsApp than a legacy ATS. Founded by Polina Montano and Eugene Mizin in 2015, the company raised over USD 35 million from investors including Accel and Mangrove Capital Partners and operates primarily in the UK and Spain. Job Today is one of the more visible consumer-facing tech companies headquartered out of Luxembourg and a useful example of how the country's legal and corporate infrastructure attracts startups far beyond pure finance.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Kneip is a Luxembourg-founded investment-data and fund-reporting company that sits in the plumbing between asset managers, fund domiciles, and the distribution channels (banks, platforms, regulators) where funds are actually sold. For decades it has been one of the largest providers of European fund data dissemination, handling NAVs, KIIDs/PRIIPs KIDs, MiFID II data templates, and regulatory reporting packages for hundreds of asset managers — unglamorous but absolutely load-bearing infrastructure for the EUR 5-trillion-plus Luxembourg fund industry. In 2022 Kneip was acquired by Deutsche Börse and integrated into the group's data-services business, effectively turning a Luxembourg-grown fund-tech operator into part of a top-tier European exchange's data franchise. It is a clean example of how Luxembourg's tax and legal specialization in funds translates into globally relevant software companies that outsiders rarely hear about.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Accelerator A startup accelerator backed by five Crédit Agricole entities present in Luxembourg (Caceis, Amundi, CA Indosuez, Cali Europe, and Camca Assurance), part of the global Village by CA network active since 2014. Based at the House of Startups, it targets growth-stage startups seeking access to the Crédit Agricole financial group network, expert mentoring, and co-development with large corporate partners.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup A University of Luxembourg spinoff founded in 2016 by researchers Pouyan Ziafati and Aida Nazarikhorram. LuxAI develops the QTrobot, a 60 cm humanoid social robot designed to support therapists and educators working with children who have autism or special educational needs. The robot is assembled in Luxembourg and sold in over 25 countries across Europe, Asia, and North America.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Event Two-day governance, risk and compliance summit at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, powered by NC3. The 2026 edition centres on cyber governance in the age of AI, covering sovereign AI, European Data Spaces and post-quantum cryptography.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event Organisator The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT) is the national fintech platform connecting startups, financial institutions, investors and public bodies. It organises events such as Fintech Recruits, a flagship recruitment and networking fair connecting students, graduates and professionals with fintech and finance employers.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event Annual conference organized by LU-CIX (Luxembourg Commercial Internet Exchange) covering cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data center innovation. Luxembourg hosts major EU data infrastructure and this event attracts 1,200+ IT professionals, CTOs, and digital infrastructure investors. Tickets from EUR 150-300.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Support Organization The Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative (LSFI) is Luxembourg's national coordinating entity on sustainable finance, established in 2020 as a publicly funded public-private partnership. Led by CEO Nicoletta Centofanti, LSFI operates as a Centre of Excellence and Knowledge Hub, working to accelerate the financing of the climate transition and measure progress toward making Luxembourg a global sustainable finance center. LSFI co-facilitates the Catapult Green Fintech acceleration program alongside LHoFT, contributing expertise in ESG regulation, impact investing, and sustainable finance strategy.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Event European curated dealflow event at Luxexpo The Box, hosting ~3,400 attendees, 330+ investors and the Fit 4 Start and Fit 4 Scale closing pitches. Connects high-potential startups and scaleups with VCs, family offices and angels across digital, healthtech and space.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Incubator An EU-accredited business incubator launched in September 2017 by the Chamber of Commerce with the City of Luxembourg as its main sponsor. Located at the House of Startups, it provides 2,000 m² of closed offices and open coworking areas for early-stage local and international startups. Focus sectors include urban tech, logistics, and environmental technology.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Event Eighth edition of LuxFLAG's content-driven, non-commercial forum on sustainable and responsible investment. Held at Centre Culturel Scheiss, gathering 250+ finance professionals, asset managers and ESG specialists shaping sustainable finance policy and practice.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxhub is a Luxembourg-based open banking infrastructure provider that builds API connectivity between banks, fintechs, and third-party providers under PSD2 and open finance regulations. The platform enables account information services, payment initiation, and data-sharing workflows that allow financial institutions to comply with regulatory requirements while also opening new distribution channels for fintech products. Founded with backing from four major Luxembourg banks, Luxhub is a strategically important piece of the country's financial innovation infrastructure and a model for how collaborative banking initiatives can accelerate open finance adoption across Europe.
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg · Support Organization Luxembourg's national innovation agency, operating as a public-private partnership since 1984. Luxinnovation supports startups, SMEs, and research organisations through its Fit 4 programme suite (Fit 4 Start, Fit 4 Scale, Fit 4 Innovation, Fit 4 Digital, Fit 4 AI) and acts as the Enterprise Europe Network contact point. In 2024 it supported 891 companies and administers the Fit 4 Start accelerator programme, which offers up to €150,000 in equity-free grants.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup LuxTrust is the Luxembourg public-private joint venture that runs the country's national digital-identity and qualified electronic-signature infrastructure, and is effectively the backbone that lets Luxembourgish citizens, banks, and corporates sign contracts, file taxes, and access sensitive public services online with legally binding eIDAS-qualified signatures. Founded in 2005 and co-owned by the Luxembourg state alongside most of the country's major banks, LuxTrust has become one of the largest qualified trust service providers in the EU and one of the reference implementations of how an EU member state can stand up an interoperable, bank-grade identity layer ahead of the upcoming European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet) rollout. For the directory, LuxTrust is a rare example of a core sovereign-tech asset that has the commercial surface area of a scale-up, and a useful anchor for understanding Luxembourg's outsized role in European digital-identity and regtech.
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg · Startup A Luxembourg deep-tech startup founded in 2018 by a team with backgrounds in ESA space missions. Maana Electric builds the TerraBox, a mobile factory that produces solar panels from sand and electricity using in-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) technology. The company signed a multi-million-euro contract with the European Space Agency in 2021 and received first commercial orders worth €100 million in 2023. Its LunaBox variant is designed to manufacture solar panels and generate oxygen on the Moon.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Venture Capital Mangrove Capital Partners is one of Europe's most storied early-stage venture capital firms, founded in Luxembourg in 2000 by Mark Tluszcz, Gerard Lopez, and Hans-Jürgen Schmitz. The firm manages over $1 billion in assets and has backed 8 unicorns, including Skype (a $2 million investment that returned $200 million) and Wix (an $8 million bet that returned $700 million). Mangrove invests at pre-seed and seed stage across Europe and Israel, with a team spanning Luxembourg, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and London. Portfolio companies include Flo Health, WalkMe, K Health, Talkwalker, and Doctena.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based AI platform enabling direct-to-consumer brands to expand across global marketplaces by automating inventory management, pricing, marketing, logistics, compliance, and fulfilment. Founded by ex-Amazon executives in 2022. Raised $8M Series A from Expon Capital and Smedvig Ventures.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Venture Capital MiddleGame Ventures is a Luxembourg-headquartered fintech-focused venture capital firm co-founded in 2016 by Michael Meyer and Patrick Pinschmidt, with Pascal Bouvier as Managing Partner. The firm has deployed over €300 million across 50+ companies and raised a €150 million third fund with an initial close, backed by the Luxembourg Future Fund successor (SNCI). It focuses on open finance, embedded fintech, blockchain/crypto infrastructure, and automated financial data across Europe and North America. Portfolio includes Bitpanda, Carta, Keyrock, and Minna Technologies, with four unicorns and one IPO among its exits.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based privacy-first social network designed as a European alternative to algorithm-driven platforms. Offers chronological feeds, no behavioural tracking, no AI-generated content, and a distance feature letting users control how far their posts travel. Subscription model (€2.95–5.95/month). Raised €655K pre-seed from European investors. 36,000 early-access users.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event A Luxexpo The Box conference on the commercial space sector, covering market trends, emerging technologies, and the next generation of space companies. Relevant for spacetech founders given Luxembourg's space-investment ecosystem.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based fintech providing SPARK, an AI-powered operating ecosystem for automating investment operations in asset management. Handles middle- and back-office oversight with agentic AI, processing 5 petabytes of data monthly for institutions including BNP Paribas Securities Services, Amundi, and Capital Group across €500bn+ in assets.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event Luxembourg's flagship tech and innovation conference at Luxexpo The Box, positioned as a bridge between the Greater Region's corporates, the Luxembourg fund industry, and international deep-tech founders. Programming spans AI, space tech, fintech, and sustainable finance with 4,000+ attendees and an exhibition floor featuring Luxembourg-based scale-ups like Paul Wurth, Gcore, and LuxAI. The 2024 edition launched with ministerial support and has since become the country's primary innovation showcase. Tickets EUR 100-400.
Belval, Luxembourg · Event Organisator Organiser of the Open Source Conference Luxembourg, a gathering of international Open Source Program Offices and related organisations. The conference exchanges experience on implementing and securing open-source software across the public sector, AI and large language models, cybersecurity, academia and humanitarian use.
Belval, Luxembourg · Event A one-day conference at the Belval campus themed around leading by example in digital sovereignty, gathering international Open Source Program Offices and related organisations. Participants exchange experience on implementing and securing open-source software across the public sector, AI and large language models, cybersecurity, academia and humanitarian use.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Person Pierre Limouzin leads venture capital investment activities for the EIC Fund at the European Investment Bank (EIB), focusing on breakthrough and deep tech companies across Europe including in the space sector. The EIC Fund is the equity arm of the European Innovation Council, deploying equity and quasi-equity investments into high-potential European startups and scale-ups commercializing frontier technologies. His role makes him a key figure in the European public venture ecosystem and a significant source of institutional capital for space entrepreneurship and new space ventures.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup SaaS Group is a Luxembourg-based acquirer and operator of bootstrapped B2B SaaS businesses, founded with the goal of providing founder-friendly exits for software companies between $1 million and $10 million in ARR. The group currently operates 18 portfolio companies spanning online marketing, productivity, and developer tools, with combined annual recurring revenue exceeding $60 million and teams spread across 33 countries. It distinguishes itself by preserving the autonomy and culture of acquired companies while providing shared functions in marketing, finance, and HR.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Venture Capital Satgana is a Luxembourg-based climate and earth tech venture capital firm founded in 2020, investing at pre-seed and seed stages in European and African startups addressing the climate and ecological crisis. With a €30 million fund, Satgana backs founders across food and agriculture, energy, mobility, industry, carbon removal, and the circular economy with ticket sizes of €100k–€500k. As a strategic partner of Catapult Green Fintech, Satgana contributes its climate investment expertise to the program's green finance and sustainability track.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup A Luxembourg-based RegTech company founded in 2015 by Pierre Gerard and Laurent Kratz, specialising in blockchain analytics and AML/CFT compliance for digital assets. Its platform monitors transactions across 21+ blockchains and serves over 200 clients in more than 40 countries, including exchanges, custodians, banks, and regulators. Clients include PwC and Swisscom, and the company raised a pre-Series A round backed by Tioga Capital and CV VC.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup The European headquarters of Spire Global (founded 2012, originally San Francisco), established in Luxembourg City in 2017 with backing from the Luxembourg Future Fund. Spire operates one of the world's largest commercial nanosatellite constellations — over 110 CubeSats — collecting maritime, aviation, and weather data sold as space-to-cloud analytics. Luxembourg is home to Spire's maritime data team and served as the anchor for a $70 million Series C round led by the Luxembourg government.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Event The Luxembourg edition of the Startup Ole international roadshow, connecting early-stage startups with corporates and investors from the Greater Region (Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Germany). Features speed-dating investor sessions and pitch battles. Free for selected startups, EUR 50 general admission.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup A Luxembourg-headquartered digital securities marketplace founded in 2018 by Arnab Naskar, Tobias Seidl, and Lennart Ante. STOKR operates an EU-regulated issuance platform for security tokens built on Bitcoin's Liquid Network, serving both professional and retail investors. The company is registered as a VASP with the CSSF and surpassed $1 billion in tokenised asset volume by 2025.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Talkwalker is a Luxembourg-based social intelligence and consumer analytics platform that helps enterprises monitor and interpret public digital conversation at large scale. The product ingests data from social media, online news, forums, blogs, and other public sources, then applies AI and language processing to identify trends, sentiment shifts, competitive movement, and brand reputation risks. This makes it valuable for communications, marketing, and product teams that need external market signal rather than only internal customer data. In the European startup ecosystem, Talkwalker is important because it turns large volumes of messy unstructured internet data into decision-support infrastructure for major companies. It also complements internal governance and analytics platforms by focusing on what organizations can learn from the outside world in real time. For this directory, Talkwalker helps extend coverage into social intelligence and brand analytics, a category that sits between data infrastructure, marketing strategy, and customer insight.
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg · Incubator Luxembourg's national technology incubator, established in June 2012 by the state as a merger of the former Technoport incubator and the Ecostart business support infrastructures. Located at the Belval Innovation Campus, it hosts around 40 companies at any given time across ICT, health, space, and industrial sectors. Services include a business incubation programme, a fabrication laboratory, and coworking space. More than 150 companies have passed through since inception.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup A Luxembourg fintech founded in 2017 by Luc Falempin and Daniel Coheur that provides an institutional-grade, no-code tokenisation platform for the issuance, transfer, and lifecycle management of digital securities on public blockchains. The company's T-REX (Token for Regulated EXchanges) open standard enables compliance-native security tokens. Tokeny tokenised over €28 billion in assets between 2017 and 2023 and was acquired by Apex Group in May 2025.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg deep-tech startup developing heated polymer filaments using advanced nanocomposite materials for surface heating applications in electric vehicles and smart buildings. Its ultra-thin conductive wire enables efficient in-cabin and battery heating for EVs, reducing range loss in cold weather. Founded in 2022 by Vlad Batkhin.