St. Julian's, Malta · Startup Casumo is a Malta-based online casino and gaming company known for its gamification-driven approach to iGaming, blending adventure-style progression mechanics with traditional casino and sports betting products. Founded in 2012 by Swedish entrepreneurs who established operations in Malta to leverage the island's regulated gaming jurisdiction, Casumo holds licenses from the MGA, UKGC, and other European regulators. The company has built a strong brand around player engagement and UX innovation in a highly competitive market, employing hundreds of people in Malta and serving players across multiple European markets.
St. Julian's, Malta · Startup Hotjar is a Malta-founded UX analytics company that made visual product and website behavior analysis accessible to a far broader market. Its core tools, including heatmaps, session recordings, funnels, and feedback widgets, let teams see how users actually move through a digital experience rather than only reading aggregate analytics dashboards. That changed how many product and marketing teams approached optimization, because the software exposed friction in onboarding, checkout, and navigation flows without requiring a heavyweight research stack. Hotjar became particularly influential through a product-led growth model that allowed adoption to spread widely across startups, agencies, and mid-market businesses. In the European ecosystem, the company is a notable example of a globally deployed SaaS product built from a smaller market but distributed with strong self-serve efficiency. It is also a natural fit in the directory because it connects directly to product management, conversion optimization, and growth analysis across many other digital companies.
St. Julian's, Malta · Event Week-long international gathering of the maritime industry hosted in Valletta, convening shipowners, regulators, ports, and maritime-tech innovators around shipping decarbonisation, digitalisation, and Malta's flag-state ecosystem.
St. Julian's, Malta · Event Malta's full-day developer and technology conference at the Hilton Malta in Portomaso, St. Julian's, featuring 7 tracks and 25+ talks. The 2026 edition runs under the theme 'With great power comes great responsibility', spotlighting quantum computing, artificial intelligence and modern software development for developers and digital professionals.
St. Julian's, Malta · Event Organisator TechTok Ltd (company number C111039) is a Malta-based, community-focused technology events company co-founded by Calvin Cassar and Charlene Cassar. The organisation curates content from technology thought leaders and provides a platform for emerging tech talent to share their knowledge with the wider community. TechTok organises the annual TechTok conference, spanning seven tracks including Data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, Web3, architecture, and software development.
St. Julian's, Malta · Startup Tipico is one of the largest sports-betting groups in Europe, headquartered in Malta with major technology and operations teams on the island and a footprint that spans Germany, Austria, Croatia, Colombia, and (via Tipico US) a growing US presence following a merger agreement with another US operator. Originally founded in Germany in 2004 by Dieter Pawlik and Philip Wessels, the company relocated its group holding and core tech organization to Malta to take advantage of the MGA's multi-jurisdictional licensing framework, which lets Tipico run a single platform across many regulated markets. Tipico's Malta operation builds the trading engine, pricing models, risk-management systems, retail POS network, and mobile apps that process billions of euros in annual betting volume, and the company is today one of the island's largest single private-sector tech employers. It is an anchor example of how Malta's regulatory and talent setup supports very large-scale gaming technology organizations.