Artificial intelligence is one of Europe's fastest-growing startup sectors, with hubs in London, Paris, Berlin, and Helsinki driving advances in generative AI, computer vision, and NLP. European AI startups benefit from strong academic research, increasing VC specialisation, and growing enterprise demand across industries. We track 534 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
534 entries.
Deep-tech firm building AI-powered smart glasses that replicate guide-dog function for the visually impaired, using pedestrian autonomous-driving perception and haptic head-steering. Tested with 300+ blind users across ~30 countries.
Switzerland's leading conference for diversity, equity and inclusion in tech, organized by TechFace with female-led tech communities. Two days of keynotes, workshops and networking draw developers, engineers, designers, product leaders, students and allies. It is relevant to founders for talent, inclusive hiring and ecosystem networking.
10xDNA is a Munich-based deep-tech venture capital firm founded by serial entrepreneur and Die Hoehle der Loewen judge Frank Thelen. The fund focuses on disruptive technologies across artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space technology, synthetic biology, and energy. It targets companies whose technology has the potential to scale by an order of magnitude versus incumbents, backed by Frank Thelen's three decades of operating experience across consumer software, mobile, and deep tech.
11x is the breakout star of the UK's agentic AI wave, known for building "digital workers" that replace full job functions rather than merely assisting them. Founded in 2022 by Hasan Sukkar, the company frames its product as autonomous employees rather than software tools. That positioning is controversial, but it resonates with revenue teams seeking to eliminate manual drudgery and scale outreach without linear headcount growth. The flagship product, Alice, is an AI Sales Development Representative that can source leads, research accounts, craft highly personalized outreach, and follow up continuously. In late 2024, 11x launched Jordan, a multilingual AI phone agent that conducts real-time voice conversations for qualification and support in more than 30 languages. Together, these agents can run a large portion of the outbound funnel end-to-end, from initial outreach to handoff, with human oversight focused on high-value exceptions. By early 2026, 11x had exploded in valuation after a Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, a rare win for a UK-first startup. The company processes millions of interactions for high-growth tech companies such as Otter.ai and Airwallex and is expanding its footprint in San Francisco to preempt US-based competitors. The roadmap centers on "digital teams" that coordinate multiple agents across tasks: one agent identifies a lead, another calls, a third negotiates logistics, and a final agent drafts the contract. This orchestration layer is the company's strategic bet on becoming the default system for revenue operations. The company's roots include Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, which accelerated its US network and credibility, and its UK engineering base sits in the London Bridge tech hub. Investor support spans US and European capital: a16z led the Series B, Benchmark led the Series A, Lux Capital participated early, Quiet Capital backed growth, and 20VC provided influential local support. In 2026, 11x is the UK's most visible play on AI-native revenue teams, aiming to become a category-defining platform for autonomous sales operations.
4YFN 2027 runs alongside MWC Barcelona at Fira Gran Via, connecting founders, investors, and corporates focused on turning early-stage innovation into real business outcomes. The event draws thousands of startups and investors from across Europe and beyond, with structured matchmaking, a pitch competition, and the 4YFN Awards. It operates as an independent but deeply integrated event within the broader MWC ecosystem.
Cyprus's flagship annual digital-transformation conference, focused on how AI is reshaping business across banking, shipping, tourism, retail, energy, telecom and healthcare. The day at The Landmark Hotel in Nicosia includes a main conference, an AI and ICT Expo, a networking cocktail and an invitation-only AI Leadership Circle.
Adverity is a marketing data and analytics platform headquartered in Vienna, founded in 2015. It helps marketing, sales and e-commerce teams integrate, clean and manage data from many sources, then analyse it to generate insights. Its offering splits into Adverity Data, for data collection, integration and quality management, and Adverity Intelligence, for analytics and AI-powered, conversational capabilities, connecting to a large number of marketing and advertising data sources. The company holds ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications and is backed by investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sapphire Ventures.
Aerones is the world-leading provider of robotic wind turbine maintenance and inspection services. Founded in 2015 by Dainis Kruze and Janis Putrams, the company deploys rope-suspended robots guided by AI software to perform blade cleaning, leading-edge erosion repairs, lightning protection checks, and autonomous visual inspections — completing tasks up to four times faster than manual methods. A Y Combinator W18 graduate, Aerones has raised $115 million in total including a $62 million Series B in 2025, serves customers representing over 50% of global wind power capacity, and operates in 30+ countries.
Developer platform for deploying and managing fleets of AI coding agents in copy-on-write sandboxes that mirror production, with stall detection, multi-OS testing and a unified orchestration dashboard.
Agile Robots is a Munich-based robotics company founded in 2018 as a spin-off from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It builds robots that combine precise force-torque sensing with AI-driven computer vision to handle delicate industrial tasks such as assembly and inspection. Backed by investors including the SoftBank Vision Fund, it manufactures both robotic arms and complete automation systems and is one of Germany's most valuable robotics startups.
FinTech Belgium, Sailpeak and Vlerick Business School unveil the third edition of the AI Barometer at SilverSquare North, tracking how Belgian financial institutions are moving from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment, with keynotes, use cases, panel and networking.
Construction analytics platform that ingests drone, satellite, and site imagery to produce automated progress, quantity, and quality reports for large linear-infrastructure projects (roads, rail, pipelines, solar farms). Operates across Europe and North America. Backed by Movens Capital.
Eastern Europe's largest AI conference at Radisson Blu Bucharest with 100+ speakers, 59+ international exhibitors, and 81+ workshops; covers AI applications across education, healthcare, legal, urbanism, art, and the future of work.
The United Nations' flagship AI-for-good event, organized by the International Telecommunication Union. It convenes governments, technology companies, startups, academia and UN agencies around applied AI for the Sustainable Development Goals, with a large exhibition, robotics demos and a startup and innovation track. It is one of the largest AI gatherings in Europe, relevant to founders seeking visibility, partners and policy context.
Two-day AI conference at Cubex Centrum focused on real-world AI implementation, investment, and regulation, with five technical workshops on day one and three parallel tracks (Business, Technology, Public Sector) on day two.
Invite-style AI & Data summit at Hotel Histria for 200 senior leaders across banking, telecom, healthcare, retail and public sector, with 50+ speakers focused on business value of enterprise AI.
Central Europe's largest AI conference, hosted at Magyar Zene Háza and Néprajzi Múzeum in Városliget. 12 sections and 100+ speakers cover AI across business, healthcare, employment, creative, and ethics.
Enterprise AI conference at the ExCeL featuring case studies from Fortune 500 AI deployments, an expo floor with infrastructure and tooling vendors, and a startup showcase. Attracts 5,000+ enterprise AI buyers and builders. Tickets EUR 300-1,500.
AI Summit London 2027 returns to Tobacco Dock as one of the longest-running enterprise-focused AI conferences in Europe, gathering CIOs, data leaders, vendors, and AI-native startups. The two-day program covers practical deployment of generative AI, agentic systems, and AI governance across regulated industries. Dates are officially announced on the event's website.
Startit's week of 25+ free AI events spanning Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Niš, drawing 1000+ attendees across 20+ partner organizations for talks, workshops, and meetups on applied AI and startups.
AIDAQ is one of Europe's largest conferences on artificial intelligence, data and quantum technologies, convening thousands of attendees, hundreds of speakers and many sessions across multiple tracks. It brings together business, policy and science leaders. It is highly founder-relevant, featuring a DeepTech Pitch, a free startup showcase area for selected AI and quantum startups, and a deep-tech founder network.
Aikido Security is a unified developer-first application security platform covering code scanning, cloud posture, runtime monitoring and AI-driven penetration testing — all from one console. Founded in 2022 in Ghent by serial entrepreneurs Willem Delbare, Roeland Delrue, Felix Garriau and Madeline Lawrence, it became Europe's fastest cybersecurity unicorn after closing a $60 M Series B led by DST Global and PSG Equity in 2025 at a $1 B+ valuation. Annual recurring revenue hit $20 M in 2025 with a target of $60 M. Aikido serves developers and security teams at mid-market and enterprise companies from offices in Ghent, San Francisco, London and Chicago.
AIKO develops flight-proven AI software that enables satellites and spacecraft to operate autonomously — detecting anomalies, replanning missions, processing payload data, and executing maneuvers without ground intervention. Founded in Turin in 2017 by Lorenzo Feruglio, AIKO became the first European company to demonstrate deep learning algorithms in orbit. The company's modular product suite (GENE for anomaly detection, OLIVER for onboard planning, CLEAR for payload processing, DANA for maneuvering) serves commercial operators and space agencies. With offices in Turin and Toulouse, AIKO has raised €7 million and is leading the ASIMOV proximity-operations project funded by the Italian Space Agency.
AImotive (originally Adasworks) is a Budapest-based deep-tech company building a full-stack automated driving platform — perception, prediction, planning, and control — designed as vendor-neutral software that OEMs and tier-one suppliers can integrate alongside their own hardware rather than buy as a locked Nvidia or Mobileye stack. Founded in 2015 by László Kishonti, AImotive also develops aiSim, a production-grade simulation environment used by automotive customers to validate ADAS and self-driving stacks, and its own NPU IP (aiWare) aimed at efficient neural-network inference for automotive workloads. The company has partnerships with Volvo, Bosch, and other tier-one automotive players, and was acquired by Stellantis in 2024 to become part of the group's in-house software and AD stack — one of the most strategically significant European automotive AI exits of the decade and a capstone story for Hungarian deep-tech.
Agent-native AI platform for go-to-market execution, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers (formerly Glyphic). Autonomous agents act on commercial context across calls, emails, tickets and CRM to update systems, flag risks and generate follow-ups for revenue teams.
Aize is an Oslo-based industrial software company founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Aker Group, drawing on 30 years of industrial software heritage. Its platform creates digital twins of heavy assets — integrating 2D, 3D and 4D data — for engineering, operations, maintenance and project execution in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Aize has a strategic partnership with Aker BP to provide a single source of truth for offshore assets and is deployed on some of Norway's largest oil and gas developments. The company operates globally with around 197 employees across six continents.
Aktantis is a world-class European deeptech competitiveness cluster founded in 2005 and based in Sophia Antipolis, France, federating an innovation ecosystem focused on digital transition across microelectronics, IoT, cybersecurity, AI, and photonics. With over 300 member organizations, Aktantis supports companies through project financing, growth acceleration, international expansion, and cybersecurity protection, with member startups collectively raising over 500 million euros in funding and investing 1.5 billion euros in R&D. The cluster participates as a partner in SIDO Lyon as part of its European deeptech ecosystem development mission.
Co-founder and co-CEO of Seedtag, the contextual-advertising AI company he started in 2014 with fellow ex-Googler Jorge Poyatos. He leads commercial growth of Seedtag's cookie-free advertising platform.
Co-founding partner of Vastpoint Ventures, a 2025 seed fund investing in AI, B2B SaaS and techbio. She was an early employee at ElevenLabs, where she built the AI-safety team and led core partnerships during its rise to unicorn status, and previously co-founded a Cambridge deep-tech startup.
Aleph Alpha is a Heidelberg-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 that develops large language models and enterprise AI infrastructure with a focus on sovereignty, transparency and data protection for European governments and regulated industries. Its Luminous model family and PhariaAI platform target on-premise and mission-critical deployments. The company raised a large Series B round in 2023 backed by investors including Bosch, SAP and the Schwarz Group.
Quantum software company relocated its global headquarters from Helsinki to Milan in May 2026, marking Italy's largest-ever quantum computing investment round of €18M. Develops quantum algorithms and classical-quantum hybrid software targeting drug discovery and industrial optimisation, with a focus on near-term quantum hardware.
Accelerates cancer immunotherapy development with its HLA-Compass platform, a large quantitative database of HLA peptide presentation. AI-driven analytics predict off-target toxicity and support target discovery for safer, more precise therapies.
Conference in Amsterdam focused on artificial intelligence, organized by Startup Network Europe. Brings together AI founders, researchers, and enterprise buyers for talks on applied ML, generative AI, and responsible AI deployment. Valuable for AI startups seeking early customers and visibility in the Dutch tech ecosystem.
André Zayarni is Co-founder & CEO of the vector-database company Qdrant. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, André leads the vector-database company Qdrant.
Andreessen Horowitz is a global venture firm that led ElevenLabs' early growth rounds and participated again in the company's 2026 Series D. The firm is active across AI infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, and consumer internet.
Swedish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI coding startup that lets people build software through natural language. He previously co-founded the e-commerce product-discovery company Depict.ai and was an early engineer at Sana Labs, with earlier research work at CERN.
Anyline is a Vienna-based computer vision company founded in 2013 that provides mobile OCR and scanning SDK technology, enabling smartphones and tablets to read text, barcodes, IDs, license plates, and meter readings using the device camera. The company serves enterprise clients in energy, logistics, government, and automotive, with deployments in over 100 countries. Anyline has raised approximately $20 million and partners with organizations like the US Department of Homeland Security. It is a standout Austrian deep-tech company that turned on-device AI scanning into a scalable B2B platform.
Apex Ventures is a Vienna-based seed-stage venture capital firm launched in 2017 by Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, Wolfgang Berner, and Ulrich Gall, focused on deep tech, AI, medical devices, and digital health. The firm manages over EUR 50M and invests EUR 250K-1.5M in science-driven teams with defensible intellectual property, often emerging from leading European research institutions. Apex has backed companies including Prewave, Ribbonfish, and contextflow, and provides hands-on support in technology commercialization and clinical market access.
Aqemia is a Paris-based pharmatech company building an AI-driven drug discovery platform that combines quantum-inspired physics and machine learning to generate and prioritise novel drug candidates at scale. Founded in 2019 by quantum physics researcher Maximilien Levesque and former BCG consultant Emmanuelle Martiano, the company aims to design new molecules faster and cheaper than traditional methods. It raised a 60M euro Series A and later a $38M round led by Cathay Innovation in December 2024, bringing total funding past $100 million as it moves toward clinical trials and global expansion, including a London office.
Arbio Group is a Berlin-based proptech company that operates an AI-native operating system for managing short-term rentals and serviced apartments across Europe. It combines full-stack property management services with technology to automate core operations including dynamic pricing optimisation, guest communication, accounting, and distribution across booking platforms, while keeping human oversight for hospitality quality. The company has grown partly through strategic acquisitions of existing property-management portfolios, and serves property owners and managers across the DACH region and beyond.
Arcads is an AI-powered platform for creating video advertisements, primarily UGC-style ads featuring AI actors and avatars. Users provide a script, choose or customise an avatar, and the platform generates polished video ads with localisation across 30+ languages. It targets performance marketers, direct-to-consumer brands, and marketing agencies. Founded in 2024 by Dylan Fournier and Romain Torres, the company raised a $16 million seed round in December 2025 led by Eurazeo and said it was already profitable, with more than half of its users based in the United States.
Ardoq is an Oslo-based cloud-native Enterprise Architecture SaaS platform founded in 2013. It helps large organisations map, analyse and manage their technology portfolios, enabling data-driven digital transformation decisions. Clients include Carlsberg, Condé Nast and the US Federal Communications Commission. The company raised $125 million in a Series D round led by EQT Growth in March 2022, bringing total funding to $159 million at a $300 million valuation. In 2025 it launched an AI governance module to help enterprises oversee AI adoption risk, and appointed a new Chief Revenue Officer to accelerate North American expansion.
Arkadiusz Skuza is a Warsaw-born AI entrepreneur and consultant with over 17 years of experience delivering AI and computer vision solutions across manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and finance. He founded Skuza AI, which helps enterprises implement production-grade AI, and has led projects for clients across Europe and North America. He is an active angel investor in AI and industrial tech startups, with focus areas including computer vision and predictive analytics.
Five-day festival on art, technology and society in downtown Linz under the theme 'Future Begins — Negotiating Humanity'. Combines exhibitions, conferences, performances, workshops and tours across three venue clusters: OK Quarter, Med Campus and Danube Triangle.
ARX Robotics is a Munich-based defence technology company building autonomous mobile robotics and digitalisation platforms for European armed forces, founded by former German Bundeswehr officers. Its products include the Gereon RCS tracked reconnaissance robot, the Hector autonomous wheeled platform, and Mithra OS, a software system for modernising existing military vehicle fleets. The company positions itself around strengthening Europe's technological resilience and sovereignty in defence. In 2025 it expanded its Series A round to a total of 42 million euro, with backers including HV Capital, Omnes Capital, the NATO Innovation Fund, Project A and Speedinvest.
Developing an AI-based multichannel earthquake forecasting system providing predictions at 14-day, 5-day, 3-day and 1-day horizons with magnitude and location estimates. Founded in 2019; completed ESA BIC Poland and raised over €640k.
Augmenta is an Athens-founded agriculture technology company that developed a real-time, camera- and AI-based variable rate application (VRA) hardware platform for farming. Its multispectral camera system retrofits onto existing agricultural machinery such as tractors, sprayers and spreaders, processing field conditions on the fly to automatically apply the optimal amount of inputs. The aim is to increase yields and reduce unnecessary chemical and fertiliser usage. In March 2023 Augmenta was acquired by CNH Industrial for $110 million and integrated into CNH's precision-technology portfolio, while retaining operations in Greece and the US.
One-day Vienna summit bringing together fintech founders, banks, corporates, regulators, and investors. Held with Vienna Blockchain Week and NEOB.ai. Covers digital finance, tokenization, AI, payments, regulation, and enterprise adoption with 500+ attendees and 30+ speakers.
The flagship three-day edition of Slovakia's ITAPA congress at Crowne Plaza Bratislava, covering digitalisation, innovation, modern technologies & cybersecurity with high-profile Slovak and international speakers across multiple stages.
Central and Eastern Europe's AWS community gathering at Kristály Színtér in Budapest. One-day event with keynotes from AWS specialists, hands-on workshops, and cloud networking.
Amazon Web Services' free one-day cloud conference at Fiera Milano Rho. Keynotes, technical breakouts, hands-on labs and a partner expo covering generative AI, data, security and serverless for builders, architects and startup founders.
Axelera AI is a semiconductor and software company headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands, founded in July 2021. It develops AI acceleration hardware and software for inference workloads, spanning edge devices and edge servers. Its flagship Metis AI Processing Unit and next-generation Europa AIPU are paired with the Voyager SDK for model deployment, built on the company's proprietary digital in-memory computing and RISC-V dataflow architecture. The company targets sectors including security, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare, positioning its products as high-performance, power-efficient alternatives to GPUs. In March 2025 it was awarded a EuroHPC grant of up to 61.6 million euro for the DARE project.
Azumuta provides a connected-worker platform for manufacturing that combines digital work instructions, quality assurance checklists, skills & training tracking and AI-assisted audits in a single shop-floor system. It replaces paper, spreadsheets and fragmented tools with operator-centric workflows that cut quality incidents and improve productivity. Founded in 2016 by Batis Leman in Ghent, the company raised an €8 M Series A in November 2025 led by Keen Venture Partners and Capricorn Partners. Customers include Atlas Copco, Toyota and Cummins across aerospace, pharma, food & beverage and electronics. Azumuta operates in Ghent and targets European and North American mid-market manufacturers.
Bandora is an AI-powered virtual facility manager that integrates with existing building management systems to optimize energy efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain comfort in commercial buildings. The startup has reported about USD 1M-1.5M in pre-seed/seed backing and won the CTA CEO Summit startup pitch in Lisbon, earning a complimentary exhibit space at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
Bartek Pucek is a Polish serial entrepreneur, prolific angel investor and AI writer. He was an early investor in ElevenLabs and Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) and has backed 50+ pre-seed and seed startups across AI, infrastructure and deep tech, often alongside funds such as a16z, Sequoia and Y Combinator. Previously Chief Digital Officer at IKEA Poland and head of mobile at Grupa Onet–Ringier Axel Springer, he co-founded the AI lab Forward Operators and the AI startup Proofs, and now leads The Thinking Company, an AI transformation firm serving enterprise clients across Europe and the US.
Be My Eyes is a Danish accessibility platform that connects blind and low vision users with sighted volunteers and company support teams through live video calls. Founded in 2015 by Hans Jorgen Wiberg, the app created a global community of millions of volunteers who provide real time visual assistance. The company later added enterprise support partnerships and AI powered visual descriptions. Be My Eyes is a leading example of Danish tech for social impact.
Bending Spoons acquires established digital products — apps, platforms, and SaaS tools — then applies AI-driven transformation to dramatically improve their performance. Founded in 2013 by Luca Ferrari and co-founders, the Milan company now owns Vimeo, Evernote, Eventbrite, WeTransfer, AOL, Remini, and StreamYard, among others. Its portfolio serves over 400 million monthly active users and 7 million paying customers. Targeting a $20 billion US IPO in 2026 with projected adjusted EBITDA of $1.4 billion, Bending Spoons has become Italy's most prominent tech success story and the world's most unusual acquirer.
Southeastern Europe's leading tech and innovation exhibition at Metropolitan Expo Athens, themed 'AI: Digital to Physical' for 2026, with focus on AI, cybersecurity, smart cities, ESG applications, digital governance and startups; targeting ~30,000 attendees.
Organised by RX France, Big Data & AI Paris is one of Europe's largest data and AI gatherings, held 15–16 September 2026 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The two-day event combines 220+ exhibitors with the 'Innovative Minds' conference programme spanning tech, governance, and business tracks, drawing around 15,000 professionals.
10th edition with 60+ talks and hands-on workshops on Big Data, ML, Generative AI, Quantum Computing, Ethical AI, and DataOps. Workshops kick off Nov 24, main conference Nov 25-27 at Multikino, ~700 attendees from 35+ countries.
Big Pi Ventures was founded in 2018 by Marco Veremis, Alex Eleftheriadis, and Aristos Doxiadis, all seasoned entrepreneurs with exits to Splunk, Meta/Facebook, and global PE. The firm manages approximately €250M in AUM across an early-stage fund (Big Pi II, €50M, 2023) and a growth fund (€130M first close, targeting €200M). It follows a tech-first investment thesis focused on AI, deep tech, biotech, and IP-heavy companies built by founders with a Greek nexus — whether based in Greece or part of the global diaspora. Notable portfolio companies include TileDB, Numan, and Accusonus (acquired by Meta).
Binderr is a compliance and corporate services platform founded in Malta in 2020. Its software automates KYC, KYB, and AML workflows for law firms, accountants, and regulated financial professionals across 180+ countries, combining identity verification, sanctions screening, adverse media checks, and document management in a single tool. Beyond compliance technology, the platform connects businesses to a marketplace of financial, legal, and corporate service providers. Binderr raised a €2 million Seed round in 2024 and maintains offices in Malta, Estonia, the UK, and the UAE.
Synthetic biology company using generative AI to design novel proteins and enzymes from scratch, creating custom biomolecules for industrial, pharmaceutical and biotech applications.
Bioptimus is the self-proclaimed "Mistral of Biology," spun out in early 2024 by a team of alumni from Google DeepMind and Owkin, including CEO Jean-Philippe Vert. The company is building what it calls the first universal foundation model for biology. Where large language models were trained on text to learn human language, Bioptimus trains on biological data—DNA sequences, protein structures, cellular imagery, and clinical phenotypes—to infer the underlying rules of life. The ambition is not just better predictions but a unified biological reasoning layer that can simulate outcomes before expensive lab work happens. By 2026, Bioptimus has moved from a research thesis to early commercial traction. After a $41M Series A in 2025, the company released its first commercial model that can predict how a specific molecule will interact with a human cell with unusually high accuracy. This enables in-silico screening that reduces wet-lab costs and improves hit rates for drug discovery. French pharma leaders such as Sanofi have begun using these models to prioritize compounds and compress early-stage discovery timelines. The product value is immediate: fewer failed experiments, faster candidate selection, and deeper mechanistic insight. Bioptimus' roadmap focuses on "multi-scale biology," connecting the micro level (genomics and proteomics) to the macro level (patient outcomes and clinical data). Rather than being limited to protein folding, the models aim to bridge across data modalities so a genetic mutation can be linked to disease pathways, tissue behavior, and potential therapeutic interventions. This requires data breadth and regulatory trust, and Bioptimus is building a defensive moat through European data sovereignty. It leverages partnerships with European research hospitals and biobanks to access high-quality patient data that is difficult for US competitors to acquire under GDPR constraints. That compliance burden becomes a competitive advantage: safer access, better provenance, and stronger alignment with European health data governance. The company remains deeply embedded in the Paris ecosystem. It was incubated inside Owkin before spinning out, maintains a presence around Station F, and benefits from the cross-pollination between French AI and biotech communities. Its investor base reflects that positioning: Sofinnova Partners, Bpifrance, Cathay Innovation, Xavier Niel, and Frst provide a blend of life-science expertise, sovereign capital, and deep-tech conviction. In 2026, Bioptimus is the clearest European bet that foundation models can unlock biology at scale—and a contender to become the default AI layer for drug discovery in Europe.
BIRD Incubator is Croatia's first AI-focused startup incubator, offering a free 7-week pre-incubation program, a 6-month incubation program, and a 3–6 month acceleration track. It provides mentorship, expert support, investor introductions, and 450 m² of event and co-working space. All programs are offered at no cost and for no equity.
Black Forest Labs is a German AI research lab focused on generative visual intelligence, describing itself as a frontier lab for models that understand, reason, and act in the world. It is best known for the FLUX family of image generation models, offered via a playground, an API, and open-weights releases on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub. The FLUX models have been widely adopted across open-source and enterprise platforms. In December 2025 the company raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B post-money valuation, co-led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, with participation from a16z, NVIDIA and others.
Formerly BotGuard, builds GateKeeper, a reverse-proxy WAF that blocks malicious bot traffic and L7 DDoS for hosting providers and SMBs across 2.3M+ websites. Raised EUR 45M Series B in 2025 led by Dawn Capital.
Blockbrain builds private enterprise AI assistants that connect to internal knowledge tools such as Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and email. The platform creates context-aware internal search and answer workflows to reduce information fragmentation and speed up employee access to institutional knowledge.
All-in-one operating system for solo educators and small education businesses — tutors, coaches, mentors and admissions consultants. Combines a student CRM, scheduling, payment tracking and a public profile with an AI "digital brain" that turns session notes into prep, follow-ups and a mini-assistant answering student questions. EU-based and GDPR-compliant; free core plan with a paid Premium tier.
boost.ai is an enterprise conversational AI platform founded in 2016, headquartered in Sandnes with offices in Oslo, Copenhagen, London and Los Angeles. The company's virtual agents consistently achieve resolution rates above 90%, automating thousands of customer interactions daily for banks, telcos and insurers across the Nordics and beyond. Backed by Nordic Capital private equity, boost.ai is recognised as a Leader in Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms. Its upgraded voice offering, launched in late 2025, extends the platform into next-generation enterprise voice automation.
Borubar Ventures is the personal investment vehicle of SALESmanago founder Grzegorz Błażewicz, launched after his majority-stake transaction with Silver Lake Waterman. The fund focuses on B2B SaaS, marketing technology, and AI-driven analytics startups across Central and Eastern Europe, with operator-led support drawing on the SALESmanago scale-up playbook.
Borys Musielak is a Warsaw-based engineer-turned-investor, Founding Partner at SMOK Ventures — a pre-seed and seed fund backing Central and Eastern European founders — and the driving force behind SMOK Angels, a no-fee network of 220+ founders-turned-investors. He previously founded Filmaster, a movie-recommendation engine acquired by Samba TV in 2015, and co-founded Reaktor Warsaw (one of Poland's first startup coworking hubs) and the Startup Poland foundation. Through SMOK he has backed CEE startups across AI, gaming and software including Authologic, Alokai, inStreamly and Defguard, and in 2025 he co-founded No Cap, an AI-driven angel investing platform.
Regensburg-based startup applying neuroplasticity research to music learning, helping adult beginners develop instrumental skills through scientifically-structured daily practice sessions of 20–25 minutes. Its AI adapts lesson pacing to each learner's progress and retention patterns. Raised a €2M seed from HTGF.
Brainly is a Polish-founded edtech that operates a peer-to-peer learning community: students post questions and get answers verified by other learners, educators, and AI. Founded in Kraków in 2009 by Michał Borkowski, Łukasz Haluch, and Tomasz Kraus, the company expanded globally, becoming one of Poland's best-known consumer internet successes. It has raised funding from investors including Naspers, General Catalyst, Point Nine Capital, and Runa Capital, and has incorporated AI tutoring features (Ginny) in recent years.
Ukraine's flagship defense-tech summit, organised by the Brave1 cluster with the Ministry of Defence & Ministry of Digital Transformation. 5,000+ participants; 2025 edition closed $100M in deals. 2026 focus is global scaling and joint US/EU production.
A well-known UK tech entrepreneur (Lastminute.com) and investor, Brent has a footprint in Poland via his fund Firstminute and personally. He’s invested in Polish AI ventures and often speaks highly of Poland’s tech scene. Associated startups: Cosmose AI, Digital Pharmacy (examples of Polish startups he’s supported).
Brickanta is building an AI-native operating layer for early-stage commercial construction planning. The platform interprets drawings, code constraints, and cost data to automate bid analysis and estimation, reducing procurement risk and planning overhead for project owners and contractors.
Founded in 2018 by Georgi Mitov and Elina Halatcheva (joined by Managing Partner Diana Stefanova), BrightCap is a pre-seed and seed VC based in Sofia. Its second fund (BrightCap II) closed at approximately €47.5M in 2025, with the European Investment Fund as a cornerstone LP, and is notable as the first vehicle to blend Recovery and Resilience Facility capital from both Bulgaria and Romania in a single cross-border fund. Managing partners bring operating backgrounds from exits at VMware (Aviaso) and Honeywell (Sciant) rather than traditional finance. BrightCap invests €400K–€3M tickets with sector focus on future of work, digital health, and fintech; the portfolio includes Software Group, Pliant, and FITE.
AI-powered enterprise legal management platform for corporate legal teams covering legal spend, matter management, invoicing and outside-counsel collaboration. Founded 2014; acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2025.
Community-driven cybersecurity conference at Kablys with a workshop day (DEF CON CTF, AI Red Teaming, Bash for hackers) plus a main conference day of talks and CTF competitions covering offensive and defensive security.
Accelerator by Budimex for construction-tech startups in green construction, AI, robotics, and site automation. Offers pilots on construction sites, industry mentors, and potential investment or procurement. Scope: Regional (Poland and CEE).
Inaugural Southeast European security industry summit at Inter Expo Center, co-organized by a&s Adria and NAFTSO. Combines exhibition and conference on smart-city security, IoT, and AI, with 30+ regional experts and a B2B matchmaking platform.
Opened 2018 with Dieter Schwarz Foundation support. Runs an Incubator for idea validation and a 12-week Accelerator for investor readiness; notable mobility and AI startups. Support: training, mentorship, foundation grants. Scope: Regional (Heilbronn-Franken).
CampusAI is a Warsaw-based generative-AI learning platform that helps individuals and organisations build practical AI skills. Founded in 2023, it delivers educational programmes, AI tools and expert-led training through 3D virtual environments, web applications and in-person sessions, including a skills-training environment called AI Gym. The company reports more than 35,000 trained users.
Cardiomatics develops cloud-based AI software that automates reading and interpretation of electrocardiograms (ECG), detecting ~20 heart abnormalities and generating diagnostic reports in minutes. It received European medical-device certification in 2018 and has analysed millions of hours of ECG signals for 700+ customers across 10+ countries.
Application performance automation platform for Kubernetes that automates workload rightsizing, infrastructure scaling, cost optimization and self-healing across cloud environments. A Lithuanian unicorn serving 2,100+ companies.
Catch the Tornado is a Wrocław-based venture builder and investment firm founded by Divante alumni Piotr Karwatka and Tomasz Karwatka after Divante's exit. The firm builds and backs open-source, composable-commerce, and AI-first companies with hands-on operator support. Portfolio and venture-build references include Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront), Ramp Network, and Rigby.
Cathay Innovation is a Paris-headquartered global multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2015, affiliated with Cathay Capital, with offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Madrid, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm closed its third fund at $1 billion in 2025 — the largest AI-dedicated fund out of the European Union — bringing total assets under management to over €2.5 billion. Cathay invests in vertical AI, digital health, fintech, mobility, and energy across Europe, North America, and Asia, connecting startups with a corporate network of 20+ Fortune 500 partners. The portfolio of over 120 companies includes Glovo, Ledger, Owkin, Alma, and Descartes Underwriting, with eight unicorns, six IPOs, and 18 acquisitions.
Founded in November 2022 as Azerbaijan's first domestically domiciled venture capital fund, Caucasus Ventures was established by the Innovation and Digital Development Agency, PASHA Holding, and individual investors, with a statutory capital of 11.3 million AZN (~$6.6 million). Led by General Partner Mammad Karim, the fund targets post-seed to Series A startups in fintech, edtech, SaaS, cybersecurity, gaming, and e-commerce across Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Portfolio companies include Vivoo, Platma, Cognitiwe, Cargon, TASS Vision, and KLIPY. The fund is distinctive as the pioneer institutional VC vehicle in the Azerbaijani ecosystem, backed by state innovation infrastructure and private capital.
Develops Internet-of-Crops IoT sensors and AI analytics for post-harvest crop quality monitoring, pest management and food-safety compliance across the agricultural supply chain. Founded 2016.
Seventh edition of Georgia's flagship technology conference at Factory Tbilisi, gathering 1,000+ IT professionals and 50+ speakers across AI & digital transformation, big data, cybersecurity, and IT infrastructure tracks.
eCommerce intelligence platform that makes brands' products shoppable across retailers via 'Where to Buy' technology, shoppable media and digital shelf analytics. Clients include Philips and Coca-Cola. Founded 2013.
International trade fair for food and beverage technology at Fiere di Parma. Hosts World Pasta Day 2026 alongside new Bakery and Beverage districts, showcasing AI, automation, robotics, traceability and energy-efficiency solutions for the food industry.
Speyer-based deep-tech startup building a SaaS platform for green hydrogen production optimisation and virtual power plant management. Its AI-driven platform helps hydrogen producers manage electrolysers, balance supply and demand, and participate in energy markets. Available on the SAP Store.
CitySwift is a Galway-based AI and big data platform that optimises public transport networks, helping operators plan routes, schedules, and resource allocation in real time. Founded in 2016 by Alan Farrelly and Brian O'Rourke, the company's SaaS platform processes over 1 billion passenger journeys per year. Having raised €14.5 million in total funding, CitySwift serves major transport networks across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Wales, New York, and is expanding into APAC markets.
Clarity AI is a sustainability-technology platform that uses machine learning and big data to measure the environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact of companies, funds and governments. It serves financial institutions and regulators, covering 70,000+ companies and 400,000+ funds.
Cleo is a London-based fintech founded in 2016 that offers an AI-powered money assistant delivered as a chat app, helping mostly younger users in the US and UK budget, save, manage debt and improve their financial health through conversational nudges and cash-advance features. It reached unicorn status on the back of rapid US growth.
Automated code-quality and security platform (static analysis, SAST, secret and dependency scanning, AI guardrails) supporting 40+ languages; used by 15,000+ organizations. Founded 2012.
Cognigy is a Düsseldorf-based conversational AI company founded in 2016 that builds an enterprise platform for AI agents and voice and chat automation, letting large organisations handle customer service across phone, chat and messaging channels. Its low-code platform integrates with contact-centre systems and large language models. In 2025 Cognigy was acquired by the customer-experience software company NiCE.
Coinvest Capital is a state-backed co-investment fund established in 2018 as a 100% subsidiary of the National Development Bank ILTE, itself owned by Lithuania's Ministry of Finance, and co-funded by the European Union. The fund's model requires all investments to be made alongside accredited business angels or other VC funds, splitting upside in favour of private co-investors to grow Lithuania's angel ecosystem. With €44.3 million in committed capital, it has deployed over €25.9 million into 51 portfolio companies spanning AI, climate, biotech, defence, and frontier tech. Since 2023 it has earmarked roughly €6.8 million specifically for aerospace, defence, and dual-use startups, making it one of the earliest European sovereign funds to lean into defence tech.
Fintech ecosystem providing AI-driven credit scoring, micro-credit, BNPL and investment services to consumers, plus B2B Banking-as-a-Service infrastructure for third parties.
Comand AI is a Paris-based defence-tech startup founded in 2023 that builds AI software to support military command and decision-making. Its product, Prevail, helps command-centre officers plan and execute manoeuvres under time and resource constraints, using AI simulations and analysis of operational data to speed up planning. CEO and co-founder Loïc Mougeolle previously spent nearly a decade at Naval Group, and the team includes people from companies such as Palantir and OpenAI as well as the French armed forces. The company raised 8.5M euro in seed funding in December 2024 led by Eurazeo, and has worked with the French and German militaries.
Two-day 5-in-1 conference at Eiffel Art Studios covering AI/ML, engineering leadership, product management, UX, and data engineering. Theme: 'From idea to impact: building successful products in the AI era.' Expected 1,300+ attendees.
Comudel develops a business operating system that automates workflows, legal contract handling, and AI-assisted financial operations for companies. Founded in 2022, it is associated with Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Instituto Pedro Nunes, operates from The Fintech House in Lisbon, and participated in the SPRINT accelerator focused on compliance and enterprise operations.
conmeet offers AI workflow automation for SMB craft and construction businesses. It processes inbound messages from channels such as email and chat, drafts responses, supports scheduling, and streamlines quote preparation so teams can reduce office overhead and focus on delivery work.
Corti is a Copenhagen-based AI company founded in 2016 that initially gained recognition for building real-time AI assistants for emergency call centers, helping dispatchers detect cardiac arrests and other critical conditions during 112/911 calls. The company has since expanded into broader healthcare AI infrastructure, providing clinical documentation, medical coding, and workflow automation tools for hospitals and health systems. Corti's models are trained on millions of patient interactions and support clinicians in making faster, more accurate decisions. The company is one of Denmark's most prominent healthcare AI startups.
Cosmose AI is a Polish-founded retail-AI company that predicts offline shopping behavior for hundreds of millions of consumers across Asia and integrates with on-device advertising and rewards platforms. Founded by Miron Mironiuk in Warsaw, the company has raised funding from international investors including Tim Draper, Tencent, and Polish operator-angels Brent Hoberman and Paweł Kastory.
Cloud FinOps and governance SaaS that helps enterprises monitor, govern and optimise spend across Google Cloud, AWS and Azure using automated recommendations and AI-driven insights.
Cradle is an Amsterdam-based biotech startup using generative AI to accelerate protein engineering. Founded in 2021 by former Google DeepMind researchers, the platform enables scientists to design and optimize proteins for therapeutics, vaccines, enzymes, and novel materials far faster than traditional methods. Cradle raised over $33 million, including a Series A led by Index Ventures, and works with pharmaceutical and industrial biotech customers globally. The company sits at the intersection of machine learning and life sciences, representing one of Europe's most promising AI-for-biology plays.
No-code platform for CRM and business process automation with AI-native workflow tools. Founded in Kyiv, it reached unicorn status in 2024 after a $200M round at a $1.2B valuation.
International SEO and digital growth conference on the Adriatic coast featuring 18 speakers, 5 masterminds and hands-on workshops covering technical SEO, content strategy and AI search.
Cropler, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, develops a portable digital agronomy system that delivers real-time field insights through smart agri-cameras and soil sensors. It pairs on-field hardware with a web-based analytics platform to monitor plant health and soil conditions, helping farmers track phenophases, detect diseases early and act on AI-based recommendations. Cropler reports its devices are used in 25 countries.
CulturePulse builds AI systems that create “digital twins” of societies to model social dynamics and predict conflict or messaging resonance. Initially used in defense and security contexts, the technology has expanded into brand and marketing testing for large enterprises. By 2026, CulturePulse holds a unique position at the intersection of social science, AI, and strategic forecasting.
CuspAI is a frontier AI company building a generative-AI search engine for materials that accelerates the discovery and design of new molecules and engineered materials. Users specify desired properties (for example, selective CO2 binding for carbon capture), and the platform generates, evaluates, and optimises synthesisable candidate structures. It combines generative foundation models, deep learning, and molecular and scientific simulation, targeting applications across carbon capture, water purification, energy storage, catalysis, and industrial chemistry. The company was co-founded in 2024 by Dr Chad Edwards (CEO) and Prof Max Welling (CTO), and is headquartered in Cambridge.
Switzerland's largest blockchain, AI and digital-assets business conference at Kongresshaus Zurich. Two days, four stages, 3,000+ attendees and 250 speakers spanning Web3, AI and tokenized finance for founders, investors, institutions and policymakers.
Annual international cybersecurity conference organised by CERT.LV across three tracks (#CyberStory, #CyberShock, #BalticDomainDays) with policy panels, technical sessions on AI security and threat intel, plus a two-day Capture the Flag competition.
Three-day AI conference at Radisson Blu Larnaca with 40+ speakers covering AI applications across healthcare, finance, law, education and creative work, with keynotes, workshops, startup showcases and live demos.
Daniel Ek is the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, which he launched in 2006 and took public on the NYSE in 2018. Outside Spotify, Ek is an active angel investor and a key figure in Stockholm's thriving tech ecosystem. Through his personal investments and Prima Materia, his private investment firm, Ek backs early-stage European startups across healthcare, AI, defense tech, and consumer technology. He invested EUR 100M into Prima Materia to support moonshot companies working on some of Europe's hardest problems. Ek has also backed several Nordic startups directly as an angel, and his presence in the ecosystem has helped attract global attention and talent to Sweden's startup scene. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful European tech founders of his generation.
Vice President of the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency), Germany's regulator for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railways, with a focus on digital infrastructure and AI governance. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit (AIDAQ) in Berlin.
Darktrace is a cybersecurity company founded in 2013 in Cambridge by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge alongside former intelligence professionals. The company pioneered the use of self-learning AI for cyber defense, modeling the immune system to detect novel threats and anomalous behavior across enterprise networks, cloud, email, and operational technology. Darktrace listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024 in a deal valuing the company at approximately $5.3 billion. Its products serve over 8,000 organizations globally.
Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for software engineering teams. Because it is built directly on the open OpenTelemetry standard, it ingests logs, metrics, and distributed traces from any stack, vendor, or environment without requiring proprietary agents, positioning this openness as a way to avoid vendor lock-in. The product covers application and infrastructure performance monitoring, log management with filtering and search, distributed tracing, and Kubernetes monitoring. It was founded by Mirko Novakovic, who previously founded the observability company Instana.
Munich-based conference on applied data science, machine learning, and AI in the enterprise, with talks from data leaders at BMW, Siemens, Allianz, and top European scale-ups. Strong focus on real-world ML use cases, data engineering, and MLOps. 2,000+ attendees. Tickets EUR 450-990.
Southeast Europe's largest data science and AI conference, held in Belgrade with 1,200+ data scientists, ML engineers, and analytics leaders from across the Balkans, CEE, and Western Europe. Three days of talks, hands-on workshops, and a career fair. Content spans applied ML, LLMs in production, MLOps, and data engineering at scale. Tickets EUR 200-600.
Ireland's leading data centre conference and exhibition at the RDS Dublin. Combines 100+ exhibitors with multi-stream conference tracks covering colocation, AI, power, cooling and sustainability for 2,000+ infrastructure professionals.
Builds eco-friendly data centres using direct chip liquid cooling and hermetic server enclosures, recovering up to 98% of waste heat for building heating or grid re-injection. Cuts data-centre CO2 emissions by up to 82% while reducing energy costs.
Dataiku is an enterprise AI platform that enables data teams to collaboratively build, deploy, and manage machine learning and analytics projects at scale. Founded in Paris and now also headquartered in New York, Dataiku serves over 500 enterprise customers including Unilever, GE, and Sephora. The platform bridges the gap between data scientists, analysts, and business users, and was valued at $3.7 billion after its 2022 Series F round.
Enterprise data platform startup founded in Tbilisi in 2021, offering the Unistream product — a data warehouse, automated reporting, and AI-assisted analytics suite aimed at the financial sector. DataMind is used by approximately 70% of banking organisations in Georgia and is backed by 500 Global. The company is targeting expansion into the Baltic states, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Data, IoT and AI company building custom and pre-made machine-learning solutions for industrial clients in agriculture, manufacturing, biotech and foodtech, with a team of 80+ across Prague and Brno.
DataSnipper is an Amsterdam-based software company that develops an intelligent automation platform, delivered largely as an Excel add-in, which uses AI to extract, cross-reference and validate data from documents for auditors and finance teams. It became a unicorn in 2024 after a 100 million dollar funding round led by Index Ventures and is used by audit firms and finance departments worldwide.
Invite-driven summit at Monte Kristo Estate bringing frontier AI labs, decentralised AI networks, and policymakers together around AI governance and regulation. Positioned as the global inflection point for the DeAI ecosystem.
Dealita.ai is an AI-powered deal-flow management platform that automates the screening and initial evaluation of inbound investment opportunities for venture capital and private equity funds. Its algorithms process pitch decks and company data to perform initial filtering and scoring against investor-defined criteria, reducing manual triage workload. Dealita won the Startup of the Year 2024 award in Riga.
Platform engineer working on applied AI at Zephyr Cloud, a long-time developer advocate and web testing and tooling specialist in the JavaScript ecosystem. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
AI-powered digital pathology company pairing artificial intelligence with a global network of expert pathologists. Its Diagnexia (clinical) and Patholytix (preclinical) platforms speed diagnosis and ease the pathologist shortage. Founded 2017.
DeepJudge is a Zurich-based legal AI company founded in 2021 by AI researchers who met while completing PhDs at ETH Zurich. Its platform provides intent-driven, retrieval-first enterprise search across a law firm's internal document repositories and data sources such as SharePoint, OneDrive and document management systems, enabling permission-respecting access to institutional knowledge before generating AI responses. The product supports multi-document analysis and LLM-powered workflows for legal teams. Reported customers include Freshfields, Holland & Knight, Gunderson Dettmer and Homburger, and the company maintains teams in the United States and Canada.
Maritime AI company building vessel-performance optimization and semi-autonomous shipping software (Cassandra, Pythia) to cut fuel use and emissions. Founded 2017, acquired by Japan's Nabtesco in 2023.
deepset is a Berlin-based AI company founded in 2018 that helps enterprises build custom natural-language and LLM applications. It created Haystack, a widely used open-source framework for retrieval-augmented generation and LLM pipelines, and offers a commercial enterprise platform on top of it for building production AI agents and search systems.
AI-powered asset performance management ('virtual engineer') platform for wind, solar, hydro and battery storage assets. Global HQ in Barcelona. Raised about EUR 6.3M in 2024.
Leading international B2B event on AI and exponential technologies at FYCMA Málaga, bringing 400+ companies presenting 700+ innovations across AI, data, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, retail tech, and startups to 15,000 C-level professionals.
Bucharest-based AI platform that provides a context layer for enterprise software development, generating production-ready applications aligned to a company's existing design systems, architecture standards, and internal documentation. Upgraded EUROCONTROL's legacy software in six weeks instead of six months. Raised $5.5M seed from Begin Capital and Gapminder VC.
Bulgaria's largest developer community conference organized by DEV.BG, with 1,500+ developers attending talks on cloud-native, AI/ML engineering, frontend frameworks, and career growth. Sofia edition features 40+ speakers, a job fair, and workshops. Tickets from EUR 30.
Devo is a cloud-native security data platform that replaces legacy SIEM with real-time analytics, SOAR, and AI-driven behavioral analytics. Founded in Madrid in 2011 as Logtrust, it rebranded to Devo and expanded globally with headquarters now in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its European hub in Madrid. The platform serves enterprise security operations centers with ThreatLink automated alert triage and Behavior Analytics AI models. Devo has raised $481M in total funding, including a $100M Series D from Georgian, Bessemer, and Insight Partners, and holds a US Air Force SIEM contract worth $9.5M.
Europe's largest community-driven developer conference at Kinepolis Antwerp, themed 'From Developer to Builder'. Five days covering Java, architecture, GenAI agents, Model Context Protocol, security and modern development practices for thousands of developers worldwide.
The largest tech conference in Central & Eastern Europe at Romexpo Pavilion B1, with 14 stages on AI, machine learning, cloud, DevOps, cybersecurity, quantum, and dev leadership; 100,000+ developers, tech leaders, and IT decision-makers.
Dexory is a UK-based warehouse intelligence company that combines autonomous mobile robots with AI software to give logistics operators real-time visibility into their inventory. Founded in 2015 as BotsAndUs, it rebranded to Dexory in November 2022 after pivoting toward warehouse inventory intelligence. Its purpose-built robots autonomously scan warehouses and feed data into the DexoryView cloud platform, which builds real-time digital twins of facilities for inventory tracking and operational optimisation. The company serves sectors including third-party logistics, retail, manufacturing, and air cargo, and is headquartered in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
Two of Estonia's biggest software events join forces at Kammivabrik in Tartu under the theme 'Driving the Change'. Hands-on sessions on LLM integration, agent workflows, and developer tooling, plus city-wide meet-ups and an afterparty.
DIGITALEUROPE's annual policy summit convening EU Member State representatives, the European Commission and global tech industry leaders on Europe's digital sovereignty, AI regulation, data governance and sustainability under the theme 'Scaling the Digital Frontier'.
DLD Munich 2027 brings together 1,500+ pioneers from tech, business, science, and culture for three days of ideas and connections in Munich. The annual flagship conference runs immediately before the World Economic Forum in Davos, making it a key gathering point for global leaders. The 2027 edition dates are publicly announced on the official site with attendee notifications opening shortly.
Europe's leading digital marketing and tech expo, drawing 40,000+ martech, adtech, and e-commerce professionals to Cologne every September. DMEXCO combines a conference track with a massive expo floor where agencies, SaaS vendors, and publishers exhibit. Key topics include programmatic advertising, retail media, AI-driven personalization, and privacy-first marketing. Tickets EUR 99-499.
Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, leading global efforts on digital connectivity and AI governance. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
German politician serving as Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space, and previously Minister of State for Digitalisation. A long-standing advocate for Germany's digital and deep-tech agenda, she is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit in Berlin.
IDA's flagship annual IT conference at Kalvebod Brygge with approximately 38 presentations across multiple tracks including AI, security, privacy, UX, and green IT. Traditionally sells out and draws Denmark's leading software, project, and IT strategy practitioners.
Druid AI is a Bucharest-born conversational AI company building enterprise-grade virtual employees that combine intent-based dialogue, knowledge grounding, and deep integration into business systems of record such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and UiPath. The platform is aimed at large organizations that want to stand up internal and external chat- and voice-based assistants without stitching together LLM wrappers, retrieval plumbing, and orchestration logic from scratch, and it competes in the same category as Kore.ai and Cognigy from a Romanian R&D base. Druid has raised over USD 50 million in growth capital led by TCV and is one of the clearest examples of a second-generation Romanian enterprise software company riding the UiPath-trained talent pool into the agentic-AI era. It also illustrates how Bucharest's RPA heritage flows naturally into conversational and agentic automation.
Paris-based enterprise AI platform that lets teams deploy internal AI assistants connected to company knowledge sources such as Notion, Slack, Salesforce, and GitHub without writing code. Raised a $40M Series B led by Sequoia Capital Europe in 2025.
Armenia's specialized trade fair at the intersection of logistics, e-commerce, and supply chain innovation, combining expo, summit, and hackathon formats at the Karen Demirchyan Complex. Summit tracks cover sustainable logistics, cross-border trade compliance, AI in supply chains, and digital commerce trends.
Early Game Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm that launched its first fund in 2019 focused on Romanian tech startups, achieving a reported 45% IRR on Fund I with 4 exits from 28 portfolio companies including Bunnyshell and Profluo. In April 2024 the firm launched Fund II targeting €60 million to invest in early-stage startups across CEE — primarily Romania (60–70%), with the remainder across Europe — at ticket sizes up to €6 million. Focus sectors include SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and deep tech.
EBO is a Malta-founded conversational and generative AI company specialising in automated customer engagement for regulated industries. Founded in 2017 by Dr. Gege Gatt, the platform deploys multilingual Virtual Agents across healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, and iGaming, operating in over 100 languages and delivering 24/7 automated dialogue across any channel. EBO's clients report over 80% reduction in customer interaction costs. The company has raised $3.5 million, counts BMIT Technologies among its investors, and operates from Birkirkara with additional offices in London and Milan.
EIT Digital Accelerator is a pan-European programme backed by the EU's European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), supporting deep tech scaleups with tailored business development, investor introductions, and international customer acquisition since 2012. It operates across 18 European cities and a San Francisco hub, and has supported nearly 300 startups that collectively raised €1.5 billion, with over €100 million directly facilitated by the Accelerator. Focus areas include AI, cybersecurity, digital industry, digital health, and fintech.
Elaia is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2002, specializing in deep tech, AI, and enterprise software with strong ties to French and European research institutions. The firm manages over EUR 1B across multiple funds and invests from seed to Series B, with typical initial tickets of EUR 1-5M. Elaia has built a portfolio of 100+ companies including Criteo (IPO), Mirakl, Shift Technology, Dental Monitoring, and Lifen. The team maintains close relationships with labs at INRIA, CNRS, and leading universities, making Elaia a go-to partner for research spin-offs commercializing cutting-edge technology.
Elastics is a Warsaw-based startup building an AI-native operating system for prediction markets. Powered by auditable AI agents, its platform lets traders build and automate trading workflows in plain language, from signal generation through execution. The company was founded in April 2025 by Szymon Pawica (CEO) and Mateusz Brodowicz (CTO).
Berlin-based EdTech startup building an AI-powered training and knowledge platform for frontline teams in the energy and climate-tech sector. The platform helps employers close skills gaps, combat the shortage of qualified workers, and deliver bite-sized training that field employees can complete on mobile.
Professional email platform from Toulouse-based NovaForma Studio, combining a unified inbox (Gmail OAuth plus 20+ IMAP providers), AI features (summaries, multi-tone drafting, smart categorisation, 11-language translation), a built-in CRM, email tracking and voice dictation. Positioned as a GDPR-compliant French sovereign alternative to Gmail and Outlook.
Emma is an AI-powered English language learning app developed by the Paris-based EdTech company Edailabs. The app focuses on conversational immersion: learners practice speaking with an AI coach that analyses pronunciation, corrects grammar and adapts the conversation to the learner's level, aiming to reproduce natural spoken-exchange conditions. The product features an interactive avatar tutor. In December 2025 Edailabs raised €5M led by the specialist fund Educapital, with participation from Breega, Seedcamp, DMG Ventures and Yellow Ventures. This is the French AI-tutor company, distinct from the unrelated mattress brand of the same name.
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.
Entrepreneur First (EF) is a London-headquartered talent-first investor founded in 2011 by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck, both former McKinsey consultants. EF pioneered the concept of Talent Investing — recruiting exceptional individuals before they have a co-founder or idea, then supporting them to form teams and build companies — across offices in London, Paris, Bangalore, New York, and San Francisco. The firm manages a fund of $158 million and has helped create over 600 companies with a combined portfolio value exceeding $11 billion. EF's standout portfolio companies include Tractable (AI for accident repair, valued at ~$1 billion), Cleo (personal finance AI), and Magic Pony Technology (acquired by Twitter).
Epidemic Sound is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm that operates a royalty-free music and audio licensing platform for content creators. Founded in 2009, it provides creators, businesses, broadcasters and agencies access to a library of music tracks and sound effects, owning the rights to its catalog so users can publish and monetise content without separate licensing. The platform offers a Studio tool, mobile and desktop apps, and integrations with software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. In March 2021 it raised a growth round led by EQT Growth and Blackstone at a reported $1.4 billion valuation.
Episode 1 Ventures is a London-based seed and pre-seed fund founded in 2013 by Simon Murdoch, Damien Lane, and Adrian Lloyd, all experienced entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies. The firm closed its third fund at £76 million in February 2024, bringing total capital managed to over £170 million across three vehicles. Episode 1 focuses on software-driven businesses in AI, infrastructure, health, open-source, and marketplace sectors, writing initial cheques of up to £2 million. The fund has backed 69 companies and achieved a 73% Series A graduation rate — three times the industry average — with notable portfolio companies including Carwow, Huboo, CloudNC, and Robin AI.
EQT Ventures is the VC arm of EQT Group, launched in 2016 in Stockholm with offices in London, Berlin, and San Francisco. Managing over EUR 2.2B, the firm invests EUR 1-25M from seed through Series C in AI, fintech, mobility, and marketplaces. EQT Ventures uses Motherbrain, its proprietary AI deal-sourcing platform, to identify opportunities early. Portfolio includes Einride, Epidemic Sound, Voi, and Wolt. The fund leverages EQT's network of 300+ industrial advisors for strategic support.
10th edition at Nova SBE Carcavelos, theme 'Reignite Democracy'. Free convening of Nobel laureates, heads of state, activists and young leaders across five pillars including AI & Tech, Health & Preparedness and Global Peace. Limited seats.
Autonomous ethical-hacking platform combining AI agents and human hackers to run continuous penetration testing across external assets, internal networks, mobile apps and cloud environments.
Founded 2009. One of Europe's largest incubators, hosting 200+ startups annually with multi-stage programs from incubation to acceleration, plus labs and funding access. Ranked a top French startup hub; alumni include fintech scaleups and AI firms. Scope: Regional (Hauts-de-France) with international reach.
Europe's largest Python community conference, held in 2026 at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre in Krakow, Poland. Around 1,500 developers, data scientists and ML engineers gather for tutorials (Jul 13-14), three main conference days (Jul 15-17) and sprints (Jul 18-19). Content spans Python for AI/ML, web frameworks, data engineering and open source, with keynotes from Python creator Guido van Rossum and core developers.
Wrocław festival at the intersection of AI, business and art, organised by Startup Wrocław (ARAW) together with OVHcloud. A 26 May 'Day Zero' (kayaking on the Odra and networking) precedes two main days: 27 May brings workshops on marketing, AI, go-to-market and scaling plus Fintech Trends Poland, and 28 May a conference on AI, creativity and European cloud sovereignty with VC pitching, featuring experts from Capgemini, ZAiKS, Zowie, Bielik AI, Niebezpiecznik.pl and OVHcloud.
Ewa Chronowska is a Warsaw-based venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded Next Road Ventures, a Polish early-stage VC backing B2B SaaS and marketplace startups across Europe. She is also founder and CEO of Vestbee, the largest startup-investor matchmaking platform in Central and Eastern Europe, and organises the annual CEE VC Summit — the region's flagship gathering for fund managers and LPs. Recognised as one of Europe's youngest female General Partners, she has backed 15+ companies including TrustMate, Epinote and Sunroof.
AI-driven materials-discovery platform spun out of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) that accelerates identification of novel materials by up to 90%. Clients including Audi, Airbus and Infineon use it to focus R&D on the most promising candidates.
Future Realised is EY Malta's flagship annual business forum, now in its 22nd year, held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta. The 2026 edition is built around two themes, geopolitics and artificial intelligence, convening over 1,000 senior executives, policymakers and international stakeholders to discuss Malta's competitiveness, resilience and how organisations can scale AI, including sovereign AI, with proper governance and control.
AI-native fraud and financial-crime prevention platform for banks and payment networks, securing trillions in payments annually. Founded 2011; unicorn since 2021; selected by the ECB for Digital Euro fraud prevention.
London-based AI decision-intelligence platform for real-assets investors and managers. Its agentic AI Ellie unifies fragmented institutional and market data to prepare deal analyses, draft IC memos, monitor portfolio variance, and surface risk proactively. Serves clients with 98.4% accuracy on high-value lease-data extractions. Raised €22M Series A led by HV Capital.
Paris-based cybersecurity company that builds OpenCTI, an open-source threat intelligence platform used by national CERTs, defence agencies, and Fortune 500 security teams. The platform ingests and correlates threat feeds to help analysts map adversary infrastructure and prioritise incident response. Raised a Series A to accelerate international expansion.
Firstminute Capital is a London-based seed-stage venture firm founded by Brent Hoberman (Lastminute.com, Founders Forum) and Spencer Crawley. The fund backs first-cheque seed rounds across consumer, B2B SaaS, deep tech, and AI, with a strong LP base that includes more than 100 European founders. Firstminute is known for its global founder network and for taking convicted bets very early in a startup's life.
FIRSTPICK is a Vilnius-based pre-seed and inception-stage VC fund founded in 2022 by Dmitrij Sosunov and Andra Bagdonaitė. It backs early-stage founders from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with initial cheques of €100,000 to €500,000 and follow-on capacity up to €1 million, focusing on AI-enabled software. In 2026 the fund raised a second €25 million vehicle, bringing total AUM across two funds to €45 million. Portfolio companies gain access to a network of 100+ operators and 250+ founders.
Flanks is a Barcelona-based WealthTech platform that aggregates multi-custodian investment portfolio data for banks, wealth managers, and advisory firms. Founded in 2019 by Joaquim de la Cruz, Álvaro Morales (ex-Global Head of Santander Private Banking), and Sergi Lao, it is regulated as an AISP by the Bank of Spain. In early 2026 Flanks launched an AI Financial Advisor co-pilot, was selected by CaixaBank to power its GlobalView private banking aggregation, and introduced EDX — Europe's first standardised financial data exchange protocol. Over 100 institutions managing €37B+ in portfolios use the platform. Total funding: €14M (Series A, February 2025).
Flo Health is the world's most popular women's health app, offering AI-powered period and ovulation tracking, pregnancy monitoring, and personalized health insights to over 300 million users. The company combines reproductive health data with machine learning to provide tailored content and predictions, and has expanded into telehealth and wellness features. Flo represents a major European consumer health success story.
Flower is a Stockholm-based energytech company founded in 2020 by John Diklev; its name is a contraction of flexible power. Flower develops hardware-agnostic AI and machine-learning software for forecasting, optimisation, and trading of flexible energy assets, including large-scale battery energy storage systems, solar and wind farms, hydro, EV charge points, and data centres, operating them as a virtual power plant to provide grid balancing, frequency regulation, congestion management, and day-ahead trading. Alongside its optimisation platform, Flower develops and operates grid-scale battery storage projects in Sweden. The company raised a Series A round led by Northzone in 2024.
Flowtly is a Warsaw-based AI business-management platform — marketed as an AI ERP — that replaces a stack of disconnected tools with a single system for small and medium-sized businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. The platform covers finance and invoicing, HR and team operations, leave tracking, project management, time tracking and a reservation system, accessible via web and mobile apps. It targets service-oriented SMBs of 2–100 employees in sectors such as software, consulting, marketing, B2B real estate and medical services. Built and operated by Flowtly P.S.A., the company is led by co-founders Bernhard Huber (CEO), Katarzyna Lisiecka (CRO) and Andrzej Nowiczenko (COO), whose backgrounds span enterprise software, high-growth digital products and financial supervision. Flowtly offers a developer API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connecting to 50+ platforms, and in November 2025 launched a verified connector on Make for no-code automation. The product holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and is GDPR-compliant. No external funding has been publicly disclosed.
Flyer One Ventures is a Ukrainian early-stage VC originally founded in 2018 as Genesis Investments by Vital Laptenok (co-founder of Genesis and BetterMe), rebranding under its current name in 2021. The firm has invested nearly €39M across 95 startups in Ukraine and Central & Eastern Europe across four funds. In July 2025 it closed Fund V at a target of €50M, backed by EBRD (€6.5M) and IFC (€5M), focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage founders from Ukraine and CEE building global products. The fund maintains a Kyiv identity and active pipeline of 1,300+ Ukrainian and regional founders despite operating with a distributed team.
Dublin-based AI tax operating system for global businesses covering the full indirect tax lifecycle: ID validation, real-time determination, e-invoicing, and returns across 190+ jurisdictions processing over a billion transactions annually. Clients include Uber, Netflix, and Canva. Raised €94.4M Series C in 2026 and acquired PwC's tax platform.
Europe's largest food innovation congress at Bilbao Exhibition Centre, with 250+ exhibitors and 320+ speakers covering automation, robotics, AI, packaging, and sustainability across the food and beverage value chain. Italy is 2026 guest partner country.
FOTOhub, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Bydgoszcz, is an AI-powered creative platform that lets users generate and edit images, video, audio and text within a single system. Its orchestration layer integrates multiple AI models so creators and businesses can produce multimedia content without switching tools, alongside a browser-based studio with timeline video editing, audio mixing and design tools. The company reports over 400,000 users globally.
Frank Thelen is one of Germany's most recognized tech investors and serial entrepreneurs, widely known for his role as a judge on the TV show Die Hoehle der Loewen (the German equivalent of Shark Tank). Thelen founded several technology companies before launching 10xDNA, his deep-tech venture capital fund focused on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space tech, and synthetic biology. As an angel investor, he has backed dozens of early-stage German and European startups, bringing operational experience from building and scaling software companies since the late 1990s. He is a vocal advocate for bolder tech ambition in Germany and frequently speaks on digital transformation policy.
Frumtak Ventures is Iceland's oldest active venture capital firm, founded in 2008 with a mandate to back local innovation with global potential. The firm takes a concentrated, high-conviction approach from seed through later growth stages, partnering closely with founders across AI, healthcare, logistics, energy, climate, and ocean-tech. Its fourth fund, closed in July 2024 at $87 million and oversubscribed, is primarily backed by Icelandic pension funds. The portfolio of 34 companies includes notable companies such as Controlant (pharma cold-chain) and Sidekick Health (digital therapeutics).
Romania's largest fintech-focused banking summit at QOSMO Hotel in Brasov, with 30+ debate topics covering payments trends, SME financing, neobanking, and geopolitical impact on banking; 500+ participants and 50+ speakers in 2025.
A three-day AI-focused conference at Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, blending curated talks with hands-on masterclasses. Targets product designers, engineers, and data professionals building real-world AI products, emphasising practical insights over hype.
FYLD is a London-based company offering an AI-powered frontline intelligence and field work execution platform for the global infrastructure sector, including utilities, heavy civil infrastructure, and energy. Field teams capture short videos instead of completing static forms, and FYLD's AI analyses site conditions to identify safety, quality, and delivery risks before they escalate, while giving managers live visibility across jobs and automatically documenting actions for compliance and audit. It serves complex infrastructure organisations including Southern Water, Yorkshire Water, Ferrovial, Kier, and Amey.
Fyxer AI is a London-based startup that builds an AI assistant for email and meetings, working inside Gmail and Outlook so users have nothing new to learn. Its product organises and prioritises the inbox, drafts replies in the user's own voice based on past conversations, and acts as a meeting companion that joins calls and takes notes. The company grew out of an executive assistant agency run by brothers Richard and Archie Hollingsworth before they launched the AI product, with Matt Ffrench as CTO. In September 2025 it raised a $30M Series B led by Madrona to expand into the US market.
GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based early-stage VC firm investing in B2B deep tech and SaaS startups from Romania and Southeast Europe, with portfolio companies including Druid.AI, FintechOS, TypingDNA, and Cyscale. Its second fund, GapMinder Fund II, targets €80 million — described as the largest VC fund with a primary Romania focus — and deploys first tickets up to €2.5 million in seed and late-seed stage companies across fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and data analytics. The fund targets founders from Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.
General Catalyst is a global venture capital firm that expanded aggressively into Europe through its London office. The firm invests across stages from seed to growth and has become one of the most active US-origin VCs in European tech, backing companies including Helsing, Parloa, Mistral AI, and PhysicsX. General Catalyst focuses on AI, defense tech, enterprise software, and climate, and manages over $25 billion in total assets.
Generative Bionics builds intelligent humanoid robots designed for real industrial environments, spinning out of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa where over 20 years of robotics R&D underpins the company's technology. Founded in July 2024 by Daniele Pucci, Alessio Del Bue, Marco Maggiali, and Andrea Pagnin, the company raised €70 million in December 2025 — one of Europe's largest humanoid robotics rounds — led by CDP Venture Capital's AI Fund with AMD Ventures, Eni Next, and Tether. Its robots, built on the iCub and ergoCub programs, are targeting deployment in manufacturing, logistics, and hazardous environments.
French AgriTech startup that rates soil health across 35 agronomic indicators—biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and pollution levels—using AI and sensor data, providing continuous monitoring for regenerative farming operations. Clients include LVMH, Rémy Cointreau, and Barilla. VivaTech 2026 Tech for Change finalist.
GESDA Summit convenes 1,000+ scientists, diplomats, policymakers and innovators at Palexpo Geneva to translate anticipated scientific breakthroughs across quantum, neurotech, AI, climate and global health into actionable coalitions and governance.
British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist widely regarded as a godfather of deep learning, a 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics and Turing Award winner for his work on neural networks. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference.
Paris-based hybrid human-AI contact-centre platform that deploys governed conversational agents for enterprise customer-experience operations. Unlike fully autonomous systems, GetVocal keeps human staff in control of critical decisions. Clients include Vodafone, Glovo, and Movistar. Raised $26M Series A from Creandum.
Annual full-day event organized by the City of Ghent and Start it @KBC showcasing the Flemish startup ecosystem: founder panels, investor office hours, corporate-innovation matchmaking, and a pitch competition with EUR 25K+ in prizes. 800+ attendees. Free admission. Ghent is home to TechWolf, Showpad, and a growing AI cluster around the IMEC/UGent research nexus.
Gideon Brothers develops AI and 3D-vision-based autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling in manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. Their flagship product TREY is an autonomous forklift for trailer loading and unloading, using stereoscopic cameras and deep learning for navigation. The company raised a $31 million Series A in 2021, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with backing from DB Schenker and Prologis Ventures.
Inaugural Türkiye edition of the global GITEX brand at Istanbul Expo Center, convening AI, cybersecurity, fintech, cloud, e-commerce, and data-center leaders, backed by Türkiye's Ministry of Industry & Technology and Dubai World Trade Centre.
Gladia is a Paris-based AI company that provides an API platform for real-time and asynchronous speech-to-text transcription and audio intelligence. Its engine supports more than 100 languages and is designed to handle diverse accents and mid-conversation language switching with low latency. The company positions itself as a developer-focused alternative to transcription services from larger cloud providers, serving use cases such as meeting tools, call analytics and media platforms. Gladia raised a $16M Series A in October 2024 led by XAnge to launch its multilingual real-time transcription and analytics engine.
Three-day decentralized tech & innovation festival at Factory Tbilisi with 200+ speakers across five stages and 80+ side events. Brings founders, investors, and creatives together around Web3, AI, FinTech, iGaming, and AgriTech.
Basque Country medical robotics company developing AI-powered exoskeletons for neurological rehabilitation. Its devices combine neuromodulation techniques with wearable robotics to help patients with stroke, spinal cord injury, or multiple sclerosis regain walking ability under clinical supervision. Featured at VivaTech 2026 in Paris.
Week-long distributed tech festival across Gothenburg with events hosted by Chalmers, Lindholmen Science Park, Volvo, and local startups. Covers automotive tech, AI, sustainability, and industrial IoT with a strong Gothenburg flavor. Most sessions free. Useful for founders in mobility, industrial tech, and climate who want to connect with Western Sweden's corporate-innovation ecosystem.
Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant founded in 2009 in Kyiv by Alex Shevchenko, Max Lytvyn, and Dmytro Lider. The platform offers real-time grammar, spelling, clarity, tone, and style suggestions across browsers, desktop apps, mobile keyboards, and enterprise integrations. Grammarly serves over 30 million daily active users and 70,000 enterprise customers, and has raised over $400 million at a valuation of $13 billion. Now headquartered in San Francisco with continued Ukrainian engineering roots, Grammarly is one of the most successful software companies to emerge from Ukraine and a global leader in AI-assisted communication.
Granola is a London-based maker of an AI-powered meeting notepad. The app combines a user's own typed notes with AI-generated content derived from a meeting's audio transcript, and captures audio directly from the user's device rather than sending a visible bot into video calls. It works across platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, and offers calendar integration, pre-meeting briefings, an AI chat over meeting context, and an iPhone app for in-person notes. The company was founded in 2023 by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson and has expanded from an individual meeting notetaker toward a collaborative AI workspace for teams.
Graphcore is a Bristol-based semiconductor company founded in 2016 that designed the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture built from the ground up for machine learning and AI workloads. The company raised over $700 million from investors including Sequoia Capital, BMW, Microsoft, and Samsung, reaching a valuation above $2.5 billion. Graphcore developed both hardware and a Poplar software stack to compete with NVIDIA in the AI accelerator market. Its IPU technology represented one of Europe's most ambitious attempts to build a homegrown AI chip ecosystem.
Gravity Ventures is a deep-tech startup incubator and venture builder based in Nicosia, operated by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Centre (CyRIC). Founded in 2016, it is described as the only deep-tech incubator in Cyprus, supporting startups in robotics, AI, IoT, photonics, advanced manufacturing, and MedTech. The programme covers idea validation, product design, prototyping, mentoring, commercialisation, IP protection, and funding access. Gravity Ventures has incubated 18 startups and invested over €10 million across its portfolio.
Berlin-based AI startup fighting disinformation by analysing the origin and publication context of images and videos to make reliable authenticity assessments. Built on a multi-agent framework of proprietary fine-tuned models developed in collaboration with DFKI. Won the SPRIND Deepfake Detection Challenge Award.
AI-driven energy optimisation platform managing distributed and flexible energy resources (battery storage, renewables, EVs, industrial loads) and connecting them to electricity markets across multiple jurisdictions. Founded 2010.
Growbots is an AI-powered outbound sales platform that automates lead generation and cold-email outreach for SMBs, combining a database of 180M+ contacts with multi-channel sequences, email warm-up and AI-generated messaging.
Gundbert Scherf is Co-founder & Co-CEO of the defence-AI company Helsing. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Gundbert leads the defence-AI company Helsing.
H (formerly Holistic) represents France’s second-wave AI builders: less focused on text generation and more focused on action. Founded in 2024 by a team that included former DeepMind researchers such as Charles Kantor and Laurent Sifre, the company drew attention with a seed round that eclipsed prior European records, signaling investor appetite for agentic AI. H’s core thesis is that the next leap is not bigger language models but AI systems that can plan, execute, and verify multi-step workflows across real software interfaces. The company frames this as “RPA 2.0,” using vision-language models to interact with screens and applications rather than brittle scripts and APIs. The firm’s early months were turbulent, including leadership turnover in late 2024, but the product roadmap accelerated. In November 2025 H launched Runner H, a vision-language agent that can see a desktop and operate mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks such as booking travel, compiling invoices, or processing customer tickets. The release of Surfer-H-CLI soon after gave developers a programmable surface for building web agents, which helped H win mindshare with the European developer community. An acquisition of Mithril Security in 2025 signaled a focus on secure, private agent deployment — a crucial requirement for enterprise adoption, where the biggest fear is an autonomous agent mishandling data or credentials. H is deeply embedded in the Paris AI ecosystem, with early incubation support from Aglae Ventures and strong ties to the Paris AI Hub around Sorbonne and Ecole Polytechnique. Its backers read like a who’s-who of strategic supporters: Accel led financing, Eric Schmidt invested personally, and strategic relationships with Amazon and UiPath position H as a bridge between cloud infrastructure and automation workflows. French tech patrons Xavier Niel and Bernard Arnault provide both capital and political signal value. By early 2026, H is widely watched as a potential category leader in action-oriented AI, competing to become the default “application layer” for autonomous digital workers across Europe’s enterprises.
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.
HappySignals is the leading SaaS platform for IT Experience Management (ITXM), measuring how employees perceive IT services and translating that data into productivity and service quality improvements. Founded in Helsinki in 2014, the platform covers over one million employees across 130 countries and integrates with major ITSM tools. In 2024 the company raised €12 million led by Mandatum Asset Management to fund global expansion. Customers using the platform report an average 26% increase in end-user productivity, and the company hosted the inaugural ITXM Summit in London in May 2026.
EdTech app founded in Kyiv in 2019 offering 15-minute text and audio summaries of nonfiction books, with gamified learning. Surpassed 150M users worldwide.
Helio.ai is an AI-powered recruiting platform from Tbilisi focused on automating candidate screening and improving hiring quality. The product combines ATS workflows, multilingual CV matching, and behavioral assessment tools to help teams make faster, less biased hiring decisions. The company has expanded across regional markets with backing from Georgian and international investors.
Hellas Direct is a Greek digital, full-stack insurance company offering car, motorbike and home insurance, along with related mobility services. Founded in 2011 by former consultants and bankers Alexis Pantazis and Emilios Markou, it uses a technology-driven model to provide fast online quotes and 24/7 claims handling. The company operates across Greece, Cyprus and Romania. In February 2024 it raised a €30 million Series B round led by ETF Partners to support climate-focused insurance products and further European expansion.
Helsing is a defense technology company building AI software systems for democratic governments and armed forces in Europe. Its platform fuses data from radar, drones, optical and infrared sensors to provide real-time situational awareness and operational decision support. After major growth financing in 2025, Helsing expanded across core European defense programs and into autonomous systems, including the HX-2 platform.
Henchman is a Belgian legal tech company based in Ghent, founded in 2020 by Gilles Mattelin, Jorn Vanysacker and Wouter Van Respaille. Its software connects to a law firm's or legal team's document management system and enriches that internal data so lawyers can draft contracts faster by surfacing and reusing clauses and definitions from their own past documents. The company served law firms and in-house legal teams across Europe and the United States. In June 2024 LexisNexis Legal & Professional (part of RELX) announced an agreement to acquire Henchman, completing the acquisition later in 2024.
All-in-one HR platform ('Bob') for mid-sized and multinational companies covering core HR, talent, payroll, benefits, workforce planning and an embedded AI assistant. Founded 2015 with London and Tel Aviv roots.
Hiventures is Hungary's largest state-backed venture capital firm, operating under the Hungarian Development Bank Group with approximately €258 million under management. Founded in 1999, it is the most active VC in Central and Eastern Europe by deal count, with over 420 investments made to date. The firm focuses exclusively on Hungarian startups and invests across all stages from pre-seed through growth, with a current thematic emphasis on AI, DeepTech, MedTech, and GreenTech. Its co-investment model and patient capital approach make it the primary first institutional money for Hungarian founders.
Founded 2012. Deutsche Telekom's tech incubator focused on 5G, IoT, and AI with campuses in Berlin and Krakow. Support: corporate seed funding, infrastructure access, expert mentoring, and co-creation pilots with Telekom. Notable alumni include IoT ventures integrated into Deutsche Telekom. Scope: International.
Hunch is a creative ads automation platform that combines AI-driven dynamic creative assembly, product-feed data science, and real-time social media placement for performance marketers. Founded in 2018 by Igor Simovic, Sinisa Rakovic, and Nikola Milenkovic, the platform enables brands and agencies to produce and personalise thousands of image and video ads at scale across Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Hunch has delivered over a billion personalised creative assets and executed more than 50,000 personalisation campaigns. The company raised a €4M Series A in 2022 led by Catalyst Romania, with participation from 3TS Capital Partners, Euroventures, SeedBlink, and South Central Ventures.
Hyperjob is a recruitment SaaS platform that lets companies create branded, interactive job-ad microsites reported to achieve up to six times higher candidate conversion rates than plain job board listings. Founded in 2021 by Janis Kreilis, Juris Sorokins, and Roberts Tomme, the company raised €435k in a seed round led by SMOK Ventures in 2023. The platform also offers automated, personalised LinkedIn and email candidate outreach.
ICIST 2026 is the 32nd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, hosted by Kaunas University of Technology. The two-day program brings together researchers, engineers, developers and industry practitioners across information systems, business intelligence, software engineering, AI, IoT, cybersecurity and IT applications, with peer-reviewed proceedings published by Springer. Remote participation is also available.
identifAI builds AI-powered deepfake and synthetic media detection technology, using 36 proprietary de-generative models to analyze images, videos, and audio for manipulation at pixel-level probabilistic patterns rather than superficial artefacts. Founded in 2024 in Cesena and Milan by cybersecurity veterans Marco Ramilli and Marco Castaldo, the company serves insurers, healthcare providers, HR departments, financial institutions, and government agencies for KYC verification and fraud prevention. Processing millions of checks daily, identifAI has raised €7.2 million (including €5 million led by United Ventures), was named a sample vendor in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Tech report, and counts Experian and KPMG among its clients.
Idoven is a Madrid-based digital health startup that uses AI to transform ECG analysis and cardiovascular diagnostics. Its Willem™ platform analyses 50,000 heartbeats in 60 seconds, identifying 86 electrical heart conditions that represent 90% of common cardiac problems — reaching 96.4% accuracy for atrial fibrillation detection. Founded in 2019 by Manuel Marina Breysse, José María Lillo Castellano, and Íñigo Juantegui, the company raised €18.5M Series A co-led by Insight Partners and Northzone with Wayra participation. Idoven operates B2B through hospitals, pharmaceutical trials, and healthcare systems, and employs 71 people as of early 2026.
Imagga is a Sofia-based computer-vision company that sells image-understanding as an API: automatic tagging, categorization, adult-content moderation, face detection, color extraction, visual similarity, and custom-trained classifiers for domain-specific use cases. The product is used by stock-photo platforms, digital asset management vendors, e-commerce catalogs, and moderation teams that need to understand millions of images without staffing a full ML team internally. Founded in 2008 by Georgi Kadrev and Chris Georgiev, Imagga is one of the oldest continuously operating computer-vision API providers in Europe — predating most of the current AI wave — and has been used in millions of production deployments. Today it competes with Google Vision, AWS Rekognition, and Clarifai from a Sofia engineering base, and continues to specialize in on-premise and private-cloud deployments that US hyperscaler APIs cannot match.
Launched 1999 by Institut Mines-Telecom. Incubator for tech startups from students and researchers with programs like START@IMT and SCALE'Up; focuses on AI, big data, and VR with early-stage funding options. Scope: Regional (Ile-de-France).
Ukraine's largest crypto and Web3 gathering, returning for its fourth edition at Parkovy with 3,000+ attendees and 50+ speakers across a main stage and workshop track. 2026 emphasis is on AI integration in Web3, with BingX, OKX, and MEXC headlining.
London-based AI research lab founded by David Silver, former lead of DeepMind's reinforcement-learning team, aiming to build a self-improving AI that discovers knowledge entirely from experience without relying on human-labelled data. Raised a record $1.1B seed round at a $5.1B valuation, backed by Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, Google, and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund.
Health AI company building medical guidance and triage tools for providers, insurers, and digital health platforms. Its platform automates symptom assessment and patient routing in multiple languages across international markets.
Info-Tech LIVE is the EMEA flagship conference of analyst firm Info-Tech Research Group, gathering CIOs, senior IT leaders and technology executives at the Grand Hyatt Barcelona. The 2026 edition runs under the theme "Agentic IT: From Hype to Value", with 20+ keynotes, analyst-led sessions, hands-on workshops and peer roundtables on turning AI investments into measurable business value.
Intelligent, collaborative facilities and maintenance management (CMMS) SaaS platform managing 50,000+ buildings across 17+ countries; clients include Primark, Siemens and Marriott. Founded 2015.
Warsaw-based AI biotech founded in 2023 by the team behind Applica (acquired by Snowflake), building a Biological Reasoning Engine that fuses multimodal biological data to accelerate oncology drug discovery. Raised €13M led by Sofinnova Partners.
Inkitt is a Berlin-based reader-powered book publishing platform founded in 2014 by Ali Albazaz. The platform uses AI and reader engagement data to identify commercially promising stories from independent authors and offers publishing deals to the most successful ones. Inkitt also operates GALATEA, a mobile storytelling app that has reached significant consumer traction globally. The company has raised multiple funding rounds including a Series C led by Khosla Ventures.
Innoland (Innovations Center LLC) is an incubation and acceleration center established in November 2018 under the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations (ASAN). Over six years it has incubated 88 startups, accelerated 36 ventures, hosted 25 co-working residents, and organized more than 50 hackathons. It also runs an IT training academy and offers virtual residency for remote teams.
Eleventh edition of southern Italy's flagship innovation fair at Villa Doria d'Angri. Connects startups, universities, research centres and corporates via B2B and R2B speed-dating, with the Innovation Village Award honouring projects aligned to the UN SDGs.
The largest Czech innovation conference, in its 11th edition at ČSOB Campus, with 4 stages, 400+ speakers, and ~15,000 attendees covering AI, new technologies, and sustainability, plus a startup-investor matchmaking program.
Innovatrics is a global leader in biometrics, known for highly accurate fingerprint and facial recognition algorithms. Its technology is used by governments and enterprises for elections, border control, national ID systems, and KYC compliance. The company is established, profitable, and influential in the identity market, exporting Slovak engineering excellence into critical infrastructure worldwide.
Profitable French scale-up providing an AI-first digital operating platform for restaurants and contract catering: POS, self-ordering kiosks, kitchen display systems and an Atlas AI agent for back-office automation. Active in France, Spain, Italy and Morocco with ~800 clients including Elior and Sodexo.
Inovo Venture Partners is Warsaw-based and one of Poland's leading seed-stage venture firms, backing technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe building for global markets. Founded in 2014 with a €8M Fund I, Inovo has scaled to roughly €167M across three funds: Fund II (€54M, 2021) and Fund III (€105M, 2023), the latter backed by IFC, the European Investment Fund and PFR Ventures alongside private LPs including InPost founder Rafał Brzoska and Snowflake co-founder Marcin Żukowski. The firm writes €0.5–4M initial tickets at pre-seed and seed, with follow-on capacity up to €10M. Inovo concentrates around 60% of each fund in Poland and the remainder across CEE — with investments in Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia and Romania — and opened a Balkans hub in Skopje in 2024. It is generalist within technology but has particular conviction in AI, developer tools, digital health, SaaS and B2B software. The portfolio spans more than 55 companies, including Booksy, Tidio, Spacelift, Infermedica, Preply, Packhelp and AI Clearing. Notable outcomes include the Warsaw Stock Exchange IPOs of Brand24 and ECC Games and the acquisition of SplxAI by Zscaler in 2025, one of the largest CEE AI exits to date.
Insider is an Istanbul-founded marketing technology platform that uses AI to help brands deliver personalized, cross-channel customer experiences across web, mobile, email, messaging, and advertising touchpoints. The platform unifies customer data, predicts behavior, and automates individualized content delivery at scale. Insider has raised over $270 million, achieved unicorn status, and serves over 1,200 enterprise customers including Samsung, IKEA, and Estee Lauder across 28 countries. Co-founded in 2012 by Hande Cilingir, Insider is one of Turkey's most prominent B2B technology exports and a rare example of a martech unicorn built outside of Silicon Valley.
Insurely is a Stockholm-based open finance and open insurance data infrastructure company founded in 2018. It provides consented, structured real-time access to consumer financial data across insurance, pensions, investments, savings, and credit, enabling banks, fintechs, and AI companies to build services such as provider switching, pension transfers, and personalised financial advice. The company offers two main product lines: Open Finance Data Access for data users and Open Finance Premium APIs for data providers. Insurely is registered as an insurance intermediary with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and serves European financial institutions.
Intercom is the Dublin-founded customer-messaging and support platform that effectively invented the in-app chat widget category in the early 2010s and has since evolved into one of the most widely deployed AI customer-service products in B2B SaaS. The company was started in 2011 by four Trinity College Dublin graduates — Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, and David Barrett — who combined messaging, user segmentation, and lifecycle marketing into a single pane of glass at a time when enterprise support software was still dominated by ticket queues. Intercom's current product centers on Fin, its LLM-backed support agent that answers customer questions autonomously against a company's knowledge base, and it has become one of the clearest commercial examples of a pre-AI SaaS incumbent successfully retooling its core product around generative AI. The company is now headquartered in San Francisco but maintains a very large Dublin engineering and product office, and together with Stripe it is one of the canonical 'Irish mafia' software stories.
The United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, headquartered in Geneva. It organizes the AI for Good Global Summit, the UN's flagship event on applied artificial intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals, convening governments, industry, startups, academia and UN agencies.
Distributed internet and digital culture festival across Aarhus with 12,000+ attendees across 120+ events organized by local companies, media organizations, agencies, and universities. Program spans digital marketing, AI in media, e-commerce, ethical tech, and creator economy. Most sessions free with registration. Unique decentralized format makes it a good way to meet the Aarhus tech community in small, intimate settings.
Inventoro provides AI-driven sales forecasting and inventory optimization for SMB retailers. The platform recommends what to order, when to reorder, and how to reduce dead stock, helping merchants improve margins. It integrates with POS and ecommerce systems to automate demand planning without enterprise complexity. By 2026, Inventoro is a fast-growing Czech AI retail-tech company.
Inventure was founded in 2005 in Helsinki by Timo Tirkkonen, with Tuomas Kosonen (ex-Nokia, ex-Rovio CFO) joining shortly after; the firm manages approximately €377 million in assets under management across four funds, with Fund IV closing at €144 million. The firm backs Seed and Series A companies across the Nordics and Baltics with tickets of €300,000–€5 million, focusing on deep tech, B2B SaaS, consumer internet, health tech, and AI. Its portfolio includes Wolt, Swappie, and Stravito. Inventure is one of the most established and prolific seed-stage investors in the Nordic ecosystem.
AI-powered debt-collection SaaS that automates accounts-receivable management, using machine learning to optimise the timing, tone and channel of debtor outreach for faster recovery.
Irakli Davarashvili is the CEO and Founder of Promofy, an AI-driven gamification and player retention platform for the iGaming industry, which won gold at Pitch ICE 2026 in Barcelona. With 12 years of experience in iGaming, he has worked with major casino brands to develop player engagement and retention strategies using AI-powered personalisation and free-to-play mechanics. Promofy is based in Tbilisi and has expanded its operations into Latin America and other emerging markets.
Fifth edition of Türkiye's flagship Web3 conference at Hilton Bomonti, gathering founders, developers, investors, and policymakers across DeFi, AI agents, real-world asset tokenization, stablecoins, and layer-2 scaling.
Sixth edition under the theme 'Smart, Embedded, and Tokenized', hosting the Web3 Summit, Digital Finance Summit, plus dedicated tracks on AI in Finance, TradeTech, Fintech for Businesses, and Women in Fintech.
Hungary's leading independent cybersecurity conference and expo, spread across 5,300 m² at the Bálna National Defense Center. Covers AI risks, NIS2, OT, fraud, and cyber sovereignty.
Jarosław Królewski is a Polish entrepreneur, AI researcher and investor, best known as CEO and co-founder of Synerise, one of Europe's fastest-growing behavioural-AI infrastructure companies, valued at over $120M and backed by a €25M European Investment Bank facility secured in 2025. He is also president and majority owner of football club Wisła Kraków and a lecturer at AGH University in Kraków, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2025). In 2026 he was appointed to Poland's Council of the Future and the Presidential Business Council, becoming a leading voice on AI and technology policy.
Jarosław Kutyłowski is Founder & CEO of the AI translation company DeepL. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Jarosław leads the AI translation company DeepL.
Community-driven Java and open-source conference held alongside MakeIT 2026 at Convention Centre Portus. 90+ sessions covering JVM, Spring, cloud-native Java, microservices, software architecture, and AI-assisted development tooling.
President and Managing Director of global VC firm General Catalyst, leading its European business. A German entrepreneur, she founded early-stage firm La Famiglia (merged into General Catalyst in 2023) and sits on the boards of defence company Helsing and AI company Mistral, investing across AI, climate and industrial transformation.
Job&Talent is a Madrid-born AI-powered workforce management platform connecting businesses with temporary and essential workers at scale. Founded in 2009 by Juan Urdiales and Felipe Navío, it has evolved into Europe's largest tech-enabled staffing marketplace, handling real-time shift planning, attendance, and worker retention. In April 2025 the company raised €92M at a €1.3B valuation — backed by Atomico, BlackRock, Kinnevik, and Goldman Sachs — to accelerate AI agents for workforce reliability. Total funding exceeds $1.2B, and the platform operates across Spain, the UK, Germany, France, and the US.
Senior Director of Research and Engineering at Google DeepMind, leading research teams working on foundational machine learning and applied AI. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
Co-founder and co-CEO of Seedtag, the contextual-advertising AI company. A former Google executive, he co-founded Seedtag in 2014 to build privacy-first, cookie-free contextual ad technology now used across Europe, LatAm and the US.
Two-day Java & JVM conference organized by the Bulgarian Java User Group at Sofia Tech Park. 2026 theme is 'The AI agents are among us', with 33+ sessions on Java, JVM languages, mobile, web, cloud, and AI agents.
12th edition of Bulgaria's largest JavaScript community conference at Sofia Tech Park's John Atanasoff Forum. Day one is paid workshops with international speakers; day two is a free community conference on web development and AI.
Jutro Medical is a Warsaw-based, AI-first primary care operator that integrates online and offline care. Founded in 2020, it has grown from a single tech-enabled clinic into an integrated operator running around 20 clinics across Poland and serving roughly 120,000 patients. The company embeds AI agents directly into clinical workflows to handle patient intake and documentation, freeing doctors for clinical decisions.
Data and automation specialist and LP at Erebor Capital, Kamil represents a new wave of Polish angels focused on lean, automation-heavy products. He frequently co-invests in data-intensive startups and AI-native software companies. His activity includes early involvement and advisory support in products such as Tidio and other LLM-agent startups.
General Partner at KAYA VC, the Prague-headquartered early-stage fund focused on Central and Eastern Europe, which closed a €70M fund in 2025. He joined KAYA in 2018, founded a B2B SaaS startup in between, and now invests from pre-seed to Series A in AI, developer tools and vertical software.
Founded in 2016 by Kristjan Laanemaa, Margus Uudam, and Tommi Uhari, Karma Ventures is one of Estonia's most prominent deep-tech venture capital firms. Its €70M Fund I and €100M Fund II back late-seed and Series A European deep-tech software startups, with tickets up to €5M. The firm is particularly active in AI, cybersecurity, health tech, and enterprise software across Europe. Notable portfolio companies include Starship Technologies, Tuum (formerly Modularbank), Sonarworks, Infermedica, and CybExer Technologies, establishing Karma as the go-to Tallinn-based partner for hard-tech European founders.
AI-native agentic sourcing and procurement-optimization platform that automates enterprise sourcing events end-to-end, optimizing over $100bn in annual spend. Customers include Mars and Coca-Cola. Founded 2012.
Kinisis Ventures was co-founded in 2018 by Andreas Panayi and Yiannos Georgiades as a Cyprus-US bridge accelerator and investment firm, with its registered office in Nicosia. Its regulated KV Kinisis Ventures Fund RAIF VCIC (KV Fund I and II), managed in partnership with AIFCAP Managers and licensed by CySEC, is the first CySEC-registered early-stage VC focused exclusively on Cypriot technology companies targeting US market expansion. The fund writes seed tickets of €1.5M–€4M in cybersecurity, fintech, AI-enabled platforms, and energy-tech, with portfolio companies including Threedium (3D imaging), Phase3D (metal-printing quality assurance), and Autonomics Tech (autonomous industrial robotics).
AI platform that maps, documents and modernises legacy enterprise software entirely on-premises, keeping source code and data inside the customer's environment. Built for regulated banking, insurance and energy; raised a $6.6M seed led by VentureFriends.
Kognic is a Gothenburg-based AI company, formerly known as Annotell, founded in 2018 that provides a data platform for annotating and refining the sensor data used to train and validate perception systems in automated driving and other safety-critical AI. Its tools help automotive and robotics teams align their datasets and models with human intent.
Kontent.ai is a Brno-based headless CMS platform that decouples content creation from front-end presentation, enabling enterprises to manage and deliver content across websites, mobile apps, kiosks, and IoT devices through a unified API. Originally spun out of Kentico Software by founder Petr Palas, the platform combines structured content modeling with AI-powered features for personalization and workflow automation. Kontent.ai serves mid-market and enterprise customers globally, competing with Contentful and Storyblok in the composable digital experience space.
Vilnius-based agentic AI operating system for e-commerce teams. AI agents autonomously monitor products, campaigns, customers, and inventory, then execute tasks such as generating creatives, adjusting ad budgets, and publishing site updates through connected tools. Reached €1M ARR six months after launch. Raised €2M seed from XTX Ventures and Practica Capital.
Krisp is an AI-powered noise cancellation and voice productivity platform founded in Yerevan that removes background noise, echo, and other audio distractions from calls and recordings in real time. The technology works as a software layer between any microphone and communication application, making it universally compatible with Zoom, Teams, and other conferencing tools. Krisp has been adopted by major enterprises and contact centers worldwide, and has expanded into meeting transcription and summarization. The company raised over $17 million and is a standout example of deep-tech AI innovation emerging from Armenia's growing engineering talent pool.
Monthly AI and data-science meetup in Kyiv with 200+ ML engineers, data scientists, and AI founders. July edition focuses on LLM applications and RAG architectures in Ukrainian startups. Free. One of the best ways to connect with Kyiv's deep ML talent pool outside of conference season.
AI revenue-automation software for home-services call centers, with a 24/7 AI customer-service rep that books jobs into ServiceTitan and a call-analytics engine for coaching and lead recovery.
Berlin-based enterprise AI workspace providing a GDPR-compliant environment where teams can use LLMs from multiple providers—GPT-4, Claude, Gemini—through a single interface connected to company data, with full EU data residency. Focused on European enterprises with strict data-sovereignty requirements.
Co-founder and CEO of Yokoy, the Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019. Mangelsdorf led Yokoy through a CHF 80 million Series B in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech rounds of that year, and expanded the company from DACH into the UK and the Netherlands, building deep integrations with SAP and Oracle for enterprise finance automation.
Lawhive is a London-based legaltech company building an AI-driven law firm model focused on the consumer legal market. It helps people resolve everyday legal issues such as family law, landlord and tenant disputes and employment matters, connecting clients with solicitors through an online platform. The company has developed its own AI operating system used by lawyers to reduce the time, cost and administrative burden of routine legal work. In February 2026 Lawhive raised $60 million in a Series B round, with participation from TQ Ventures, GV, Balderton Capital and Jigsaw, to support its expansion into the US.
Scientist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of AI and drug discovery, focused on using computational methods to rescue and repurpose previously failed drug candidates. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and drug discovery.
Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based independent VC firm founded in 2017, specialising in late-Seed and Series A investments in scale-ups across Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm closed its second fund at €100 million in 2024, deploying initial tickets of €2–5 million with follow-on capacity up to €10 million. It has backed over 20 companies and claims the largest VC exit in Hungarian history with its investment in AImotive, acquired by Stellantis. Beyond capital, the firm differentiates on access to an international network of industry operators and domain experts.
Client management platform for online and hybrid fitness coaches. Leapo tracks each client's workout completion, check-ins and trends, then surfaces a weekly briefing of who is on track and who needs attention — alongside a drag-and-drop workout builder, nutrition logging (via FatSecret), custom check-in forms and an AI assistant that flags at-risk clients. Currently in early access.
Full-service creative technology agency founded in Tbilisi in 2010, offering digital marketing, AI solutions, UX/UI design, and web and mobile development. Leavingstone is the first agency in the Caucasus region to win Cannes Lions awards, claiming the distinction two years in a row (2015 and 2016), and has accumulated over 150 international awards including Webby and Eurobest prizes. The agency employs more than 100 people and counts Siemens, Visa, Netflix, and WHO among its clients.
LegalFly is an AI-native legal operating system for in-house legal, compliance and procurement teams. The platform automates contract review, drafting, legal research and due diligence, integrating with Microsoft Word and Teams, and maintains full audit trails across 60+ jurisdictions. Founded by ex-Tinder product leaders Ruben Miessen, Kasper Verbeeck, Dennis Montégnies and Gregory Vekemans, the company raised a €15 M Series A led by Notion Capital in July 2024. It reported 800%+ revenue growth in 2025 and counts Slaughter & May and Allianz among strategic partners. LegalFly was preparing a new growth round for mid-2026.
Stockholm-based legal AI platform for law firms and in-house legal teams, assisting with research, contract review, and drafting across complex matters. Used by 1,000+ legal teams in 50 markets. Reached €85M+ ARR in under 18 months. Raised $550M Series D at a $5.6B valuation from Accel, Atlassian, and NVIDIA's NVentures.
lemlist is a Paris-based sales engagement SaaS platform built by the company lempire. Originally a cold-email personalisation tool, it has grown into a multichannel outreach platform combining a large B2B lead database, AI-assisted personalisation, and built-in email warm-up (lemwarm) to help sales teams run outbound campaigns and book meetings. It is used by tens of thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries and is part of the broader lempire product family, which also includes lemcal, Taplio and Tweet Hunter. The company scaled largely through product-led growth, and in October 2021 raised $30M from Expedition Growth Capital.
Lexroom is a Milan-based legaltech company founded in 2023 that builds an AI platform for legal professionals, including lawyers, law firms, accountants, notaries, and enterprise legal teams. Its product is designed for civil-law jurisdictions and uses a data-first architecture built on a proprietary database of verified legal sources such as legislation, case law, and regulatory materials, aiming to reduce fabricated citations and unreliable outputs common to general LLM tools. The platform supports legal research on verified sources, document analysis and comparison, custom clause drafting, and Microsoft Word integration. The company states it is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR and AI Act compliant.
Light is a Copenhagen-based AI-native finance platform that rebuilds the general ledger from scratch to replace legacy ERP and accounting systems. It automates core accounting functions including accounts receivable, accounts payable, bookkeeping, line-item coding, tax and VAT reporting, and multi-entity financial consolidation, while letting finance teams query their financial data in natural language. The platform integrates with CRMs, banking systems, and communication tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, and targets hypergrowth, multi-entity international companies. Founded by CEO Jonathan Sanders and CTO Filip Kozjak, Light exited stealth in June 2024 and later raised a Series A.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global multi-stage venture capital firm with a dedicated European practice based in London. The firm has been a key growth-stage investor in major European companies including Mistral AI, Miro, and Epic Games, and focuses on enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, and AI. Lightspeed manages over $18 billion globally and has expanded its European team to source and support founders across the continent.
Lindus Health is a UK-founded clinical-trials company that brands itself as the anti-CRO, offering an end-to-end, technology-enabled alternative to traditional contract research organisations. It combines a proprietary AI-assisted trial operating system (Citrus) with in-house medical and clinical staff to handle protocol design, patient recruitment, data collection, biostatistics, and regulatory compliance. The platform draws on electronic health records to identify and enroll patients faster, and the company contracts on milestone-based commercial terms. Founded in 2021, it runs trials across therapeutic areas and operates across the US, UK, and Europe.
Technology leader at Prewave, a Vienna-based supply-chain risk and ESG monitoring startup that uses AI to track disruptions and compliance risks across global supplier networks. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 Technology Talks Austria conference.
Longenesis is a Riga-based digital health company founded in 2017 that builds platforms connecting pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, and patients to accelerate biomedical research. Its three core products — Curator, Themis, and Engage — enable privacy-preserving patient cohort discovery, consent management, and real-world evidence generation. The company has positively impacted over 850,000 patients across the EU and MENA, holds partnerships with Medtronic and Novartis, and has raised over €1 million in seed funding. It won second place at the EIT Health Catapult programme and earned an AWS Industry Award in 2023.
Founded in 2023, Lovable builds an AI-powered full-stack software development platform that converts natural-language prompts into deployable applications. The product generates real frontend and backend code, integrates directly with GitHub, and is used by both non-technical founders for MVP creation and enterprise teams for rapid prototyping.
Agent OS enabling any team to build, own, and manage their own AI agent workforce without deep technical expertise. Abstracts the complexity of agentic AI so businesses can delegate operational tasks to autonomous agents from day one. Raised $5.8M seed from Norrsken22, Flourish Ventures, and Y Combinator.
YC-backed preventive health platform that analyses 110+ blood biomarkers with AI to deliver personalised, physician-reviewed guidance on nutrition, supplementation and lifestyle. Operates across France, the UK, Ireland and Portugal with 10,000+ users since its 2025 launch.
Generative AI copilot for 3D game development and visualization workflows, with a strong focus on Unreal Engine production pipelines. The platform helps teams create assets and scene components faster while reducing technical bottlenecks for creators.
Luigi’s Box provides advanced search and product recommendation for ecommerce sites, boosting conversion by understanding intent, typos, and synonyms. Its tooling has become a de facto standard across CEE ecommerce, with strong adoption among mid-market retailers. By 2026, Luigi’s Box is one of the region’s top AI-powered ecommerce infrastructure companies.
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.
Lydia Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, internationally recognised for her work in robotics, motion planning, artificial intelligence and computational biomedicine. She is a plenary speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
AI-powered SaaS that helps SMEs and foreign companies respond to French public procurement tenders. Automates DCE analysis, technical proposal drafting and mandatory administrative forms, scanning 20+ procurement platforms in real time.
Co-founder and CEO of Zowie, the AI customer-service platform she started in 2019 (originally Chatbotize). A software-engineering graduate of AGH University in Kraków, she has scaled Zowie to serve enterprises like L'Oréal and InPost, raising around $20M from investors including Tiger Global, and has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
14th edition of Europe's largest open-innovation faire, held at the Gazometro Ostiense. Schools, university labs, early-stage startups and independent makers exhibit side by side across robotics, AI, IoT, digital fabrication, agritech, sustainability and space.
Makersite is a Stuttgart-based AI-powered product lifecycle intelligence platform that helps manufacturers understand and optimise their supply chains and products. The software connects a company's product and supply chain data with material, process, and supplier databases to support automated lifecycle assessments, product carbon footprint calculations, supply chain risk analysis, cost optimisation, and regulatory compliance. It integrates with enterprise CAD, ERP, and PLM systems and partners with firms such as Siemens, PTC, Autodesk, and Ansys. The company was founded in 2018 by Neil D'Souza, previously CTO at Thinkstep.
Maki.vc was founded in 2018 in Helsinki by serial entrepreneur and Slush Chairman Ilkka Kivimäki and former F-Secure executive Pirkka Palomäki, and now manages €260 million across three funds. Its November 2024 Fund III of €100 million targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the Nordics and Northern Europe, with tickets of €300,000–€3 million, focusing on deep tech, AI-native, quantum computing, green tech, and brand-driven consumer startups. The fund is backed by LPs including founders of Skype, Wise, RELEX Solutions, Aiven, and Supercell. Portfolio includes IQM Quantum Computers (unicorn 2025) and Enfuce.
Malloc is a Nicosia-based AI-driven mobile cybersecurity company, founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (YC S21), Urban Innovation Fund, and Dragon Capital. The company develops on-device protection against spyware, surveillance, and data theft for individuals, enterprises, and government agencies, with over one million users worldwide. Its flagship product, Antistalker, detects and blocks unauthorised microphone and camera access in real time. Malloc collaborates with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and VISA on privacy and AI-based defence research.
Malte Kosub is Co-founder & CEO of the conversational-AI customer-service platform Parloa. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Malte leads the conversational-AI customer-service platform Parloa.
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.
Manta is a data lineage and metadata-management platform that gives organisations visibility into their data environments by automatically scanning the data stack and mapping data flows, sources, transformations and dependencies. By generating this lineage and an audit trail, it helps businesses trace where data originated and how it evolved, and can discover and anonymise sensitive data to reduce regulatory risk. Founded in Prague in 2016, Manta was acquired by IBM in October 2023 and its data lineage was integrated into IBM's watsonx data and AI governance portfolio.
Marathon Venture Capital was founded in 2017 by George Tziralis and Panos Papadopoulos (co-founder of BugSense, acquired by Splunk) in Athens to back ambitious Greek and diaspora founders building global technology companies. Fund I reached €32M and Fund II expanded to €70M; Fund III closed at €75M in May 2025 (with €20M from EIF), bringing total AUM to approximately €175M. The fund leads seed rounds of €500K–€1M in sectors including cybersecurity, AI, defense tech, robotics, and energy. Notable portfolio companies include Hack The Box (cybersecurity training, $55M Series B led by Carlyle) and Augmenta (precision agriculture robotics, acquired by CNH Industrial for $110M).
Chair and CEO of Salesforce, the enterprise cloud-software company he co-founded in 1999, and a prominent advocate for stakeholder capitalism and ethical technology. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
Co-founder of Snowflake and one of the most successful Polish founders globally, Marcin is active as a deeptech angel focused on data infrastructure and enterprise AI. Following Snowflake’s landmark NYSE IPO, he expanded his investment activity into European high-growth technical startups. Notable investments include Respo.Vision, Nomagic, and Mirai.
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.
Co-founder and CEO of Terra Quantum, the St. Gallen-based quantum-as-a-service company he co-founded in 2019. Pflitsch built Terra Quantum to bridge near-term quantum hardware with practical enterprise problem-solving in finance, pharma, logistics, and energy using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. He previously worked in finance and technology entrepreneurship. Terra Quantum raised a Series A backed by Lakestar and Investcorp and has established research partnerships across European academic institutions.
Matsuko builds real-time holographic communication, enabling lifelike 3D telepresence using only a smartphone camera. The technology captures and transmits volumetric video without requiring VR headsets for capture, making it a practical “Skype for holograms.” By 2026, Matsuko has partnered with major telecoms such as Deutsche Telekom and Orange to demonstrate 5G use cases and positions itself as a leader in next-gen communication.
Swedish entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Legora, a Stockholm-based legal-AI platform he started in 2023 to help lawyers work alongside AI agents. He holds dual degrees in computer science and business and previously held roles at McKinsey and in venture capital.
Warsaw Stock Exchange–listed remote cardiac diagnostics company. Its PocketECG platform combines a mobile ECG device with AI-assisted arrhythmia detection and a 24/7 diagnostic service used by clinics and providers in the US, Europe, and Asia. An early Movens Capital portfolio company (IPO exit).
Meero is a Paris-based photography technology company that uses AI to automate photo editing and connects businesses with a global network of professional photographers. The platform serves industries including real estate, e-commerce, and hospitality, offering on-demand shoots with AI-enhanced post-production. Meero raised over $200 million and was valued at over $1 billion before restructuring operations to focus on its core AI editing technology.
Early-stage VC fund (EUR 50M+ AUM) investing pre-seed to seed+ (EUR 200K-1.5M) in tech startups with strong Greek ties across AI, deep tech, fintech, healthtech and maritime. Portfolio includes Useberry and FerryHopper.
Microblink is a Croatian-founded identity intelligence company that builds AI-powered software for capturing and processing identity documents, enabling businesses to automate onboarding and reduce manual data entry. Its technology powers verification for approximately 50% of providers in the Gartner 2024 IDV Magic Quadrant and has processed over 3 billion transactions. The company raised $60 million in 2020 and operates offices in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Ran 2013-2016 as part of Microsoft for Startups. Four-month cohort with expert mentorship, Azure credits, and investor connections. Support: coaching, cloud infrastructure, partner network. Scope: Global.
AI researcher working on self-supervised learning and world models, contributing to advances in machine perception and representation learning at a leading AI research lab. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and world models.
Minalogic is a French competitiveness cluster dedicated to digital transformation in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, with a focus on AI, cybersecurity, microelectronics, IoT, and photonics. With approximately 450 member organizations spanning startups, SMEs, large corporations, and research institutions, Minalogic has facilitated more than 1,040 labeled and funded innovation projects since 2005 and generated over 16,300 B2B meetings since 2012. The cluster is an ecosystem partner of SIDO Lyon and a connector between industry and innovation communities in the region.
Mindsmiths is a Zagreb-based AI company developing an Autonomous Support System (ASS) platform that enables digital products to make independent decisions and engage users proactively. The platform has been deployed in healthcare (chronic patient support) and banking (financial advisory). Mindsmiths raised EUR 1.2 million in 2021 from Feelsgood Capital, with CEO Mislav Malenica also serving as president of the Croatian AI Association.
Founded in April 2023 by former Google DeepMind and Meta AI researchers, Mistral AI has become one of Europe's most valuable AI startups. The company builds frontier large language models such as Mistral Large and Mixtral and follows an open-weight plus enterprise deployment strategy. Its products are used via API, cloud partners such as Microsoft Azure, and local deployments for regulated organizations requiring data control and model transparency. Le Chat is the company's conversational interface built on its model stack.
Warehouse-native product analytics platform that runs directly on data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, letting teams analyze funnels, retention and usage without moving data or writing SQL.
MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking 2026 is a two-day retail-banking and fintech leadership conference held 27-28 October 2026 at the Bella Center, Copenhagen, produced by MoneyLIVE (Marketforce Business Media). It gathers 800+ senior leaders — around 60% from banks — across four stages covering AI, digital identity, payments, fraud, risk, resilience, and lending, with 100+ speakers drawn from Nordea, SEB, Swedbank, Danske Bank, Lunar, Monzo and others. Nasdaq Verafin is the platinum sponsor.
Musixmatch operates the world's largest licensed music data platform, providing synchronized lyrics, metadata, and audio intelligence to music streaming services, apps, and AI developers. Founded in Bologna in 2010 by Massimo Ciociola and co-founders, the company maintains a catalog of over 12 million songs in 250+ languages, with time-synced transcriptions, translations, and AI-generated genre and mood tags. In October 2025, Musixmatch signed landmark licensing agreements with Sony Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group, and Warner Chappell Music for authorized AI training data services. Backed by TPG (2022) and P101/United Ventures with 80 million registered users and 50 million monthly active users.
MWC27 Barcelona is the world's largest connectivity and mobile technology event, bringing together over 100,000 decision-makers, 2,900+ exhibitors, and representatives from 207 countries at Fira Gran Via. The 2027 edition continues the event's focus on 5G, AI, satellite connectivity, and adjacent industries, with a full ministerial programme running March 1-3. GSMA announced the 2027 dates immediately after closing MWC26.
AI assistant for small business owners that automates website operations and digital marketing workflows, focusing on generating leads and managing core online presence tasks with minimal manual setup.
Berlin-based open-source workflow automation platform with 350+ integrations that lets technical teams build complex automations combining AI, APIs, and databases without vendor lock-in. Reached a $5.9B valuation in 2026 after SAP's strategic investment.
Paris-based clinical AI company that listens to doctor-patient consultations in real time and auto-generates structured medical notes, referral letters, and billing codes. Used by thousands of clinicians across France, the US, and Canada, reducing documentation time by over 50%.
NDC Oslo is one of Europe's largest independent software developer conferences, organised by NDC Conferences at Oslo Spektrum from 14–18 September 2026. The 2026 edition features around 154 speakers across 165 sessions plus 16 hands-on workshops, covering .NET, cloud, AI, security, and software craftsmanship.
Nethone is an AI-driven fraud-detection platform that profiles user sessions using thousands of behavioural, device and network signals to flag fraud in real time, helping online businesses and payment platforms make accurate accept/reject decisions. Acquired by Mangopay in 2022.
Neulogy Ventures is one of the leading deeptech venture capital funds in Central and Eastern Europe, established in 2014 and operating from Bratislava with a Luxembourg fund structure. It manages €65 million in assets under management across approximately 30 portfolio companies in 10 countries, writing cheques of €200,000–€3 million primarily at Seed and Series A stages. The fund targets mission-driven Slovak and CEE technology companies addressing climate change, healthcare, and industrial automation. Institutional co-investors include the European Investment Fund, Slovak Investment Holding, and Tatra banka.
NEURA Robotics is a German high-tech company founded by David Reger that develops cognitive robots combining integrated sensing with artificial intelligence for human-robot collaboration. Its product lineup includes the 4NE-1 humanoid robot, the MAiRA cognitive collaborative robot with integrated 3D vision and voice recognition, the LARA lightweight robotic arm, the MiPA service robot, and the MAV autonomous mobile robot. The company designs and manufactures its intelligent robots in-house. In June 2026 NEURA announced a record Series C of up to $1.4 billion at roughly a $7 billion valuation, led by Tether with backers including Nvidia, Amazon and Qualcomm.
Nevis is an AI platform for the wealth management industry, describing itself as the first unified AI platform for wealth management. It automates advisors' administrative and operational workflows end-to-end, including meeting summaries and prep, intelligent search, client email drafting, task generation, and account opening with custodians. The company primarily targets Registered Investment Advisors. Founded in 2024 by three former Revolut employees, it is headquartered in London, and in December 2025 it acquired voice-AI startup Ledra AI.
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.
AI platform that lets French SMEs and micro-enterprises respond to public tenders in under an hour, automating DCE analysis and generating full application dossiers including technical proposals, DC1, DC2 and commitment acts.
Zurich-based AI-first enterprise operating system for SMEs and freelancers that automates invoicing, accounting, payroll, and document management in a single platform. Built on ETH and HSG research. Connects all operational processes with AI as the core layer rather than an add-on module.
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.
American journalist and media executive serving as Chief Executive Officer of The Atlantic, former editor-in-chief of WIRED, and a frequent commentator on technology, AI and society. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and safety.
Nightingale Health is the global leader in NMR-based metabolomics, quantifying 250 blood biomarkers from a single sample to enable large-scale disease risk detection and prevention. Founded in Helsinki, it completed the analysis of all 500,000 UK Biobank samples, creating the world's largest blood biomarker database. Listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Main Market since March 2025, the company is deploying its technology into Finnish public healthcare in 2026 through wellbeing services counties. It also partnered with Alamar Biosciences to expand into brain health proteomics.
Nobi makes AI-powered smart ceiling lamps for senior living facilities that detect falls within seconds, alert caregivers instantly and monitor sleep, activity and circadian patterns to prevent incidents. Its model was trained on 250,000+ real-life fall scenarios; in clinical studies across five care homes, Nobi reduced average caregiver response time from over one hour to four minutes and cut falls by 51%. Founded in 2018 in Antwerp by Roeland Pelgrims, Bert De Haes and Stijn Verrept, it closed a €35 M Series B (co-led by Angelini Ventures and Nexus NeuroTech) in January 2025. Nobi is deployed in 22 countries with offices in Belgium, the US and the UK.
Flagship gathering of the Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium at the National Museum in Oslo, summarising Norway's leading AI research, innovation, and education initiatives.
Nucleus Ventures is a venture building and corporate innovation advisory firm based in Cyprus, founded in 2014. It offers services including venture building, fundraising, soft-landing support for international market entry, operational advisory, and capacity building programmes. The firm serves governments, corporations, and founders across the EMENA region, with particular experience in FinTech, HealthTech, and AI. Nucleus Ventures has also managed government-backed accelerator and seed fund programmes.
OakNorth is a London-based fintech founded in 2015 that operates as a profitable digital bank and credit intelligence software provider. Its OakNorth Credit Intelligence platform uses AI and machine learning to help commercial lenders make better decisions for mid-market businesses, the segment typically underserved by traditional banks. The bank itself has lent over GBP 10 billion since launch and has been consistently profitable. OakNorth raised $1 billion from investors including SoftBank, reaching a valuation of $4.7 billion. The software platform is licensed to banks globally.
Omnea is a London-based procurement and spend management software company founded in 2022 by ex-Tessian executives Ben Freeman (CEO) and Ben Allen (CTO). Its AI-native platform provides a single front door where employees can make procurement requests in natural language, then orchestrates workflows across finance, legal, risk and IT, automating the full supplier lifecycle from intake and approvals to third-party risk management and renewals. The platform includes no-code workflow builders, supplier onboarding portals, RFx event management and integrations with hundreds of systems. Customers include Spotify, Wise, MongoDB, Adecco and PayPal.
OMR runs satellite late-session events through the summer in Hamburg following the main May festival. The July edition focuses on AI in marketing, social commerce, and creator-economy monetization with smaller, more intimate audiences than the main event. Tickets from EUR 50.
Onfido is a London-based identity verification company founded in 2012 that uses AI and biometric technology to help businesses verify user identities remotely. The platform combines document verification with facial biometrics to enable onboarding for financial services, sharing economy, healthcare, and other regulated industries. Onfido was acquired by Entrust in 2024 for approximately $400 million. Before the acquisition, the company had raised over $200 million and served customers including Revolut, Zipcar, and Bitstamp across 195 countries, processing millions of identity checks annually.
Traveltech platform (formerly Flataway) using AI to build direct-booking websites and a conversion-focused booking engine for vacation-rental property managers, integrating with 40+ PMS systems to cut OTA dependency.
Ontotext is a Sofia-based semantic-technology company that builds GraphDB, one of the leading commercial RDF-native graph databases, together with a suite of text-analysis and knowledge-graph tools used by media organizations, pharmaceutical companies, intelligence agencies, and financial institutions to turn unstructured content into structured, queryable knowledge. The BBC famously used Ontotext's semantic platform to power its 2010 World Cup and 2012 Olympics sites — one of the earliest high-profile production deployments of a knowledge graph at a major media brand — and the company has since expanded into clinical research, drug discovery, and enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines where graph-structured knowledge is paired with LLMs. Founded in 2000 as a spin-off from Sirma Group, Ontotext is a rare example of a deep, patient, deep-tech European knowledge-engineering company that predated the current AI wave and is now a load-bearing piece of several enterprise RAG stacks.
Onum is a real-time telemetry-pipeline platform that ingests, enriches, filters and routes large volumes of security and observability data before it reaches a SIEM or data lake, cutting storage costs and speeding incident response. Acquired by CrowdStrike in 2025.
Open-source, AI-native commerce and operations framework co-founded in 2025 by Piotr Karwatka (creator of Vue Storefront / Alokai) and Tomasz Karwatka (founder of Divante). It provides modular infrastructure for building custom commerce, ERP and finance software with AI-assisted engineering, combining SaaS speed with bespoke flexibility.
Agentic security platform that automates threat modelling for engineering teams using AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Continuously maps codebase architecture, flags security risks and delivers contextual remediations in developer workflows; in production at Miro and Tandem Health.
Corporate accelerator by Orange Polska (est. 2015) focused on 5G, IoT, AI, and customer experience. Provides proof-of-concept projects, telecom mentorship, and access to Orange's global Fab network in 18 countries. Scope: National with global reach.
Orbital Materials is a London-based AI startup applying foundation models to materials science, with a focus on designing novel carbon-capture sorbents, thermal management materials, and clean-energy components. Founded by former DeepMind researchers, the company developed LINUS, a large-scale generative model for atomic structures that can predict material properties and propose new compositions. Orbital has raised over $22 million from investors including Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures. The company bridges the gap between AI research and physical-world climate technology, representing a new class of UK deep-tech ventures using machine learning for industrial decarbonization.
Origin Robotics is a Latvian defence-tech company founded in 2022 by Agris Kipurs and Ilja Nevdah in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company develops advanced autonomous UAV systems combining AI computer vision with cost-effective hardware. Its flagship BEAK system is a man-portable, mid-range precision-guided weapon with a 15 km reach already deployed by Latvian and Ukrainian armed forces, while BLAZE is an autonomous counter-UAS interceptor using radar and AI vision. Origin has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding led by Change Ventures and secured an additional €4.5 million European Defence Fund grant.
Vilnius-based startup building an autonomous revenue engine—AI sales agents that engage prospects, qualify leads, and schedule meetings in real time across email and chat channels without human involvement for routine interactions. Raised €2M pre-seed from Practica Capital.
Overmind provides a security and control layer for agentic AI deployments in enterprise systems. The platform supervises autonomous agent behavior in live workflows and intervenes when actions appear unsafe, adversarially influenced, or outside policy constraints.
Owkin is a Paris-based AI biotech founded in 2016 that applies machine learning and federated learning across hospital and pharmaceutical datasets to discover drug targets, develop diagnostics and de-risk clinical trials. It partners with pharmaceutical companies including Sanofi and Bristol Myers Squibb, reached unicorn status, and has more recently launched agentic AI tools for biopharma research.
Oxylabs, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vilnius, provides web data collection infrastructure including a proxy network of over 175 million residential IPs, a Web Scraper API, and AI-powered data extraction tools. The company serves use cases in market research, ad verification, brand protection, and AI training data. In 2025 Oxylabs acquired French web scraping API provider ScrapingBee. It employs between 500 and 1,000 people across multiple locations.
Builds autonomous AI agents that run supplier negotiations at scale for large enterprises, covering pricing, payment terms and rebates. Used by 60+ global brands including Walmart and Maersk; raised EUR 18.4M in 2024.
Three-day tech, business and arts festival across Athens with 10,000+ attendees, 250+ speakers, a startup competition, Founders' Day and Investors' Day, plus 70+ side events spanning AI, defense, fintech and deep tech.
Parloa is the German champion of enterprise AI for customer service. While consumer chatbots attract headlines, Parloa has built the operating system for large contact centers, enabling non-technical teams to deploy AI agents that handle complex voice and chat interactions. Its platform is trusted by large European enterprises such as Allianz, Decathlon, and Swiss Life, and it focuses on governance, compliance, and integration with legacy systems rather than flashy demos. In January 2026, Parloa announced a $350M Series D led by General Catalyst, reportedly valuing the company at about $3B. The round validated its strategic shift from "chatbots" to "agent fleet management." Parloa does not just deploy a single bot; it manages and audits thousands of agents, ensuring they remain compliant, minimize hallucinations, and integrate cleanly with back-office systems such as SAP and Salesforce. This operational emphasis is why Parloa has become the default choice for risk-sensitive industries like insurance, retail, and financial services. Parloa's 2026 roadmap is "voice-first AI." The company has developed speech-to-speech models that reduce the latency and robotic cadence that make older IVR systems frustrating. Its agents can handle interruptions, use backchannel cues, and operate across regions with language and accent adaptation, which is critical for multinational contact centers. With fresh capital, Parloa is acquiring smaller AI boutiques to consolidate the European market and is building a significant presence in New York to serve Fortune 500 clients in North America. The company is deeply connected to the Berlin AI ecosystem, with ties to Merantix and the wider Berlin AI Campus, and it has a strategic relationship with Microsoft for Startups and Azure deployment. Its investor base includes General Catalyst, Altimeter Capital, EQT Ventures, Newion, and Senovo, giving it a mix of global growth capital and specialized SaaS expertise. In 2026, Parloa stands out as Europe's clearest enterprise AI winner in customer service: a scaled, governance-heavy platform that makes autonomous agents safe and effective inside the largest organizations.
Technology leader heading IT at Direct pojišťovna / Direct Technologies, where he led the rebuild of the insurer's core systems around AI and multi-agent delivery. A confirmed speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague on AI-first software delivery.
A veteran CEO (founder of DDB Warsaw marketing agency), Paweł became an active angel in his late career. He won Poland’s Business Angel of the Year 2020 for investing in and mentoring innovative startups. Notably, he was an early backer of retail AI platform Cosmose AI and has supported regtech and cybersecurity startups like ClauseMatch, Nethone, and BotGuard. Associated startups: Cosmose AI, ClauseMatch, Nethone, BotGuard.
Paytently is a payment orchestration platform built by former executives from Checkout.com, Trustly, and TrueLayer. Founded in 2022 and launched commercially in 2023, its single API enables businesses to route transactions across 60+ acquiring partners and 200+ alternative payment methods, with AI-powered fraud detection and intelligent routing to optimise success rates. Regulated as a Payment Institution by the Malta Financial Services Authority, the company serves iGaming, e-commerce, and other high-volume verticals from its headquarters in Sliema.
Pelico is a manufacturing and supply-chain orchestration platform that helps industrial operations teams identify and respond to disruptions in real time. It connects data, teams and tools across complex manufacturing operations to reduce part shortages and backlogs, cut inventory costs and improve on-time delivery. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, the company counts large manufacturers among its users and raised a $40 million strategic financing round led by General Catalyst in 2025 to advance generative AI in its platform and expand in North America.
Austrian software engineer and entrepreneur, founder of PSPDFKit and a prominent voice in AI agents and developer tooling, more recently building in the AI agent space. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and agents.
Co-founder and CTO of Yokoy, the Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019. Sahli led the technical architecture of Yokoy's AI engine for expense reports and invoice automation, helping scale the platform to enterprise customers across Europe after the company's CHF 80 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital.
Photomath is a Zagreb-founded consumer edtech app that lets students photograph a math problem with their phone camera and get back a step-by-step explanation of how to solve it, from early primary arithmetic all the way up to single-variable calculus. Founded in 2014 by Damir Sabol as an internal demo of a computer-vision OCR system at his company MicroBlink, Photomath became one of the most downloaded education apps in the world, with hundreds of millions of installs across iOS and Android and particularly strong usage in the US, Brazil, and parts of Europe. In 2022 Google acquired Photomath, integrating its solver into Google's broader education products, but the core engineering team continues to operate out of Zagreb, making it one of the most successful consumer tech exits ever achieved from Croatia and a flagship example of how world-class computer vision IP can ship from the Balkans into billions of users' pockets.
Photoroom is a Paris-based AI company founded in 2019 that builds photo-editing tools which automatically remove and replace image backgrounds and generate product visuals, aimed primarily at e-commerce sellers and marketers. Its app has been downloaded tens of millions of times and it trains its own generative image models. It raised a 43 million dollar Series B round in 2024 led by Balderton Capital and Aglae Ventures.
PhysicsX applies machine learning and generative AI to advanced engineering simulation across aerospace, automotive, and energy systems. The platform accelerates design loops by reducing simulation time for fluid, thermal, and structural modeling, helping industrial teams move from concept to validation faster.
PicsArt is a Yerevan-founded creative platform and photo/video editing suite that has grown into one of the most downloaded creative apps globally, with over 150 million monthly active users. The platform combines AI-powered editing tools, templates, stickers, and a creator community into a mobile-first experience used by casual creators and small businesses alike. Founded in 2011 by Hovhannes Avoyan, PicsArt raised over $130 million and represents Armenia's most prominent consumer technology export, demonstrating that world-class creative tools can be built and scaled from the region.
Co-founder of Divante and managing partner at Catch the Tornado, Piotr is among Poland’s most active operator-turned-angels. After scaling and selling Divante, he helped build a venture-builder model focused on open source, composable commerce, and AI-first startups. Portfolio references include Ramp Network, Vue Storefront, and Rigby, alongside investments linked to major outcomes such as Callstack.
Plural is a London-based venture fund founded in 2022 by operator-investors Taavet Hinrikus (Wise), Sten Tamkivi (Skype, Teleport), Ian Hogarth (Songkick), and Carina Namih. The first fund closed at around EUR 250M to back European pre-seed and seed companies, with a thesis centred on founder-led investing — every partner has built and scaled a venture-backed company. Plural is positioned as a counter to traditional partner-led firms, with deep operator support.
PolyAI is a London-based conversational AI company founded in 2017 by Cambridge machine-learning researchers that builds voice assistants, which it calls customer experience agents, capable of handling natural, open-ended customer service calls for enterprises in banking, hospitality, retail and telecoms. Its systems handle millions of customer interactions, and it raised a 50 million dollar round in 2024 at a valuation of around 500 million dollars.
Poolside is arguably the most important "import" to the European AI ecosystem in the last decade. Founded by Jason Warner (former CTO of GitHub) and Eiso Kant, the company started in the United States but relocated its headquarters to Paris in 2024 to tap France's deep talent pool in mathematics, systems engineering, and AI research. Its mission is unusually ambitious: not just to build code autocomplete, but to create the world's most capable AI for software engineering, with a long-term goal of systems that can build and evolve software autonomously. This framing has made Poolside a defining player in the AI-for-developers category. By 2026, Poolside has established itself as a core node in the "Paris AI Triangle" alongside Mistral and H. After a massive $500M Series B in late 2024 led by Bain Capital Ventures, the company launched its flagship foundation model trained on a distinct corpus of code, software architecture, and repository-level structure. The emphasis on engineering artifacts rather than general internet text allows Poolside's models to reason about large codebases, infer intent from architectural patterns, and propose higher-level refactors instead of one-off snippets. This technical posture differentiates Poolside from generalist models and makes it uniquely useful for enterprises grappling with decades of technical debt. The company's 2026 platform looks less like a plugin and more like a "shadow engineering team." Poolside can analyze legacy banking systems, plan migrations across stacks, and coordinate changes across modules while preserving compliance and auditability. That capability has made it a darling of large financial institutions such as HSBC and Citi, and it explains why strategic investors are embedded alongside venture capital. Poolside is also scaling Project Horizon, a 2-gigawatt AI data center campus in Texas in partnership with CoreWeave, while keeping its research and model development anchored in Paris. This split setup reflects a broader pattern: US-scale compute, European R&D depth. Poolside's ecosystem ties are deep. It is a central node at Station F and an active participant in the Paris AI Hub, and its relocation is often cited by the French government as a proof point for attracting foreign tech leadership. The investor roster underscores its strategic importance: Bain Capital Ventures led the growth round, DST Global joined as a late-stage backer, Xavier Niel provided early strategic support to facilitate the Paris move, and Nvidia is a hardware partner. In 2026, Poolside stands out as Europe's most credible attempt to build an AI-native software engineering stack at frontier scale.
Porto's annual tech conference showcasing the city's growing engineering community, with talks on software architecture, AI/ML, DevOps, and product management from local and international speakers. 2,000+ attendees. Tickets EUR 30-100.
Powerful Medical builds clinical-grade AI for cardiology. Its flagship product, PMcardio, can diagnose acute heart attacks by analyzing a photo of a 12-lead ECG, outperforming average human interpretation in critical scenarios. The system is FDA and MDR certified and is being rolled out in hospitals across Europe and the UK. By 2026, Powerful Medical is one of the region’s most credible medical AI companies with global regulatory traction.
Praktika.ai is an AI-native language learning platform focused on conversation-first fluency practice with realistic voice avatars. Founded in 2022, it helps users overcome speaking anxiety through real-time feedback on pronunciation and grammar, personalized lesson paths, and adaptive roleplay. The company has reported strong commercial traction and is backed by investors including Blossom Capital, Creator Ventures, and 500 Global.
Predicting Health develops AI-based clinical risk prediction tools that analyze patient data to support early intervention and improve care quality. The company is a spin-off from the KAGes Data Science Team in Graz and operates in the same category as platforms like PIPRA.
Pricefx is a cloud-native pricing software company founded in 2011 by Marcin Cichon, Christian Tratz and Martin Wricke. Headquartered in Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn, Germany, with additional operations including Prague and Ostrava, its SaaS platform provides price optimisation and management and configure-price-quote capabilities for enterprises, and it has added AI features such as PricingAI and AI Agents. The company raised a $65 million Series C round in 2020 led by funds advised by Apax Digital, and reported continued growth and AI adoption through 2025.
Prolific operates an online marketplace that connects organisations with vetted, fairly paid human participants for data collection, surveys, and AI work. Founded in 2014 at the University of Oxford by Phelim Bradley and Ekaterina Damer, it began as a tool for academic researchers needing reliable study participants and has since expanded into AI training and evaluation. Today it supplies human data for tasks like reinforcement learning from human feedback, model red-teaming, AI evaluation, and specialist annotation, serving both academic institutions and commercial AI customers. It is headquartered in London.
Language-learning platform with an app, tutoring and conversation clubs covering 12+ languages, adding AI-powered speaking practice and pronunciation feedback. Founded in Kyiv; over 23M downloads.
Develops AI radar-perception software (Software Defined Radar, 5D Perception) for automotive safety and autonomous driving, offering a LiDAR-free ADAS alternative plus off-road, smart-city and drone-detection uses. Founded 2019.
Volleyball analytics platform for clubs, academies, scouts and agents. ProVolley delivers XY position tracking of every player during matches and training, with positional heatmaps and zone coverage, automatically generated match and training statistics (attack efficiency, blocks, serve accuracy), player development tracking over time, dynamic player profiles and auto-generated highlight reels. Built to support analytics teams at professional clubs and give smaller clubs pro-level stats without expanding staff. Currently in development / early access.
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Leads sourcing and diligence across CEE early-stage software and deep tech deals, with focus areas in AI, developer tools, and fintech infrastructure.
A tech entrepreneur and software engineer, Przemek is known in Warsaw’s startup circles as a hands-on angel. He invests in AI and developer-tool startups, often contributing code-level expertise. Associated startups: Stealth AI and developer tool companies (he keeps a low profile, but actively funds tech teams).
Early-stage angel fund led by Bartek Pucek, focused on globally scalable technology startups. The fund is known for founder-friendly terms, fast decision cycles, and co-investments with international VC firms.
PyCon Greece 2026 is the annual Greek Python community conference at Technopolis City of Athens, run by volunteers under PyGreece. It gathers developers, data scientists and Python enthusiasts for talks and networking across web development, data science, machine learning and AI.
Second edition of the joint PyData and PyCon conference at the American University of Armenia, organized with NumFOCUS and PyData Global as partners. Two-day program brings together engineers, researchers, and founders across data science, machine learning, AI, and the broader Python ecosystem.
Pythagora is a Zagreb-founded developer-AI startup building an autonomous software engineer that goes beyond chat-style copilots: the user describes a product in plain English, and Pythagora's agent scaffolds the project, generates code iteratively, writes and runs tests, debugs itself against the test output, and keeps the human in the loop through structured checkpoints rather than single-prompt hallucinations. The team open-sourced an earlier version of the agent (GPT Pilot) which passed 40,000 stars on GitHub and became one of the most-starred AI coding projects in Europe, and they have since commercialized the tooling for teams that want reproducible full-app generation rather than line-by-line completion. Pythagora raised seed funding from Inovo Venture Partners among others, and is part of the CEE wave of AI-native developer-tools startups competing with Cursor, Devin, and Replit Agent from a Central European base.
Qdrant (pronounced "Quadrant") provides the memory layer for AI applications. As companies build AI agents in 2026, they quickly discover that large language models do not remember internal company data. Qdrant solves this by offering a high-performance vector database that stores embeddings for documents, images, and conversations and retrieves the most relevant context in milliseconds. That capability is the foundation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent workflows across enterprises. Born as an open-source project in Berlin, Qdrant has become a default choice for teams building on modern AI stacks, especially in Rust and performance-critical environments. Its adoption accelerated because it can run anywhere—from embedded devices to large Kubernetes clusters—without locking users into a proprietary cloud. This flexibility, combined with strong performance and transparent licensing, has allowed Qdrant to surpass older competitors in developer mindshare and production deployments. By late 2025 it had raised a Series B and was widely described as a "soonicorn" within the AI infrastructure category. The 2026 breakthrough is Qdrant's hybrid search engine. Pure vector search captures semantic similarity but can miss precise keyword matches that matter in enterprise contexts. Qdrant combines semantic retrieval with keyword filters and metadata constraints, enabling queries such as "find a part like this" while also honoring exact identifiers like "Part #404-X" or compliance tags. This hybrid approach is now table stakes for enterprise RAG, and it has made Qdrant the database of choice for large-scale deployments at organizations such as Discord, Mozilla, and Deloitte. Qdrant Cloud is the company's managed service offering and is growing quickly as enterprises move from prototypes to production. It provides enterprise controls, observability, and multi-region deployments without sacrificing the portability that developers expect from the open-source core. Qdrant's ecosystem roots include Techstars Berlin and a strong open-source community, where the project has amassed tens of thousands of GitHub stars. Its investor base includes Spark Capital, Unusual Ventures, 42CAP, and IBB Ventures, giving it both global capital and local Berlin support. In 2026, Qdrant is the clearest European winner in vector databases: the infrastructure layer that lets AI systems remember and reason over real company data.
Quantexa is a London-founded decision intelligence platform that uses graph analytics, AI, and entity resolution to connect siloed enterprise data for fraud detection, risk management, and customer intelligence. Founded in 2016 by Vishal Marria, the company has raised over $360 million including a $153 million Series E, reaching unicorn status. Quantexa serves major banks, insurers, government agencies, and telcos across 70+ countries and employs over 700 people. It is one of the UK's most significant enterprise AI scale-ups, demonstrating how contextual data linkage can transform decision-making at institutional scale.
Quantive, formerly known as Gtmhub, is a Sofia-founded enterprise strategy execution platform built around the OKR (Objectives and Key Results) framework. The platform helps organizations align goals, track progress, and connect strategic planning to operational execution using AI-powered insights and integrations with business tools. After rebranding to Quantive and acquiring additional strategy software assets, the company expanded its vision beyond OKRs into a broader strategy management category. Quantive has raised over $100 million and serves enterprise customers globally, making it one of Bulgaria's most significant B2B SaaS exports.
Frankfurt-based cyber threat intelligence company that delivers AI-analysed, contextualised threat reports ready to act on without a dedicated in-house team. Its platform Mercury and conversational AI analyst KARLA monitor digital threats, geopolitical risk, and supply-chain exposure for European mid-market organisations. Raised €7.3M Series A in April 2026.
President of Bitkom, Germany's digital industry association, and Group CEO of Giesecke+Devrient, a Munich-based security technology company. He represents thousands of digital-economy companies and is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit organized by Bitkom.
Inventor, futurist and best-selling author known for his work on artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and predictions about technological singularity, and a principal researcher at Google. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
AI-powered real-time recommendation and personalized search engine offered as a SaaS API; uses 100+ proprietary ML models and the ReQL query language, serving media, streaming, e-commerce and marketplaces.
Reface is a Kyiv-founded generative-AI company that built one of the first globally viral face-swap and deepfake consumer apps, and has since evolved into a broader synthetic-media content platform. The original Reface app lets users swap their face into short video clips, memes, and GIFs in seconds, and briefly became one of the most downloaded mobile apps in the world in 2020, holding top-5 app-store positions in dozens of countries. The team, built around a group of Ukrainian ML researchers led by Roman Mogylnyi, Dima Shvets, Oles Petriv, and others, turned that viral moment into a real company: Reface Labs now ships multiple consumer AI entertainment products, licenses its face-animation and identity-transfer tech into enterprise creative pipelines, and has contributed to industry initiatives on responsible deepfake disclosure. It is one of the best examples of Ukraine's consumer-AI export capability and a useful counterpoint in the synthetic-media conversation to enterprise tools like Respeecher.
RELEX Solutions delivers a unified AI-native platform for retail and consumer goods supply chain planning, covering demand forecasting, inventory replenishment, space & assortment planning, pricing, and workforce management. Founded in 2005 by three supply chain scientists from Helsinki University of Technology, the company has grown to over 2,400 employees in 21 countries and raised more than $816 million in total funding, reaching a $5.7 billion valuation. Its customers include major European and North American retailers and manufacturers.
Belgian AI marketplace that matches homeowners with verified renovation and construction companies across Belgium. Its AI engine analyses project requirements, cross-references contractor track records, and surfaces ranked shortlists within minutes. All partner companies undergo tax and solvency verification. Invited to VivaTech 2026.
Warsaw-based AI decision engine for retail that converts customer behavioural signals into real-time, individualised actions—adjusting recommendations, promotions, and inventory allocation to match intent at the point of decision. Serves 30+ enterprise retailers globally. Raised €2.1M pre-seed co-led by Movens Capital and Vastpoint.
Resistant AI focuses on AI-driven fraud detection for financial services, specifically identifying manipulated documents used in KYC and onboarding. Its models detect fake paystubs, doctored IDs, and synthetic documents that bypass traditional checks. As digital fraud grows more sophisticated, Resistant AI has become a critical partner for fintechs and banks. By 2026, it is a leading Czech player in the FinTech security category.
Overview: Respeecher is a cutting-edge AI voice synthesis startup that enables one person's voice to be transformed into the voice of another specific person, with uncanny realism. In other words, it's known for its voice cloning technology. Respeecher's system takes in an actor or user's speech and outputs audio that sounds like a target voice - be it a famous actor, a historical figure, or anyone for whom it has trained a model. This technology has huge applications in entertainment: filmmakers can revive voices of actors from years past, game developers can have characters speak in iconic voices, and creators can produce content where, say, a celebrity appears to narrate (with permission). What makes Respeecher stand out is the high fidelity of the cloned voices - they are nearly indistinguishable from the real person, capturing emotion and intonation accurately. Respeecher provides its tech via a software interface; typically, a voice model is trained on recordings of the target voice, and then a voice actor provides performance which is converted. Importantly, Respeecher emphasizes ethical use: it requires consent from the voice owners and has gained a reputation for an "ethics-first" approach in the emerging synthetic media field. Founding Story (2018): Respeecher was founded in February 2018 in Kyiv, Ukraine by Alex Serdiuk, Dmytro Bielievtsov, and Grant Reaber. Serdiuk and Bielievtsov are Ukrainian, and Reaber is an American speech technologist - the trio met through mutual research interests in speech processing. They realized that recent advances in deep learning could make high-quality voice conversion possible, and they set out to create a system far beyond the rudimentary voice changers of the past. In 2018-2019, they went through the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator (powered by Techstars) in the US, which gave them industry connections. Early on, Respeecher got a lucky break: it was approached to work on a high-profile but secret project - which turned out to be Lucasfilm's The Mandalorian (Season 2 finale in 2020). The task was to recreate the voice of a young Luke Skywalker as he would have sounded in the 1980s, using Mark Hamill's old recordings. Respeecher delivered successfully, astonishing Hollywood sound engineers. This successful debut put Respeecher on the map in the film industry. In subsequent months, they also worked on a Super Bowl commercial voicing Vince Lombardi (AI-cloned from archival audio). The Ukrainian team, working under NDA, built these groundbreaking demos which then led to word-of-mouth referrals in Hollywood. Product and Use Cases: Respeecher's core product is delivered as a service to content creators. A client provides audio of the target voice (e.g., recordings of a person) and Respeecher trains a custom voice model. Then the client (often a voice actor or the person themselves) provides the new dialogue, which Respeecher's system converts into the target's voice. One notable use case was the documentary short film "In Event of Moon Disaster" - Respeecher recreated President Nixon's voice to simulate him reading a speech that was written in case Apollo 11 failed, and this project won an Emmy Award in 2021 for Outstanding Interactive Media (Respeecher's team was credited for the voice work). Another big use case: Darth Vader's voice in 2022's Obi-Wan Kenobi series - James Earl Jones, aged 91, could no longer perform with the same power, so Lucasfilm used Respeecher to generate Vader's lines using Jones' archival voice data. This was done with Jones's consent (he effectively authorized the AI recreation of his iconic voice). The result was so good that audiences thought Jones had recorded the lines himself. Outside of film/TV, Respeecher has been used in video games (e.g., to recreate voices of deceased voice actors so characters can return), and in music - in 2022, it enabled artist Aloe Blacc to perform a song where his voice was converted to sound like the late Avicii's voice, as a tribute. Researchers and archivists have also shown interest in using it to restore voices for people who lost theirs (like throat cancer patients), although that's still experimental. Traction and Achievements: Though a B2B company, Respeecher gained public fame because of the high-profile nature of its projects. By 2022, virtually every Star Wars fan and many industry professionals had heard of Respeecher due to media coverage of its involvement in resurrecting Luke Skywalker's youthful voice and Darth Vader's classic tones. The company has a relatively small number of clients (dozens of studios, game companies, etc.), but each project is high value. Its technology earned it an Engineering Emmy Award in 2021, and it won TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield (audience choice) at CES in 2020. In terms of funding, Respeecher raised about $1.5M in early 2020 (around the Techstars time), and as of 2021 it had raised over $3M in total from investors including Techstars, ff Venture Capital, and Acrobator Ventures. The team remained fairly lean (under 50 people) but comprised specialized AI researchers and sound engineers. Financially, Respeecher's revenue grew with each Hollywood contract; while not public, one can infer that by 2022 it was profitable or close, given the repeat work from Disney/Lucasfilm and others. One of Respeecher's achievements is also on the ethical front: in 2023 it was one of ten companies (alongside OpenAI and TikTok) to sign the Partnership on AI's framework for responsible media, committing to practices like obtaining consent, watermarking AI content, etc. This proactive stance has made them a trusted partner in an area often seen with suspicion (deepfakes). The war in Ukraine did pose a challenge - much of Respeecher's team was Kyiv-based, and during the Russian invasion in Feb 2022, the team amazingly continued working (the Obi-Wan Kenobi Vader voice project was completed in the spring of 2022 while Kyiv was under threat). This dedication further earned them respect in the industry. Key Partnerships: Respeecher's notable partnerships are with major studios like Disney/Lucasfilm, and with game studios such as CD Projekt Red (who used Respeecher in 2023 to voice a character in Cyberpunk 2077 in Polish, whose original actor had passed away). It also collaborated with the creative team of the documentary "Val" to recreate actor Val Kilmer's voice, which he lost due to cancer (Kilmer and his son provided the training data). Each successful partnership validates the tech and leads to more clients. On the academic side, Respeecher worked with medical research to explore giving people who lost their voice (e.g., ALS patients) a chance to speak in their own reconstructed voice - a heartwarming application of the tech. Future Outlook: Respeecher sits at the forefront of AI in media. The demand for voice cloning is likely to increase - whether to dubbing movies in a star's own voice across languages, bringing historical figures' voices to life for museums, or personal uses (with permission, someone might license their voice). The company's focus will be to maintain quality leadership as big players (like Microsoft or Google) also invest in voice AI. Respeecher's Ukrainian origin is a source of pride: it shows that despite adversity, Ukrainian tech can lead globally in innovation. The founders have expressed interest in eventually developing real-time voice conversion (currently it's not instant, it takes some processing time) and making the tech more accessible perhaps in creator tools. But they tread carefully to avoid misuse. In summary, Respeecher is a Ukrainian deep-tech startup that achieved what was once sci-fi - lending voices across time and space - and has done so responsibly. By powering some of Hollywood's most iconic moments with AI, it has cemented itself as a trailblazer in synthetic audio. As long as movies and games want to push creative boundaries, Respeecher's technology will likely be in the credits, helping the impossible become possible in voice. Sources: en.wikipedia.org, failory.com, techcrunch.com, youtube.com.
Revo Capital is Turkey's largest technology-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2013 by Cenk Bayrakdar and Berkin Toktaş, having raised over $250M across three funds. Fund II closed at a landmark €90M in 2021 — oversubscribed with backing from IFC, EBRD, EIF, DEG, and the Turkish Development and Investment Bank — and Fund III reached an $86M first close in 2024 targeting over $100M. The firm has invested in 48 startups across Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, achieving 18 exits and producing unicorns Getir and Builder.ai; portfolio companies have attracted $3.5B in follow-on capital between 2021 and 2025. Revo concentrates on early-stage B2B and B2C ventures in fintech, SaaS, cybersecurity, health tech, AI, and gaming.
Revoize, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, develops real-time speech-to-speech AI infrastructure for programmable human voice. It is building an end-to-end transformer model that runs locally on devices to enable translation, accent transformation and audio-quality enhancement without cloud processing. Its low-latency, on-device approach targets use cases from real-time translation to accent normalisation for call centres and studio-grade voice reconstruction.
Athens-based music-tech and creative-economy conference running alongside the Reworks Festival, with a dedicated business program covering music streaming, rights tech, AI in music production, and live-entertainment platforms. 2,000+ attendees from the European music-tech scene. Tickets EUR 150-400.
Curated AI conference in Berlin (Humboldt Carre) with an intimate in-person audience and virtual access, focused on the European AI ecosystem, policy, and commercialization. 2026 speaker highlights include Franziska Giffey, Prof. Antonio Krueger (DFKI), Carla Hustedt, and Dr. Ulli Waltinger; founder participation is often routed through Applied AI Stage and speaker submissions.
Developer conference on the French Riviera at SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis: one Deep Dive day plus two conference days, 50 talks and 30 workshops for around 700 attendees across web, cloud, DevOps and AI tracks.
Better known as a football superstar, Robert has also become an active startup investor in recent years. Through his firm RL9 Investments, he provides funding and global visibility to Polish startups. For instance, he joined Dawid Urban in backing Samurai Labs (AI anti-bullying platform) in 2020. He’s also invested in health tech and games (e.g. Movie Games). Associated startups: Samurai Labs, Movie Games, Zeny (fintech), and Stor9 (marketing) among others.
German AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, a Freiburg-based generative-AI lab focused on image and video models. He was previously a research director at Stability AI and, during his PhD at LMU Munich, played a key role in developing the latent diffusion models behind Stable Diffusion.
RobotDreams is a Graz-based healthtech startup founded in 2022 that develops AI diagnostics software analyzing blood biomarker data to accelerate detection of acute conditions such as acute coronary syndrome. The platform aims to reduce diagnostic turnaround times in emergency departments by applying machine learning to in-vitro diagnostics results, helping clinicians make faster triage decisions. RobotDreams competes in the growing AI-enabled clinical diagnostics space and targets hospitals, laboratories, and emergency-care providers across Europe.
Robovision provides Industrial Vision Intelligence Infrastructure — a no-code platform that governs AI vision systems at scale across food & beverage, packaging, semiconductor and horticulture manufacturing. Rather than building one-off vision models, customers deploy Robovision to monitor, adapt and standardise all vision inspection points across multi-site operations as production conditions change. Founded in 2013 in Ghent by Jonathan Berte and Tim Waegeman, the company raised $42 M in Series A funding in 2024 led by Target Global, Astanor Ventures and Red River West, bringing total funding to $65 M. Robovision employs 130+ people and is expanding in the US and Europe.
Roosh Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Ukrainian VC fund founded in 2020 by Den Dmytrenko (co-founder of Reface and the AI HOUSE community) and Serhiy Tokarev, an AI entrepreneur and investor with 20+ years of experience. Operating with $40M AUM and 40+ portfolio companies, the fund takes a co-investment approach and focuses on pre-seed through Series A deals in enterprise SaaS, fintech, gaming, and AI across EU and US markets. Notable portfolio companies include Deel ($12B valuation), Oura, and Pipe; the fund's most recent disclosed investment was in Tower in March 2026. Despite the ongoing war, Roosh maintains its Kyiv headquarters and Ukrainian identity.
Rossum specializes in intelligent document processing, moving beyond basic OCR to cognitive data capture. Its AI reads invoices, shipping manifests, and other structured documents with human-like accuracy, automating workflows for logistics, manufacturing, and finance. The company is scaling rapidly in the US market and positioning itself as the backbone for enterprise document automation. By 2026, Rossum is one of the Czech ecosystem's most credible soonicorns.
Runware is an AI inference infrastructure company offering unified developer access to AI models for image generation, video generation, and audio synthesis through a single API endpoint. It aggregates hundreds of model classes and many model variants, letting developers switch between models with minimal friction. Its core technology is the proprietary Sonic Inference Engine, a custom-built hardware-and-software stack optimised for AI inference across different hardware and cloud providers. Runware evolved from an earlier consumer image tool called PicFinder and operates from offices in London and San Francisco.
Saga is an AI-powered collaborative workspace for notes, docs, and tasks, designed to help teams organise knowledge in one connected interface. Founded in 2021 by Filip Stanev with Serbian roots, Saga automatically interlinks knowledge across workspaces, integrates with tools such as Google Drive and Linear, and includes a built-in AI assistant powered by the latest large language models. The platform offers real-time collaboration, Kanban task views, and public sharing. With over 40,000 users in its beta phase and hundreds of teams relying on it weekly, Saga raised $850,000 in a pre-seed round in early 2023 and competes with Notion and Obsidian in the knowledge-management space.
Co-founder and CEO of Scandit, the Zurich-based enterprise computer vision company he co-founded in 2009 as an ETH Zurich spin-out. Mueller led Scandit from a research project into a global B2B platform used by DHL, Sephora, and the NHS, raising over $150M from investors including Atomico, G2VP, and Swisscom Ventures. He holds a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich, where he worked on mobile augmented reality before commercialising barcode-scanning technology for enterprise use.
Samurai Labs is a Gdynia-based AI safety company building neural-symbolic systems that detect and de-escalate online abuse, harassment, and predatory behavior in real time. Its technology is licensed by gaming companies, social platforms, and child-safety partners. Backed by angel investors including Dawid Urban and footballer Robert Lewandowski (via RL9 Investments).
Sana (Sana Labs) is a Stockholm-based AI company founded in 2016 that builds an enterprise platform combining AI agents, enterprise search and learning tools. Its products include Sana, for AI agents and enterprise search, and Sana Learn, a learning and content-creation platform used by organisations to access knowledge, automate work and learn with agentic AI. Backed by investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures and EQT Ventures, the company reached over $130M in total funding before Workday announced a definitive agreement to acquire it for approximately $1.1 billion in September 2025.
Archaeologist turned technology strategist and futurist who writes and speaks about artificial intelligence, the future of work, and how emerging technology reshapes society. A confirmed speaker at FrontKon 2026 in Prague.
Head of Artificial Intelligence at TRUMPF, the German high-tech machine-tool and laser manufacturer, where she leads applied AI strategy across industrial manufacturing. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit (AIDAQ) in Berlin.
Scaleway is a European cloud provider and subsidiary of the Iliad Group, offering a full stack of cloud infrastructure including bare-metal servers, Kubernetes, object storage, managed databases, and GPU instances for AI workloads. Founded by Xavier Niel's Iliad, Scaleway positions itself as a sovereign European alternative to US hyperscalers, with data centers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw. The company is increasingly important for European organizations seeking GDPR-compliant cloud hosting.
Scandit is a Zurich-based enterprise software company founded in 2009 by Samuel Mueller and Christian Floerkemeier as an ETH Zurich spin-out. The company built a computer vision and AI data capture platform that enables enterprises to scan barcodes, QR codes, text, and ID documents using standard smartphone cameras, eliminating the need for dedicated hardware scanners. Scandit's SDK is embedded in apps used by logistics companies, retailers, healthcare providers, and manufacturers to power item scanning for picking, inventory management, and patient safety workflows. The company has raised over $150M from investors including Atomico, G2VP, and Swisscom Ventures, and its technology runs in production at DHL, Sephora, the NHS, and hundreds of other enterprise customers. Scandit operates globally from Zurich with offices in London, Boston, and Tokyo, and is one of Switzerland's most prominent B2B enterprise software scale-ups.
London-based AI workflow platform transforming industrial inspection for the testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) sector. AI agents help field inspectors capture data through voice, video, and structured workflows, unlocking 50% more inspector capacity. Raised €17.2M Series A led by Index Ventures.
Seedtag is a contextual advertising platform that uses proprietary AI to analyse page content and match ads to reader interest without cookies or personal data. Operating across Europe, Latin America and the US, it lets brands engage audiences in a privacy-first way at scale.
Built a wearable AI-powered haptic navigation device for blind and visually impaired people: glasses-mounted cameras capture the environment, AI processes the scene and a lumbar belt of 256 solenoids produces tactile impulses mapping the surroundings. Winner of the 2024 Lépine Prize.
Sensei is a Portuguese startup that builds autonomous, checkout-free retail stores using computer vision and artificial intelligence. Its proprietary platform combines cameras, sensors and AI algorithms to automate both new and existing stores, letting customers shop without queues or manual scanning while their cart updates automatically for a ready-to-pay checkout. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Castelo Branco, Portugal, with additional offices in Lisbon, São Paulo and Milan, and works with partners including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Mastercard. In October 2024 Sensei raised a €15 million Series A round to expand its autonomous retail technology.
One-day community conference on Microsoft tech (Power Platform, Azure, Fabric, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Copilot) plus AI and career skills. Multi-track sessions in English at Mixát, Budapest.
Showpad is a revenue effectiveness and sales enablement platform combining AI-powered content management, readiness training, buyer engagement tools and field analytics in a single system. Founded in 2011 in Ghent by Pieterjan Bouten, Louis Jonckheere and Peter Minne, it raised $180 M over seven rounds and grew to over 2,000 enterprise customers across 50 countries. In October 2025 Vector Capital completed its acquisition of Showpad and merged it with Bigtincan to create a unified AI-native revenue effectiveness platform, with the combined entity retaining the Showpad brand. The Ghent base and global team of 500+ remain active, with a 2026 Spring Release delivered in April 2026.
Sidekick Health is a Reykjavik- and Boston-based digital therapeutics company that builds disease-specific care programs delivered through a mobile app, combining behavior-change design, gamification, AI-driven personalization, and clinician oversight to help patients manage chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular risk, and certain cancers. Its programs are sold primarily to pharma companies, payers, and health systems that wrap them around drug therapy or chronic-care pathways, and the company has signed deals with several top-20 pharmaceutical manufacturers to run companion digital programs in multiple therapeutic areas. Founded by two Icelandic physicians, Sidekick is one of the most internationally visible examples of Icelandic health-tech, and together with Kerecis it shows that the country's life-sciences output extends from physical regenerative materials into software-as-medicine.
SIDO Lyon is Europe's leading B2B show for IoT, AI, robotics, and XR, organised by Infopro Digital Trade Shows at the Cité Internationale de Lyon on 16–17 September 2026. The 2026 edition gathers 300+ exhibitors and around 210 speakers across some 70 conference sessions, with dedicated zones for sustainable tech (Impact by SIDO) and collaborative robotics (Innorobo by SIDO).
AI-powered external intelligence platform that ingests media, social, broadcast and regulatory data across 226 markets and 75+ languages to deliver enterprise risk, reputation and ESG insights. Founded in London, 2013.
Silent Eight builds AI-powered financial-crime compliance software for global banks. Its Iris platform automates AML alert investigation, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and adverse-media detection, replicating analyst judgement at scale; clients include HSBC and Standard Chartered. Founded by Poles with its engineering hub in Warsaw (commercial HQ in Singapore).
simpleclub is a German-language digital learning platform for secondary-school students, apprentices in vocational training, and individual fields of study. It originated from the founders' educational video projects on YouTube and was incorporated as a company in 2015. The platform provides curriculum-aligned learning content, including content aligned to IHK standards, video lessons, exam-preparation tools, and an AI-powered learning assistant. It operates several lines: a consumer offering for school students, a B2B offering for companies training apprentices and skilled workers, and an offering for education and retraining providers.
Singular is a Paris-based venture capital firm focused on deep tech and frontier technology investments across Europe. Founded in 2014, the firm invests from seed through growth stages in companies building breakthrough technologies in AI, quantum computing, space, robotics, and advanced materials. Singular manages several hundred million euros and has backed notable European deep tech companies. The firm differentiates itself through deep technical expertise and a network of scientific advisors that help evaluate highly technical investments.
Synthetic data generation platform for computer vision AI. SKY ENGINE AI lets teams train and validate vision models on physics-based synthetic 3D datasets for defence, industrial inspection, retail, and autonomous systems, without the cost of collecting and labelling real-world data. Backed by Movens Capital.
Germany's main government-tech and smart-city conference organized by Bitkom at Messe Berlin, focusing on digital public services, AI in government, smart infrastructure, and cybersecurity for the public sector. Draws 15,000+ civil servants, govtech startups, and enterprise solution providers. Tickets from EUR 0 (expo) to EUR 300+ (conference).
SmartGateVC is a pre-seed and seed deep-tech venture fund co-headquartered in Yerevan and Glendale, California, founded in 2018. It focuses on AI applied to healthcare, biotech, security, and IoT, and manages a portfolio of over 40 companies. The fund is backed by Tim Draper and One Way Ventures, and the majority of its portfolio companies leverage Armenia for R&D operations.
Smartly is an AI-powered advertising platform that enables brands and agencies to automate and optimise paid social and cross-channel ad campaigns at scale. Founded in Helsinki in 2013, the platform handles creative automation, campaign management and performance analytics across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, Amazon DSP and connected TV. The company serves over 700 enterprise advertisers globally and reported $221 million in annual revenue in 2026. Its AI Studio has generated nearly two million creative assets, delivering an average 27% performance lift versus static creatives.
Smartness (formerly Smartpricing) is an Italian travel-tech and hospitality SaaS company headquartered in Arco, Trentino. It started as a dynamic-pricing revenue-management tool for accommodation providers and has expanded into an end-to-end AI platform for the hospitality sector, covering dynamic pricing, marketing campaign management, booking optimisation, guest messaging, CRM, payments, reputation management and property-management tools. The platform is aimed at helping hotels and accommodation properties increase revenue and direct bookings while reducing dependency on online travel agencies. In May 2026 it closed a €47 million Series B round.
Conversational e-commerce platform combining live chat, chatbots and an AI shopping assistant (Mira) to engage visitors and convert leads; used on 100,000+ websites, with leading live-chat market share in Central Europe.
smaXtec builds ingestible sensor and AI monitoring systems for dairy cows to detect health issues early and improve herd management decisions, competing with precision livestock platforms such as Allflex, CowManager, and Nedap.
SMRK VC is a Kyiv-based seed-stage fund founded in 2013 by Oleksandr Kosovan and Andriy Dovzhenko, with a $10M initial fund focused on IT products at seed and Series A. The fund has backed 23+ companies, with a portfolio spanning Ukraine, the US, and Europe across enterprise software, B2B SaaS, and consumer tech. Notable investments include Allset, Preply, Competera, and Ajax Systems; the fund made its most recent disclosed investment in OpenBabylon, a Ukrainian AI translation startup, in February 2026. SMRK has continued dealmaking through the wartime period and remains one of the longer-standing native Ukrainian VC funds still actively investing.
Bulgaria's edition of the global Google Developer Group DevFest, held annually in Sofia with 600+ developers. Covers Android, Flutter, web, cloud (GCP), Firebase, and AI/ML engineering with talks in English from local and international speakers. Free admission; a primary networking event for Sofia's developer community which includes large local employers like VMware, SAP Labs, and a growing startup scene.
Solve Intelligence builds an AI platform for intellectual property and patent work, acting as a co-pilot for IP law. Its software helps teams collect ideas from inventors, draft patent applications, respond to office actions, handle continuations and divisionals, and coordinate global patent filings across technical domains. The company is a Y Combinator alumnus with operations in London and San Francisco, founded by Chris Parsonson (CEO), his brother Angus Parsonson (CTO), and Sanj Ahilan. In December 2025 it raised a $40 million Series B co-led by Visionaries and 20VC, bringing total funding to roughly $55 million.
Sona is a London-based workforce management platform built for frontline and deskless workers in industries such as hospitality and healthcare. Its integrated, AI-powered system combines scheduling, HR, payroll, compliance and business intelligence tools into a single people operating system. Founded in 2021 by Steffen Wulff Petersen, Oli Johnson and Ben Dixon, the company aims to serve the large global population of frontline workers. In April 2026 Sona raised a $45 million Series B led by N47, with participation from Felicis, Northzone, Gradient and Italian Founders Fund, taking total funding above $100 million.
14th edition of Sónar festival's creative-tech congress at Llotja de Mar in central Barcelona, with talks, workshops and installations across three tracks: AI & Music, Beyond the Screen, and Digital Gardens. New affordable standalone passes (€15/day) debut in 2026.
Spore.Bio is a Paris-based biotech developing AI-driven microbiology testing for the food, beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Its technology uses spectroscopic analysis combined with machine learning to detect, quantify and identify micro-organisms directly from a sample without traditional culturing, enrichment or staining, reducing testing time from days to minutes. The approach is intended to let manufacturers identify contamination risks quickly on or near the production line. The company raised a $23M Series A in February 2025 led by Singular, building on an earlier pre-seed round, and in January 2026 announced multi-million funding from the Google.org Fund for AI in Science.
Spotwise.ai is a Riga-based B2B SaaS company that automates competitive radio advertising intelligence for broadcaster sales and ad-ops teams. Its system continuously monitors hundreds of terrestrial and digital radio streams, uses audio fingerprinting and ASR to detect and transcribe every ad break, identifies the advertiser and creative, and then pushes the resulting 'who is advertising on my competitor' feed into CRM and lead-routing workflows that the broadcaster's sales team can actually action. The product is explicitly built for multilingual European markets where a single media group may operate stations in four or five languages, which is a harder technical setup than the US-centric incumbents handle well. For Baltic and CEE broadcasters, Spotwise is one of the few tools that turns ad monitoring from a manual panel-listening exercise into a live competitive-intel feed, and the company sits in the broader category of AI-enabled sales intelligence products coming out of the Riga ecosystem.
Slovakia's flagship technology and public-administration conference at Crowne Plaza Bratislava, covering agent-based AI, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, post-quantum security & modern eGovernment with Meet-the-Speakers and masterclass formats.
SPS Italia 2026 was the 14th edition of Italy's leading trade fair for industrial automation and digital manufacturing, held 26-28 May 2026 at Fiere di Parma and organised by Messe Frankfurt Italia. The edition drew 37,528 attendees and 720 exhibitors across six pavilions, built around five core themes — cyber security, AI agents, software-defined manufacturing, robotics & Physical AI, and ESG. A Digital District (Industrial IT, Focus AI, Start-Ups, Academy), 50+ conferences across three arenas, and the SPS Italia UP Challenge for startups make it a key selling and partnership venue for industrial-tech founders.
Stability AI is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 that develops open and openly licensed generative models across images, video, audio and 3D, best known for the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model. It positions itself around accessible, open generative AI for creators, developers and enterprises.
Restores soil health through AI-powered DNA sequencing of soil microbiomes, having built the first bacterial genome atlas for Bordeaux vineyard soils. Develops non-GMO, bacteria-based biosolutions to improve crop resilience in a changing climate.
Startup OLÉ is one of Spain's largest open-innovation and entrepreneurship events, turning Salamanca into an international hub for three days. The 2026 edition combines a startup fair and pitch competitions with specialised forums in AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing, backed by the University of Salamanca and Spain's INCIBE cybersecurity institute.
Connected smart stethoscope and AI platform that records and analyses lung and heart sounds for home-based respiratory diagnostics, paediatrics, and remote triage. Combines a CE-marked medical device with cloud-based AI that flags abnormal sounds for physicians. Backed by Movens Capital.
Nordic region's leading digital-transformation expo at Kistamässan, with six co-located shows on AI & Big Data, Cloud, Cyber Security, DevOps, Data Centre, and Mobile. Free entry, 5,000+ visitors, 250+ exhibitors.
Stoïk is a Paris-based insurtech founded in 2021 that combines cyber insurance with cybersecurity software for small and medium-sized businesses. It bundles coverage with active risk-monitoring and scanning tools to help SMEs both insure against and reduce their exposure to cyber risk. The company operates across several European markets including France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Luxembourg. After a 25M euro Series B in 2024 led by Alven, Stoïk raised a 20M euro Series C in January 2026, co-led by Impala and Opera Tech Ventures, to advance its AI agents and expand across Europe.
Stravito is a Stockholm-based AI-powered insights intelligence platform that centralises consumer, market, and business research for large enterprises. The company unifies an organisation's existing research in one secure space and pairs AI with human expertise to make insights fast and easy to access for better decision-making. Its product includes an Insight Library, an AI Assistant, and AI Personas that turn segmentation research into interactive consumer profiles. Founded in 2017 by former iZettle employees, Stravito serves enterprise brands including Nestlé, Unilever, Danone, and Comcast.
Strise is an Oslo-based technology company that builds an AI-powered platform automating anti-money-laundering (AML) and know-your-customer/know-your-business (KYC/KYB) compliance work for banks, fintechs and other financial institutions. Its product automates onboarding, ongoing due diligence, ownership and beneficial-owner mapping, screening, risk scoring, and alert and case triage, built on a proprietary graph that links entities, directors, ownership structures and sanctions exposure into a continuously updated data graph. Founded by Marit Rødevand, Sigve Søråsen and Patrick Skjennum, it maintains an office in London alongside its Oslo headquarters, with reported partners including PwC Norway.
Summize is a Manchester-based legaltech company offering an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform. Its SaaS technology is designed to unite legal teams and business stakeholders so they can draft, review and manage contracts more efficiently. Founded in 2018 by former general counsel Tom Dunlop and software engineer David Smith, the company counts customers such as Revolut among its roster. In early 2026 Summize raised $50 million to accelerate product development and global growth, building on an earlier Series A backed by YFM Equity Partners and Maven Capital Partners.
Swisscom Ventures is the strategic corporate venture arm of Swisscom, Switzerland's largest telecom and ICT operator, and is one of the most active corporate venture investors in the Swiss ecosystem. Founded in 2007 and operating with offices in Bern, Zurich, and Silicon Valley, the firm invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies across cybersecurity, digital health, cloud infrastructure, AI, and network-adjacent deep tech, with particular interest in startups that can leverage Swisscom's distribution, data, or network assets. Portfolio companies have included Cato Networks, Mirakl, Scandit, Digital Asset, and Exeger. Swisscom Ventures pairs well with the traditional Swiss financial-VC bench by providing strategic commercial partnerships, regulatory navigation, and European telecom channel access alongside capital, which is particularly valuable for founders in regulated infrastructure categories.
Vienna-based AI canvas for architects providing a browser-based collaborative design environment where natural-language prompts generate vector floorplans, 2D drawings, 3D models, and video renders up to 1,000× faster than traditional CAD tools. 60,000 users within months of beta launch. Raised €3.06M pre-seed from Plug and Play.
Synerise is a Polish enterprise AI platform that combines customer-data infrastructure with behavioral-AI and recommendation engines for retail, banking, and telco clients. Founded by Jarosław Królewski, the company built proprietary deep-learning models for sequence prediction and has competed in international ML benchmarks. Synerise has been backed by investors including Cyfrowy Polsat and serves enterprise customers across CEE and beyond.
Synthesia is a London-based AI video generation platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, and a team of AI researchers from University College London and TU Munich. The platform allows users to create professional-quality videos from text prompts using photorealistic AI avatars that speak in over 140 languages, eliminating the need for cameras, actors, or studios. Synthesia has raised over $150 million from investors including Accel, NVIDIA, and Kleiner Perkins, reaching a valuation above $2 billion. It serves over 50,000 enterprise customers including Amazon, Tiffany, and Reuters. Synthesia is one of Europe's most successful AI-native media companies.
Synthflow AI is a Berlin-based no-code platform for building and deploying AI voice agents that automate phone conversations. It lets non-technical business users create customisable voice agents without engineering resources, applying a no-code approach to conversational phone AI. The agents handle inbound and outbound calls for use cases such as customer service, appointment scheduling, and lead qualification, and connect to external systems through integrations with calendars, CRMs, and telephony platforms. The company also operates in-house telephony infrastructure and targets enterprise and BPO/contact-center customers.
Taktile is a Berlin-based provider of an agentic decision platform for financial institutions, combining AI automation with human oversight for regulated environments. Its platform lets banks and insurers build and deploy automated decision flows and AI agents across onboarding and KYC, credit decisions, fraud detection, AML and compliance, and insurance underwriting. The company emphasises transparency and control, positioning around traceable decisions. Founded by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, who met at Harvard and previously worked together at QuantCo, Taktile raised a 51.5 million euro Series B in February 2025 led by Balderton Capital.
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.
The Tallinn Digital Summit 2026 is Estonia's signature high-level digital-policy summit, themed 'How to Thrive in the Agentic Era? Competitiveness. Security. Efficiency.' It convenes government leaders, technology companies and innovation ecosystems around AI governance, defence and digital resilience, and emerging technologies for competitiveness. Organized by the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) with Estonian ministries; attendance is by invitation and curated application.
Stockholm-based AI medical scribe that listens to doctor-patient consultations and generates structured clinical notes in real time, reducing physician documentation time by up to 70%. Raised a $50M Series A led by Kinnevik in 2026.
Georgia's largest developer community conference, organized by the Google Developers Group Tbilisi with 1,000+ developers attending talks on Android, web, cloud, AI, and mobile. Features code labs, a women-in-tech track, and a startup showcase. Free admission with registration. One of the best ways to connect with the Georgian and broader Caucasus developer community.
First edition of an Industry 4.0 trade show at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with 100+ exhibitors, 4,000+ visitors and 40+ conferences on industrial software, IT/OT convergence, AI, connected robotics and supply chain 4.0.
Connectivity and digitalization forum at ATTA Centre with 600+ speakers and guests covering digital sovereignty, AI adoption, 5G/6G, defence tech, digital identity, satellite connectivity and European data centres under the theme 'Security and Prosperity Through Digitalization and Connectivity'.
TechWolf is a Ghent-founded enterprise AI company building the skills inference layer that large organizations need to move from role-based to skills-based operating models. Instead of asking employees and managers to maintain a skills taxonomy by hand (which never works at scale), TechWolf ingests signals from the systems where work actually happens — HRIS, ATS, learning platforms, project-management tools, internal wikis — and uses NLP models to derive a live, probabilistic skills graph per employee. Large enterprises plug that graph into internal mobility, workforce planning, strategic sourcing, and generative-AI copilots to answer questions like 'who inside the company can staff this project?' or 'how exposed is this business unit to automation?'. The company has raised growth capital from Felix Capital and Stride.VC and counts several Fortune 500 HR and technology buyers among its clients, and has partnered with SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, and Workday as an embeddable skills engine — a strategically useful position in a category now being chased by the biggest HCM vendors in the world.
Local organizing team behind TEDAI Vienna, the official TED conference dedicated to artificial intelligence, produced in collaboration with TED. It curates three days of TED Talks, panels and workshops at the Hofburg for executives, AI builders, researchers and decision-makers from dozens of countries.
The official TED conference dedicated to artificial intelligence, featuring three days of TED Talks, panels and workshops on AI's future at the Hofburg in Vienna. It draws over a thousand guests from dozens of countries and hundreds of organizations, roughly a third of them executives plus AI builders, researchers and decision-makers. A premium, high-signal venue for founders engaging with global AI thought leaders.
Founded in 2016 by Andrus Oks and partners, Tera Ventures is a Tallinn-based early-stage VC that invests in born-global digital startups across Estonia and the broader Nordic-CEE corridor including Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Czech Republic. The firm invests €200K–€1.5M from its €45M Fund II with substantial reserves for follow-on. Tera has been backing AI-powered innovations for over 15 years, spanning Enterprise SaaS and Robotics/DeepTech, and maintains offices in Tallinn, Helsinki, and Los Angeles. The fund has made 65+ investments across its lifetime, with a portfolio spanning fintech, network security, and AI.
Terra Quantum is a St. Gallen-based quantum technology company co-founded in 2019 by Markus Pflitsch to develop quantum-as-a-service algorithms and hybrid quantum-classical computing solutions. The company bridges near-term quantum hardware with practical enterprise use cases in finance, pharma, logistics, and energy by developing quantum algorithms that run on today's noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Terra Quantum raised a Series A backed by Lakestar and Investcorp and has established research partnerships with academic institutions across Europe. It is one of the few European quantum software companies focused on customer-facing problem-solving rather than hardware development, and a key player in Switzerland's emerging quantum technology ecosystem.
Tesonet is a Vilnius-based founders-led venture builder founded in 2008 by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas. The group builds, accelerates, and invests in technology products across cybersecurity, AI, web intelligence, EdTech, and SportTech verticals. Its portfolio companies include Oxylabs, Surfshark, and nexos.ai, in addition to the better-known Nord Security and Hostinger. The group employs over 3,500 people and operates Cyber City, a 35,000 m² tech campus in Vilnius.
Testers Day 2026 is Georgia's annual software-testing conference organised by GeoSTQB, the Georgian Software Testing Qualifications Board and official ISTQB member board, marking International Testers' Day in Tbilisi. The program gathers QA engineers and test leaders around real-world technical challenges, AI in quality assurance, test automation, career development and team leadership.
Skills-based pre-employment assessment platform offering 350+ tests, AI video interviews and resume scoring to help companies hire on real skills. Founded 2019 in Amsterdam.
AI-powered speech therapy platform for children that diagnoses speech impediments, recommends personalised therapy and delivers 2,000+ exercises as mobile games. Backed by Simpact Ventures and SMOK Ventures.
Theneo is a Georgian-founded developer-tools company building AI-assisted API documentation and developer portals, competing directly with Stripe-style 'beautiful docs' experiences and tools like Readme.com, Mintlify, and GitBook's API product. The core insight is that most companies ship OpenAPI or Postman specs but produce documentation that is perpetually out-of-date and unusable by developer customers; Theneo ingests the spec, uses LLMs to generate structured guides, code examples, and quickstarts around it, and then keeps the doc in sync as the API surface changes. Founded by Ana Robakidze, Kate Avetisian, and Tamar Kvezereli, Theneo graduated from Y Combinator's W22 batch and has raised seed capital from tier-one US investors — it is one of the first Georgian startups to reach that kind of Silicon Valley visibility and is a useful flagship for Tbilisi's emerging developer-tools scene.
90th edition of Greece's largest general trade and innovation fair at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center, with Japan as Honored Country; combines tech pavilions, startup showcases, and government innovation programming over nine days.
German software entrepreneur and former CEO of GitHub (2021-2025), where he oversaw the launch of GitHub Copilot. Born in East Berlin and educated at Technische Universität Berlin, he is co-founder and CEO of Entire, an open-source AI-agent developer platform.
Tilde is a European AI-driven language technology company founded in Riga in 1991, with 150+ professionals across offices in Riga, Vilnius, and Tallinn. The company specialises in neural machine translation, multilingual virtual assistants, and speech technologies for low-resource European languages. In 2025 it released TildeOpen LLM — a 30-billion-parameter open-source large language model covering 34 European languages, trained on the LUMI supercomputer after winning the European Commission's Large AI Grand Challenge with a €250,000 prize and 2 million GPU hours.
Torsten Reil is Co-founder & Co-CEO of the defence-AI company Helsing. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Torsten leads the defence-AI company Helsing.
Bitkom's flagship business-tech festival in Berlin connecting digital industry leaders, policymakers, and startups with 10,000+ attendees. The event covers AI, cloud, cybersecurity, sustainability tech, and digital transformation across keynotes, deep-dive tracks, and a startup expo.
Treble Technologies has built the world's first cloud-based sound simulation and synthetic audio data generation platform, enabling architects, engineers, car manufacturers, and tech companies to simulate acoustic environments up to 1,000x faster than legacy software. Founded in 2020 by acoustic engineers Dr Finnur Pind and Jesper Pedersen following nearly a decade of research, the Reykjavik startup raised €11M in a Series A round in September 2024, led by KOMPAS VC with participation from Frumtak Ventures, the European Investment Bank, and strategic partners Saint-Gobain & L-Acoustics. Its platform is used by three of the world's five largest tech companies and major global engineering consultancies.
Truecaller is a Stockholm-based company that develops a mobile caller-identification, spam-blocking and call/SMS-management app for Android and iOS. Founded in 2009 by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam, the app lets users identify unknown callers and filter spam, with India being its largest market. The company listed its Class B shares on Nasdaq Stockholm in October 2021 and has grown to roughly 500 million active users, while expanding into adjacent data services.
Turbine is a Budapest-based biotech company using AI-powered simulated cell technology to accelerate drug discovery and identify novel cancer treatment combinations. The platform creates virtual cell models that simulate how cancer cells respond to different drug interventions, helping pharmaceutical companies identify promising candidates faster and with fewer costly wet-lab experiments. Turbine has partnered with major pharma companies and raised significant funding to expand its simulated biology platform. The company is a standout example of deep-tech life sciences innovation emerging from Hungary and one of the most technically ambitious AI-for-drug-discovery startups in Central Europe.
TypingDNA is a Romanian cybersecurity startup that turns the way you type — your keystroke rhythm, dwell and flight times, and typing cadence — into a behavioral biometric signature that can authenticate users continuously or at login without any additional hardware. The core product, TypingDNA Verify, is used by banks, exchanges, and remote-proctored exam providers as a friction-light second factor or anti-fraud signal, and the company also offers ActiveLock, a desktop app that locks the computer automatically when a different typist takes over the keyboard. Founded in 2016 by Raul Popa, Cristian Tamas, and Adrian Gheara, TypingDNA was backed by Google Ventures (GV) in 2020 in one of the first GV investments into Romania, and remains one of the most technically distinctive Romanian cybersecurity companies — a useful counterpart to Bitdefender's broader endpoint and consumer security presence.
UiPath is the Bucharest-born enterprise automation company that defined the robotic process automation (RPA) category and rode it to one of the largest European software IPOs ever: the company listed on the NYSE (PATH) in 2021 at a roughly USD 35 billion valuation, making co-founder Daniel Dines the first Romanian tech billionaire. Founded in 2005 by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă as an outsourced desktop-automation shop, the company pivoted in the mid-2010s into selling a platform for orchestrating software robots that mimic human workers against legacy enterprise applications, and used aggressive community-led adoption to become the de facto RPA standard at thousands of Fortune 500s. Post-IPO, UiPath has extended into AI-powered document understanding, process mining (via the 2022 Re:infer acquisition), and — most importantly — agentic automation, a 2024 platform launch that orchestrates LLM-based agents alongside traditional robots inside the same workflow engine. The company is now headquartered in New York but continues to run its largest engineering center out of Bucharest, and it remains the single most influential reference story for Romanian deep-tech.
UMNAI is a Malta-based deep-tech AI company founded in 2019 by Dr. Angelo Dalli and Ken Cassar. The company has developed a neuro-symbolic Hybrid Intelligence framework that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning, enabling AI systems to make consequential decisions that are explainable, auditable, and compliant with EU AI regulation. UMNAI's technology is deployed in financial services, healthcare, insurance, and justice, where regulatory accountability is non-negotiable. The company has been granted 30 patents with a further 22 pending, and Cassar represents Malta at the CEN/CENELEC JTC 21 AI standards committee.
UN:BLOCK is a two-day blockchain, fintech and AI conference held in Riga, drawing around 3,000 attendees from 50+ countries and 700+ companies. Day one focuses on blockchain, digital assets and AI agents, while day two covers fintech, payments, banking regulation and financial infrastructure. The event is backed by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA).
AI-powered Language Operations (LangOps) platform combining machine translation with human editors for multilingual customer support and content. Founded 2013 in Lisbon; acquired by TransPerfect in August 2025.
5th edition of CEE's premier fintech festival at Oradea Fortress with 700+ delegates from 40+ countries; tracks span banking digital transformation, AI roadmap, InsurTech, next-gen payments, digital assets, and sustainable finance.
Remote UX research and unmoderated usability-testing platform for product teams, with card sorting, tree testing, prototype analytics and Figma/Sketch imports. Founded 2018, backed by Metavallon VC.
Iceland's largest IT conference and expo at Harpa, organized by Sky (Icelandic Computer Society) with the University of Iceland and Reykjavik University. Multi-track program of talks and an exhibition covering software, AI and emerging tech.
9th edition of Startup Valencia's flagship summit at the City of Arts and Sciences, themed 'Origin of What's Next', expecting 12,000+ attendees from 120 countries, 3,000 startups, 1,500 corporates and 800 investors managing €300B+ in assets.
Cosmologist and physicist researching dark energy and the large-scale structure of the universe, applying machine learning to astrophysical data and survey missions. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and galaxies.
A €18M debut seed-stage venture fund launched in 2025 and backed by the Polish Development Fund, focused on B2B software, AI and techbio. Co-founded by Aleksandra Pedraszewska (an early ElevenLabs employee), Karolina Kukielka and Zuzanna Brzosko, it invests €500K–€750K in Polish founders building globally.
Venture Catalysts is an innovative venture studio and venture builder program based in Porto, Portugal, specializing in spinning up companies from scientific research and technical projects. Founded around 2015 (with roots as a university initiative), Venture Catalysts takes a hands-on approach to pair scientists and engineers with business co-founders to create startups in fields like medtech, cleantech, and AI. The program identifies promising technologies (often from local universities like University of Porto or from labs across Portugal) and provides a structured process to form a company, develop an MVP, and obtain early funding. Each year, it selects a batch of projects and offers resources such as lab access, initial capital (seed grants or investment from partnered funds), and a network of corporate partners for pilots. A distinctive feature is how it integrates venture building with funding: Venture Catalysts can provide seed capital through grants or its partnered VC funds (often up to €200k), and also connects teams with larger investors for follow-ons. The studio’s track record includes helping create SWORD Health (digital physiotherapy startup that became a unicorn) and AddVolt (electric truck battery solution acquired by Daimler). These successes highlight the model’s efficacy – both companies started as technical projects in Portugal and through Venture Catalysts’ support, gained product-market fit and international traction. The venture studio is backed by both private and public stakeholders (it has worked with Portugal’s innovation agency and corporates like EDP in energy tech). Located in Porto’s up-and-coming innovation district, Venture Catalysts has contributed to making Porto a deep-tech startup hub beyond the usual Lisbon scene. The program puts heavy emphasis on team formation – often recruiting experienced entrepreneurs or MBAs to join scientific founders as CEOs or business leads, ensuring startups have both technical depth and commercial acumen. With a regional focus, it has kept many high-tech startups in Northern Portugal, strengthening the local ecosystem. In summary, Venture Catalysts serves as a venture co-founder for scientists – turning lab breakthroughs into viable companies by providing the missing pieces (business talent, early capital, industry links). Its portfolio’s achievements, like SWORD Health’s growth, demonstrate the powerful potential of the venture studio model in catalyzing innovation.
Venture to Future Fund (VFF) is a state-backed venture capital fund established in 2019 through a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank, the Slovak Ministry of Finance, and Slovak Investment Holding. It launched investments in June 2020 with an initial €40.4 million mandate, subsequently expanded by €15.3 million from the Slovak Recovery and Resilience Plan in 2024, extending its investment period through 2026. VFF focuses exclusively on Slovak innovative SMEs and EU companies with capital ties to Slovakia, deploying €400,000–€7 million per company. Since inception it has backed 16 companies including Photoneo, Sensoneo, Fuergy, and Powerful Medical.
Deep-tech B2B data vendor (formerly Soleadify) providing AI-curated firmographic and supplier data via APIs for sourcing, risk, underwriting and market intelligence across tens of millions of companies.
Veriff is an Estonia-born identity verification company that has become part of the trust layer for digital businesses operating in regulated or fraud-sensitive environments. The platform helps companies confirm that a user is real and matches the identity documents they present, combining document analysis, biometric checks, liveness detection, and contextual fraud signals into a single workflow. That matters for fintech, mobility, marketplaces, and online platforms that need to balance conversion, compliance, and abuse prevention at scale. Estonia is a fitting home for a company like Veriff because the country's digital-state legacy and export-oriented software culture created strong conditions for trust infrastructure businesses. Within the broader European ecosystem, Veriff stands out as a Baltic company that turned regional technical strengths into a globally relevant category. It also connects naturally with adjacent infrastructure players in the directory: onboarding-heavy fintechs need identity verification, and workflow platforms can automate the compliance and security processes around those checks. As a result, Veriff is not just another startup profile, but a useful example of how European infrastructure companies become indispensable across many other sectors.
Image-recognition and AI platform for retail and CPG companies, automating shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, price tracking and competitive intelligence from in-store imagery.
AI-powered invoicing SaaS for freelancers and tradespeople that generates compliant PDF invoices in under 10 seconds from voice or text messages on WhatsApp, handling French requirements including sequential numbering, VAT and the 2026 e-invoicing mandate.
Berlin-based AI companion for nurses and care workers that listens as staff speak care notes aloud and instantly converts speech into structured EHR records, giving clinicians back up to 30% of their shift. Deployed at 1,500+ care facilities across Germany serving 100,000+ nurses. Raised €43M Series A led by Balderton Capital.
Biopharma R&D company using AI-driven protein engineering and wet-lab directed evolution to design highly selective miniprotein therapeutics targeting disease mechanisms resistant to small molecules and antibodies.
Wandelbots is a Dresden-based robotics company founded in 2017, spun out of TU Dresden, that makes industrial robots easier to program. Its software abstracts away vendor-specific robot languages so that a single interface can control robots from different manufacturers, and it has moved toward AI-driven ('Physical AI') robot control for manufacturing.
Wayve is a London-based autonomous driving company built around the idea that vehicles should learn to drive through end-to-end machine learning rather than depend primarily on hand-coded rules and pre-mapped environments. That design choice makes Wayve one of the most important applied AI companies in Europe, because it pushes autonomy closer to a generalized intelligence problem than a traditional automotive software stack. By learning from raw driving data and behavior rather than fixed rulesets alone, Wayve aims to create systems that adapt more fluidly to unfamiliar roads and edge cases. This approach places the company near the frontier of embodied AI, where perception, planning, and action are trained together. In ecosystem terms, Wayve sits alongside Europe's most ambitious AI infrastructure and model-building efforts, but with a direct path into physical-world deployment through automotive and fleet partnerships. It is therefore a strong example of how European AI can move beyond content generation into safety-critical systems. The company also highlights London's role as a regional AI hub where capital, research talent, and commercialization pathways increasingly overlap.
Webrazzi's anniversary edition fintech conference at Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent, bringing together Turkish industry leaders to discuss digital banking, open banking, blockchain integration, AI-driven financial applications, and digital payments.
Largest regional communications festival now in its 19th edition, with five content tracks including Media, AI, HR, Investment and Finance Weekend gathering media, marketing and PR professionals.
Business Angel of the Year 2022 and co-founder of Netguru, Wiktor became a prolific startup investor after scaling one of Europe’s best-known digital consultancies. Through Supercharge Capital, he focuses on global SaaS and e-commerce enablement companies. Notable portfolio examples include Tidio, Packhelp, and Customly.
A global festival for innovation, digital, and social enterprise, bringing together the startup ecosystem in Italy and beyond.
Edinburgh-based legal AI platform designed for in-house legal teams that captures, triages, resolves, and records every legal request from the business with AI assistance. Serves 500+ companies including BT, Financial Times, and Canva. Raised £52M ($70M) Series B from Highland Europe and Index Ventures in June 2026.
Employee experience and internal communications platform unifying intranet, engagement, comms and AI-powered search into one app. Founded 2017 in Cork; acquired by Zoom in 2023 and still operates from Cork.
YES!Delft is a renowned tech incubator in the Netherlands, focused on turning university research and technical inventions into successful startups. Founded in 2005 by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) – one of Europe’s top engineering schools – YES!Delft has grown into a deep-tech startup ecosystem supporting hardware and high-tech software ventures. The incubator offers a 3-4 month validation program for idea-stage teams, longer-term incubation for growth-stage startups, access to specialized labs and maker spaces, and connections to TU Delft’s extensive research facilities. Over the past 20 years, YES!Delft has incubated nearly 500 startups, collectively valued at over €1.2B. Notable alumni include Ampelmann (offshore access systems, now a global marine company) and E-nevia (electric mobility). The sectors span AI, robotics, medtech, aerospace, clean energy, and more – reflecting Delft’s engineering strengths. The incubator actively leverages partnerships: it works with corporates like KLM (aviation) and NS (railways) for pilot opportunities, and with government initiatives for grants. Startups at YES!Delft benefit from an entrepreneur-centric approach; the incubator was twice ranked a global top 5 university incubator by UBI Index. It offers an in-house venture fund (UNIIQ) that provides proof-of-concept funding (~€100k) to the most promising teams, bridging the gap to seed rounds. YES!Delft’s campus in Delft has co-working, an auditorium for events, and proximity to cutting-edge labs (e.g., quantum computing labs at QuTech). It has expanded with satellite branches in Rotterdam (focused on port and logistics tech) and The Hague (focused on AI and security) to tap regional industries. The name YES stands for “Young Entrepreneurs Society,” underscoring its community vibe: seasoned mentors, many of whom are TU Delft alumni entrepreneurs, guide newcomers. With continued support from TU Delft and the city, YES!Delft is a cornerstone of the Dutch innovation ecosystem – ensuring that inventions from classrooms and labs (like next-gen drones, solar cars, or medical devices) find their way to market via robust startups.
Yokoy is a Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019 by Lars Mangelsdorf, Philippe Sahli, and Michael Fehr. The company automates expense reports, invoice processing, and corporate card management using machine learning, reducing manual finance workflows for mid-market and enterprise clients. Yokoy raised a Series B of CHF 80 million in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech funding rounds of that year, and has since expanded across DACH, the UK, and the Netherlands. The platform integrates with major ERP systems including SAP and Oracle and is used by companies including DocMorris and Montana. Yokoy competes with Concur and Payhawk in the European spend management category.
Professor at the Université de Montréal, Turing Award laureate and a founding pioneer of deep learning, and Co-President of the LawZero AI-safety initiative. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
Japanese neuroscientist and professor at Kyoto University known for pioneering work on brain decoding and reconstructing mental imagery from neural activity using machine learning. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 TEDAI Vienna conference on AI and the brain.
Proptech that digitises the full residential rental lifecycle for landlords and property managers, offering guaranteed rent, AI-powered tenant matching, non-payment insurance and rent advances. Manages 3,500 properties across Spain.
Zefir is a French proptech company operating an AI-powered real-estate marketplace that aims to accelerate residential property transactions for sellers, buyers and agents. Its technology pools listings across competing agents and helps reduce transaction times, and it has launched ZIA, an AI-powered home-search assistant for buyers. Founded in 2020 and based in Paris, Zefir raised a 15 million euro Series B round in September 2025 led by FinTech Collective, bringing total funding to roughly 50 million euro.
Zagreb Innovation Centre (ZICER) is a publicly supported hub offering incubation, acceleration, and coworking services for tech startups. It runs four acceleration tracks (Startup Factory, Growth, Global, Deep Tech) backed by a EUR 300,000 investment fund, and provides access to ZICERLab for hardware and product development. The centre houses roughly 80 companies across sectors including AI, IoT, greentech, and electronics.
IEEE Zooming Innovation in Consumer Technologies conference at University of Novi Sad, themed 'Outsmarting the Narrative: People, AI, and Technology' — applied research and industry talks on AI, trust, and consumer tech.
AI customer-service platform co-founded in 2019 by Maja Schaefer (originally as Chatbotize, rebranded 2021). Zowie lets enterprises in e-commerce, banking and telecom deploy AI agents across chat, voice, email and app using a deterministic decision engine, and counts L'Oréal, InPost and Avon among its customers. It has raised around $20M, including a Series A led by Tiger Global.