Nicosia, Cyprus · Venture Capital 33East was founded by Demetrios Zoppos and Yiannis Eftychiou and selected by the European Investment Fund in 2023 as Cyprus's first EIF-backed venture capital fund. It closed a €26 million debut fund in January 2025, anchored by the Cyprus Equity Fund (NRRP) and private investors including the Bank of Cyprus. The fund targets pre-seed and seed-stage startups with a Cyprus connection, writing cheques of €100K–€1M across enterprise software, fintech, gaming, marketplaces, logistics, digital health, and climate tech. First portfolio companies include Electryone AI, an AI-powered renewable-energy management platform.
Barcelona, Spain · Event Global startup platform co-located with MWC at Fira Gran Via, featuring broad investor and corporate access. Includes the 4YFN Awards 2026 live pitch sequence: top startups pitch on March 2, 2026 with finalists advancing to the March 4, 2026 final during MWC week.
Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium · Startup Aerospacelab designs, builds and operates satellites end-to-end, offering versatile platforms (150 kg–1 t), payloads spanning earth observation and telecom, and full mission operations. Founded in 2018 by ex-NASA and ESA engineer Benoît Deper, the company is 90% vertically integrated and ITAR-free. It raised a €94 M Series B in August 2025 (including €37.5 M from the EIB) and is completing a Megafactory in Charleroi — Europe's largest satellite plant, targeting 500 units per year by 2026. Aerospacelab is one of two finalists competing to build the LEO layer of the EU's IRIS² secure-comms constellation.
London, United Kingdom · Person Co-founder and CEO of Fuse Energy and an early Revolut executive who served as its chief revenue officer. He started Fuse to build a vertically integrated renewable-energy and battery business.
Ghent, Belgium · Startup Aphea.Bio develops microbial-based biological crop solutions that replace synthetic pesticides and fertilisers — biostimulants, biofungicides, bioherbicides and bioinsecticides — using its proprietary APEXbio™ platform. The technology was spun out of research at Ghent University, KU Leuven and VIB. Co-founded in 2017 by Isabel Vercauteren (CEO) and Steven Vandenabeele, the company raised a €70 M Series C in July 2023 backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SFPIM, BNP Paribas Fortis and Innovation Industries. In 2025 it secured a VLAIO grant to launch its TRANSCEND platform screening 5,000 proprietary microorganism candidates. Aphea.Bio holds B Corp certification and is a Ghent biotech hub anchor.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Event The largest annual international gathering on Arctic affairs, held at Harpa with governments, academia, NGOs, Indigenous representatives and private-sector stakeholders. Strong tracks on climate, clean energy, ocean tech and Arctic innovation.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Startup Atmonia is developing a breakthrough electro-catalytic process for synthesising ammonia directly from air, water and renewable electricity at ambient temperature and pressure — with zero carbon emissions. Its precious-metal-free catalyst technology, protected by multiple patents, could disrupt the conventional Haber-Bosch process that accounts for roughly 2% of global CO2 emissions. Founded in 2016, the company has raised $3M in equity alongside $10M in non-dilutive funding from sources including the Icelandic Research Fund, Technology Development Fund and Horizon Europe. Atmonia collaborates with Fujitsu on AI-accelerated catalyst development and leads the EU-funded VERGE project.
Paris, France · Person Co-founder and CEO of Electra, the fast EV-charging network deploying hubs across Europe. He co-founded the company in 2021 and raised large rounds from Eurazeo, PGGM and others.
Warsaw, Poland · Person Investment Director at Movens Capital. Focused on pre-seed and seed dealflow across CEE, with emphasis on SaaS, climate tech, and industrial software. Works closely with portfolio on fundraising and metrics operationalisation.
Dunkirk, France · Person Co-founder and CEO of Verkor, the low-carbon battery-gigafactory company building cells for electric vehicles in northern France, backed by Renault, EQT and Macquarie.
Nantes, France · Event Specialized bioeconomy and bioenergy event covering biomass, waste-to-energy, and carbon capture. Price: free for verified professionals or about EUR 50-100. Includes startup pitches and B2B matchmaking for industrial pilots.
Lisbon, Portugal · Startup Residential solar company offering panels, batteries, EV chargers and backup systems via a no-upfront-cost subscription model, aiming to cut household electricity bills by up to 50%.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Startup Carbfix dissolves captured CO2 in water and injects it into basalt rock formations, where it permanently mineralises into solid carbonate stone in under two years. Founded in 2007 as a joint research initiative by Reykjavik Energy, the University of Iceland, CNRS France, and Columbia University's Earth Institute, the company operates at the Hellisheiði geothermal power plant. In 2023 it secured a $117M EU grant and became the first company to receive an EU permit for onshore carbon capture & storage, with capacity for ~106,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. It was a WIPO Global Awards 2025 finalist and partners with Climeworks on the Mammoth DAC plant.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Startup Carbon Recycling International (CRI) designs, licenses and sells its proprietary Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) process technology for producing green methanol from captured CO2 emissions and green hydrogen. Founded in 2006 and operating at industrial scale since 2012, CRI is globally recognised as a leader in CO2-to-methanol technology. The company raised $30M led by Equinor Ventures and counts Geely, Methanex and Eyrir Invest among its major shareholders. CRI's technology has been deployed in commercial projects in China, including one of the world's most efficient CO2-to-methanol plants built in partnership with Jiangsu Sailboat.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Event One-week fast-track bootcamp at the LHoFT for 10 selected green fintech firms, co-facilitated with LSFI. Participants pitch to investors, meet sustainable finance decision-makers and join the annual LSFI Summit.
Volos, Greece · Startup 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.
Paris, France · Event Organisator Organizer of ChangeNOW, a global summit focused on climate and impact innovation. ChangeNOW is an event organiser based in Paris, France. Organising events in the Events, Climate Tech, Impact, Sustainability space.
Paris, France · Event Global climate and impact summit under the Grand Palais roof connecting founders with investors, corporates, and public-sector decision-makers. High-value platform for climate startups seeking B2B/B2G pilots, procurement pathways, and scale partnerships in sustainability and transition infrastructure.
Paris, France · Event ChangeNOW 2027 returns to the iconic Grand Palais in Paris for three days dedicated to accelerating solutions for the planet. The summit convenes impact-driven startups, investors, policymakers, and corporations around climate, biodiversity, social innovation, and the energy transition. The 2027 edition dates are officially announced on the event website with pre-registration open.
Berlin, Germany · Venture Capital Cherry Ventures is a Berlin-headquartered seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Filip Dames, Christian Meermann, and Daniel Glasner, three serial founders who previously built and exited companies in the Rocket Internet orbit and wanted a fund that operated like an ex-operator first-round partner rather than a traditional generalist. The firm has grown into one of the most consistently visible seed funds in Europe, with over EUR 750 million under management across five generations of funds and a portfolio that includes FlixBus, GetYourGuide, Auto1 Group, Forto, Infarm, Flink, Juni, and Choco. Cherry invests from EUR 500K to EUR 4M at pre-seed and seed across consumer, marketplaces, B2B SaaS, fintech, and climate tech, and opened offices in London, Paris, and Stockholm during the 2021-2023 expansion cycle. It is one of the relatively small group of European seed funds that regularly competes head-to-head with US tier-one firms on European first checks.
Brussels, Belgium · Event Focused networking for the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking. Price: free with application/registration. Targets SMEs and startups collaborating on hydrogen and electric flight tech proposals.
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Event Curated venture day focused on urban transition topics including climate infrastructure, mobility, district energy, and smart buildings. Program is aligned with Amsterdam deep-tech week and targets investor plus city-infrastructure stakeholder matchmaking.
Paris, France · Person Co-founder and CEO of InnovaFeed, one of the world's largest insect-protein producers, turning insects into sustainable feed and fertiliser at industrial scale, backed by Temasek and Qatar Investment Authority.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Venture Capital 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.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Venture Capital Contrarian Ventures is a pan-European seed-stage climate tech fund founded in 2017 and headquartered in Vilnius, with a secondary office in London. The fund exclusively backs startups targeting the sources of 77% of global greenhouse gas emissions — energy, transport, buildings, and heavy industry — deploying €1–4 million per initial ticket. Its second fund closed at €100 million in 2022, making it one of the largest dedicated climate VC vehicles out of the Baltics. The portfolio spans over 28 companies across 11 countries and skews 60% software-first, with the remaining 40% split between hardware-enabled software and deep tech hardware.
Cambridge, United Kingdom · Startup 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.
Athens, Greece · Startup 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.
Barcelona, Spain · Startup 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.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup EHS&S compliance software provider spun out of EY Denkstatt in 2021, offering a cloud platform for environment, health, safety, ESG and CSRD reporting used by 500+ companies across 30 countries.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Event One-day GreenTech & digital conference at CYBER CITY Vilnius, co-funded by EDIH Vilnius and Digital Europe, bringing together innovators, startups, investors, and policy leaders around sustainable tech, data, and resilient industry.
Essen, Germany · Event Europe's defining energy industry fair with Smart Energy and innovation sectors. Price: about EUR 75 day ticket or EUR 225 for 3-day pass. Great for renewable energy, smart metering, and grid intelligence startups.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup Circular-economy startup commercializing technology to upcycle spent coffee grounds into bio-based ingredients, including oils, antioxidant fractions, polymer feedstocks, and protein-rich additives for cosmetics, packaging, and food supply chains.
Berlin, Germany · Event Organisator Organizer of Ecosummit Berlin, a climate-tech investor and founder matchmaking event focused on decarbonization and deep tech. Active since 2010, Ecosummit brings together 500+ climate-tech founders, VCs, and corporate sustainability officers for curated deal-flow sessions, making it one of Europe's longest-running green innovation conferences.
Berlin, Germany · Event Climate-tech and green economy matchmaking event at Flussbad Campus (Reethaus), focused on AI-accelerated decarbonization across energy, sustainable buildings, green mobility, and deep tech. Startup Pitch tickets are typically around EUR 600 + VAT and include a guaranteed short on-stage founder pitch in front of active climate investors.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Event The Nordic Energy Informatics Academy Conference, held at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, explores the intersection of energy systems and informatics. Sessions span smart grids, district heating, electric mobility, industrial efficiency and sustainable buildings, with a dedicated Nordic track on the region's energy transition, bringing together academic researchers and industry innovators.
Kaunas, Lithuania · Startup Manufactures AC and DC electric vehicle charging stations plus cloud management and payment software for public, residential and fleet use, with deployments across 40+ countries and partners including DHL and Volvo.
Malaga, Spain · Event Congress on sustainable mobility, EV charging, and autonomous transport. Price: about EUR 60 business pass to EUR 400 VIP. Strong for startups selling to cities and fleet operators.
Houten, Netherlands · Startup Cloud-native time series platform for energy data management and smart grid analytics, automating ingestion, processing and visualization for DSOs and utilities like E-REDES. Acquired by Gridspertise in 2025.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Venture Capital 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).
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Event Senior-level utility summit focused on net-zero transition. Price: about EUR 1800-2500. Great for grid tech, smart metering, and energy analytics startups.
Yerevan, Armenia · Venture Capital Founded in 2013 by Manuk Hergnyan, Pierre Hennes, and Yervand Sarkisyan, Granatus Ventures is a Yerevan-headquartered deep-tech VC with ~$40M AUM and offices also in London and Singapore. The firm focuses on university spinouts across AI, biotech, advanced computing, robotics, industrial automation, and climate tech, sourcing deals from Oxford, Cambridge, and Berkeley. Notable portfolio companies include BlueQubit (quantum software), Gecko Robotics (industrial inspection unicorn), and Zoundream (infant cry analysis). As of 2025 the fund remains actively deploying capital across its global deep-tech mandate.
Dublin, Ireland · Startup 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.
Barcelona, Spain · Startup Heura Foods is a Barcelona-based plant-based protein company that creates Mediterranean-inspired meat alternatives — chicken, burgers, sausages — using its proprietary Good Rebel Tech platform. Founded in 2017 by food activists Marc Coloma and Bernat Añaños, it reached €38M in sales in 2024 on 35% Southern European growth and became EBITDA-positive for the first time in Q1 2026. Backed by a €20M EIB financing package, the company is expanding into B2B white-label production and diversifying into plant-based cheese, cold cuts, and protein pasta across Spain, Portugal, Italy, and France.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Innovation Hub A 6,000 m² campus in Luxembourg City's station district that federates the country's main incubators, accelerators, and startup support organisations under one roof. Opened in June 2018, it hosts between 150 and 200 startups and is home to Luxembourg-City Incubator, LHoFT, Le Village by CA, and the International Climate Finance Accelerator. Backed by the City of Luxembourg and Chamber of Commerce.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Hyke is a Norwegian zero-emission electric ferry startup founded in 2018 by designer and entrepreneur Bård Eker as a spin-out from Eker Group. Its lightweight, fully electric ferries use up to 88% less energy than diesel equivalents and are designed for autonomous operation in urban and inland waterways. The F-15 shuttle completed a 14-month public transport trial in Fredrikstad carrying over 41,000 passengers between April 2024 and mid-2025. Hyke supplied river shuttles for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with backing from RIVE Private Investment, and former Norwegian Minister of Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen joined as a key executive.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Hystar is an Oslo-based green hydrogen company founded in 2020 as a spin-off from SINTEF. The company manufactures PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolysers with membranes 90% thinner than conventional alternatives, significantly cutting electricity consumption and the levelised cost of green hydrogen. Hystar raised $36 million in a Series C round in May 2025 co-led by Nysnø Climate Investments and Orlen VC, building on a $26 million Series B in 2023. The company also secured €26 million from the EU Innovation Fund in late 2024 to support construction of a 1.5 GW automated gigafactory in Høvik, Norway, targeting 4.5 GW capacity by 2031.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Event City-wide innovation festival across Reykjavik with 1,500+ attendees, 100+ speakers, and a strong climate focus spanning energy transition, ocean tech, foodtech, and geothermal. Main passes typically EUR 300-600 with free satellite events. Includes climate-pitch formats like Ok, Bye, ideal for impact founders seeking Nordic investors and pilot sites.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Event City-wide innovation festival returning to Reykjavik for its next edition, bringing together founders, investors, creatives and policymakers from across the Nordics and beyond. The week spans climate and energy transition, ocean tech, foodtech and deep tech, pairing a main-stage program with dozens of satellite events, startup pitch formats and investor matchmaking. Ideal for impact founders seeking Nordic investors, pilot sites and partners.
Tullamore, Ireland · Event Enterprise Ireland's flagship agritech showcase at the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore. Features Start-Up Innovator of the Year (€10,000 prize) and Green Impact awards in front of 240,000+ visitors.
Stockholm, Sweden · Person Joel Larsson is a Partner at Pale Blue Dot, the Swedish venture capital fund dedicated exclusively to early-stage climate technology companies. He is an active investor in the Nordic and European climate tech ecosystem, backing startups working on decarbonization across energy, food, and industrial sectors. Larsson is a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026 and a prominent voice in the Nordic climate investment community.
Paris, France · Person Co-founder and CEO of Neoplants, bio-engineering houseplants to capture indoor air pollutants. A former Google strategist, he co-founded the deep-tech startup with biologist Patrick Torbey.
Lisbon, Portugal · Event Catolica-Lisbon's annual sustainability convening at Beato Innovation District & Santander Center. ~700 attendees across keynotes, academic sessions & workshops on sustainable finance, policy and business under the theme 'Building Sustainability Together'.
London, United Kingdom · Event Government-backed UK flagship tech week at Olympia with 45,000+ attendees, 5,000+ startups, and 300+ investors across AI, quantum, fintech, and health tech. Main-stage passes typically GBP 600-1,500 with free fringe events. Founder tracks, UK policy programming, and EQL:HER make it a key entry point for founders targeting UK enterprise buyers.
Stuttgart, Germany · Startup 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.
Tallinn, Estonia · Angel Investor Founder of Bolt (ride-hailing), Markus (from Estonia) has reinvested some of his gains into fellow CEE startups. He joined a funding round for Sunroof (Polish-Swedish solar roof startup) as an angel. He represents the new generation of founders backing each other across borders. Associated startups: Sunroof, Planet42 (has operations in PL).
Madrid, Spain · Angel Investor Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine-Spanish serial entrepreneur and one of Europe's most prolific angel investors, having founded seven companies across telecom, connectivity, and health tech including Jazztel, FON, and Prelude Fertility. Based in Madrid, Varsavsky invests across the full spectrum of early-stage technology, with a particular focus on connectivity, health tech, and climate-related ventures. His portfolio spans dozens of startups across Spain, the US, and Latin America. Varsavsky brings a unique transatlantic perspective, connecting Spanish founders with Silicon Valley networks, and is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of Spain's modern tech investment scene. He is known for his willingness to bet on unconventional founders and markets others consider too early.
Munich, Germany · Startup Fusion energy company founded in 2019 in Munich developing laser-based inertial fusion using nanostructured proton-boron fuel targets, backed by over $400M with partners including Siemens Energy.
Warsaw, Poland · Venture Capital MCI Capital is a Warsaw-listed digital private equity and growth investor and one of the largest mid-market technology PE groups in Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1999 by Tomasz Czechowicz and listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker: MCI), the firm manages roughly €650M (PLN 2.7bn) in assets, deployed through two evergreen funds — MCI.EuroVentures and MCI.TechVentures, both launched in 2008. MCI targets expansion and buyout transactions of €25–100M, taking majority or significant stakes in two to three companies a year across SaaS, e-commerce and marketplaces, fintech, insurtech, foodtech, traveltech and digital infrastructure.
Geographically the firm concentrates on Poland and the wider CEE region — including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Lithuania — with selective reach into Western Europe. Since inception MCI has completed over 110 investments and more than 90 divestments, delivering landmark exits including iZettle (sold to PayPal for $2.2bn in 2018), Dotpay/eCard (Nets/Nexi, 2019), Azimo (Papaya Global, 2022) and a partial exit from Answear.com in 2025. Its listed structure, backed by institutional shareholders including the Nationale-Nederlanden pension fund, gives MCI permanent-capital characteristics rare among European mid-market PE peers.
Hamburg, Germany · Startup MicroHarvest produces microbial protein using agricultural side streams and a rapid fermentation process designed to deliver sustainable protein ingredients in around 24 hours. The company reported over USD 10.2M in venture funding from investors such as Astanor, Happiness Capital, Simon Capital, and FoodLabs, and received a EUR 5.5M German government grant in February 2026 for an industrial-scale Leuna plant expected to produce about 15,000 tonnes of protein annually.
Warsaw, Poland · Venture Capital Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital firm backing Central and Eastern European tech founders with global ambitions. Movens Capital runs a €60M Fund 2 (launched 2025) and writes first checks of €250k–€3M at pre-seed through Series A+. Focus areas: fintech, edtech, healthtech, deep tech, climate tech, enterprise software, and e-commerce enablement across Poland, the Baltics, the Balkans, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. Founded in 2018 by Artur Banach and Michał Olszewski. Fund LPs include the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), PFR Ventures, and 80+ tech founders, operators, and family offices. Notable exits include MEDICAlgorithmics (IPO) and Fenige.
Baku, Azerbaijan · Startup NEXUS (Nexus Lab) is a Baku-based climate-aviation software startup attacking one of the least-addressed parts of the flight emissions picture: non-CO2 warming, and in particular contrail-induced radiative forcing, which research suggests contributes roughly as much to aviation's near-term climate impact as its CO2 alone. The team combines atmospheric reanalysis data, probabilistic ice-supersaturation forecasting, and route/altitude optimization to produce flight-level recommendations airlines can apply without material fuel or schedule penalties. Its product is positioned for the European market specifically because of EU ETS and CORSIA-adjacent disclosure regimes that will increasingly price non-CO2 effects as the EU's non-CO2 monitoring rules phase in. Nexus Lab emerged through the 500 Global Eurasia program and is one of the more technically ambitious deep-tech bets to come out of the Azerbaijani ecosystem so far.
Stockholm, Sweden · Angel Investor Niklas Zennstrom is a Swedish-born serial entrepreneur and investor, best known as the co-founder of Skype and Kazaa. After selling Skype to eBay for USD 2.6B in 2005, Zennstrom founded Atomico (listed separately as VC), one of Europe's most prominent growth-stage venture funds. Beyond Atomico, Zennstrom makes personal angel investments in early-stage European startups, particularly those working on climate tech, sustainability, and deep technology. He co-founded the Zennstrom Philanthropies and is a driving force behind efforts to position the Nordics as a global hub for impact-driven technology. His combination of entrepreneurial credibility, global network, and climate focus makes him one of Europe's most sought-after angel backers.
Madrid, Spain · Startup OnTruck is a digital road-freight marketplace connecting shippers with truck operators, with instant pricing, real-time tracking and automated payments. It focuses on short-haul routes and uses AI to cut empty kilometres and emissions across Spain and France.
London, United Kingdom · Startup 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.
Stockholm, Sweden · Venture Capital Pale Blue Dot is a Swedish venture capital firm dedicated exclusively to investing in early-stage climate tech companies across the Nordic region and Europe. Founded to accelerate decarbonization through technology-driven solutions, the fund backs startups working on energy transition, carbon capture, sustainable food systems, and related sectors. It is one of the most prominent climate-focused VC funds operating in Scandinavia and a partner organization at NORDEEP 2026.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Mobility app founded in 2016 that combines on-street and off-street parking, EV charging across 170,000+ stations and highway vignettes in one platform, with B2B offerings for office buildings and fleets.
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor Paweł Michalski is a Warsaw-based VC educator and angel investor, best known as co-founder and CEO of VCLeaders, a training platform for venture professionals, and as a Managing Partner and Head of Advisory Services at COBIN Angels, Poland's largest business-angel community. He is also a Venture Partner at the Berlin climate-tech fund World Fund, and previously served as Chief Growth Officer at equity-crowdfunding platform Beesfund and Head of Business Development at hardware startup First11, following a project-finance career at PKO Bank Polski. Through VCLeaders' newsletter he regularly publishes analysis on the European venture ecosystem.
Lyon, France · Event Europe's leading environmental and energy technologies trade show at Eurexpo Lyon, organised by RX. Pollutec covers waste, water, energy, contaminated sites, air quality, risk prevention and the bioeconomy, connecting cleantech and greentech startups with industry, utilities and public buyers.
Budapest, Hungary · Venture Capital PortfoLion is the venture capital and growth equity arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, managing approximately €440 million in AUM across three distinct funds targeting seed, growth, and turnaround stages. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Budapest, it is the most prominent institutional VC in the CEE region by assets under management, with 64 portfolio companies across Hungary and wider Central and Eastern Europe. Its seed fund deploys €500k–€3 million per ticket and the growth fund €5–30 million, with notable investments including SEON (which went on to raise $150 million from Creandum and IVP) and Tresorit (acquired by Swiss Post). The firm has a team of 33 professionals including five partners.
Paris, France · Event Organisator Organiser of PRODURABLE, the largest European gathering of actors and solutions for the sustainable economy, held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Produced by Groupe AEF under the patronage of the French Ministry of Ecological Transition, it convenes thousands of decision-makers, speakers and partners.
Munich, Germany · Startup Proxima Fusion is a deep-tech fusion energy company spun out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in 2023. It is developing quasi-isodynamic stellarator systems designed for stable, commercial fusion power generation and is targeting a demonstrator pathway toward net-energy performance in the next decade.
Zurich, Switzerland · Venture Capital Redalpine is a Zurich-based multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Michael Sidler and Peter Niederhauser, and has grown into one of the most active Swiss VCs by number of early-stage checks across the DACH and wider European technology landscape. The firm invests from seed through Series B across digital health, fintech, deep tech, climate tech, and software, and is best known as an early backer of N26, Taxfix, Inkitt, 9fin, and Proxima Fusion. Redalpine closed its sixth fund at EUR 300+ million in 2023 and has built one of the larger Swiss-based venture teams, typically writing checks between EUR 1-15 million into companies it then follows through multiple rounds. It is a reference fund for Swiss and DACH founders looking for a locally anchored lead investor with international reach.
Augsburg, Germany · Startup Reonic is a German climate tech company that builds planning and workflow software for renewable energy installers, helping them work more efficiently. Its AI-powered platform covers the full customer journey for installations of solar PV systems, heat pumps, energy storage and EV charging, integrating CRM, system design, proposal generation and a mobile field app. The company was founded in Augsburg, Bavaria, and has expanded with additional offices. In September 2024 Reonic raised 13 million euro in Series A funding led by Northzone, with participation from Point Nine and Puzzle Ventures.
Paris, France · Event Organisator French arm of RX (Reed Exhibitions), a global events business that organises major trade shows in France including Pollutec, the leading environmental technology event in Lyon, and Big Data & AI Paris. RX France connects exhibitors, innovators and buyers across cleantech, data and industrial sectors.
Paris, France · Event The 19th edition of PRODURABLE at the Palais des Congrès in Paris is the largest European meeting for the sustainable economy, with around 15,000 visitors, 800 speakers and 350 partners. It convenes decision-makers, impact startups and investors around sustainability and ecological transition.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Venture Capital Satgana is a Luxembourg-based climate and earth tech venture capital firm founded in 2020, investing at pre-seed and seed stages in European and African startups addressing the climate and ecological crisis. With a €30 million fund, Satgana backs founders across food and agriculture, energy, mobility, industry, carbon removal, and the circular economy with ticket sizes of €100k–€500k. As a strategic partner of Catapult Green Fintech, Satgana contributes its climate investment expertise to the program's green finance and sustainability track.
Barcelona, Spain · Event The world's largest smart-city event, organized at Fira Barcelona with 25,000+ urban planners, govtech vendors, mobility startups, and sustainability innovators. Covers digital twins, urban mobility, circular economy, energy transition, and citizen services. A primary sales channel for European urbantech startups. Tickets from EUR 200.
Athens, Greece · Event Free week-long festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, with the SNF Nostos Conference (June 22-26) bringing international speakers on health, education, climate and the future of society alongside concerts and interactive programming.
Tallinn, Estonia · Startup Deep-tech firm manufacturing precious-metal-free alkaline electrolyser stacks (0.5-5 MW) and containerised green-hydrogen systems for refineries, steel and ammonia. Opened a Tallinn factory in 2025; backed by Repsol.
London, United Kingdom · Event Organisator Organizer of the Sustainable Foods London conference and expo. Sustainable Foods London is an event organiser based in London, United Kingdom. Organising events in the Events, FoodTech, Climate Tech space.
London, United Kingdom · Event Conference and expo in London focused on sustainability challenges in the food and drink industry, covering supply-chain transparency, alternative proteins, and circular packaging. Brings together food manufacturers, retailers, and impact investors. Strong for food-tech and climate-tech startups targeting the UK consumer market.
London, United Kingdom · Event Content-heavy summit at Old Billingsgate focused on European scale-up strategy, AI, fintech, and climate tech. Strong attendance from Series A-C founders, LPs, Tier 1 VCs, and tech media.
Stockholm, Sweden · Event Nordic/Baltic scale-up conference at Friends Arena with 7,500+ attendees and 400+ investors. Known for stage-specific pitch competitions and a strong sustainability and ESG focus.
Bergen, Norway · Startup Fully digital smart electricity company whose app optimizes household energy use against dynamic spot pricing and automates EV/heating consumption. Founded 2016 in Norway.
Florence, Italy · Startup Treedom is the world's first online agroforestry funding platform, allowing individuals and companies to plant trees in community-based projects across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, with each tree geotagged and photographed. Founded in Florence in 2010 by Federico Garcea and Tommaso Speroni, Treedom has planted over 3.3 million trees across 42 projects in 14 countries. Certified B-Corp since 2014, the company runs a hybrid B2B2C model — selling corporate sustainability packages to companies and individual tree gifting to consumers. Backed by Banca Sella with $14.4 million raised and 84 employees as of 2026.
Warsaw, Poland · Accelerator City of Warsaw acceleration initiative connecting startups with municipal companies for pilot implementations, especially in sustainability and urban innovation. Participants receive mentoring and can compete for demo-day prizes.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup Cleantech spinout from Warsaw University of Technology building autonomous floating WaterStation units for inland water monitoring. The platform combines disposable electrochemical sensors with forecasting models to detect and predict ecological threats.
Madrid, Spain · Event Europe's flagship wind energy event, drawing 8,000+ attendees from utilities, turbine OEMs, and policymakers. Features an Innovation Park where startups exhibit and pitch. Passes EUR 900-1200. Key for founders in grid integration, offshore wind, blade inspection drones, predictive maintenance, and green hydrogen from wind power.
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor Wojciech Pysiewicz is a Polish investor and co-founder of WP2 Investments (founded 2021, Wrocław), a venture and venture-building fund focused on fintech, green energy, medtech and e-commerce at pre-seed to Series A. He spent nearly two decades in banking, including nine years at Santander Consumer Bank where he served on the management board overseeing Belgium and the Netherlands, before turning to early-stage investing. Recognised as a SuperAngel by COBIN Angels, his portfolio of 17 companies includes fintechs Verestro and Fenige, and the fund achieved an exit when wellbee was acquired by Benefit Systems in 2024.
Wels, Austria · Event Conference-led event on energy efficiency and renewables with 600+ experts from 60 countries. Price: about EUR 390 for full conference, with student discounts. Strong for policy-focused green tech founders.