Vienna, Austria · Startup 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.
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor 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.
Munich, Germany · Startup 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.
Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup 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.
Zagreb, Croatia · Startup 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.
Zurich, Switzerland · Person 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.
Zurich, Switzerland · Startup 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.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup 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.
Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization YerevaNN is a non-profit machine learning and AI research laboratory established in 2016, operating independently from commercial projects and funded by private donations and research grants. The lab collaborates with institutions including the University of Southern California and the Institute of Molecular Biology in Armenia, with active research into drug discovery via molecule generation, computer vision, and clinical AI. It has produced over 85 scientific publications and is a recognized node of the Armenian AI research community.