Consumer startup ecosystem
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57hours
57hours is a Croatian-founded marketplace that connects travelers with vetted local guides for outdoor adventures such as hiking, mountain biking, backcountry skiing, sailing and rock climbing across destinations including Croatia, the European Alps, Norway, Japan and the US. The platform lets guides list multi-day trips and travelers book directly, and it runs an EU-funded project alongside its commercial marketplace.
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ABC Accelerator
ABC Accelerator was founded in 2015 and is the largest private startup accelerator in South Eastern Europe, based at BTC City in Ljubljana. It runs a three-month programme accepting up to 12 startups per cohort, offering a €25,000 convertible loan and an option for €100,000–€250,000 follow-on investment. To date it has accelerated over 130 startups from 30 countries and helped them raise approximately €30 million in funding. It has been recognised as the best accelerator programme by the Central European Startup Awards.
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Adam
Adam is a marketplace for tradespeople, effectively an on-demand platform for home renovation and construction services. Customers can book vetted painters, electricians, or renovation crews, while providers receive steady demand and streamlined scheduling. The company has expanded across Europe, including the UK, Spain, and France. By 2026, Adam is a visible Czech marketplace success in the home services sector.
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Agesync
Agesync (Agesync GmbH), established in 2024 and based in Berlin (with a presence in New York), is a physician-led longevity platform that combines at-home blood diagnostics measuring 40-60+ biomarkers with a network of licensed EU doctors who review results and prescribe personalized hormonal therapy, nutrition, training, and supplement protocols. Its dashboard tracks biomarker trends, protocol adherence, and wearable data such as HRV and sleep over quarterly retesting cycles, and its labs are ISO 15189-certified partners in the EU and US.
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Alven
Alven is an independent Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Guillaume Aubin and Charles Letourneur, making it one of the oldest and most established VC institutions in France. The firm manages €2 billion in assets under management across six successive funds, with its latest fund closing at €350 million in 2022. Alven focuses on seed through Series B investments across B2B software, fintech, marketplaces, developer tools, and consumer technology, predominantly backing French and European startups. Notable unicorn investments include Qonto, Dataiku, and Algolia, alongside a broader portfolio of 164 companies that includes Ankorstore, OpenClassrooms, Happn, and Meero.
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AQUILE
AQUILE LTD, based in the village of Brestnik near Plovdiv, Bulgaria, owns and operates the Wingrain brand of healthy, crunchy snack products aimed at health-conscious consumers. The company is co-financed by the European Structural and Investment Funds under Bulgaria's Innovation and Competitiveness operational programme through an investment from Morningside Hill Capital Management.
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Aroma Global 3
Aroma Global 3 d.o.o., based in Zagreb, produces and sells 100% natural, handmade gelato and sorbets under the aROMA brand, with packaging and store design inspired by 1960s Italian "La Dolce Vita" style that has won a Red Dot design award. The company runs gelato shops as well as an aROMA Academy and gelato tours, offering dairy-based gelato, water-based sorbets, biscotti, affogato and gelato frappe. It is backed by Croatian investor Prosperus Invest and has received EU regional development co-financing.
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Aspora
Aspora, formerly known as Vance, is a cross-border banking and remittance fintech for the Indian diaspora, primarily serving non-resident Indians sending money to India. It offers international money transfers at live mid-market exchange rates, alongside expanding products including currency savings accounts, bill payments, and mutual-fund investing, with further banking, credit, and insurance services planned. The company launched as Vance in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch and rebranded to Aspora in April 2025. It is headquartered in London with additional offices in Bengaluru and Dubai.
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Barkibu
Barkibu is a pet health insurance company offering insurance-backed veterinary cost coverage for dogs and cats, allowing pet owners to visit any vet clinic and get reimbursed for illness and accident treatment. Its terms of use identify Barkibu Germany GmbH, registered at Rosenthaler Strasse 72A, 10119 Berlin, as the licensed European insurance intermediary operating the service, registered with ORIAS and supervised by France's Autorite de Controle Prudentiel et de Resolution for its French market activities.
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BEAUTY FORUM by COSMOPROF Ljubljana 2026
Regional BEAUTY FORUM by Cosmoprof at Gospodarsko razstavisce Ljubljana, drawing 5,000+ salon owners, distributors, and brand buyers from the Adriatic and Balkan market. Day tickets about EUR 10-20. Covers skincare, nails, and aesthetic devices, a low-cost entry point for beauty-tech and clean cosmetics startups targeting Southeast Europe.
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BOOKR Kids
BOOKR Kids is a Hungarian edtech company that builds interactive e-books designed to boost children's literacy, social-emotional and cognitive skills. It sells a schools solution with a teacher dashboard and engaging digital content to reduce lesson-prep time, plus a separate offering that helps publishing houses digitize their content for classroom use. The company has received EU project support for its work.
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Boozt
Boozt is a Nordic technology group selling fashion and lifestyle products online through its multi-brand webstore Boozt.com and its Nordic outlet Booztlet.com, offering a curated selection of over 1,600 brands. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a major operational hub in Malmo, Sweden, and it builds its own in-house e-commerce platform and logistics infrastructure to control the customer experience. Boozt reported SEK 8,244 million in revenue in 2024 and serves a base of over 3.5 million active customers across the Nordic region.
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Breega
Breega is a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016, with offices in Paris, London, and Barcelona. The firm manages over EUR 350M and invests from pre-seed through Series A, writing initial checks of EUR 500K to EUR 5M. Breega focuses on fintech, consumer tech, SaaS, and marketplace models, and has backed companies including Swile, Spendesk, Brigad, and Luko. Led by co-founders Ben Marrel and Francois Paulus, Breega combines capital with an in-house growth team offering hands-on support in hiring, go-to-market strategy, and international expansion across European markets.
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Brigad
Brigad is a French gig-economy marketplace connecting hospitality businesses with self-employed freelance staff such as waiters, chefs, and bartenders for short-term missions. Businesses can post a mission in minutes and only pay for completed work, while freelancers choose their own hours, get paid weekly, and have Brigad handle their contracts, invoices, and tax returns. The platform, active since 2016 in both France and the UK, reports more than 23,000 freelancers, over 12,000 businesses served, and 300,000+ missions accepted. Legally BRIGAD SAS, it is led by president Florent Malbranche.
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Carlos Blanco
Carlos Blanco is a Spanish serial entrepreneur and one of the country's best-known angel investors, based in Barcelona. He founded Akamon Entertainment, a social gaming company that he sold in one of Spain's most notable exits of 2015, and he co-founded the Nuclio Venture Builder and the Conector startup accelerator. He is Managing Partner at Encomenda Smart Capital and has been recognised with Spain's Best Business Angel award by AEBAN.
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Carwow
Carwow is a London-based online car marketplace that lets buyers compare new car deals from a network of dealers and sell their existing car for a fair, free, no-hassle price. The platform covers both new and used vehicles, including electric cars, and shows average savings against manufacturer RRP based on daily dealer pricing. Carwow Ltd is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority for credit broking and insurance distribution activities, and it also operates the leasing business Carwow Leasey.
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Cazoo
Cazoo was a London-based online used car platform founded in 2018 by Alex Chesterman, the serial entrepreneur behind Zoopla and LoveFilm. The company aimed to bring the Carvana model to Europe, allowing consumers to buy, finance, and have used cars delivered to their door. Cazoo went public via SPAC on the NYSE in 2021 at a valuation of around $7 billion and expanded aggressively into France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. However, rapid cash burn and a cooling market led to a retreat from continental Europe and a delisting from the NYSE in 2024. Cazoo's trajectory became a cautionary tale in European tech about the risks of capital-intensive consumer marketplaces scaling too fast.
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Cherry Ventures
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.
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Crowdberry
Crowdberry is a licensed Slovak–Czech equity crowdfunding and venture investment platform founded in 2015 in Bratislava, enabling retail and institutional investors to co-invest in vetted SMEs and real estate projects. Its group manages over €120 million in assets across more than 70 portfolio companies in Slovakia and Czechia. Institutional backers include Tatra Private Banking and, since October 2024, Slovenská sporiteľňa (Erste Group) as a strategic minority owner. Subsidiaries cover seed-stage VC (CB Investment Management), real-estate funds, and a social-impact vehicle (CB ESPRI).
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Dawid Urban
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor, Dawid is known for co-founding CHIC Group, which was acquired by British American Tobacco in a landmark transaction. He actively backs consumer-facing and technology-enabled brands, combining growth strategy support with capital. Notable startup involvements include TakeDrop and investments across lifestyle and tech ventures, including co-investments in projects such as Samurai Labs.
