Consumer startup ecosystem
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Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a London-based food delivery platform founded in 2013 by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski. The company connects consumers with restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience retailers through its app and rider network. Deliveroo went public on the London Stock Exchange in March 2021. The company operates across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and has invested heavily in its Editions dark kitchen network and its advertising platform for restaurant partners. Deliveroo competes with Uber Eats and Just Eat in its core markets and serves millions of consumers monthly.
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Dreamplan
Dreamplan is a Copenhagen-based digital financial planning platform, legally Dreamplan.io ApS, that gives consumers independent advice on pensions, investments, insurance, and home financing to help them find hidden savings in their finances. Users get a personalised financial overview and recommendations digitally, with the option to book 1:1 sessions with human financial advisors for complex situations such as home purchases or inheritance. The company is registered with the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) and also builds advisory software for independent financial advisers and banks under the brand Wizflow.
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EatSnap
EatSnap is a Swiss consumer health app that turns a photo of a meal into an estimate of its calories and macronutrient split, removing the manual search-and-log step that makes most food diaries hard to sustain. Alongside the AI food scanner it keeps a visual photo diary synced across devices and tracks hydration, mood and sleep, so nutrition sits next to the other habits it depends on. It is published by exact construct GmbH of Frauenfeld and ships on both iOS and Android on a freemium model with paid monthly and annual tiers.
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Emma
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.
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Entrepreneur First
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).
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Epidemic Sound
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.
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Felix Capital
Felix Capital is a London-based venture capital firm, founded in 2015 and based on Beak Street, that invests at the intersection of technology and creativity. It backs digital lifestyle, consumer and creative-economy companies alongside related enterprise tools, describing its focus as building for the 'creative class' across home, work and in-between.
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Fever
Fever is a Madrid-born entertainment discovery platform that curates and produces immersive experiences, from candlelight concerts to secret cinema events, in over 100 cities worldwide. The company uses data-driven demand testing to decide which experiences to produce, reducing risk for venues and creators while surfacing high-quality cultural events for consumers. Fever has become one of Europe's most prominent consumer marketplace unicorns, blending tech-driven curation with live entertainment at scale.
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Firstminute Capital
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.
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Flix
FlixBus, operated by Flix SE, is a Munich-based global travel technology company founded in 2011 that provides affordable long-distance bus and train travel across more than 40 countries. The company partners with over 1,000 independent bus operators, handling network planning, pricing, booking, and customer service while the operators run the vehicles. Flix SE also operates FlixTrain in Germany and internationally, and Greyhound Lines in North America. The company has served over 500 million travellers since its launch.
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Flo Health
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.
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Food & Drink Expo 2026
UK's largest food trade show with healthy and plant-based zones. Price: free trade registration. Strong for foodtech and CPG startups seeking retail listings.
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Food & Drink Expo 2027
Food & Drink Expo 2027 runs 12-14 April at the NEC Birmingham as part of the UK Food & Drink Shows, alongside the Farm Shop & Deli Show, National Convenience Show, Forecourt Show and Foodex Manufacturing Solutions. The 2026 edition drew thousands of visitors connecting with 1,200+ suppliers from retail, wholesale, foodservice and manufacturing.
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Founders Factory
Founders Factory is a London-based venture studio and accelerator founded in 2015 by Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox, and George Northcott. The firm co-builds and accelerates pre-seed and seed stage startups across fintech, health, climate, media, and consumer sectors, operating sector-specific programmes with corporate partners including Aviva, L'Oréal, and Deutsche Telekom. Since launch, Founders Factory has backed over 300 companies globally, which have collectively raised more than $800 million in follow-on funding. Its venture studio model — co-founding businesses from day zero — distinguishes it from conventional accelerators and gives it a distinctive builder-investor role in the European ecosystem.
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Fretello
Fretello is a Linz-based app that teaches beginners to play guitar through step-by-step lessons, interactive practice with real-time feedback, and a song library that lets learners play their favorite tracks from day one. Lessons and courses are designed by professional guitarists and educators, and the app has been featured by Apple and used by a community of more than 700,000 guitarists worldwide. The company is legally Fretello GmbH, led by Florian Lettner.
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Gastronom.bg
Info Retail is a Bulgarian company that operates the Supermag.bg online store, delivering groceries, dietary and health foods, and office supplies in Sofia, with corporate accounts offering consolidated monthly invoicing, deferred bank payment and dedicated account support for business customers. Its investor, Morningside Hill Capital Management, describes the company as also operating a sister grocery-delivery brand, Gastronom.bg. Info Retail is a portfolio company of Morningside Hill Capital Management.
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Georgian Ventures
Georgian Ventures was founded in 2018 in Tbilisi and focuses on early-stage investments in Georgian startup founders inside and outside the country, as well as international founders based in Georgia. The firm grew out of Startup Grind Tbilisi, which was recognised as the top Startup Grind chapter in the world in 2019 after hosting over 100 startup events, giving the team deep ecosystem roots and founder networks. Fund size is not publicly disclosed. Beyond direct investing, Georgian Ventures provides quiet advisory services to family offices and individual investors seeking curated deal flow in the Georgian market.
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Glamping Hub
Glamping Hub is a booking platform for glamping and unique outdoor accommodations, launched in 2013 as a resource for sustainable tourism. It lists luxury camping spots and boutique hotels worldwide, including pet-friendly and eco-friendly properties for family vacations, romantic getaways, and solo travel. The company, made up of more than 10 nationalities, operates dual headquarters in Seville, Spain and Denver, Colorado.
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Green-Got
Green-Got is a French ethical banking app, the commercial name of Domino SAS, offering personal, joint, and micro-business accounts along with green savings products such as life insurance (assurance-vie) and a retirement savings plan (PER), including its own Green-Got Sustainable Future fund. The company is a regulated payment institution supervised by the ACPR, is registered with ORIAS as an insurance and investment broker, and has been B Corp certified since 2024. Green-Got reports over EUR 100 million under management in savings.
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Groover
Groover is a Paris-based music promotion platform that connects independent artists with a network of more than 3,000 curators, labels, radio stations, playlists, and industry pros for paid, guaranteed feedback on their tracks. Co-founders Romain, Rafael, and Dorian met at UC Berkeley and launched Groover in 2018 at the MaMA Music & Convention in Paris, the same year the company joined Techstars. The platform reports more than 600,000 artists, over 5 million pieces of feedback given, 1,500+ label signings, and today runs a 35-person team with offices in Paris and New York.
