Creative Tech startup ecosystem
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ANote Music
ANote Music is a Luxembourg-based platform that lets investors buy, sell and earn royalties from music catalogs, framing music royalties as an uncorrelated asset class for portfolio diversification. The company reports over 45,000 investors on its platform, payouts roughly every four days on average, and around 10% average yearly royalty returns since 2020.
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Assembly Summer 2026
Finland's legendary demoscene and gaming festival, running since 1992, now combines its traditional demo competitions with esports tournaments, indie-game showcases, and creative-coding workshops. 5,000+ attendees bring their computers for a LAN party atmosphere. Relevant to gaming, creative-coding, and entertainment-tech startups as both a community event and a recruiting ground for engine and graphics talent.
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Assembly Winter 2027
Assembly Winter 2027 runs 25-28 February at Messukeskus in Helsinki, the winter edition of Finland's largest digital art and gaming festival. Over four days the event combines gaming, esports, demoscene art and digital culture, with ticket sales already open for the Helsinki gathering.
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CultTech Summit 2026
A summit at the intersection of culture, technology, and business, gathering founders, investors, and cultural institutions in Vienna. Useful for founders building at the culture-tech edge.
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Digital Dragons 2026
Premier game industry conference in Krakow featuring an indie game showcase, publisher meetings, and strong startup presence across VR/AR, AI tools, and creative tech. Attracts 2,000+ game developers, publishers, and investors. Valuable for gaming and creative-tech startups seeking publishing deals and development partnerships in the CEE region.
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Digital Dragons 2027
Digital Dragons 2027 takes place in Krakow 23-25 May, one of the largest B2B events for the games industry in Europe. It is run by the Krakow Technology Park as part of a broader ecosystem that also includes a games industry accelerator supporting studio formation and growth in Krakow.
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EDGE26 — Ireland's Creative Economy Summit
Ireland's first national Creative Economy Summit, bringing together founders, studio leaders, investors, and policymakers in digital creative industries. A niche but durable flagship for founders in gaming, animation, content tech, and creative IP.
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Edinburgh International Festival 2026
The world's largest arts festival includes a significant digital-arts and creative-technology strand, with immersive installations, AI-generated art exhibitions, and creative-tech showcases. Edinburgh during August is also a magnet for informal tech-community meetups and founder dinners organized by the Scottish startup ecosystem. While not a pure tech event, it's a key cultural moment for creative-tech, content-tech, and entertainment startups looking to connect with media buyers and cultural institutions.
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FutureTech Oulu 2026
One of Oulu's biggest autumn tech events, free and in English, gathering professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs around AI, human-machine collaboration, and dual-use and cybersecurity themes.
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Game Camp 2026
France's main annual gathering of video game professionals, in its 8th edition, organised by Game IN and the SNJV at the Université Catholique de Lille. For game-studio founders and developers it is two days of industry talks, workshops, and B2B networking.
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Helsinki Design Week 2026
The Nordics' largest design festival, running for 10+ days across Helsinki with 200,000+ visitors, 250+ events, and a dedicated design-business program for creative startups, service designers, and UX studios. Features exhibitions, pop-ups, talks, and the Design Forum pitching event. Most events free. Useful for creative-tech, UX tooling, and design-software founders looking to connect with Nordic design buyers.
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INDIGO 2026
The Benelux's leading B2B games-industry event at WTC Rotterdam, bringing together game developers, publishers, and investors. The key annual deal and showcase venue for gametech and interactive-media founders in the region.
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Katalist
Katalist is a Slovenian-founded generative-AI startup building an end-to-end pre-production workspace for video: writers and directors can import or draft a script, let the system break it down into beats, shots, and storyboards, generate consistent character and location renders, and iterate on the look of every scene before a single frame is filmed. The key differentiator is character- and setting-consistency across shots — the hard problem that plagues early image and video models — which Katalist addresses with reference-conditioning and scene graphs rather than naive prompt chaining. The target users are in-house content teams at brands, boutique production studios, and advertising agencies that have to produce far more video than their traditional pipelines can absorb, and that need a visual ideation layer that survives client feedback cycles. The company graduated from 500 Global's Eurasia program and is one of the more interesting European pre-production tools competing with the LTX Studio / Showrunner generation of US AI-film products.
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London Games Festival 2026
City-wide celebration of games in London with a strong B2B core at the Games Finance Market, connecting studios with publishers and investors. Industry passes cost about GBP 150-300. Covers gaming technology, VR/AR innovation, and interactive media. Valuable for gaming startups seeking publishing deals and creative-tech partnerships.
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London Games Festival 2027
London Games Festival returns 12-19 April 2027, with its Ensemble Programmes and Game Changer Accelerator continuing. The city-wide celebration of games has a strong B2B core at the Games Finance Market, connecting studios with publishers and investors.
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Musiversal
Musiversal is a Portuguese-founded platform connecting musicians and producers with a curated roster of session musicians for remote recording across instruments including bass, guitar, drums, keys, sax, vocals, violin and more. Customers can book auditioned artists and collaborate on sessions in real time through a subscription-style membership model.
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Nalden (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten)
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, known by his online moniker Nalden, is a Dutch entrepreneur and angel investor who co-founded The Next Web (TNW), one of the world's most influential tech media platforms and conference series. Starting as a blogger in the early 2000s, Nalden built TNW into a global brand with millions of readers and an annual conference in Amsterdam attracting thousands of founders and investors. Through his media network and personal investments, Nalden has backed dozens of early-stage European startups, especially in media, creative tech, and consumer internet. He is known for investing in founders with strong brand sensibility and storytelling ability, and his network across European tech journalism and event organizing gives his portfolio companies exceptional visibility.
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NFC Summit 2026
A Web3 and creative-economy summit bundling eight sub-events — including the Non Fungible Conference, Stablecoin Day, an agents-vs-agents hackathon, and Longevity Day — at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory. Useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
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NFC Summit 2027
NFC Summit's next edition moves to a new venue, Unicorn Factory Lisbon, running 27-29 May 2027. The Web3 and creative-economy summit bundles multiple sub-events, useful for web3, AI, and creative-tech founders wanting exposure to major brand sponsors and the crypto-creative crossover.
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Reworks Agora 2026
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.
