Madrid, Spain · Accelerator Founded in 2005, Adara Ventures is a Madrid-based deep tech VC managing over EUR 200M across four funds. The firm invests EUR 1-5M at Series A in cybersecurity, applied AI, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software across Europe. Its AV4 fund targets EUR 100M for next-generation digital infrastructure. Notable portfolio companies include Countercraft (acquired by Thales), Devo Technology, and Nearby Computing. Adara brings deep technical expertise and supports founders in navigating complex enterprise sales cycles.
London, United Kingdom · Event Conference and expo at ExCeL London covering enterprise AI, data platforms, and applied machine learning, co-located with IoT and Blockchain expos. Attracts thousands of developers and enterprise buyers. Free expo passes available; paid conference passes about GBP 499-1099. Strong for AI and data startups targeting enterprise customers.
London, United Kingdom · Event AI Summit London 2027 returns to Tobacco Dock as one of the longest-running enterprise-focused AI conferences in Europe, gathering CIOs, data leaders, vendors, and AI-native startups. The two-day program covers practical deployment of generative AI, agentic systems, and AI governance across regulated industries. Dates are officially announced on the event's website.
Berlin, Germany · Event AIDAQ is one of Europe's largest conferences on artificial intelligence, data and quantum technologies, convening thousands of attendees, hundreds of speakers and many sessions across multiple tracks. It brings together business, policy and science leaders. It is highly founder-relevant, featuring a DeepTech Pitch, a free startup showcase area for selected AI and quantum startups, and a deep-tech founder network.
Munich, Germany · Accelerator Pre-seed accelerator and VC program for founders in AI, data, and deep tech. The spring 2026 application cut-off passed on February 27, 2026 for a March 9 cohort start; applications continue on a rolling basis for subsequent 2026 cohorts. Typical Antler offer includes early investment and startup-building support from day zero.
Prague, Czech Republic · Startup Apify turns the web into an API by providing a platform where developers build and monetize “actors” that extract data from websites. It has become a critical part of the AI data supply chain, powering scraping, monitoring, and automation at scale. The company bootstrapped to profitability before raising capital and maintains a strong open developer ecosystem. By 2026, Apify is a global leader in web automation infrastructure.
London, United Kingdom · Event Organisator Organiser of Big Data LDN, the UK's largest free-to-attend data, analytics and AI conference and exhibition at Olympia London. The event hosts hundreds of seminars and exhibitors spanning data platforms, AI agents, governance and analytics for the data community.
London, United Kingdom · Event The UK's largest free data, analytics and AI conference and exhibition at Olympia London, with 400+ seminars on data platforms, AI agents, AI governance and data products. Exhibitors range from Snowflake, Databricks and Google Cloud to data startups, making it strong for data and AI founders.
Zagreb, Croatia · Incubator BIRD Incubator is Croatia's first AI-focused startup incubator, offering a free 7-week pre-incubation program, a 6-month incubation program, and a 3–6 month acceleration track. It provides mentorship, expert support, investor introductions, and 450 m² of event and co-working space. All programs are offered at no cost and for no equity.
London, United Kingdom · Angel Investor A well-known UK tech entrepreneur (Lastminute.com) and investor, Brent has a footprint in Poland via his fund Firstminute and personally. He’s invested in Polish AI ventures and often speaks highly of Poland’s tech scene. Associated startups: Cosmose AI, Digital Pharmacy (examples of Polish startups he’s supported).
Munich, Germany · Startup Celonis is a Munich and New York-based enterprise software company that pioneered the field of process mining – technology that analyzes a company’s IT event logs to visualize and optimize its business processes. Founded in 2011 by three friends (Alexander Rinke, Bastian Nominacher, and Martin Klenk) out of university in Munich, Celonis bootstrapped in its early years and landed Siemens as a key pilot customer for its process analytics tool. The software proved invaluable in identifying inefficiencies in processes like order-to-cash, procurement, and inventory management. By 2015 Celonis was the leader in this niche, and it partnered with SAP which resold Celonis as SAP Process Mining by Celonis. Venture capital soon followed: Celonis raised $27.5M in 2016 (Series A) then $50M in 2018 (Series B). Its growth was massive – from €1M ARR in 2012 to well over €100M by late 2010s. In 2019, Celonis raised $290M at a $2.5B valuation, making it a unicorn. It wasn’t done: by June 2021, Celonis announced a $1B Series D round valuing it at $11 billion, one of Europe’s largest software funding rounds. And in 2022, Celonis reportedly reached a $13B+ valuation, firmly cementing it among Europe’s most valuable private tech companies. The company’s product evolved into the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS), which not only discovers processes but also suggests and implements improvements (sometimes via RPA bots or triggering workflows). Celonis counts thousands of enterprise customers – including Siemens, BMW, Coca-Cola, Uber – and its software helps them save billions by cutting throughput times, reducing errors, and optimizing resource use. With dual HQs in Munich and New York, Celonis has aggressively expanded in the U.S., competing with companies like IBM’s process mining. The firm is also eyeing an IPO; CEO Rinke has mentioned that Celonis is positioning itself for a public listing when market conditions are right. In the meantime, Celonis keeps growing (estimated $400M+ ARR in 2023) and acquiring smaller tech startups to bolster its platform. Celonis epitomizes the success of enterprise software from Europe – deeply technical, essentially creating a new category, and achieving decacorn status within a decade.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup Clinical Trials Information Network, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Warsaw, operates ClinicalTrials.eu, a patient-focused platform that makes clinical trial information across Europe more accessible. It aggregates publicly available data from international trial registries, academic centres, national regulators and commercial sponsors, letting users search trials by disease, drug name or location and access structured patient materials.
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Person Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Picnic, the Amsterdam-based online grocery delivery company, where he leads engineering, data and the in-house machine-learning platform that powers its app-only model. He is a confirmed speaker at TechEx Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, presenting on applied AI and data at scale.
Paris, France · Startup Dataiku is an enterprise AI platform that enables data teams to collaboratively build, deploy, and manage machine learning and analytics projects at scale. Founded in Paris and now also headquartered in New York, Dataiku serves over 500 enterprise customers including Unilever, GE, and Sephora. The platform bridges the gap between data scientists, analysts, and business users, and was valued at $3.7 billion after its 2022 Series F round.
Santa Clara, United States · Startup Dremio is an open, high-performance data lakehouse platform built to accelerate AI and analytical workloads across enterprise data environments. The platform combines an intelligent query engine, an AI semantic layer, an open catalog powered by Apache Polaris, and a built-in AI agent, running natively on Apache Iceberg format. Dremio is notable for shipping the first Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface in the data lakehouse industry, enabling direct integration with AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Person Chief Data Officer at ABN AMRO, the Dutch banking group, where she leads enterprise data strategy and analytics. She is a confirmed speaker at TechEx Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, addressing data and AI leadership in financial services.
Stockholm, Sweden · Startup Insurely is a Stockholm-based open finance and open insurance data infrastructure company founded in 2018. It provides consented, structured real-time access to consumer financial data across insurance, pensions, investments, savings, and credit, enabling banks, fintechs, and AI companies to build services such as provider switching, pension transfers, and personalised financial advice. The company offers two main product lines: Open Finance Data Access for data users and Open Finance Premium APIs for data providers. Insurely is registered as an insurance intermediary with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority and serves European financial institutions.
Prague, Czech Republic · Startup Manta is a data lineage and metadata-management platform that gives organisations visibility into their data environments by automatically scanning the data stack and mapping data flows, sources, transformations and dependencies. By generating this lineage and an audit trail, it helps businesses trace where data originated and how it evolved, and can discover and anonymise sensitive data to reduce regulatory risk. Founded in Prague in 2016, Manta was acquired by IBM in October 2023 and its data lineage was integrated into IBM's watsonx data and AI governance portfolio.
Prague, Czech Republic · Startup Oddin.gg is a B2B provider of esports odds feeds, risk management, and trading tools. It supplies real-time probabilities for esports titles such as Counter-Strike and League of Legends, enabling betting operators to price markets reliably. The company has become a global leader in esports wagering infrastructure. By 2026, Oddin.gg is one of the Czech Republic’s most internationally recognized gaming-tech exports.
Madrid, Spain · Person Spanish serial deep-tech entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CTO of Devo (formerly Logtrust), the data analytics and security platform, and later co-founded and led Onum, the real-time telemetry-pipeline company acquired by CrowdStrike in 2025.
Paris, France · Startup Popsink is a real-time data replication platform specialising in change data capture (CDC), enabling enterprises to extract live data from mission-critical systems — including legacy databases, mainframes, ERPs, and CRMs — and synchronise it to modern data lakes and cloud data warehouses without disrupting production operations. The platform supports multiple deployment modes including SaaS, bring-your-own-cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments, and holds SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications. Popsink serves enterprise clients ranging from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, including BlaBlaCar and AssoConnect.
Darmstadt, Germany · Event Germany's premier Python and data science conference in Darmstadt, attracting 1,500+ developers, data engineers, and ML practitioners. Combines PyCon DE with PyData tracks covering AI frameworks, data pipelines, and open-source tooling. Business tickets cost about EUR 400-700. Strong venue for AI startups hiring talent and showcasing developer tools.
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.
Stockholm, Sweden · Startup Stravito is a Stockholm-based AI-powered insights intelligence platform that centralises consumer, market, and business research for large enterprises. The company unifies an organisation's existing research in one secure space and pairs AI with human expertise to make insights fast and easy to access for better decision-making. Its product includes an Insight Library, an AI Assistant, and AI Personas that turn segmentation research into interactive consumer profiles. Founded in 2017 by former iZettle employees, Stravito serves enterprise brands including Nestlé, Unilever, Danone, and Comcast.