Paris, France · Innovation Hub 42 is a tuition-free, project-based computer-science school founded by Xavier Niel in 2013, with its flagship campus in Paris and a global network of over 50 campuses across more than 30 countries. The school has no teachers, no classes, and no formal degrees — students progress through a peer-driven, gamified curriculum tackling C, systems programming, web, AI, and DevOps projects. With more than 25,000 active students worldwide and a selection bootcamp (the Piscine) that admits applicants without prior coding experience, 42 has become a major pipeline of engineering talent into the European startup ecosystem and a structural piece of France's tech-skills infrastructure.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Accelerator A Tbilisi-based accelerator programme run by 500 Global in a four-year partnership with GITA and Bank of Georgia, launched in 2022. The 12-week programme accepts cohorts of early-stage tech startups from across the Eurasia region twice a year, providing $100,000 in investment per company and culminating in a Demo Day. As of mid-2024, six batches had accelerated more than 70 startups from over 15 countries.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Startup Alda is an Icelandic HR-tech startup founded in 2022 that provides a culture intelligence platform for measuring and improving workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The platform combines inclusion surveys, gamified micro-learning, AI-powered action plans, and real-time DEI dashboards. Alda has raised €2.9 million from Frumtak Ventures and Tennin, and counts Aker Solutions, Icelandair, and Avalanche Studios among its clients. It was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025.
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor One of Poland’s first startup bloggers and influencers, Artur has also become an angel investor. He leverages his audience and industry knowledge to promote and invest in Polish startups, often focusing on edtech and gaming. Associated startups: Trafi (mobility) and ThinkCube (edutainment) are a couple of ventures he’s been publicly associated with as an investor.
London, United Kingdom · Event Organisator Organizer of Bett UK, the world's leading education technology trade show and conference held annually at London's ExCel centre since 1985. Drawing over 30,000 educators, edtech founders, and investors, Bett showcases classroom innovation, AI in learning, and digital curriculum tools, serving as a launchpad for global edtech startups.
London, United Kingdom · Event Leading global education technology event held at ExCeL London, bringing together 30,000+ educators, EdTech innovators, and policymakers. Features product demos, workshops, and networking focused on classroom technology, digital learning platforms, and AI in education. Particularly relevant for EdTech startups seeking school district partnerships and institutional buyers.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup All-in-one operating system for solo educators and small education businesses — tutors, coaches, mentors and admissions consultants. Combines a student CRM, scheduling, payment tracking and a public profile with an AI "digital brain" that turns session notes into prep, follow-ups and a mini-assistant answering student questions. EU-based and GDPR-compliant; free core plan with a paid Premium tier.
Regensburg, Germany · Startup Regensburg-based startup applying neuroplasticity research to music learning, helping adult beginners develop instrumental skills through scientifically-structured daily practice sessions of 20–25 minutes. Its AI adapts lesson pacing to each learner's progress and retention patterns. Raised a €2M seed from HTGF.
Kraków, Poland · Startup Brainly is a Polish-founded edtech that operates a peer-to-peer learning community: students post questions and get answers verified by other learners, educators, and AI. Founded in Kraków in 2009 by Michał Borkowski, Łukasz Haluch, and Tomasz Kraus, the company expanded globally, becoming one of Poland's best-known consumer internet successes. It has raised funding from investors including Naspers, General Catalyst, Point Nine Capital, and Runa Capital, and has incorporated AI tutoring features (Ginny) in recent years.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup CampusAI is a Warsaw-based generative-AI learning platform that helps individuals and organisations build practical AI skills. Founded in 2023, it delivers educational programmes, AI tools and expert-led training through 3D virtual environments, web applications and in-person sessions, including a skills-training environment called AI Gym. The company reports more than 35,000 trained users.
Baku, Azerbaijan · Venture Capital Founded in November 2022 as Azerbaijan's first domestically domiciled venture capital fund, Caucasus Ventures was established by the Innovation and Digital Development Agency, PASHA Holding, and individual investors, with a statutory capital of 11.3 million AZN (~$6.6 million). Led by General Partner Mammad Karim, the fund targets post-seed to Series A startups in fintech, edtech, SaaS, cybersecurity, gaming, and e-commerce across Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Portfolio companies include Vivoo, Platma, Cognitiwe, Cargon, TASS Vision, and KLIPY. The fund is distinctive as the pioneer institutional VC vehicle in the Azerbaijani ecosystem, backed by state innovation infrastructure and private capital.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup Digital credentialing SaaS used by training providers, schools, and enterprises to issue verifiable certificates and digital badges at scale. Certifier handles design templates, automated issuance via API / integrations, and blockchain-anchored verification. Backed by Movens Capital.
Paris, France · Startup All-in-one e-learning platform co-built for neuroatypical people (ADHD, dyslexia, autism). It offers structured short learning paths, live workshops, peer communities and a customisable neuro-friendly interface designed to reduce cognitive overload. Incubated by Le Perqo, the Île-de-France inclusion-and-disability incubator.
Lisbon, Portugal · Startup Class of Wonders is an impact-focused edtech startup building gamified classroom tools and inclusive learning experiences, including language-learning adaptations for migrant children. Through Lisboa Innovation for All, the team presented MAGOS for All, and it has also participated in ecosystem initiatives such as Techstars Startup Weekend in Viseu.
Cluj-Napoca, Romania · Event The 14th edition, themed on skills in the AI era, bringing together leaders from education, technology, policy, and business. Strong for founders building in edtech, AI, and the future of work within Romania's biggest regional tech hub.
Warsaw, Poland · Support Organization Coders Lab is a Warsaw-founded IT school and coding bootcamp established in 2013 by brothers Marcin and Jacek Tchórzewski, among the first programming bootcamps in Poland. It offers career-change programmes in Python, JavaScript, and data analytics and has expanded its campus model to several European countries. The company received angel investment from Grupa Pracuj and employed roughly 190 people by its tenth anniversary in 2023.
Bratislava, Slovakia · Event University-hosted startup and innovation day bringing together student founders, academic spin-offs, and local investors in Bratislava. Features pitch sessions, workshops on EU funding, and demos from Slovak deep-tech projects. Free for students and early-stage founders.
Berlin, Germany · Startup Berlin-based EdTech startup building an AI-powered training and knowledge platform for frontline teams in the energy and climate-tech sector. The platform helps employers close skills gaps, combat the shortage of qualified workers, and deliver bite-sized training that field employees can complete on mobile.
Paris, France · Startup 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.
Dublin, Ireland · Event Dublin Tech Week pitch finals at Wood Quay Venue where Masters students partner with businesses to compete for the ENFUSE trophy. Connects education with enterprise development through applied research and live pitching.
Athens, Greece · Startup Epignosis is an Athens-based learning technology company behind TalentLMS, one of the most widely used cloud learning management systems for SMBs and mid-market companies. TalentLMS enables organizations to create, deliver, and track employee training programmes with minimal setup and a strong focus on usability. The company also offers eFront for enterprise and compliance-heavy training requirements. With tens of thousands of organizations using its products across 150+ countries, Epignosis is a major Greek SaaS success story that proves deep product focus in a mature category can yield global reach from a non-traditional startup geography.
London, United Kingdom · Person Founder and CEO of Multiverse, the apprenticeship-focused alternative to university that reached unicorn status. He started the company to widen access to high-quality careers through applied training rather than degrees.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Venture Capital Expon Capital is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alain Rodermann, Jérôme Wittamer, Lily Wang, and Marc Gendebien. The firm has deployed over €90 million across 33 companies in 14 countries through successive Digital Tech Funds, with Fund IV planned for 2026. It backs seed and early-stage tech startups across cybersecurity, fintech, regtech, digital health, and edtech, with a particular focus on Luxembourg-origin companies. Notable portfolio successes include Salonkee, which grew to 250+ employees and raised a €28 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital after Expon's initial investment.
Córdoba, Spain · Startup Genially is an interactive-content creation platform that lets educators, marketers and businesses build animated, gamified and interactive presentations, infographics and learning materials in the browser without code. By 2025 it had around 45 million users across 190+ countries.
Naxxar, Malta · Startup Good Grants is a cloud-based grants management SaaS platform developed by Creative Force Ltd, a Malta-registered company (Naxxar). Founded in 2013, the platform manages the full grantmaking lifecycle — applications, review, award, and post-award monitoring — for foundations, corporates, scholarship programmes, and NGOs worldwide. The platform is used internationally and integrates with third-party tools via an open API.
Vienna, Austria · Startup GoStudent is a Vienna-based online tutoring platform founded in 2016 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Mueller. The platform connects students with vetted tutors for one-on-one video lessons across subjects from math and science to languages. GoStudent raised over EUR 675 million and was valued at EUR 3 billion at its 2022 peak, making it one of Europe's most valuable edtech companies. The company operates in over 20 countries and has served more than 1.5 million tutoring sessions. After rapid pandemic-era growth, GoStudent refocused on unit economics and profitability, while expanding into AI-powered learning tools and school partnerships.
Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant founded in 2009 in Kyiv by Alex Shevchenko, Max Lytvyn, and Dmytro Lider. The platform offers real-time grammar, spelling, clarity, tone, and style suggestions across browsers, desktop apps, mobile keyboards, and enterprise integrations. Grammarly serves over 30 million daily active users and 70,000 enterprise customers, and has raised over $400 million at a valuation of $13 billion. Now headquartered in San Francisco with continued Ukrainian engineering roots, Grammarly is one of the most successful software companies to emerge from Ukraine and a global leader in AI-assisted communication.
Athens, Greece · Startup Hack The Box is an Athens-founded cybersecurity training and upskilling platform that provides hands-on hacking labs, capture-the-flag challenges, and continuous skill assessment for security professionals and teams. The platform has built a global community of over 2 million members and serves enterprise clients including Fortune 500 companies looking to benchmark and develop their security workforce. Founded in 2017 by Haris Pylarinos, the company has raised over $55 million and represents one of Greece's fastest-growing tech companies, operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, gaming mechanics, and workforce development.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup Luxembourg-based social-impact startup using AI and positive psychology to build youth mental resilience. Its tools are designed for schools, families, and public health agencies to provide preventive mental-health education for children. Named among the Global Top 30 AI Impact Solutions at the AI Impact Summit 2026. Founded by Luanna Eroles.
Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup EdTech app founded in Kyiv in 2019 offering 15-minute text and audio summaries of nonfiction books, with gamified learning. Surpassed 150M users worldwide.
Madrid, Spain · Accelerator Established 2014. EU-backed accelerator for mobile and digital startups (edtech, mobility, etc.) with online program, equity-free grants, mentoring, and international roadshows. Notable alumni include ChainGO. Scope: International (EU).
Riga, Latvia · Venture Capital Imprimatur Capital Fund Management is a Riga-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2010 and affiliated with London-headquartered Imprimatur Capital Ltd. The firm manages seed and start-up funds backed by the Latvian Guarantee Agency and institutional investors, with over €17M under management and more than 70 portfolio companies. It targets B2B software, digital health, learning and training, and robotics startups at pre-Series A in the Baltic Sea Region. Key partners include Toby Moore (Managing Partner) and Jānis Janevičs (Partner).
Baku, Azerbaijan · Incubator Innoland (Innovations Center LLC) is an incubation and acceleration center established in November 2018 under the State Agency for Public Service and Social Innovations (ASAN). Over six years it has incubated 88 startups, accelerated 36 ventures, hosted 25 co-working residents, and organized more than 50 hackathons. It also runs an IT training academy and offers virtual residency for remote teams.
Munich, Germany · Event Bitkom's Innovators' Pitch 2026 live finals featuring startup teams in future technologies for logistics and education. Application deadline was February 23, 2026 (now closed); live pitch takes place March 19, 2026 with equity-free prize money and ecosystem visibility.
Oslo, Norway · Startup Kahoot! is an Oslo-based game-based learning platform that has transformed how educators, trainers, and corporate teams engage audiences through interactive quizzes, presentations, and knowledge checks. The platform has hosted billions of cumulative participants across 200+ countries and serves both the K-12 education market and enterprise training use cases. Kahoot! went public on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has acquired complementary edtech products including Clever and Motimate to expand its learning ecosystem. With its combination of consumer virality and enterprise adoption, Kahoot! is one of Norway's most recognizable global technology brands and a defining example of gamification applied to learning at massive scale.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Venture Capital Kedari Ventures is a Tbilisi-based early-stage investment fund founded by Dimitry Kumsishvili, who served as Georgia's Minister of Finance and First Vice Prime Minister before moving to the private sector. The fund targets digital platforms with global expansion potential across e-commerce, logistics, education, and entertainment, and has built a portfolio of over 10 companies employing more than 100 people. Fund size is not publicly disclosed; the firm has deployed approximately 993,000 GEL in equity and 2.5 million GEL in loans across portfolio companies. Kedari also co-founded AXEL, Georgia's first structured business angel network, in partnership with Tbilisi Startup Bureau.
Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup Labster builds virtual laboratory simulations for science education, letting students run experiments in a 3D environment and learn through interactive missions. Founded by researchers from the Technical University of Denmark, Labster works with universities and schools worldwide to expand access to lab learning and reduce costs. The platform integrates with learning management systems and has been used by hundreds of institutions. Labster became a global reference for VR and simulation based STEM education.
Madrid, Spain · Startup Lingokids is a kids edtech platform offering a safe, ad-free 'Playlearning' environment for children aged 2-8, combining games, songs and interactive activities to teach English and life skills. It serves over 10 million families globally with in-house content and COPPA Plus certification.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup LiveBoard is an interactive digital whiteboard platform from Yerevan used by tutors, online schools, and distributed teams for real-time collaborative lessons. The product combines a pressure-sensitive drawing canvas with PDF annotation, live video, shared documents, and full session recording, and is optimized for both tablets (Apple Pencil, S-Pen) and desktop browsers. LiveBoard has been adopted by thousands of one-to-one tutors and boutique e-learning businesses as a lighter alternative to building custom classroom tooling on top of Zoom or Google Meet. It is a representative example of Armenia's consumer-SaaS bench: small, internationally distributed teams shipping polished, mobile-first collaboration tools into the global EdTech market.
Warsaw, Poland · Person Investment Director at Movens Capital. Drives sourcing and execution across fintech, edtech, and healthtech opportunities in Poland and the broader CEE region; previously in product and operating roles in tech-enabled services.
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup A University of Luxembourg spinoff founded in 2016 by researchers Pouyan Ziafati and Aida Nazarikhorram. LuxAI develops the QTrobot, a 60 cm humanoid social robot designed to support therapists and educators working with children who have autism or special educational needs. The robot is assembled in Luxembourg and sold in over 25 countries across Europe, Asia, and North America.
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor Founder of Coders Lab (one of the first Polish coding bootcamps), Marcin has since become an angel, especially in edtech and health startups. He has invested in companies like Tomorrow Medical and Listny Cud, while also serving as a mentor in programs like PFR School of Pioneers. Associated startups: Tomorrow Medical, Listny Cud (Leafy Miracle), and other edtech/healthtech startups.
Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup Online IT education platform founded in 2015 teaching programming and tech roles, with an income-share agreement model where graduates pay a percentage of salary after getting hired.
Wroclaw, Poland · Angel Investor Serial entrepreneur (co-founder of platforms like ZadajPytanie and later CEO of fashion startup Allani), Mateusz turned to angel investing after successful exits. Notably, he invested early in the edtech unicorn Brainly before fully focusing on growing Allani. His founder perspective in marketplaces and consumer apps guides the startups he now supports. Associated startups: Brainly, Allani, and other consumer internet ventures.
Lisbon, Portugal · Accelerator Founded 2018 with backing from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Runs the Maze X 3-month accelerator for social impact startups, providing tailored mentoring, impact investor access, and a EUR 50K stipend. Notable alumni include Speak. Scope: International.
Stockholm, Sweden · Startup Mentimeter is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that develops an interactive presentation and audience-engagement platform. Presenters create live polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A sessions that audiences respond to from their own devices, used in both business and education settings for meetings, training, lectures and brainstorming. Founded in 2014 by Johnny Warström and Niklas Ingvar, it has expanded internationally; in June 2022 it raised a $42 million Series C round to support growth, including expansion into the United States.
Warsaw, Poland · Venture Capital Warsaw-based multi-stage venture capital firm backing Central and Eastern European tech founders with global ambitions. Movens Capital runs a €60M Fund 2 (launched 2025) and writes first checks of €250k–€3M at pre-seed through Series A+. Focus areas: fintech, edtech, healthtech, deep tech, climate tech, enterprise software, and e-commerce enablement across Poland, the Baltics, the Balkans, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. Founded in 2018 by Artur Banach and Michał Olszewski. Fund LPs include the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), PFR Ventures, and 80+ tech founders, operators, and family offices. Notable exits include MEDICAlgorithmics (IPO) and Fenige.
London, United Kingdom · Startup London-based tech apprenticeship provider that trains software engineers, data analysts, and AI practitioners through employer-sponsored programmes combining paid employment with structured learning. Partners with 1,500+ employers including Microsoft, Google, and Morgan Stanley.
Reykjavik, Iceland · Startup Mussila is an Icelandic EdTech company that teaches children aged 6-10 the fundamentals of music — pitch, rhythm, music reading and theory — through interactive app-based lessons, games and creative tools. Founded in 2015 by Hilmar Þór Birgisson and Margrét J. Sigurðardóttir, the platform uses a Learn, Play, Create & Practice methodology validated in school pilots in Estonia and Iceland, where students showed 20% better content retention. Mussila has won the Nordic EdTech Awards 2019, the Parents Choice Award 2019, and the Academics Choice Award 2020. The company has since expanded into literacy with Mussila WordPlay and is available on iOS and Android.
Oslo, Norway · Startup No Isolation is a Norwegian scale-up founded in 2015 that develops telepresence robots to combat social isolation. Its flagship product, the AV1 robot, serves as a physical avatar in classrooms for children with long-term illness or special education needs, keeping them connected to school and peers when they cannot attend. The company now serves over 900 customers across 19 countries with more than 3,000 AV1 units deployed in around 2,500 schools, supporting over 10,000 children. No Isolation won the 2025 EURORDIS Company Award for Health Technology.
Milan, Italy · Venture Capital Founded in 2013 by Andrea Di Camillo — a serial entrepreneur behind Vitaminic and Banzai and an early investor in Yoox and Venere — P101 is one of Italy's most prominent early-stage VC firms, managing approximately €500 million AUM. Its latest vehicle, Programma 103, closed at €250 million in early 2025, targeting early-stage startups in fintech, proptech, edtech, and cybersecurity with an average ticket of €5 million. Over 12 years P101 has backed 58+ companies and completed roughly 290 transactions with ~20 exits; standout portfolio names include Musixmatch (acquired by TPG for ~$500 million in 2023). The firm has a stated goal that Programma 103 companies will collectively generate €5 billion in revenue and 3,000+ jobs by 2030.
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.
Budapest, Hungary · Venture Capital PortfoLion is the venture capital and growth equity arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, managing approximately €440 million in AUM across three distinct funds targeting seed, growth, and turnaround stages. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Budapest, it is the most prominent institutional VC in the CEE region by assets under management, with 64 portfolio companies across Hungary and wider Central and Eastern Europe. Its seed fund deploys €500k–€3 million per ticket and the growth fund €5–30 million, with notable investments including SEON (which went on to raise $150 million from Creandum and IVP) and Tresorit (acquired by Swiss Post). The firm has a team of 33 professionals including five partners.
London, United Kingdom · Startup Praktika.ai is an AI-native language learning platform focused on conversation-first fluency practice with realistic voice avatars. Founded in 2022, it helps users overcome speaking anxiety through real-time feedback on pronunciation and grammar, personalized lesson paths, and adaptive roleplay. The company has reported strong commercial traction and is backed by investors including Blossom Capital, Creator Ventures, and 500 Global.
Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup Preply is a Ukrainian-founded online tutoring marketplace that matches learners with one-on-one language tutors through a search-and-book flow, a subscription-based lesson plan, and an in-browser classroom that handles video, shared docs, homework, and scheduling. Founded in 2012 in Kyiv by Kirill Bigai, Dmytro Voloshyn, and Serge Lukyanov, Preply now serves millions of learners and tens of thousands of tutors across more than 180 countries, with particular strength in English, Spanish, French, German, and — increasingly — business-skills subjects beyond pure language. The company has raised over USD 120 million from investors including Owl Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, and Point Nine, and officially relocated its headquarters to Barcelona in 2023 while keeping significant engineering operations in Kyiv. Preply is a canonical example of Ukrainian B2C SaaS that became genuinely global and represents a rare European challenger to Cambly, italki, and other US-led language-tutoring marketplaces.
Kristiansand, Norway · Person British entrepreneur and founder and CEO of CENTURY Tech, an artificial-intelligence education technology company. A former barrister and a UK Business Ambassador, she is a prominent voice on AI in education and ethics, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup Language-learning platform with an app, tutoring and conversation clubs covering 12+ languages, adding AI-powered speaking practice and pronunciation feedback. Founded in Kyiv; over 23M downloads.
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Venture Capital Prosus Ventures is the venture and growth investment arm of Prosus, the Amsterdam-listed international technology investor that was spun out of South African conglomerate Naspers in 2019 and today stands as one of the largest technology investors in the world, anchored by a historically ~25 percent stake in Tencent that funds the rest of the portfolio. Beyond Tencent, Prosus Ventures and its strategy teams actively invest in growth-stage technology companies across food delivery, fintech, edtech, classifieds, and AI, owning stakes in Delivery Hero, iFood, Swiggy, Stack Overflow, PayU, Udemy, and Brainly among others. With many billions of euros of investable firepower and an explicit willingness to lead USD 100M+ rounds, Prosus is effectively one of Europe's only indigenous late-stage growth investors that can compete at scale with US crossover funds on late rounds of European technology companies.
Tallinn, Estonia · Angel Investor Co-founder of Pipedrive, this Estonian angel frequently invests in the region including Poland. He loves B2B SaaS and edtech; for example, he’s mentored and funded Polish education startup Mentornaut and others. Ragnar’s cross-border investments help integrate Polish startups into the Baltic network. Associated startups: Mentornaut, Lift99 (community spaces bridging to Poland).
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor Founder of Polish Angels and managing partner at COBIN Angels, Robert is a veteran executive with experience at Xerox, HP, and Atos. He serves as a board member of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN) and specializes in business strategy and transaction structuring for early-stage deals. Notable involvements include CliniNote (AI-powered healthtech platform, co-founder), board roles with Photon Entertainment, Salesbook, and Vindicat, plus prior supervisory board service at Work Service S.A.
Baku, Azerbaijan · Accelerator SABAH.HUB is a private innovation center and accelerator founded in 2021 that supports startups at pre-seed and seed stages. It offers incubation, acceleration, and education tracks (SABAH.academy, SABAH.incubation, SABAH.lab) and has made 16 investments in its portfolio. It co-organizes the Baku Investment Day (Baku ID) conference in partnership with the World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network.
Stockholm, Sweden · Startup Sana (Sana Labs) is a Stockholm-based AI company founded in 2016 that builds an enterprise platform combining AI agents, enterprise search and learning tools. Its products include Sana, for AI agents and enterprise search, and Sana Learn, a learning and content-creation platform used by organisations to access knowledge, automate work and learn with agentic AI. Backed by investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures and EQT Ventures, the company reached over $130M in total funding before Workday announced a definitive agreement to acquire it for approximately $1.1 billion in September 2025.
Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor Owner of Kulczyk Investments and founder of Manta Ray VC, Sebastian is a prominent growth and technology investor supporting globally scalable startups. Through both direct investment and ecosystem initiatives such as InCredibles, he has helped position Polish founders on international markets. His wider portfolio context includes involvement around major outcomes such as Base (acquired by Zendesk), and investments including Iceye and Brainly.
Grünwald, Germany · Startup simpleclub is a German-language digital learning platform for secondary-school students, apprentices in vocational training, and individual fields of study. It originated from the founders' educational video projects on YouTube and was incorporated as a company in 2015. The platform provides curriculum-aligned learning content, including content aligned to IHK standards, video lessons, exam-preparation tools, and an AI-powered learning assistant. It operates several lines: a consumer offering for school students, a B2B offering for companies training apprentices and skilled workers, and an offering for education and retraining providers.
Athens, Greece · Event Free week-long festival at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, with the SNF Nostos Conference (June 22-26) bringing international speakers on health, education, climate and the future of society alongside concerts and interactive programming.
Tartu, Estonia · Event Startup festival at the University of Tartu Sports Hall with 3,500+ attendees, 350+ investors, and 400+ startups. Includes the sTARTUp Pitching competition (often with a EUR 300k+ syndication pool) and Brella-powered 1:1 matchmaking.
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup StuDocu is an Amsterdam-based platform where students share and access study materials such as lecture notes, summaries and practice exams. Operating under the legal entity StudeerSnel B.V., it launched as StudeerSnel.nl before expanding internationally under the StuDocu brand, serving students across many countries and disciplines. In recent years it has added AI-based study tools for generating quizzes, summaries and structured notes. The company raised a $50 million Series B round in 2021 led by Partech.
Birkirkara, Malta · Accelerator SuperCharger Ventures runs a 12-week, equity-free EdTech and Future of Work accelerator programme in Malta, co-funded by Malta Enterprise. Up to 15 startups per cohort receive mentoring from 40+ local stakeholders, access to grants and soft loans of €300,000–€1.5 million, and connections to a global investor network. The Malta programme is one of several international hubs operated by SuperCharger alongside London, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and Rwanda.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Startup Tesonet is a Vilnius-based founders-led venture builder founded in 2008 by Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas. The group builds, accelerates, and invests in technology products across cybersecurity, AI, web intelligence, EdTech, and SportTech verticals. Its portfolio companies include Oxylabs, Surfshark, and nexos.ai, in addition to the better-known Nord Security and Hostinger. The group employs over 3,500 people and operates Cyber City, a 35,000 m² tech campus in Vilnius.
Warsaw, Poland · Startup AI-powered speech therapy platform for children that diagnoses speech impediments, recommends personalised therapy and delivers 2,000+ exercises as mobile games. Backed by Simpact Ventures and SMOK Ventures.
Krakow, Poland · Angel Investor Co-founder and former CTO of Brainly, Tomasz leverages his edtech and product experience as an angel investor. He has backed several Polish startups (including Allani, Positionly, Investio, and Luna Lang) and continues to support tech education initiatives. Associated startups: Allani, Positionly, Investio, Luna Lang.
Yerevan, Armenia · Startup Uteach is an all-in-one course-building and online-academy platform built in Yerevan for independent educators, creators, and established learning businesses that want to stop renting their students from marketplaces. The product bundles course hosting, live lessons (1:1 and group), branded school websites with custom domains, built-in payments and subscriptions, quizzes, certificates, affiliate links, and email marketing into a single operational stack, so a solo tutor or a coaching company can move from Zoom + spreadsheets to a proper school without integrating a half-dozen SaaS tools. Uteach scaled through the 500 Global Eurasia program and today serves creators across the US, Europe, MENA, and South Asia, which makes it one of Armenia's clearest examples of a locally built B2B SaaS with a fully international revenue base. It complements global players like Teachable and Thinkific by leaning into emerging-market pricing and stronger native-language support.
Berlin, Germany · Angel Investor Verena Pausder is a prominent German entrepreneur, angel investor, and advocate for digital education. She founded Fox & Sheep and the HABA Digitalwerkstatt, which teach coding and digital skills to children. Pausder has invested in numerous early-stage startups across edtech, consumer tech, and impact-driven ventures. She serves as President of the German Startups Association (Startup-Verband) and authored the bestselling book 'Das Neue Land,' which calls for a more innovative and digitally literate Germany. Her angel investments typically focus on founders building products that combine technology with social impact, and she is one of the most influential voices shaping Germany's startup policy landscape.
Vienna, Austria · Event Decentralized city-wide startup festival across 50+ partner events over nine days with 10,000+ international attendees, 1,500+ startups, and active investor matchmaking. Most sessions free or low-cost; main-stage passes around EUR 200. Tracks span social impact, smart city, life sciences, and creative tech, a key CEE entry point for founders.
Limassol, Cyprus · Event A free city-scale festival blending an edutainment fair, an education summit, hackathons, and a startup contest. An ecosystem and talent-pipeline event — relevant for founders recruiting young technical talent or running edtech and STEM products in Cyprus.