We track 20 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
20 entries.
BalticNOG 2026 is the annual Baltic Network Operators Group conference, moving to Riga for its next edition at the Radisson Blu Latvija Conference & Spa Hotel. It unites 400+ network engineers and internet-infrastructure professionals around routing security, IPv6 deployment, network automation, cybersecurity, cloud networking and regulatory developments, plus a new community-driven 'Skunk Works' format for tackling operational challenges.
Better Stack is a Prague-founded observability platform built by engineers for engineers, led by Juraj Masar (CEO) and Veronika Kolejak (COO). The company is known for combining speed, lower cost, and strong product design in a unified stack that covers uptime monitoring, log management, incident response, and status pages. Its technical positioning emphasizes standard SQL over proprietary query languages and high-performance analytics on ClickHouse-based infrastructure. Better Stack's January 2024 Series A and extension brought total funding to about $28.6M, with Creandum, KAYA Ventures, and Susa Ventures among key investors plus notable angels from Box, Flexport, Neo4j, Yelp, Codecademy, and UiPath. Publicly shared company metrics reported more than 200,000 developers and 4,000+ customers, and by 2026 Better Stack is widely viewed as one of the strongest Czech global DevTools contenders.
CityFibre is a full-fiber digital infrastructure scale-up building wholesale fiber networks across the UK. The company partners with ISPs and mobile operators to replace legacy connectivity with gigabit-capable infrastructure that supports residential broadband, enterprise services, and future smart-city and 5G capacity.
Clever Cloud is a French Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Nantes, enabling development teams to deploy and run web applications with automated scaling and fully managed infrastructure. The company is one of France's leading independent cloud providers and a prominent participant in the European cloud sovereignty movement, operating data centers across multiple European regions. Clever Cloud serves as a Platinum sponsor of Sunny Tech 2026.
Community-led cloud conference at CENTQUATRE-PARIS focused on practical engineering sessions over vendor marketing. Strong match for infrastructure startups and DevOps-first teams working on Kubernetes, platform tooling, and secure cloud operations.
Internet infrastructure event hosted at Europa-Park. Price: about EUR 400-600 standard (often free with codes), EUR 1200 VIP. Strong for hosting, cloud security, and SaaS infrastructure startups.
Corti is a Copenhagen-based AI company founded in 2016 that initially gained recognition for building real-time AI assistants for emergency call centers, helping dispatchers detect cardiac arrests and other critical conditions during 112/911 calls. The company has since expanded into broader healthcare AI infrastructure, providing clinical documentation, medical coding, and workflow automation tools for hospitals and health systems. Corti's models are trained on millions of patient interactions and support clinicians in making faster, more accurate decisions. The company is one of Denmark's most prominent healthcare AI startups.
Data centre infrastructure conference at ExCeL London exploring sustainable facilities, cloud infrastructure, and edge compute solutions. Brings together data centre operators, cloud providers, and infrastructure investors. Co-located with major tech expos for cross-sector networking. Relevant for startups in cooling tech, energy optimization, and edge computing.
Episode 1 Ventures is a London-based seed and pre-seed fund founded in 2013 by Simon Murdoch, Damien Lane, and Adrian Lloyd, all experienced entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies. The firm closed its third fund at £76 million in February 2024, bringing total capital managed to over £170 million across three vehicles. Episode 1 focuses on software-driven businesses in AI, infrastructure, health, open-source, and marketplace sectors, writing initial cheques of up to £2 million. The fund has backed 69 companies and achieved a 73% Series A graduation rate — three times the industry average — with notable portfolio companies including Carwow, Huboo, CloudNC, and Robin AI.
Launched 2017. Corporate venture program connecting startups with the Jose de Mello Group in healthcare, energy, and infrastructure. Support: pilot agreements, corporate guidance, and potential customer contracts. Scope: National.
Hostinger is a Kaunas-founded web hosting company launched in 2004 that has grown into one of the largest independent hosting providers globally, serving millions of customers across 150+ countries. The company offers shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS, domain registration, and an AI-powered website builder at aggressively competitive price points. Hostinger is known for making web presence affordable for individuals, freelancers, and small businesses worldwide. With a strong engineering base in Lithuania and offices across multiple continents, the company is one of the Baltic region's most successful bootstrapped technology businesses.
Blockchain infrastructure startup operating from Tbilisi since 2020, building a crypto-biometric network where one human equals one node. Humanode uses Proof-of-Uniqueness and Proof-of-Existence protocols based on biometric face scanning to establish Sybil resistance without revealing identity. The network is built on Polkadot infrastructure and in 2024 recorded a Nakamoto Coefficient of 236 — the highest decentralisation score ever measured for a blockchain. The project has raised approximately $23 million.
Infrastructure security forum hosted at Sound Garden Hotel focused on resilience of critical systems in utilities, telecom, and enterprise IT. High-signal venue for cybersecurity startups targeting B2B and public-sector pilots in Poland.
MultiversX, formerly known as Elrond, is a Romanian-founded Layer 1 blockchain platform designed for high throughput, low latency, and low transaction costs through an adaptive state sharding architecture. The network can process over 15,000 transactions per second and supports smart contracts, DeFi applications, NFTs, and the metaverse ecosystem. Founded in 2017 by brothers Beniamin and Lucian Mincu along with Lucian Todea, the company rebranded to MultiversX to reflect its broader vision beyond blockchain infrastructure into metaverse and Web3 applications. MultiversX has built one of the most technically ambitious blockchain platforms to emerge from Europe and anchors Romania's position in the global Web3 ecosystem.
OVHcloud is Europe's largest cloud hosting provider, operating a global network of data centers offering dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud, and web hosting services. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba, OVHcloud went public on Euronext Paris in 2021 and serves over 1.6 million customers worldwide. The company is a key pillar of European digital sovereignty, manufacturing its own servers and cooling systems to control costs and reduce dependency on US hyperscalers.
Poolside is arguably the most important "import" to the European AI ecosystem in the last decade. Founded by Jason Warner (former CTO of GitHub) and Eiso Kant, the company started in the United States but relocated its headquarters to Paris in 2024 to tap France's deep talent pool in mathematics, systems engineering, and AI research. Its mission is unusually ambitious: not just to build code autocomplete, but to create the world's most capable AI for software engineering, with a long-term goal of systems that can build and evolve software autonomously. This framing has made Poolside a defining player in the AI-for-developers category. By 2026, Poolside has established itself as a core node in the "Paris AI Triangle" alongside Mistral and H. After a massive $500M Series B in late 2024 led by Bain Capital Ventures, the company launched its flagship foundation model trained on a distinct corpus of code, software architecture, and repository-level structure. The emphasis on engineering artifacts rather than general internet text allows Poolside's models to reason about large codebases, infer intent from architectural patterns, and propose higher-level refactors instead of one-off snippets. This technical posture differentiates Poolside from generalist models and makes it uniquely useful for enterprises grappling with decades of technical debt. The company's 2026 platform looks less like a plugin and more like a "shadow engineering team." Poolside can analyze legacy banking systems, plan migrations across stacks, and coordinate changes across modules while preserving compliance and auditability. That capability has made it a darling of large financial institutions such as HSBC and Citi, and it explains why strategic investors are embedded alongside venture capital. Poolside is also scaling Project Horizon, a 2-gigawatt AI data center campus in Texas in partnership with CoreWeave, while keeping its research and model development anchored in Paris. This split setup reflects a broader pattern: US-scale compute, European R&D depth. Poolside's ecosystem ties are deep. It is a central node at Station F and an active participant in the Paris AI Hub, and its relocation is often cited by the French government as a proof point for attracting foreign tech leadership. The investor roster underscores its strategic importance: Bain Capital Ventures led the growth round, DST Global joined as a late-stage backer, Xavier Niel provided early strategic support to facilitate the Paris move, and Nvidia is a hardware partner. In 2026, Poolside stands out as Europe's most credible attempt to build an AI-native software engineering stack at frontier scale.
Early-stage angel fund led by Bartek Pucek, focused on globally scalable technology startups. The fund is known for founder-friendly terms, fast decision cycles, and co-investments with international VC firms.
Qdrant (pronounced "Quadrant") provides the memory layer for AI applications. As companies build AI agents in 2026, they quickly discover that large language models do not remember internal company data. Qdrant solves this by offering a high-performance vector database that stores embeddings for documents, images, and conversations and retrieves the most relevant context in milliseconds. That capability is the foundation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent workflows across enterprises. Born as an open-source project in Berlin, Qdrant has become a default choice for teams building on modern AI stacks, especially in Rust and performance-critical environments. Its adoption accelerated because it can run anywhere—from embedded devices to large Kubernetes clusters—without locking users into a proprietary cloud. This flexibility, combined with strong performance and transparent licensing, has allowed Qdrant to surpass older competitors in developer mindshare and production deployments. By late 2025 it had raised a Series B and was widely described as a "soonicorn" within the AI infrastructure category. The 2026 breakthrough is Qdrant's hybrid search engine. Pure vector search captures semantic similarity but can miss precise keyword matches that matter in enterprise contexts. Qdrant combines semantic retrieval with keyword filters and metadata constraints, enabling queries such as "find a part like this" while also honoring exact identifiers like "Part #404-X" or compliance tags. This hybrid approach is now table stakes for enterprise RAG, and it has made Qdrant the database of choice for large-scale deployments at organizations such as Discord, Mozilla, and Deloitte. Qdrant Cloud is the company's managed service offering and is growing quickly as enterprises move from prototypes to production. It provides enterprise controls, observability, and multi-region deployments without sacrificing the portability that developers expect from the open-source core. Qdrant's ecosystem roots include Techstars Berlin and a strong open-source community, where the project has amassed tens of thousands of GitHub stars. Its investor base includes Spark Capital, Unusual Ventures, 42CAP, and IBB Ventures, giving it both global capital and local Berlin support. In 2026, Qdrant is the clearest European winner in vector databases: the infrastructure layer that lets AI systems remember and reason over real company data.
Scaleway is a European cloud provider and subsidiary of the Iliad Group, offering a full stack of cloud infrastructure including bare-metal servers, Kubernetes, object storage, managed databases, and GPU instances for AI workloads. Founded by Xavier Niel's Iliad, Scaleway positions itself as a sovereign European alternative to US hyperscalers, with data centers in Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw. The company is increasingly important for European organizations seeking GDPR-compliant cloud hosting.
Tatum is a developer platform that unifies dozens of blockchain protocols into a single API, allowing enterprises to build crypto features without specialized blockchain teams. The platform abstracts wallet creation, transactions, and smart contract interactions into simple endpoints. By 2026, Tatum positions itself as the “Stripe for crypto infrastructure,” serving banks and fintechs that want to launch regulated digital-asset services. Its focus is on reliability and developer speed rather than speculative crypto exposure.