Directory

Machine Learning startup ecosystem

We track 19 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.

19 entries.

AI Summit London 2027

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.

Aleph Alpha

Heidelberg, Germany · Startup

Aleph Alpha is a Heidelberg-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 that develops large language models and enterprise AI infrastructure with a focus on sovereignty, transparency and data protection for European governments and regulated industries. Its Luminous model family and PhariaAI platform target on-premise and mission-critical deployments. The company raised a large Series B round in 2023 backed by investors including Bosch, SAP and the Schwarz Group.

Aseto

Nicosia, Cyprus · Startup

Aseto is a Cyprus-based artificial intelligence startup specialising in speech recognition, speech-to-text technology, and machine learning model development. The company was a gold partner of the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, with its machine learning engineer among the event's confirmed speakers presenting on STT model research. Aseto develops AI-powered voice and audio processing tools targeting enterprise clients and developer teams.

Data Science Conference Belgrade 2026

Belgrade, Serbia · Event

Southeast Europe's largest data science and AI conference, held in Belgrade with 1,200+ data scientists, ML engineers, and analytics leaders from across the Balkans, CEE, and Western Europe. Three days of talks, hands-on workshops, and a career fair. Content spans applied ML, LLMs in production, MLOps, and data engineering at scale. Tickets EUR 200-600.

deepset

Berlin, Germany · Startup

deepset is a Berlin-based AI company founded in 2018 that helps enterprises build custom natural-language and LLM applications. It created Haystack, a widely used open-source framework for retrieval-augmented generation and LLM pipelines, and offers a commercial enterprise platform on top of it for building production AI agents and search systems.

dotAI 2026

Paris, France · Event

A single-track, builder-focused AI conference at the Folies Bergère for around 1,500 AI engineers and researchers, with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, and Databricks. Best for technical founders and AI developers who want deep content over expo-floor noise.

ISTC — Innovative Solutions and Technologies Center

Yerevan, Armenia · Innovation Hub

ISTC is a joint innovation center established in 2015 by IBM, USAID, the Government of Armenia, and the Enterprise Incubator Foundation, located on the Yerevan State University campus. It provides startup incubation, machine-learning and cybersecurity training, a coworking space, cloud services, and cybersecurity solutions for SMEs, all hosted in a 1,000-square-metre facility powered by IBM and HP infrastructure.

Rise of AI 2026

Berlin, Germany · Event

Curated AI conference in Berlin (Humboldt Carre) with an intimate in-person audience and virtual access, focused on the European AI ecosystem, policy, and commercialization. 2026 speaker highlights include Franziska Giffey, Prof. Antonio Krueger (DFKI), Carla Hustedt, and Dr. Ulli Waltinger; founder participation is often routed through Applied AI Stage and speaker submissions.

Stability AI

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Stability AI is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2019 that develops open and openly licensed generative models across images, video, audio and 3D, best known for the Stable Diffusion text-to-image model. It positions itself around accessible, open generative AI for creators, developers and enterprises.

SuperAnnotate

Yerevan, Armenia · Startup

SuperAnnotate is an AI training data platform founded in Yerevan by brothers Tigran and Vahan Petrosyan. It provides tools for annotating, managing, and automating labelled datasets across images, video, text, and audio at scale. Backed by NVIDIA, the platform serves enterprise clients including Databricks and Canva. In 2025 the company raised $50 million to accelerate its AI data-annotation capabilities.

Wirestock

Yerevan, Armenia · Startup

Wirestock is an Armenian AI data marketplace startup that sources and curates multimodal creative datasets — including images, videos, 3D models, and audio — for major AI foundation model developers. Founded in Yerevan, the company raised approximately $26 million total, including a $23 million Series A in 2026 led by Nava Ventures with participation from Formula VC and I2BF Ventures, and counts six of the world's largest AI model developers among its clients. Wirestock is a Platinum Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.

YerevaNN Research Lab

Yerevan, Armenia · Support Organization

YerevaNN is a non-profit machine learning and AI research laboratory established in 2016, operating independently from commercial projects and funded by private donations and research grants. The lab collaborates with institutions including the University of Southern California and the Institute of Molecular Biology in Armenia, with active research into drug discovery via molecule generation, computer vision, and clinical AI. It has produced over 85 scientific publications and is a recognized node of the Armenian AI research community.