Directory

SaaS startup ecosystem

Software-as-a-service is a cornerstone of European B2B tech. From process mining in Munich to HR platforms in Dublin, European SaaS companies compete globally with strong unit economics and increasingly efficient go-to-market strategies. The Nordics and DACH region are particularly strong. We track 382 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.

382 entries.

500 Global in Eurasia

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.

500 Istanbul

Istanbul, Turkey · Venture Capital

500 Istanbul is an Istanbul-based early-stage venture capital fund established in 2016 by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur Şirinoğlu in partnership with 500 Global, operating as a distinct fund entity focused on Turkey and Emerging Europe. The fund raised a €30M Fund II and later evolved into 500 Emerging Europe, targeting a €70M raise for the broader CEE and Baltics region. Its portfolio of 37+ companies includes three unicorns — Insider, BillionToOne, and Carbon Health — with portfolio companies collectively generating over $600M in annual revenue and attracting $1.1B in follow-on funding. The fund backs pre-seed to seed-stage startups with typical cheques from €200K to €3M.

Abacum

Barcelona, Spain · Startup

Abacum is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform for mid-market and scale-up finance teams, integrating 700+ data sources to automate planning, consolidate real-time data and enable collaboration on budgets and forecasts. Commercial HQ in New York.

ABC Accelerator

Ljubljana, Slovenia · Accelerator

ABC Accelerator was founded in 2015 and is the largest private startup accelerator in South Eastern Europe, based at BTC City in Ljubljana. It runs a three-month programme accepting up to 12 startups per cohort, offering a €25,000 convertible loan and an option for €100,000–€250,000 follow-on investment. To date it has accelerated over 130 startups from 30 countries and helped them raise approximately €30 million in funding. It has been recognised as the best accelerator programme by the Central European Startup Awards.

ActiveCollab

Novi Sad, Serbia · Startup

ActiveCollab is a bootstrapped project management and collaboration SaaS platform built specifically for service businesses. Founded in 2007 by Goran Radulovic and Ilija Studen in Novi Sad, it originated as an open-source tool in 2006 before moving to a commercial model. The platform provides project management, time tracking, budget tracking, client management, and invoicing in a single product available as both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployments. Over 50,000 teams worldwide rely on ActiveCollab, including organisations at NASA, Apple, Samsung, Nike, IKEA, Adobe, BBC, and Stanford University.

Adrien Nussenbaum

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder and co-CEO of Mirakl, leading the marketplace-software company's US and global expansion. He co-founded the company with Philippe Corrot after an earlier e-commerce venture.

Agent Harbor

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

Developer platform for deploying and managing fleets of AI coding agents in copy-on-write sandboxes that mirror production, with stall detection, multi-OS testing and a unified orchestration dashboard.

AGRIVI

Zagreb, Croatia · Startup

AGRIVI is a digital agriculture platform offering farm management software (AGRIVI 360), an AI advisory tool for input manufacturers (AGRIVI AI Engage), and food traceability solutions. The platform is used across 50+ markets by enterprise farms and agri-food companies including Nestlé, Driscoll's, and Kimberly-Clark. Founded in Zagreb in 2013, the company has raised EUR 4 million and is active across five continents.

Aircall

Paris, France · Startup

Aircall is a Paris-based fintech-adjacent software company founded in 2014 that provides a cloud-based business phone and call-centre platform, integrating voice calling with CRM and helpdesk tools and adding AI-powered conversation intelligence. It serves sales and support teams at thousands of companies and reached unicorn status in 2021.

Airspeed

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Agent-native AI platform for go-to-market execution, founded by ex-DeepMind researchers (formerly Glyphic). Autonomous agents act on commercial context across calls, emails, tickets and CRM to update systems, flag risks and generate follow-ups for revenue teams.

Allica Bank

London, United Kingdom · Startup

British challenger bank for established SMEs offering business current accounts, savings, commercial mortgages, and asset and invoice finance. Secured its banking licence in 2019; among the UK's fastest-growing companies.

AMPECO

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

AMPECO is a Sofia-founded SaaS company providing a white-label, hardware-agnostic electric vehicle charging management platform. Founded in 2019, the platform is used by charge point operators, energy utilities, and e-mobility service providers across 70+ markets. In October 2024 the company raised a €24.7 million Series B round to fund international expansion. AMPECO has offices in the USA, UK, France, Netherlands, and Bulgaria.

Aptoide

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

Independent alternative Android app store and distribution platform with 430M+ users and 1M+ apps, one of the largest Android stores globally, with an AppCoins crypto rewards layer. Founded 2009.

Arbio

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Arbio Group is a Berlin-based proptech company that operates an AI-native operating system for managing short-term rentals and serviced apartments across Europe. It combines full-stack property management services with technology to automate core operations including dynamic pricing optimisation, guest communication, accounting, and distribution across booking platforms, while keeping human oversight for hospitality quality. The company has grown partly through strategic acquisitions of existing property-management portfolios, and serves property owners and managers across the DACH region and beyond.

Arcads

Paris, France · Startup

Arcads is an AI-powered platform for creating video advertisements, primarily UGC-style ads featuring AI actors and avatars. Users provide a script, choose or customise an avatar, and the platform generates polished video ads with localisation across 30+ languages. It targets performance marketers, direct-to-consumer brands, and marketing agencies. Founded in 2024 by Dylan Fournier and Romain Torres, the company raised a $16 million seed round in December 2025 led by Eurazeo and said it was already profitable, with more than half of its users based in the United States.

Ark Climate

Munich, Germany · Startup

Provides software that helps municipalities plan, coordinate and measure climate-protection efforts, integrating energy and emissions data so urban planners can track progress toward climate-neutrality goals. Works with 40+ German cities.

Armand Thiberge

Paris, France · Person

Founder and CEO of Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), the digital marketing and CRM platform he started in 2012 to give small businesses affordable email and automation tools, scaling it across Europe and beyond.

Artur Banach

Warsaw, Poland · Person

Co-founder and Partner at Movens Capital. Serial tech entrepreneur and investor; founder and CEO of NetSprint (2000–2018), a Polish search engine that grew into a CEE adtech/martech group. Led Movens Fund 1 (2020–2023) to invest roughly €14M across 20 CEE startups before co-anchoring Fund 2 (€60M, 2025). Board roles and angel investments across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS in Poland and CEE.

AtomStore

Wroclaw, Poland · Startup

AtomStore is a Wroclaw-based composable e-commerce platform designed for mid-market and enterprise brands that need flexible storefront, catalog, and omnichannel commerce workflows. The platform supports both B2C and B2B selling scenarios with modular architecture that allows brands to customize checkout, pricing, and integration layers without replacing their entire tech stack. AtomStore serves Polish and CEE retailers looking for a locally built alternative to Shopify Plus or commercetools, with strong support for marketplace integrations and multi-warehouse fulfillment.

Autenti

Poznań, Poland · Startup

Autenti is a cloud platform for electronic signatures and digital transaction management, letting businesses and individuals sign, send and manage legally binding documents online. It supports qualified, advanced and simple e-signatures under the EU eIDAS regulation, operating across Poland, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia and Spain.

AVentures Capital

Kyiv, Ukraine · Venture Capital

AVentures Capital is a Kyiv-based early-stage venture fund with $109M in assets under management, investing in software technology companies founded by Eastern European entrepreneurs building global businesses. Founded by Andriy Kolodyuk and Yevgen Sysoyev, the fund publishes the annual Dealbook of Ukraine, the definitive market study of the Ukrainian tech and venture ecosystem. The 2026 edition documented $498M raised by Ukrainian tech companies in 2025, an 8% year-on-year increase, with defense tech emerging as the fastest-growing sector. The fund remains operationally active in Kyiv and continues to back early-stage founders through the wartime period.

Avi Meir

Barcelona, Spain · Person

Co-founder and CEO of TravelPerk, the Barcelona-based business-travel management unicorn. He previously founded the hotel-software startup Hotel Ninjas (acquired by Booking.com) before launching TravelPerk in 2015.

Awesomic

Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup

Subscription talent marketplace founded in Kyiv in 2020 (Y Combinator S21) that matches companies with vetted designers, developers and marketers within 24 hours.

AWS Community Day Bulgaria 2026

Sofia, Bulgaria · Event

User-run AWS technical conference at Sofia Tech Park's John Atanasoff Forum, planned and delivered by AWS user group community leaders. Sessions and workshops on cloud architecture, mostly in Bulgarian with one English track.

Axonista

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

Axonista is a Dublin-based interactive video commerce platform that enables global broadcasters, retailers, and brands to build shoppable and interactive TV experiences across streaming devices and the web. Founded in 2010 by Claire McHugh and Daragh Ward, the company powers video commerce for QVC, HSN, WaterBear, and Oxfam, and in 2024 attributed over $750 million in shoppable revenue through its platform. Axonista has made the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Ireland for three consecutive years and partnered with Vizbee to deliver synced CTV and mobile shoppable experiences.

BADideas.fund

Riga, Latvia · Venture Capital

BADideas.fund is a Riga-based early-stage syndicate and pre-seed/seed fund whose 200+ members are operators and founders from CEE unicorns including Wise, Veriff, Printify, and Bolt. The fund is backed by Latvian development bank Altum under the EU ERDF-supported programme, with a total fund size of €20.67 million, active from 2024 to 2029. It focuses on globally ambitious founders from Latvia and the broader CEE region.

Benjamin Netter

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Riot, the employee-cybersecurity platform for awareness training and phishing simulation. He previously co-founded and was CTO of the open-banking startup October.

Bernat Farrero

Barcelona, Spain · Person

Co-founder of Factorial and a partner in the Itnig startup ecosystem in Barcelona, where he has founded and backed multiple SaaS companies. He focuses on company-building and operations across the Itnig portfolio.

Big Data & AI Paris 2026

Paris, France · Event

Organised by RX France, Big Data & AI Paris is one of Europe's largest data and AI gatherings, held 15–16 September 2026 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The two-day event combines 220+ exhibitors with the 'Innovative Minds' conference programme spanning tech, governance, and business tracks, drawing around 15,000 professionals.

Big Pi Ventures

Athens, Greece · Venture Capital

Big Pi Ventures was founded in 2018 by Marco Veremis, Alex Eleftheriadis, and Aristos Doxiadis, all seasoned entrepreneurs with exits to Splunk, Meta/Facebook, and global PE. The firm manages approximately €250M in AUM across an early-stage fund (Big Pi II, €50M, 2023) and a growth fund (€130M first close, targeting €200M). It follows a tech-first investment thesis focused on AI, deep tech, biotech, and IP-heavy companies built by founders with a Greek nexus — whether based in Greece or part of the global diaspora. Notable portfolio companies include TileDB, Numan, and Accusonus (acquired by Meta).

Binderr

Naxxar, Malta · Startup

Binderr is a compliance and corporate services platform founded in Malta in 2020. Its software automates KYC, KYB, and AML workflows for law firms, accountants, and regulated financial professionals across 180+ countries, combining identity verification, sanctions screening, adverse media checks, and document management in a single tool. Beyond compliance technology, the platform connects businesses to a marketplace of financial, legal, and corporate service providers. Binderr raised a €2 million Seed round in 2024 and maintains offices in Malta, Estonia, the UK, and the UAE.

Bitmovin

Klagenfurt, Austria · Startup

Bitmovin is a video-streaming developer-infrastructure company that provides cloud-based tools for encoding, playing and analysing video, including a VOD encoder, a live encoder, a multi-device player and streaming quality-of-experience analytics. It originated from MPEG-DASH adaptive-streaming research at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and its founders were among the co-creators of the MPEG-DASH standard. Serving media and enterprise customers, the company operates dual headquarters in Klagenfurt and San Francisco and has raised venture funding including from Highland Europe, Atomico and Dawn Capital.

Blackshell

Bucharest, Romania · Startup

Cybersecurity platform for SMEs offering Stingray (compliance-focused corporate VPN) and Bluefin (threat detection and vulnerability management), targeting ISO 27001, SOC 2 and NIS 2 compliance. Raised about EUR 3M.

Blackwall

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Formerly BotGuard, builds GateKeeper, a reverse-proxy WAF that blocks malicious bot traffic and L7 DDoS for hosting providers and SMBs across 2.3M+ websites. Raised EUR 45M Series B in 2025 led by Dawn Capital.

Bloomin

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.

Booksy

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Booksy is a Polish-founded SaaS marketplace for booking personal-care appointments — hair, beauty, barbers, nails, and wellness providers. Founded in Warsaw in 2013 by Stefan Batory and Konrad Howard, Booksy expanded internationally and grew its provider base most rapidly in the US, UK, Spain, and Brazil. Backed by investors including Cat Rock Capital, Sprints Capital, and Piton Capital, the company offers business owners scheduling, payments, marketing, and customer-retention tooling alongside its consumer booking app.

BoS Europe (Business of Software) 2026

Cambridge, United Kingdom · Event

Single-track, founder-focused conference for SaaS and software leaders held in Cambridge. Features deep talks on scaling, product strategy, and company culture from experienced operators. Tickets cost about GBP 995-1495. Intimate format with 300-400 attendees, making it ideal for B2B SaaS founders seeking actionable growth and leadership insights.

Brand24

Wrocław, Poland · Startup

Brand24 is a Polish social-media-monitoring SaaS that tracks mentions of brands and keywords across social platforms, news, blogs, and forums. Founded in Wrocław in 2011 by Michał Sadowski (and backed early by LiveChat CMO Szymon Klimczak as an angel), the company serves marketing and PR teams worldwide and went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2018.

Brevo

Paris, France · Startup

Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a Paris-founded marketing automation and CRM platform serving over 500,000 businesses worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Armand Thiberge, the company rebranded in 2023 to reflect its expansion beyond email marketing into a full suite covering email, SMS, chat, marketing automation, sales CRM, and transactional messaging. Brevo has raised over $190 million and competes with Mailchimp and HubSpot in the SMB segment, with a strong emphasis on affordability and ease of use. The company maintains a large London presence and is one of France's most successful B2B SaaS exports.

Brightflag

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

AI-powered enterprise legal management platform for corporate legal teams covering legal spend, matter management, invoicing and outside-counsel collaboration. Founded 2014; acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2025.

Brunnur Ventures

Reykjavik, Iceland · Venture Capital

Brunnur Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 and focused on high-growth Icelandic startups. The firm backs scalable B2B software, gaming, biotech, cleantech, and marine-tech companies, writing initial seed cheques and following on through growth rounds. With around 34 portfolio companies, the firm has achieved notable exits including CCP Games and Oculis. Key partners include Founding Partner Sigurdur Arnljotsson and Managing Partner Arni Bloendal.

byFounders

Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital

byFounders is a Copenhagen-based venture fund built around the idea that early-stage founders benefit most from investors who have already built and scaled companies themselves. The firm is backed by a broad collective of Nordic and Baltic founders and operators, giving portfolio companies access not only to capital but also to practical advice on hiring, go-to-market, product development, and international expansion. That structure makes byFounders more than a conventional seed fund; it operates as a networked operating layer for startups emerging from the Nordic-Baltic region. Its importance in the directory is strategic because it fills the middle of the ecosystem pipeline: after founders are incubated by universities, venture builders, or accelerators, but before they are ready for large global growth funds, they need a seed investor that can professionalize the company and prepare it for the next round. byFounders has become one of the clearest examples of that role in Northern Europe. It also helps connect smaller regional startup communities into a shared capital network, which is especially relevant for Baltic and Nordic founders that need international reach early.

CAKE.com (Clockify)

Novi Sad, Serbia · Startup

CAKE.com, formerly COING, is a bootstrapped productivity software company founded in Novi Sad in 2009 by Nenad Milanovic. It is best known for Clockify, the world's most widely used free time-tracking app, launched in 2017 and now used by over 5 million users globally including HP and American Express — voted best overall time-tracking app by Forbes. The company expanded its product suite to include Pumble (team messaging) and Plaky (task management), rebranding the family of tools under the CAKE.com umbrella in 2023. The company reached $25M+ ARR entirely bootstrapped without venture capital.

CallPage

Kraków, Poland · Startup

CallPage is a callback and lead-generation SaaS that connects website visitors with sales agents within seconds via an instant callback widget, with automated call scheduling, tracking and CRM integrations for SMB sales teams. Acquired by SaaS Labs in 2022.

Carlos Blanco

Barcelona, Spain · Angel Investor

Carlos Blanco is a Spanish serial entrepreneur and one of the country's best-known angel investors, based in Barcelona. He founded Akamon Entertainment, a social gaming company that he sold in one of Spain's most notable exits of 2015, and he co-founded the Nuclio Venture Builder and the Conector startup accelerator. He is Managing Partner at Encomenda Smart Capital and has been recognised with Spain's Best Business Angel award by AEBAN.

Cast AI

Vilnius, Lithuania · Startup

Application performance automation platform for Kubernetes that automates workload rightsizing, infrastructure scaling, cost optimization and self-healing across cloud environments. A Lithuanian unicorn serving 2,100+ companies.

Caucasus Ventures

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.

Change Ventures

Tallinn, Estonia · Venture Capital

Founded in 2017, Change Ventures is the largest pan-Baltic pre-seed and seed fund, backing ambitious founders across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as well as Baltic diaspora entrepreneurs worldwide. Managed by Andris K. Berzins and a team with over 45 years of combined operating experience, the firm closed its €49M Fund II — the largest seed VC fund ever raised in the Baltic States — supported by the European Investment Fund's Baltic Innovation Fund. The firm invests €400K–€3M in B2B and SaaS technology startups, with a strong focus on the Baltic region's next-generation founders. Fund III of €20M doubled down on pre-seed, cementing Change Ventures as the defining early-stage regional franchise.

ChannelSight

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

eCommerce intelligence platform that makes brands' products shoppable across retailers via 'Where to Buy' technology, shoppable media and digital shelf analytics. Clients include Philips and Coca-Cola. Founded 2013.

Choco

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Choco is a Berlin-based food supply chain platform founded in 2018 by Daniel Khachab, Rogerio Da Silva Yokomizo, and Julian Hammer. The company provides an AI-powered digital ordering and inventory management platform connecting restaurants with food distributors and suppliers, aiming to reduce food waste across the supply chain. Choco reached unicorn status in 2022 with a $1.2 billion valuation and has raised over $300 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue, and Left Lane. The platform links over 10,000 suppliers with more than 15,000 restaurants across Europe and North America.

Choice

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Choice provides QR payments and digital menus for restaurants, enabling faster ordering and higher table turnover. The platform is growing quickly across CEE and Eastern Europe as restaurants digitize front-of-house operations. It reduces staffing overhead while giving restaurants richer customer data. By 2026, Choice is a fast-scaling Czech restaurant-tech player.

Christian Reber

Berlin, Germany · Angel Investor

Christian Reber is a German entrepreneur and prolific angel investor best known as the founder of Wunderlist (acquired by Microsoft in 2015) and Pitch, a collaborative presentation platform. With deep experience building productivity and design tools, Reber actively invests in early-stage SaaS, design, and developer tooling startups across Europe. His operator background gives him credibility with technical founders, and he frequently provides hands-on product and go-to-market mentorship to his portfolio companies. Reber is part of Berlin's influential network of founder-angels who reinvest their exits back into the ecosystem.

Circit

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

Circit is a Dublin-based fintech that provides an independent verification layer for the global audit and financial services industry, connecting auditors directly with banks, financial institutions, and counterparties to validate financial data at source. Founded in 2017, the platform is used by all top 20 global audit networks and spans a verification network of over 30,000 banks and evidence providers. In February 2026, Circit secured $22 million in growth equity led by Ten Coves Capital, bringing total funding to over $31 million.

Circlemind

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.

CitySwift

Galway, Ireland · Startup

CitySwift is a Galway-based AI and big data platform that optimises public transport networks, helping operators plan routes, schedules, and resource allocation in real time. Founded in 2016 by Alan Farrelly and Brian O'Rourke, the company's SaaS platform processes over 1 billion passenger journeys per year. Having raised €14.5 million in total funding, CitySwift serves major transport networks across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Wales, New York, and is expanding into APAC markets.

CloudCart

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

CloudCart is a Bulgarian ecommerce-as-a-service platform founded in 2016 by brothers Nikolay and Peter Iliev. The platform enables merchants to build, manage, and scale online stores with built-in marketing automation, multichannel sales tools, and integrated payment and shipping support. CloudCart is backed by Vitosha Venture Partners and reported approximately $3.6 million in annual revenue with over 1,100 merchant customers in 2024. The platform expanded into Romania in 2023.

Cloudsmith

Belfast, United Kingdom · Startup

Cloud-native artifact and package management platform providing a single source of truth for packages, containers and ML models across 30+ formats, with supply-chain security and global edge distribution. Founded 2016.

CloudTalk

Bratislava, Slovakia · Startup

CloudTalk is next-generation call center software built for modern customer support and sales teams. The platform integrates deeply with tools like Salesforce and HubSpot and layers AI-driven analytics on top of every conversation to improve agent performance and sentiment tracking. By 2026, CloudTalk has raised a significant Series B and serves global ecommerce and tech support teams, making it one of Slovakia’s most visible SaaS exports.

Cobee

Madrid, Spain · Startup

Cobee is a Madrid-based digital employee benefits and flexible compensation platform that lets companies offer and employees manage benefits such as meal vouchers, training, health and life insurance, wellbeing and discounts through a single app and card. The company expanded beyond Spain into Portugal and Mexico, serving over 1,500 clients. In 2024 global employee-benefits company Pluxee acquired Cobee, which continues to operate as part of the Pluxee group.

Codacy

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

Automated code-quality and security platform (static analysis, SAST, secret and dependency scanning, AI guardrails) supporting 40+ languages; used by 15,000+ organizations. Founded 2012.

Contentful

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Contentful is a headless content management system (CMS) that enables enterprises to manage and deliver digital content across websites, apps, and devices via API. Founded in Berlin, the company serves over 4,000 customers including Spotify, Chanel, and Urban Outfitters. Contentful was valued at $3 billion after its 2021 Series F and is one of Europe's most successful developer-tools companies, bridging content management with modern composable architecture.

Contentsquare

Paris, France · Startup

Contentsquare is a Paris-based digital experience analytics company founded in 2012 by Jonathan Cherki that captures how users interact with websites and apps and turns that behaviour into insights for product, marketing and UX teams. It grew into one of France's most valuable software companies, acquiring rivals such as Clicktale and Heap, and serves thousands of global brands.

Coreflux

Porto, Portugal · Startup

IoT data-pipeline platform built on MQTT, offering a managed broker, browser-based control hub, multi-protocol routing and the Language of Things scripting layer for real-time device integration.

Costimize

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

Cloud FinOps and governance SaaS that helps enterprises monitor, govern and optimise spend across Google Cloud, AWS and Azure using automated recommendations and AI-driven insights.

Coverflex

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

Coverflex is a Portuguese startup that builds a compensation management platform bringing together every part of employee compensation beyond salary, including flexible benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts in a single product. Employees manage their benefits, meal allowance, insurance and discounts through the Coverflex app and card, and can direct part of their balance toward savings products. Founded in 2019, it operates across European markets including Portugal, Italy and Spain. In February 2023 it raised a €15 million Series A round to support its European expansion.

Covve

Nicosia, Cyprus · Startup

Covve is a Nicosia-based SaaS company, founded in 2013, that provides a business card scanning and personal CRM platform for professionals and teams. The platform allows users to capture leads by scanning business cards, event badges, and digital profiles, then sync contacts to major CRM systems including Salesforce and HubSpot. Covve serves over 2 million users across 130+ countries in 16 languages. The company is headquartered at Lordou Vyronos, Nicosia.

Creatio

Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup

No-code platform for CRM and business process automation with AI-native workflow tools. Founded in Kyiv, it reached unicorn status in 2024 after a $200M round at a $1.2B valuation.

Cristina Fonseca

Lisbon, Portugal · Person

General Partner at Indico Capital Partners and co-founder of Talkdesk, the contact-centre software unicorn. A Forbes 30 Under 30 alumna and one of Portugal's best-known tech entrepreneurs, she invests in early-stage software and AI companies across Southern Europe.

Crowberry Capital

Reykjavik, Iceland · Venture Capital

Crowberry Capital is a Nordic seed and early-stage venture fund founded in 2017 in Reykjavik, with additional offices in Copenhagen and Stockholm. The all-female founding team backs technology startups across the Nordics, with a particular focus on SaaS, digital health, fintech, and gaming. Its second fund closed at €90 million and the firm has invested in over 34 companies. Notable portfolio companies include Lucinity (AI anti-money laundering) and Mainframe Industries (cloud-native MMO gaming).

Crowdberry

Bratislava, Slovakia · Venture Capital

Crowdberry is a licensed Slovak–Czech equity crowdfunding and venture investment platform founded in 2015 in Bratislava, enabling retail and institutional investors to co-invest in vetted SMEs and real estate projects. Its group manages over €120 million in assets across more than 70 portfolio companies in Slovakia and Czechia. Institutional backers include Tatra Private Banking and, since October 2024, Slovenská sporiteľňa (Erste Group) as a strategic minority owner. Subsidiaries cover seed-stage VC (CB Investment Management), real-estate funds, and a social-impact vehicle (CB ESPRI).

Cubic Telecom

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

Cubic Telecom, which rebranded to Cubic³ in April 2025, is a Dublin-based provider of software-defined vehicle connectivity. It supplies internet-connected software and a global connectivity platform that gives vehicles and other IoT assets compliant, built-in cellular connectivity across many markets, using agreements with mobile network operators worldwide. It serves automotive, agriculture and transportation OEMs, with named customers including Volkswagen, Audi and General Motors. In December 2023 SoftBank Corp. agreed to acquire a 51 percent majority stake for €473 million, valuing the company above €900 million.

Cyprus Tech Summit 2026

Limassol, Cyprus · Event

Cyprus's leading technology and startup conference held in Limassol, the island's emerging tech hub. Covers fintech, shipping tech, and SaaS with a focus on Cyprus's advantages as an EU jurisdiction with favorable tax policies. Attracts 1,200+ attendees including founders from the large Eastern European and Israeli expat communities. Tickets from EUR 100-250.

Daniel Khachab

Berlin, Germany · Person

Daniel Khachab is Co-founder & CEO of the AI food-supply-chain platform Choco. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Daniel leads the AI food-supply-chain platform Choco.

Daphni

Paris, France · Venture Capital

Daphni is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Pierre-Eric Leibovici, managing over €500 million in assets under management across three funds. The firm targets seed and Series A investments in European technology startups, writing cheques from €500K to €10M, and distinguishes itself through a community-driven model that engages its network of founders, operators, and investors as active contributors to portfolio companies. Daphni's third fund, Daphni Blue, began its first close at €200 million in March 2025, backed by LPs including Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Bpifrance, and the European Investment Fund. Notable portfolio companies include Back Market, Swile, and Epic, with three unicorns, one IPO, and 22 acquisitions across the portfolio.

Dash0

Solingen, Germany · Startup

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for software engineering teams. Because it is built directly on the open OpenTelemetry standard, it ingests logs, metrics, and distributed traces from any stack, vendor, or environment without requiring proprietary agents, positioning this openness as a way to avoid vendor lock-in. The product covers application and infrastructure performance monitoring, log management with filtering and search, distributed tracing, and Kubernetes monitoring. It was founded by Mirko Novakovic, who previously founded the observability company Instana.

David Okuniev

Barcelona, Spain · Person

Co-founder and former co-CEO of Typeform, the Barcelona-based online form and survey platform. A designer by background, he co-created Typeform's conversational form experience that grew into a global SaaS product.

Davor Hebel

London, United Kingdom · Person

Managing Partner and Head of Europe & Israel at Eight Roads Ventures, the global venture platform backed by Fidelity. He leads the firm's growth-stage investments in European and Israeli software, fintech and consumer companies.

Dawn Capital

London, United Kingdom · Venture Capital

Dawn Capital is a London-based venture capital firm specialising in B2B software, backing European enterprise-technology companies from Series A through growth. One of Europe's largest dedicated B2B software investors, it focuses on areas including fintech, cybersecurity, data and enterprise SaaS.

Deciphex

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

AI-powered digital pathology company pairing artificial intelligence with a global network of expert pathologists. Its Diagnexia (clinical) and Patholytix (preclinical) platforms speed diagnosis and ease the pathologist shortage. Founded 2017.

DecisionRules

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Cloud-native no-code/low-code business rules engine (BRMS) for decision automation in pricing, credit scoring, claims, fraud and data validation; processes 100M+ decisions daily for clients in 30+ countries.

Deepnote

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Deepnote is a collaborative, browser-based data notebook often described as “Figma for data scientists.” It enables teams to explore data, build analyses, and share results in real time without the friction of local environments. By 2026, it is a default tool for modern data teams and has significant traction in the US market. The company is a Czech-born SaaS success story with global adoption.

Deliverect

Ghent, Belgium · Startup

Deliverect provides omnichannel digital ordering infrastructure for restaurants and food retail, integrating 1,000+ third-party platforms — Uber Eats, DoorDash, Deliveroo — directly into point-of-sale systems, with tools for menu management, fleet dispatch, loyalty and in-store kiosks. Founded in 2018 in Ghent by Zhong Xu, Jan Hollez, Jelte Vrijhoef and Jerome Laredo, the company reached unicorn status in January 2022 after a $208 M Series D at a $1.4 B valuation. Total funding exceeds $332 M from Coatue, DST Global and Redpoint. Deliverect now serves 96,000+ locations across 52 countries including KFC, Burger King and Chipotle.

Delta Partners

Dublin, Ireland · Accelerator

Founded in 1994, Delta Partners is one of Ireland's longest-running venture capital firms, investing EUR 0.5-3M at seed and Series A in enterprise software and consumer technology across Ireland and the UK. The firm manages over EUR 300M across multiple funds backed by Enterprise Ireland and private LPs. Delta has backed 90+ companies including Movidius (acquired by Intel), CurrencyFair, and Luzern. The team focuses on capital-efficient B2B and consumer startups with international scaling potential.

Demoboost

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Sales enablement platform for B2B SaaS teams to build interactive product demos and personalised storylines without engineering help. Sales and marketing teams use Demoboost to accelerate pipeline, shorten sales cycles, and scale product-led-growth motions. Backed by Movens Capital.

denxpert

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

EHS&S compliance software provider spun out of EY Denkstatt in 2021, offering a cloud platform for environment, health, safety, ESG and CSRD reporting used by 500+ companies across 30 countries.

Des Traynor

Dublin, Ireland · Person

Irish entrepreneur and co-founder of Intercom, the customer-communications and AI customer-service company, where he serves as Chief Strategy Officer overseeing product strategy and R&D from its Dublin and London offices. He previously co-founded Exceptional and is a frequent speaker on SaaS, product and growth.

Detectify

Stockholm, Sweden · Startup

Detectify is a Stockholm-based cybersecurity company founded in 2013 that offers an external attack surface management and web-vulnerability scanning platform, powered by a crowdsourced community of ethical hackers whose findings are automated into its product. It helps security teams continuously discover and monitor their internet-facing assets for weaknesses.

Dixa

Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup

Dixa is a Danish customer engagement platform that unifies phone, email, chat, and messaging into one support workspace. Founded in 2015, Dixa emphasizes a relationship driven approach called Customer Friendship and helps digital first brands manage omnichannel support at scale. The company expanded across Europe and the United States, raised large funding rounds, and acquired knowledge base and conversational AI products to broaden its suite. Dixa is a notable Copenhagen based SaaS scale up.

Doctolib

Paris, France · Startup

Doctolib was founded in 2013 in Paris and operates Europe's largest digital healthcare platform, enabling patients to book medical appointments online and access telemedicine services across France, Germany, and Italy. The company reached unicorn status in 2019 with a €150 million Series D led by General Atlantic, and raised a further €500 million in 2022 at a €5.8 billion valuation. It serves tens of millions of patients and hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals, making it one of the most widely used health platforms on the continent.

DOJO AI

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

Dojo AI is a Lisbon-based agentic marketing platform, founded in 2024 by Duarte Garrido (a marketing leader from Coca-Cola and Sky) and António Alegria (an AI architect from Portuguese unicorns Feedzai and OutSystems). Marketed as an Intelligent Marketing System, it uses multi-agent AI to autonomously monitor, analyse and act across marketing channels, built on a proprietary DOJO Graph that maintains a living digital twin of each customer's marketing operation. Its AI agents track paid and organic campaigns, audit SEO visibility, generate on-brand content and execute workflows in real time, positioning the product as a marketing operating system that consolidates many traditional tools. Serving challenger and enterprise brands primarily in the US and UK, Dojo AI has raised around $7M — a $1M pre-seed (2025) led by Berlin's Heartfelt VC and a $6M / €5.1M seed (2026) led by Lisbon's Armilar Venture Partners at a reported $30M valuation — with capital focused on US expansion.

Dublin Tech Summit 2026

Dublin, Ireland · Event

Two-day summit at the RDS in Dublin with around 8,000 attendees, 300+ speakers, and strong buyer presence from IDA-backed multinationals. Passes typically EUR 300-700 with startup rates available. Programming emphasizes B2B startup-to-enterprise partnerships across cloud, SaaS, fintech, and AI, a key pipeline for founders targeting Irish and UK buyers.

e-Logi Fest 2026

Yerevan, Armenia · Event

Armenia's specialized trade fair at the intersection of logistics, e-commerce, and supply chain innovation, combining expo, summit, and hackathon formats at the Karen Demirchyan Complex. Summit tracks cover sustainable logistics, cross-border trade compliance, AI in supply chains, and digital commerce trends.

Early Game Ventures

Bucharest, Romania · Venture Capital

Early Game Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm that launched its first fund in 2019 focused on Romanian tech startups, achieving a reported 45% IRR on Fund I with 4 exits from 28 portfolio companies including Bunnyshell and Profluo. In April 2024 the firm launched Fund II targeting €60 million to invest in early-stage startups across CEE — primarily Romania (60–70%), with the remainder across Europe — at ticket sizes up to €6 million. Focus sectors include SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and deep tech.

Eight Roads Ventures

London, United Kingdom · Venture Capital

Eight Roads Ventures is the global venture capital platform of Fidelity, tracing its roots to Fidelity Ventures (1969). Headquartered in London for its European and Israeli operations, it invests exclusively from Fidelity's balance sheet rather than raising external LPs — a structure that affords long holding horizons. The European arm has deployed four successive funds, growing from £100M to a $450M fourth fund (2021), within a global platform managing over $5bn across Europe, Israel, India and Asia. The London team focuses on growth-stage and scale-up investments, writing $5–50M cheques into companies past product-market fit (roughly Series A–C) in SaaS and enterprise software, fintech, healthtech, consumer technology and climate tech. Notable European portfolio companies include Spendesk (France), Hibob (Israel/UK), Funnel.io (Sweden), Tibber (Norway), Swan (France) and Amenitiz (Spain); key exits include InnoGames (€260M to MTG, 2016), Compte-Nickel (BNP Paribas, ~€200M, 2017) and Made.com's 2021 London IPO. The team is led by Managing Partner Davor Hebel with partners Lucile Cornet and Michael Treskow.

Eléonore Crespo

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, the business-planning and forecasting platform. A former Index Ventures investor and Google analyst, she co-founded Pigment in 2019 and grew it into a fast-rising enterprise SaaS.

ElixMail

Toulouse, France · Startup

Professional email platform from Toulouse-based NovaForma Studio, combining a unified inbox (Gmail OAuth plus 20+ IMAP providers), AI features (summaries, multi-tone drafting, smart categorisation, 11-language translation), a built-in CRM, email tracking and voice dictation. Positioned as a GDPR-compliant French sovereign alternative to Gmail and Outlook.

Emma

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.

Endeit Capital

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Venture Capital

Endeit Capital is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in Amsterdam, with additional offices in Hamburg and Stockholm. It manages a €303 million fund focused on AI-enabled fintech, climate tech, future of work, and security companies across the DACH, Benelux, Nordic, and UK markets, investing €7–15 million at late Series A to early Series B. The firm has made 64 investments and 25 exits, including the $330 million acquisition of 3D Hubs by Protolabs.

Entrepreneur First

London, United Kingdom · Accelerator

Entrepreneur First (EF) is a London-headquartered talent-first investor founded in 2011 by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck, both former McKinsey consultants. EF pioneered the concept of Talent Investing — recruiting exceptional individuals before they have a co-founder or idea, then supporting them to form teams and build companies — across offices in London, Paris, Bangalore, New York, and San Francisco. The firm manages a fund of $158 million and has helped create over 600 companies with a combined portfolio value exceeding $11 billion. EF's standout portfolio companies include Tractable (AI for accident repair, valued at ~$1 billion), Cleo (personal finance AI), and Magic Pony Technology (acquired by Twitter).

Epidemic Sound

Stockholm, Sweden · Startup

Epidemic Sound is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm that operates a royalty-free music and audio licensing platform for content creators. Founded in 2009, it provides creators, businesses, broadcasters and agencies access to a library of music tracks and sound effects, owning the rights to its catalog so users can publish and monetise content without separate licensing. The platform offers a Studio tool, mobile and desktop apps, and integrations with software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. In March 2021 it raised a growth round led by EQT Growth and Blackstone at a reported $1.4 billion valuation.

Episode 1 Ventures

London, United Kingdom · Venture Capital

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.

Esas Ventures

Istanbul, Turkey · Venture Capital

Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, Turkey's largest family-owned investment group backed by the Şevket Sabancı family, founders of the Sabancı Holding conglomerate. Founded in 2018 and operating from Istanbul with a London presence, the fund has built a portfolio of 38+ companies including four unicorns, with Getir, Deel, and Misfits Market among its most notable exits and holdings. The firm invests primarily at Seed and Series A stages in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and consumer tech, with a global mandate spanning Turkey, the US, and Europe. Esas Ventures backed Insider through its $500M Series E led by General Atlantic, underscoring its capacity for large follow-on rounds.

Ethiack

Coimbra, Portugal · Startup

Autonomous ethical-hacking platform combining AI agents and human hackers to run continuous penetration testing across external assets, internal networks, mobile apps and cloud environments.

Ewa Chronowska

Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor

Ewa Chronowska is a Warsaw-based venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded Next Road Ventures, a Polish early-stage VC backing B2B SaaS and marketplace startups across Europe. She is also founder and CEO of Vestbee, the largest startup-investor matchmaking platform in Central and Eastern Europe, and organises the annual CEE VC Summit — the region's flagship gathering for fund managers and LPs. Recognised as one of Europe's youngest female General Partners, she has backed 15+ companies including TrustMate, Epinote and Sunroof.

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Expon Capital

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.

Factorial

Barcelona, Spain · Startup

Factorial is an all-in-one HR & business management platform built for SMBs and mid-market companies. Founded in 2016, it unifies time tracking, payroll, recruitment, performance reviews, and document management into a single cloud product. The company hit $100M ARR in 2024 and achieved a $1B valuation backed by Atomico, Tiger Global, and CRV. In 2025 General Catalyst injected $120M to fund expansion into Germany, France, and Italy. As of 2026 the company employs ~2,000 people and is exploring a $200M round at a $2B valuation.

Feedzai

Coimbra, Portugal · Startup

AI-native fraud and financial-crime prevention platform for banks and payment networks, securing trillions in payments annually. Founded 2011; unicorn since 2021; selected by the ECB for Digital Euro fraud prevention.

Fenergo

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

Fenergo is a Dublin-based provider of AI-powered client lifecycle management (CLM), Know Your Customer (KYC), and anti-money laundering (AML) software for global financial institutions. Founded in 2009, the company automates client onboarding and regulatory compliance workflows for banks, asset managers, and capital markets firms. Recognised as a category leader in the 2026 Celent KYC CDD / CLM Report, Fenergo serves major institutions including DNB Bank and Gen II Fund Services, with over 850 employees worldwide.

Fil Rouge Capital

Zagreb, Croatia · Venture Capital

Fil Rouge Capital was founded in 2014 in Zagreb and is the most active early-stage VC fund exclusively dedicated to Croatian startups, having deployed capital into over 170 companies. Its second fund, Fil Rouge Capital II (€45 million), was co-funded by the European Investment Fund with €32.55 million under the Croatian Venture Capital Initiative. Founding Partners Julien Coustaury and Roger Blott, joined by Partner Stevica Kuharski, focus on pre-seed, seed, and Series A across all sectors, with notable portfolio outcomes including participation in the ecosystems around Infobip and Rimac. The fund has recorded 2 unicorns and 12 acquisitions across its portfolio.

Filip Berkowski

Warsaw, Poland · Person

Executive Partner at MCI Capital, promoted to the role in 2026. He focuses on the firm's e-commerce and SaaS investments and has been involved in key holdings such as idoSell, working across deal origination, execution and portfolio growth in CEE.

Fimple

Istanbul, Turkey · Startup

Cloud-native, API-first core banking platform offering Financial Functions as a Service, with composable lending, deposits, payments and treasury modules for banks and financial institutions.

Finom

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

Finom is an Amsterdam-based fintech company offering digital financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises, freelancers, and entrepreneurs across Europe. Its platform combines a business account with local IBANs, invoicing, business debit cards with cashback, payment processing, expense tracking, and accounting software integrations. The company operates in markets including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Portugal, and Austria. In 2025 Finom raised a €115 million Series C round led by AVP, in addition to non-dilutive growth capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund.

FIRSTPICK

Vilnius, Lithuania · Venture Capital

FIRSTPICK is a Vilnius-based pre-seed and inception-stage VC fund founded in 2022 by Dmitrij Sosunov and Andra Bagdonaitė. It backs early-stage founders from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with initial cheques of €100,000 to €500,000 and follow-on capacity up to €1 million, focusing on AI-enabled software. In 2026 the fund raised a second €25 million vehicle, bringing total AUM across two funds to €45 million. Portfolio companies gain access to a network of 100+ operators and 250+ founders.

FlexCar

Athens, Greece · Startup

Car-as-a-service subscription platform offering brand-new vehicles for a fixed monthly fee covering insurance, maintenance and road fees, with no down payment. Founded 2018, expanding across Southeast Europe.

Flowtly

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Flowtly is a Warsaw-based AI business-management platform — marketed as an AI ERP — that replaces a stack of disconnected tools with a single system for small and medium-sized businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. The platform covers finance and invoicing, HR and team operations, leave tracking, project management, time tracking and a reservation system, accessible via web and mobile apps. It targets service-oriented SMBs of 2–100 employees in sectors such as software, consulting, marketing, B2B real estate and medical services. Built and operated by Flowtly P.S.A., the company is led by co-founders Bernhard Huber (CEO), Katarzyna Lisiecka (CRO) and Andrzej Nowiczenko (COO), whose backgrounds span enterprise software, high-growth digital products and financial supervision. Flowtly offers a developer API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connecting to 50+ platforms, and in November 2025 launched a verified connector on Make for no-code automation. The product holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and is GDPR-compliant. No external funding has been publicly disclosed.

Flyer One Ventures

Kyiv, Ukraine · Venture Capital

Flyer One Ventures is a Ukrainian early-stage VC originally founded in 2018 as Genesis Investments by Vital Laptenok (co-founder of Genesis and BetterMe), rebranding under its current name in 2021. The firm has invested nearly €39M across 95 startups in Ukraine and Central & Eastern Europe across four funds. In July 2025 it closed Fund V at a target of €50M, backed by EBRD (€6.5M) and IFC (€5M), focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage founders from Ukraine and CEE building global products. The fund maintains a Kyiv identity and active pipeline of 1,300+ Ukrainian and regional founders despite operating with a distributed team.

Focus Telecom

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Focus Telecom is a Warsaw-based cloud contact center and customer communications software provider that equips enterprise and mid-market teams with omnichannel support workflows spanning voice, email, chat, and SMS. The platform enables companies to build automated call routing, IVR systems, and agent productivity dashboards without on-premise infrastructure. Focus Telecom serves clients across Poland and Central Europe, particularly in financial services, utilities, and retail, where high-volume customer interaction management is critical. The company is one of Poland's established players in cloud communications infrastructure.

Foleon

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

Enterprise content creation platform founded in Amsterdam in 2013, enabling teams to build interactive digital documents and microsites at scale with brand governance and analytics.

ForActive

Wrocław, Poland · Startup

ForActive, founded in 2023 and headquartered in Wrocław, develops a cloud-based business management app for independent personal trainers, coaches and fitness instructors. The platform lets professionals sell memberships, class packages and one-off sessions while automating payments, attendance tracking and client communication, with recurring billing, automated reminders and QR-based check-ins. It runs on a pay-as-you-go model with no fixed subscription fee.

Formula VC

Yerevan, Armenia · Venture Capital

Founded in 2021 by Grigor Hovhannisyan and Karen Vardanyan, Formula VC is a Yerevan-based early-stage fund focused on SaaS, IoT, and AI startups with Armenian roots. Fund I ($7M) was fully deployed into 22 companies including CoinStats, EasyDMARC, BlueQubit, Expper Technologies, and Zoomerang. In February 2025 Formula VC launched Fund II with a $30M target, aiming to back 40 Armenian-founded startups globally at pre-seed and seed. The fund invests $500K–$1M per company and is backed by C-QUADRAT AAM Armenia among other LPs.

FOTOhub

Bydgoszcz, Poland · Startup

FOTOhub, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Bydgoszcz, is an AI-powered creative platform that lets users generate and edit images, video, audio and text within a single system. Its orchestration layer integrates multiple AI models so creators and businesses can produce multimedia content without switching tools, alongside a browser-based studio with timeline video editing, audio mixing and design tools. The company reports over 400,000 users globally.

Framer

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

Framer is a Dutch no-code platform for designing, building, and publishing professional websites, used widely by designers and teams. Founded in Amsterdam by Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk, who had previously sold their design studio Sofa to Facebook in 2011, Framer originally launched as an interactive design and prototyping tool before pivoting to full website creation. The product now spans design, CMS, SEO, hosting, and enterprise features. In August 2025, Framer raised a $100 million round at a $2 billion valuation, led by Meritech and Atomico.

Fresha

London, United Kingdom · Startup

London-based beauty and wellness booking platform that provides commission-free subscription software for salons, spas, and independent therapists—covering appointments, payments, marketing, and inventory—with operations in 120+ countries and 100,000+ business partners.

Frisbo

Brasov, Romania · Startup

Cross-border e-commerce fulfillment network for online retailers, running storage, pick-and-pack, invoicing and courier coordination across a multi-warehouse footprint in 30 countries for next-day delivery.

Frontify

St. Gallen, Switzerland · Startup

Frontify is a brand-building platform headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, founded in 2013 by Roger Dudler. It provides digital asset management, brand guidelines management, templates, AI-assisted tools and analytics, giving teams a central place to create, organise and scale their brands. The platform is used by marketing, design and brand teams to keep brand assets consistent across an organisation. It raised a $50M Series C round led by Revaia in 2021, and also operates offices in New York City and London.

Funnel

Stockholm, Sweden · Startup

Marketing data platform that collects, cleans and normalizes data from 600+ ad, analytics and CRM sources into a unified marketing data hub. Founded 2014 in Stockholm.

Future Product Days 2026

Copenhagen, Denmark · Event

A three-day AI-focused conference at Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, blending curated talks with hands-on masterclasses. Targets product designers, engineers, and data professionals building real-world AI products, emphasising practical insights over hype.

Fyorin

Hal Lija, Malta · Startup

Fyorin is a Malta-founded treasury and financial operations platform built by three Maltese fintech entrepreneurs. Founded in 2019, it connects businesses to a unified network of 5,000+ global banks and financial institutions, enabling multi-currency accounts, international payments in 40+ currencies, virtual card issuance, FX execution, and automated receivables and payables — all through a single interface. The platform processes over €1 billion in annual transaction volume and serves 400+ businesses and 1,000+ finance professionals globally. Fyorin won Best Tech Start-Up at the Malta eBusiness Awards and is registered as PorterPays Limited in Malta.

Fyxer AI

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Fyxer AI is a London-based startup that builds an AI assistant for email and meetings, working inside Gmail and Outlook so users have nothing new to learn. Its product organises and prioritises the inbox, drafts replies in the user's own voice based on past conversations, and acts as a meeting companion that joins calls and takes notes. The company grew out of an executive assistant agency run by brothers Richard and Archie Hollingsworth before they launched the AI product, with Matt Ffrench as CTO. In September 2025 it raised a $30M Series B led by Madrona to expand into the US market.

GapMinder Ventures

Bucharest, Romania · Venture Capital

GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based early-stage VC firm investing in B2B deep tech and SaaS startups from Romania and Southeast Europe, with portfolio companies including Druid.AI, FintechOS, TypingDNA, and Cyscale. Its second fund, GapMinder Fund II, targets €80 million — described as the largest VC fund with a primary Romania focus — and deploys first tickets up to €2.5 million in seed and late-seed stage companies across fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and data analytics. The fund targets founders from Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.

Genially

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.

Georgian Ventures

Tbilisi, Georgia · Venture Capital

Georgian Ventures was founded in 2018 in Tbilisi and focuses on early-stage investments in Georgian startup founders inside and outside the country, as well as international founders based in Georgia. The firm grew out of Startup Grind Tbilisi, which was recognised as the top Startup Grind chapter in the world in 2019 after hosting over 100 startup events, giving the team deep ecosystem roots and founder networks. Fund size is not publicly disclosed. Beyond direct investing, Georgian Ventures provides quiet advisory services to family offices and individual investors seeking curated deal flow in the Georgian market.

Gladia

Paris, France · Startup

Gladia is a Paris-based AI company that provides an API platform for real-time and asynchronous speech-to-text transcription and audio intelligence. Its engine supports more than 100 languages and is designed to handle diverse accents and mid-conversation language switching with low latency. The company positions itself as a developer-focused alternative to transcription services from larger cloud providers, serving use cases such as meeting tools, call analytics and media platforms. Gladia raised a $16M Series A in October 2024 led by XAnge to launch its multilingual real-time transcription and analytics engine.

Good Grants

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.

Grammarly

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.

Granola

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Granola is a London-based maker of an AI-powered meeting notepad. The app combines a user's own typed notes with AI-generated content derived from a meeting's audio transcript, and captures audio directly from the user's device rather than sending a visible bot into video calls. It works across platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, and offers calendar integration, pre-meeting briefings, an AI chat over meeting context, and an iPhone app for in-person notes. The company was founded in 2023 by Chris Pedregal and Sam Stephenson and has expanded from an individual meeting notetaker toward a collaborative AI workspace for teams.

GridBeyond

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

AI-driven energy optimisation platform managing distributed and flexible energy resources (battery storage, renewables, EVs, industrial loads) and connecting them to electricity markets across multiple jurisdictions. Founded 2010.

Growbots

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Growbots is an AI-powered outbound sales platform that automates lead generation and cold-email outreach for SMBs, combining a database of 180M+ contacts with multi-channel sequences, email warm-up and AI-generated messaging.

Hanno Renner

Munich, Germany · Person

Hanno Renner is Co-founder & CEO of the HR software unicorn Personio. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Hanno leads the HR software unicorn Personio.

HCM Deck

Kraków, Poland · Startup

HCM Deck was founded in 2016 in Kraków by Szymon Janicki and Rafał Nieśluchowski. The company offers a cloud-based employee development platform covering learning, communications, and feedback, serving enterprise clients such as Rossmann, Leroy Merlin, Decathlon, and Allianz. It raised a total of roughly $4M, including a 2019 round led by mAccelerator (mBank's VC fund) with co-investment from Innovation Nest.

Heartcore Capital

Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital

Heartcore Capital is a Copenhagen-headquartered early-stage venture firm founded in 2007 as Sunstone Technology Ventures and rebranded to Heartcore in 2019 around a consumer-first thesis. Operating from Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris and London, it backs European founders from inception through Series A, deploying €250K–€6M as first institutional capital, and has become one of Europe's highest-ranked seed and Series A investors. Across five early-stage funds, two growth vehicles and a Web3 fund, Heartcore manages roughly €800M; Fund V closed at €170M in December 2024, signalling a broadening from pure consumer into AI and software infrastructure, climate tech and synthetic biology while retaining consumer and travel exposure. The firm's track record includes Tink (acquired by Visa for €1.8bn, 2022), Peakon (Workday, ~$700M, 2021), Trustpilot (LSE IPO, 2021), Boozt (Nasdaq Stockholm, 2017) and Kaia Health (Sword Health, 2026), with a portfolio spanning GetYourGuide, TravelPerk, Podimo, Natural Cycles and Vivino. The partnership is led by co-founders Jimmy Fussing Nielsen and Christian Lindegaard Jepsen alongside Max Niederhofer (Berlin) and Yacine Ghalim (Paris).

Helio.ai

Tbilisi, Georgia · Startup

Helio.ai is an AI-powered recruiting platform from Tbilisi focused on automating candidate screening and improving hiring quality. The product combines ATS workflows, multilingual CV matching, and behavioral assessment tools to help teams make faster, less biased hiring decisions. The company has expanded across regional markets with backing from Georgian and international investors.

Henchman

Ghent, Belgium · Startup

Henchman is a Belgian legal tech company based in Ghent, founded in 2020 by Gilles Mattelin, Jorn Vanysacker and Wouter Van Respaille. Its software connects to a law firm's or legal team's document management system and enriches that internal data so lawyers can draft contracts faster by surfacing and reusing clauses and definitions from their own past documents. The company served law firms and in-house legal teams across Europe and the United States. In June 2024 LexisNexis Legal & Professional (part of RELX) announced an agreement to acquire Henchman, completing the acquisition later in 2024.

henQ

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Incubator

henQ is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm that invests early-stage (pre-seed to Series A) in B2B software companies, known for a contrarian thesis of backing unconventional founders often outside the main tech hubs. Its portfolio includes companies such as Mews, Sendcloud, Orderchamp and SEOshop. henQ typically leads or co-leads first institutional rounds across Europe.

HiBob

London, United Kingdom · Startup

All-in-one HR platform ('Bob') for mid-sized and multinational companies covering core HR, talent, payroll, benefits, workforce planning and an embedded AI assistant. Founded 2015 with London and Tel Aviv roots.

Holded

Barcelona, Spain · Startup

Holded is an all-in-one cloud business-management platform for SMBs, unifying invoicing, accounting, CRM, inventory, HR/payroll and project management in one interface. It became Spain's fastest-growing cloud ERP and accounting platform. Acquired by Visma in 2021 (€120M).

Homerun

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

Homerun is an Amsterdam-based recruitment and applicant tracking system (ATS) founded in 2015, purpose-built for small and medium-sized businesses that prioritise employer branding and candidate experience. The platform enables companies to create customised career pages, manage candidate pipelines, and collaborate on hiring decisions. In January 2024 Homerun was acquired by ISH Holding, a B2B SaaS group, while continuing to operate independently under its own brand.

HRS Group

Cologne, Germany · Startup

HRS Group is a Cologne-based corporate hotel solutions provider founded in 1972 that has transformed from a traditional hotel booking service into a technology-driven platform for corporate travel management. The company provides enterprise hotel programs, meeting and event booking, payment solutions, and rate auditing tools to large corporations. HRS manages hotel programs for many Fortune 500 companies and processes billions of euros in hotel spending annually. While not a startup in the traditional sense, HRS has reinvented itself through technology, building an enterprise platform that competes globally in the corporate lodging space.

Hunch

Belgrade, Serbia · Startup

Hunch is a creative ads automation platform that combines AI-driven dynamic creative assembly, product-feed data science, and real-time social media placement for performance marketers. Founded in 2018 by Igor Simovic, Sinisa Rakovic, and Nikola Milenkovic, the platform enables brands and agencies to produce and personalise thousands of image and video ads at scale across Facebook, Instagram, and Google. Hunch has delivered over a billion personalised creative assets and executed more than 50,000 personalisation campaigns. The company raised a €4M Series A in 2022 led by Catalyst Romania, with participation from 3TS Capital Partners, Euroventures, SeedBlink, and South Central Ventures.

Hyperjob

Riga, Latvia · Startup

Hyperjob is a recruitment SaaS platform that lets companies create branded, interactive job-ad microsites reported to achieve up to six times higher candidate conversion rates than plain job board listings. Founded in 2021 by Janis Kreilis, Juris Sorokins, and Roberts Tomme, the company raised €435k in a seed round led by SMOK Ventures in 2023. The platform also offers automated, personalised LinkedIn and email candidate outreach.

IAI (IdoSell)

Szczecin, Poland · Startup

IAI (IdoSell) is a Szczecin-based e-commerce SaaS platform that provides merchants with a complete toolkit to run online stores, integrate with marketplaces like Allegro and Amazon, and manage multi-channel order operations at scale. Founded as one of Poland's earliest e-commerce infrastructure companies, IdoSell powers thousands of online shops and processes billions of PLN in gross merchandise volume annually. The platform includes product catalog management, warehouse logistics, payment processing, and cross-border selling capabilities, making it a core part of the Polish e-commerce stack.

ICT Hub Venture

Belgrade, Serbia · Venture Capital

ICT Hub Venture is a private investment fund founded in 2017 as the capital arm of ICT Hub, one of Serbia's pioneering startup incubators. It focuses on pre-seed and seed technology startups in the SEE region, offering up to €50,000 in exchange for 5–15% equity alongside a structured development program and ecosystem access. The fund positions itself as the only private early-stage fund in the SEE region dedicated to scalable B2B and B2C tech solutions. Portfolio includes cybersecurity platform Trickest and scheduling marketplace randevu, among 15+ companies as of 2024.

IDEA Innovation Center

Nicosia, Cyprus · Incubator

IDEA Innovation Center is the largest non-profit incubator-accelerator for startups in Cyprus, established in 2015 by the Bank of Cyprus and partner organisations. Its nine-month Startup Program provides participants with €20,000 in seed capital, structured business training, mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs, and professional services in legal, accounting, and ICT. Since its launch, IDEA has supported over 82 startups, trained more than 5,000 entrepreneurs, and invested over €4 million into the Cyprus innovation ecosystem. It was recognised as the European Winner in the 2019 European Commission Enterprise Promotion Awards.

iGaming Studio Summit 2026

Riga, Latvia · Event

Second annual summit at Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel uniting iGaming studio heads, product managers, game designers and marketing leads for two days of market-expansion strategy, technology insights and cross-region networking.

Infraspeak

Porto, Portugal · Startup

Intelligent, collaborative facilities and maintenance management (CMMS) SaaS platform managing 50,000+ buildings across 17+ countries; clients include Primark, Siemens and Marriott. Founded 2015.

InMerge Ventures

Baku, Azerbaijan · Venture Capital

Launched in October 2024 at the INMerge Innovation Summit in Baku, InMerge Ventures is Azerbaijan's second institutionally backed venture capital fund, with an authorized capital of $4 million contributed equally by the Innovation and Digital Development Agency, Azerbaijan Investment Company, PASHA Future Lab, and Trendyol Group. The fund focuses on digital technologies, e-commerce, and innovation-driven startups from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and the MENA region. Key founding figures include Inara Valiyeva (Chairwoman, Innovation and Digital Development Agency), Yasin Jalilov (Deputy Executive Director, Azerbaijan Investment Company), and Farrukh Aliyev (CEO, PASHA Future Lab). Its co-sponsorship by Trendyol Group, the Turkish e-commerce giant, gives it a distinctive cross-border e-commerce and marketplace angle.

Innoland

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.

Innovation Nest

Krakow, Poland · Incubator

Innovation Nest is a European venture capital firm based in Krakow that invests at the earliest stages in B2B software companies, typically leading pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs founders building tools, infrastructure and applications for businesses and supports them through early product and go-to-market development across Europe.

Innovorder

Paris, France · Startup

Profitable French scale-up providing an AI-first digital operating platform for restaurants and contract catering: POS, self-ordering kiosks, kitchen display systems and an Atlas AI agent for back-office automation. Active in France, Spain, Italy and Morocco with ~800 clients including Elior and Sodexo.

Inovo Venture Partners

Warsaw, Poland · Venture Capital

Inovo Venture Partners is Warsaw-based and one of Poland's leading seed-stage venture firms, backing technology founders from Central and Eastern Europe building for global markets. Founded in 2014 with a €8M Fund I, Inovo has scaled to roughly €167M across three funds: Fund II (€54M, 2021) and Fund III (€105M, 2023), the latter backed by IFC, the European Investment Fund and PFR Ventures alongside private LPs including InPost founder Rafał Brzoska and Snowflake co-founder Marcin Żukowski. The firm writes €0.5–4M initial tickets at pre-seed and seed, with follow-on capacity up to €10M. Inovo concentrates around 60% of each fund in Poland and the remainder across CEE — with investments in Croatia, Lithuania, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia and Romania — and opened a Balkans hub in Skopje in 2024. It is generalist within technology but has particular conviction in AI, developer tools, digital health, SaaS and B2B software. The portfolio spans more than 55 companies, including Booksy, Tidio, Spacelift, Infermedica, Preply, Packhelp and AI Clearing. Notable outcomes include the Warsaw Stock Exchange IPOs of Brand24 and ECC Games and the acquisition of SplxAI by Zscaler in 2025, one of the largest CEE AI exits to date.

Inventoro

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Inventoro provides AI-driven sales forecasting and inventory optimization for SMB retailers. The platform recommends what to order, when to reorder, and how to reduce dead stock, helping merchants improve margins. It integrates with POS and ecommerce systems to automate demand planning without enterprise complexity. By 2026, Inventoro is a fast-growing Czech AI retail-tech company.

Invisible Collector

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

AI-powered debt-collection SaaS that automates accounts-receivable management, using machine learning to optimise the timing, tone and channel of debtor outreach for faster recovery.

Ivan Schneider

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder of Doctolib, part of the founding team that built the medical-booking platform into a European health-tech leader alongside CEO Stanislas Niox-Chateau.

Jakub "Kuba" Filipowski

Poznan, Poland · Angel Investor

Jakub "Kuba" Filipowski is the co-founder and CEO of Netguru, a Polish software development company he has built since 2008 into an international firm of 700+ people. Before becoming CEO in 2023 he was Chief Strategy Officer, leading Netguru's M&A including a stake in US innovation studio Pilot44. He is also a Partner at Warsaw growth fund Supercharge Capital, an active angel investor, and earlier co-founded the SaaS recruitment platform HumanWay, sold to Grupa Pracuj in 2013.

Jens Lapinski

Berlin, Germany · Angel Investor

A German investor (ex-TechStars London) who launched Angel Invest (a micro-fund), Jens was awarded Poland’s 2022 “Best Foreign Investor” for actively investing in Polish startups. He has made quick, small angel investments in Polish SaaS and deep-tech companies, often as one of the first foreign checks in. Associated startups: Satellite imaging startup KP Labs, various B2B SaaS in Poland.

Jet HR

Milan, Italy · Startup

Jet HR is an all-in-one Italian HR and payroll platform designed to eliminate the bureaucratic complexity of managing employees under Italian labour law. Founded in 2023 by Marco Ogliengo and Francesco Scalambrino, the Milan company automates hiring, payroll, shift management, expense reports, and compliance into a single system with dedicated labour law consultants included. Used by over 1,000 Italian companies across hospitality, tech, and manufacturing, Jet HR has raised €41.7 million — including a €25 million round led by US VC Base10 Partners — making it one of Italy's fastest-growing B2B SaaS startups.

Job&Talent

Madrid, Spain · Startup

Job&Talent is a Madrid-born AI-powered workforce management platform connecting businesses with temporary and essential workers at scale. Founded in 2009 by Juan Urdiales and Felipe Navío, it has evolved into Europe's largest tech-enabled staffing marketplace, handling real-time shift planning, attendance, and worker retention. In April 2025 the company raised €92M at a €1.3B valuation — backed by Atomico, BlackRock, Kinnevik, and Goldman Sachs — to accelerate AI agents for workforce reliability. Total funding exceeds $1.2B, and the platform operates across Spain, the UK, Germany, France, and the US.

Joberty

Belgrade, Serbia · Startup

Joberty is a Belgrade-based workplace community and employer review platform built for the tech industry, combining a Glassdoor-style review engine with a tech jobs board and salary benchmarking data. Founded in 2019 by Nikola Mijailovic, Dusica Mijailovic, Slavko Saponjic, and Nebojsa Aradski, the platform allows developers to research companies, explore salaries, read interview experiences, and apply for tech roles. Joberty has expanded to six markets — Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, and Slovenia — and won the Gitex Future Stars competition in Dubai. Its CompensationX product provides real-time salary benchmarking for IT companies across the region.

John O'Sullivan

Dublin, Ireland · Person

General Partner at ACT Venture Capital, focused on early-stage software and enterprise technology. He brings operating experience from Misys and Enterprise Ireland and leads investments from seed through Series A across the Irish and UK ecosystems.

Johnny Boufarhat

London, United Kingdom · Person

Founder and CEO of Hopin, the virtual-events platform he built after a health condition limited his travel; it became one of the fastest-growing UK startups of the pandemic, reaching a multi-billion-dollar valuation backed by a16z and General Catalyst.

Jordi Romero

Barcelona, Spain · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Factorial, the Barcelona HR software unicorn. A serial entrepreneur from the Itnig ecosystem, he previously founded Redbooth (Teambox) before building Factorial into a global HR platform for SMBs.

Jscrambler

Porto, Portugal · Startup

Client-side security platform that protects JavaScript and web pages from tampering, supply-chain attacks and data leaks, with PCI DSS and GDPR compliance tooling. Trusted by Fortune 500 firms.

Katalist

Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup

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.

Keelvar

Cork, Ireland · Startup

AI-native agentic sourcing and procurement-optimization platform that automates enterprise sourcing events end-to-end, optimizing over $100bn in annual spend. Customers include Mars and Coca-Cola. Founded 2012.

Kontent.ai

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Kontent.ai is a Brno-based headless CMS platform that decouples content creation from front-end presentation, enabling enterprises to manage and deliver content across websites, mobile apps, kiosks, and IoT devices through a unified API. Originally spun out of Kentico Software by founder Petr Palas, the platform combines structured content modeling with AI-powered features for personalization and workflow automation. Kontent.ai serves mid-market and enterprise customers globally, competing with Contentful and Storyblok in the composable digital experience space.

Koofr

Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup

Koofr is a privacy-oriented, GDPR-compliant cloud storage provider founded in 2013 and headquartered in Ljubljana. The service stores user data in EU-based data centres and allows users to connect and manage files from third-party storage accounts such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive from a single interface. Koofr won the Slovenian Startup of the Year award in 2013 shortly after launch and has grown to a paying subscriber base across Europe. It is a resident company of Technology Park Ljubljana.

Lace AI

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

AI revenue-automation software for home-services call centers, with a 24/7 AI customer-service rep that books jobs into ServiceTitan and a call-analytics engine for coaching and lead recovery.

Lars Hinrichs

Hamburg, Germany · Angel Investor

Lars Hinrichs is a German entrepreneur best known as the founder of the business-networking platform XING, which he took public in 2006. He later launched HackFwd, a pre-seed investment initiative that backed early-stage European technology startups. He runs Cinco Capital, his personal investment vehicle, and remains an active angel investor in the German and European tech scene.

Leapo

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Client management platform for online and hybrid fitness coaches. Leapo tracks each client's workout completion, check-ins and trends, then surfaces a weekly briefing of who is on track and who needs attention — alongside a drag-and-drop workout builder, nutrition logging (via FatSecret), custom check-in forms and an AI assistant that flags at-risk clients. Currently in early access.

Ledgy

Zurich, Switzerland · Startup

Ledgy is an equity and compensation management software company founded in 2017 in Zurich by three physicists who met at ETH Zurich. Its platform helps companies manage cap tables, employee share and option plans, funding rounds, valuations, compliance and investor relations, positioned as a European equity-management platform for high-growth international startups as well as larger and public companies. The company maintains offices in Zurich and London and reported reaching profitability in 2025.

lemlist

Paris, France · Startup

lemlist is a Paris-based sales engagement SaaS platform built by the company lempire. Originally a cold-email personalisation tool, it has grown into a multichannel outreach platform combining a large B2B lead database, AI-assisted personalisation, and built-in email warm-up (lemwarm) to help sales teams run outbound campaigns and book meetings. It is used by tens of thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries and is part of the broader lempire product family, which also includes lemcal, Taplio and Tweet Hunter. The company scaled largely through product-led growth, and in October 2021 raised $30M from Expedition Growth Capital.

Lindus Health

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Lindus Health is a UK-founded clinical-trials company that brands itself as the anti-CRO, offering an end-to-end, technology-enabled alternative to traditional contract research organisations. It combines a proprietary AI-assisted trial operating system (Citrus) with in-house medical and clinical staff to handle protocol design, patient recruitment, data collection, biostatistics, and regulatory compliance. The platform draws on electronic health records to identify and enroll patients faster, and the company contracts on milestone-based commercial terms. Founded in 2021, it runs trials across therapeutic areas and operates across the US, UK, and Europe.

LiveChat

Wrocław, Poland · Startup

LiveChat is a Wrocław-based SaaS company providing customer-messaging software used by over 36,000 businesses worldwide. Its core product is the LiveChat web-chat platform; the group also owns ChatBot, HelpDesk, and KnowledgeBase. Founded in 2002 and led by Mariusz Ciepły, LiveChat Software went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2014 and has been a profitable, dividend-paying SaaS business — a rarity in Polish tech.

Loyzia

Montlhéry, France · Startup

All-in-one loyalty and CRM platform for local retailers. It replaces paper stamp cards with a digital loyalty card in Apple Wallet and Google Pay, supports stamp- or points-based rewards, and automates Google-review solicitation to boost merchants' local SEO — with no app download required from customers.

Lucile Cornet

London, United Kingdom · Person

Partner at Eight Roads Ventures investing in software and fintech across Europe. She led the firm's investment in spend-management unicorn Spendesk and works with growth-stage founders scaling internationally.

Luigi's Box

Bratislava, Slovakia · Startup

Luigi’s Box provides advanced search and product recommendation for ecommerce sites, boosting conversion by understanding intent, typos, and synonyms. Its tooling has become a de facto standard across CEE ecommerce, with strong adoption among mid-market retailers. By 2026, Luigi’s Box is one of the region’s top AI-powered ecommerce infrastructure companies.

Łukasz Pawłowski

Warsaw, Poland · Person

Partner at Movens Capital. Investment professional focused on CEE early-stage tech, with deal experience across SaaS, fintech, and digital health. Works with founders on go-to-market, fundraising strategy, and cross-border expansion from Poland into Western Europe and the US.

Lyzer

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

Lyzer is a Logistics-as-a-Service platform for retail and e-commerce operations, covering order management, warehouse picking optimization, and last-mile orchestration. In July 2025, the company announced a EUR 10M Series B and reported over EUR 160M in GMV plus more than 500,000 fulfilled orders across the Iberian peninsula.

Maciej Kraus

Warsaw, Poland · Person

Partner at Movens Capital and pricing / commercial strategy specialist, known for advising B2B SaaS and marketplace companies on monetisation, pricing architecture, and revenue operations. Joined Movens to lead growth-stage deal work and post-investment commercial support.

Maître AO

Marne-la-Vallée, France · Startup

AI-powered SaaS that helps SMEs and foreign companies respond to French public procurement tenders. Automates DCE analysis, technical proposal drafting and mandatory administrative forms, scanning 20+ procurement platforms in real time.

Maja Schaefer

Warsaw, Poland · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Zowie, the AI customer-service platform she started in 2019 (originally Chatbotize). A software-engineering graduate of AGH University in Kraków, she has scaled Zowie to serve enterprises like L'Oréal and InPost, raising around $20M from investors including Tiger Global, and has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.

Mambu

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Mambu is a Berlin-founded, Amsterdam-headquartered SaaS cloud core-banking platform, established in 2011 by Eugene Danilkis, Frederik Pfisterer and Sofia Nunes. It pioneered the 'composable banking' model, in which banks, neobanks, lenders and fintechs assemble modular, API-first components for deposits, loans and payments instead of replacing entire legacy cores. The platform serves 280+ institutions across 65 countries, supports 114 million end clients and processes nearly 200 million API calls daily, with customers including N26, ABN AMRO, OakNorth and Western Union. Mambu became one of Germany's most valuable fintechs after a €110M Series D led by TCV in January 2021, followed by a €235M Series E led by EQT Growth in December 2021 valuing it at €4.9bn. Total funding is about €410M, backed by a syndicate including EQT Growth (Sweden), TCV, Tiger Global, Bessemer, Runa Capital and German investors Acton Capital, CommerzVentures and Point Nine. In December 2024 it made its first acquisition, buying Paris payments gateway Numeral, and launched Mambu Payments in 2025.

Mangrove Capital Partners

Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Venture Capital

Mangrove Capital Partners is one of Europe's most storied early-stage venture capital firms, founded in Luxembourg in 2000 by Mark Tluszcz, Gerard Lopez, and Hans-Jürgen Schmitz. The firm manages over $1 billion in assets and has backed 8 unicorns, including Skype (a $2 million investment that returned $200 million) and Wix (an $8 million bet that returned $700 million). Mangrove invests at pre-seed and seed stage across Europe and Israel, with a team spanning Luxembourg, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and London. Portfolio companies include Flo Health, WalkMe, K Health, Talkwalker, and Doctena.

Marcin Zabielski

Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor

An early dot-com entrepreneur (co-founded Gadu-Gadu), Marcin made angel investments in startups like DocPlanner and UXPin before co-founding the VC fund Market One Capital. His angel portfolio included many Polish marketplaces and SaaS companies, leveraging his extensive network from the 2000s startup wave. Associated startups: DocPlanner, UXPin, and numerous marketplace platforms (early investor).

Mariusz Gralewski

Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor

A veteran of Poland’s startup scene, Mariusz founded GoldenLine and DocPlanner. Alongside running a unicorn-scale company (DocPlanner), he has been an angel in numerous startups including Preply, Shoplo, Positionly, and Brainly. He often provides both capital and guidance on scaling to international markets. Associated startups: Preply, Shoplo, Positionly, Brainly, Allani, among others.

Mate Academy

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.

MCI Capital

Warsaw, Poland · Venture Capital

MCI Capital is a Warsaw-listed digital private equity and growth investor and one of the largest mid-market technology PE groups in Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 1999 by Tomasz Czechowicz and listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker: MCI), the firm manages roughly €650M (PLN 2.7bn) in assets, deployed through two evergreen funds — MCI.EuroVentures and MCI.TechVentures, both launched in 2008. MCI targets expansion and buyout transactions of €25–100M, taking majority or significant stakes in two to three companies a year across SaaS, e-commerce and marketplaces, fintech, insurtech, foodtech, traveltech and digital infrastructure. Geographically the firm concentrates on Poland and the wider CEE region — including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Lithuania — with selective reach into Western Europe. Since inception MCI has completed over 110 investments and more than 90 divestments, delivering landmark exits including iZettle (sold to PayPal for $2.2bn in 2018), Dotpay/eCard (Nets/Nexi, 2019), Azimo (Papaya Global, 2022) and a partial exit from Answear.com in 2025. Its listed structure, backed by institutional shareholders including the Nationale-Nederlanden pension fund, gives MCI permanent-capital characteristics rare among European mid-market PE peers.

Mentimeter

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.

MessageBird

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

MessageBird is an Amsterdam-based cloud communications platform (CPaaS) that provides APIs for SMS, voice, chat, and email, enabling businesses to communicate with customers across any channel from a single platform. The company rebranded parts of its offering under Bird and has served over 25,000 enterprise clients including Uber, SAP, and HelloFresh. MessageBird competes with Twilio and has raised over $1 billion in funding, making it one of the Netherlands' most valuable tech companies.

Mews

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Mews is a cloud-native property management system built to replace legacy hotel software with an API-first platform. It powers hotel operations from booking and pricing to payments and guest communications, enabling chains to modernize at speed. By 2026, Mews is aggressively acquiring smaller travel-tech vendors and expanding global enterprise contracts, positioning itself as the default operating system for modern hospitality. The company is a Czech-born unicorn with a strong international footprint and deep Prague engineering roots.

Mirakl

Paris, France · Startup

Mirakl is a Paris-based enterprise marketplace platform founded in 2012 by Adrien Nussenbaum and Philippe Corrot. The company provides the SaaS technology that enables retailers, manufacturers, and distributors to launch and operate their own online marketplaces, adding third-party sellers alongside their existing product catalogs. Mirakl powers marketplace operations for over 400 enterprise customers including Macy's, Kroger, Carrefour, and Siemens. The company has raised over $800 million, reaching a valuation of $3.5 billion, and is one of France's highest-valued B2B SaaS companies. Mirakl has offices in Paris, London, and Boston, and its platform model reflects the broader shift toward marketplace commerce across enterprise retail.

Mitzu

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

Warehouse-native product analytics platform that runs directly on data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, letting teams analyze funnels, retention and usage without moving data or writing SQL.

Naboo

Paris, France · Startup

Naboo is a Paris-based corporate event and seminar booking platform that lets companies plan offsites and team events through a single system covering venues, accommodation, catering, transportation and team-building activities. Sometimes described as the Booking.com of corporate seminars, it is building a software suite to help finance and procurement teams oversee MICE budgets, including spend tracking, policy compliance and invoicing. Founded in 2022, the company raised a 20 million euro Series A round in early 2025 led by Notion Capital to fund European expansion.

Nauta Capital

Barcelona, Spain · Accelerator

Nauta Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 with offices in Barcelona, London and Munich that invests in early-stage B2B software companies, emphasising capital-efficient growth. It typically leads rounds and backs European and transatlantic startups building enterprise technology.

Neulogy Ventures

Bratislava, Slovakia · Venture Capital

Neulogy Ventures is one of the leading deeptech venture capital funds in Central and Eastern Europe, established in 2014 and operating from Bratislava with a Luxembourg fund structure. It manages €65 million in assets under management across approximately 30 portfolio companies in 10 countries, writing cheques of €200,000–€3 million primarily at Seed and Series A stages. The fund targets mission-driven Slovak and CEE technology companies addressing climate change, healthcare, and industrial automation. Institutional co-investors include the European Investment Fund, Slovak Investment Holding, and Tatra banka.

Nextend.ai

Paris, France · Startup

AI platform that lets French SMEs and micro-enterprises respond to public tenders in under an hour, automating DCE analysis and generating full application dossiers including technical proposals, DC1, DC2 and commitment acts.

Nextury Ventures

Vilnius, Lithuania · Incubator

Nextury Ventures is a venture capital firm and startup incubator founded in 2013 in Vilnius by entrepreneur Ilja Laurs and ICT executive Mindaugas Glodas. Inspired by Silicon Valley models, it builds and invests in early-stage companies in fintech, proptech, sharing economy, e-commerce, and mobile sectors. Since inception it has invested in over 30 companies across multiple European markets, including the UK and US, with cumulative returns of +219% after taxes reported over a five-year period.

NEXUS (Nexus Lab)

Baku, Azerbaijan · Startup

NEXUS (Nexus Lab) is a Baku-based climate-aviation software startup attacking one of the least-addressed parts of the flight emissions picture: non-CO2 warming, and in particular contrail-induced radiative forcing, which research suggests contributes roughly as much to aviation's near-term climate impact as its CO2 alone. The team combines atmospheric reanalysis data, probabilistic ice-supersaturation forecasting, and route/altitude optimization to produce flight-level recommendations airlines can apply without material fuel or schedule penalties. Its product is positioned for the European market specifically because of EU ETS and CORSIA-adjacent disclosure regimes that will increasingly price non-CO2 effects as the EU's non-CO2 monitoring rules phase in. Nexus Lab emerged through the 500 Global Eurasia program and is one of the more technically ambitious deep-tech bets to come out of the Azerbaijani ecosystem so far.

Normative

Stockholm, Sweden · Startup

Normative is a Stockholm-based climate-tech company founded in 2014 that provides carbon accounting software, helping companies measure their full greenhouse-gas footprint, including scope 3 supply-chain emissions, and produce science-based reduction plans and regulatory reports. It co-founded the SME Climate Hub together with the United Nations and works with enterprise customers across Europe.

NorthCap

Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital

NorthCap (Northcap Partners) is a Copenhagen-based venture capital firm founded in 1999, focused on B2B and B2B2C technology companies across the Nordics, with a particular emphasis on SaaS, cloud computing, and mobile services. The firm invests from seed stage (Denmark only) through growth stage, with ticket sizes ranging from $1 million to $25 million, and draws on more than 100 investments of operational experience to support founders in scaling and internationalization. Notable investments include GAN Integrity and Visiopharm.

NUMA

Paris, France · Innovation Hub

NUMA is a storied name in the Paris startup scene – both an accelerator and an innovation hub that traces its origins to one of Europe’s first startup programs. Established in 2011, NUMA evolved from the famed “Le Camping” accelerator (run out of a historic building on Rue du Caire). As an accelerator, NUMA ran 3- to 6-month cohorts for digital startups, providing mentorship, community events, coworking space, and investor demo days. It was particularly influential in France’s early startup boom – alumni include successes like Dataiku (AI platform) and Algolia (search-as-a-service), which both passed through NUMA’s programs. Over time, NUMA expanded its scope beyond acceleration into corporate innovation. It launched NUMA Consulting to help large companies implement startup methodologies, and also opened international outposts (NUMA Bengaluru in India and NUMA New York were launched around 2015–2016). In Paris, NUMA’s space became an “innovation hub” – a vibrant campus hosting events, hackathons, and innovation programs for corporates and the community. NUMA was notable for being a public-private effort initially, supported by the City of Paris and corporates, which helped ignite the French ecosystem a decade ago. By the late 2010s, NUMA transitioned its accelerator model – focusing more on themed open-innovation programs (e.g. for smart cities or AI) rather than general batches. It also partnered with the European Commission on projects to spur startup-corporate collaborations. Though NUMA (the accelerator) concluded its last batch in late 2019, the brand still persists as a hub and network of innovation spaces. The legacy of NUMA is significant: it helped institutionalize French startup support and proved the value of mentorship-driven acceleration in Europe. In ecosystem terms, NUMA stands as a pioneer whose model of combining startup acceleration with corporate and community innovation has been emulated widely.

Odoo

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium · Startup

Odoo is a Belgian company that develops an open-source, all-in-one suite of business applications covering ERP, CRM, accounting, e-commerce, inventory and project management. Founded by Fabien Pinckaers, it traces its origins to software he began as TinyERP, later OpenERP, before being renamed Odoo. Headquartered in Louvain-la-Neuve, it has grown into a multinational with offices on several continents and a large global customer base. A November 2024 secondary transaction led by CapitalG and Sequoia Capital valued the company at €5 billion, and subsequent reporting in early 2026 put the valuation above €7 billion.

Omnea

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Omnea is a London-based procurement and spend management software company founded in 2022 by ex-Tessian executives Ben Freeman (CEO) and Ben Allen (CTO). Its AI-native platform provides a single front door where employees can make procurement requests in natural language, then orchestrates workflows across finance, legal, risk and IT, automating the full supplier lifecycle from intake and approvals to third-party risk management and renewals. The platform includes no-code workflow builders, supplier onboarding portals, RFx event management and integrations with hundreds of systems. Customers include Spotify, Wise, MongoDB, Adecco and PayPal.

Omorika Ventures

Belgrade, Serbia · Venture Capital

Omorika Ventures is a Belgrade-based seed and early Series A fund launched in 2024 to address the shortage of institutional early-stage capital in Serbia and the broader Balkans. The fund secured €5 million in public co-funding through the Innovation Fund of Serbia's Serbia Ventures program and is operated by three founding partners with deep roots in the regional startup ecosystem via ICT Hub. It invests in tech companies with globally ambitious Serbian founders, providing capital alongside strategic support, mentorship, and international investor introductions. Portfolio companies include cybersecurity platform Trickest and HR-tech startup OneAssessment.

OnSeason

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

Traveltech platform (formerly Flataway) using AI to build direct-booking websites and a conversion-focused booking engine for vacation-rental property managers, integrating with 40+ PMS systems to cut OTA dependency.

Open Mercato

Wrocław, Poland · Startup

Open-source, AI-native commerce and operations framework co-founded in 2025 by Piotr Karwatka (creator of Vue Storefront / Alokai) and Tomasz Karwatka (founder of Divante). It provides modular infrastructure for building custom commerce, ERP and finance software with AI-assisted engineering, combining SaaS speed with bespoke flexibility.

Otilus

Lille, France · Startup

A fully French project-management SaaS (published by Agence Ici) combining Kanban, the Eisenhower matrix, GTD, Gantt charts, automated task-distribution scenarios and performance indicators in one tool designed to reduce cognitive load. It targets SMEs and growing teams wanting a simpler, European-hosted alternative to Asana, Jira or Monday.

Overkill Ventures

Riga, Latvia · Venture Capital

Overkill Ventures is a pre-seed B2B tech fund founded in 2017 and headquartered at Dzirnavu iela 105 in Riga, Latvia. The firm backs founders it calls 'overkillers' — operators who work smarter and challenge conventions — primarily across the Baltics, Nordics, CEE, and CIS regions. Overkill focuses on helping startups reach product-market fit and has made over 40 investments to date. It is registered as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) in Latvia under the entity Overkill Ventures AIFP.

Oviva

Zurich, Switzerland · Startup

Oviva is a digital health company that helps people with weight-related and metabolic conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and hypertension, improve their health through medical nutritional therapy. Its model combines a medical-device-certified smartphone app with clinical teams of doctors, dietitians, and behavioural specialists, with patients logging meals, activity, and weight while receiving tailored remote support from their dietitian. The company describes itself as Europe's leading digital health provider for weight-related conditions, with care reimbursed as a certified DiGA in Germany, delivered in partnership with the NHS in the UK, and integrated into Swiss public healthcare. It is headquartered in Zurich.

Oxylabs

Vilnius, Lithuania · Startup

Oxylabs, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vilnius, provides web data collection infrastructure including a proxy network of over 175 million residential IPs, a Web Scraper API, and AI-powered data extraction tools. The company serves use cases in market research, ad verification, brand protection, and AI training data. In 2025 Oxylabs acquired French web scraping API provider ScrapingBee. It employs between 500 and 1,000 people across multiple locations.

Pactum AI

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Builds autonomous AI agents that run supplier negotiations at scale for large enterprises, covering pricing, payment terms and rebates. Used by 60+ global brands including Walmart and Maersk; raised EUR 18.4M in 2024.

Paddle

London, United Kingdom · Startup

UK Merchant-of-Record platform handling payments, sales tax, compliance and billing across 300+ markets for SaaS and digital-product businesses; serves 10,000+ customers.

PastPay

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

B2B Buy Now Pay Later fintech that lets merchants offer business buyers deferred payment terms of 15-90 days while the merchant is paid instantly, handling credit risk and collections.

PayFit

Paris, France · Startup

PayFit is a Paris-based fintech founded in 2016 that provides cloud payroll and HR software for small and medium-sized businesses, automating pay runs, leave, expenses and employee management across several European countries. It reached unicorn status in 2022 and serves tens of thousands of SMEs.

Paytently

Sliema, Malta · Startup

Paytently is a payment orchestration platform built by former executives from Checkout.com, Trustly, and TrueLayer. Founded in 2022 and launched commercially in 2023, its single API enables businesses to route transactions across 60+ acquiring partners and 200+ alternative payment methods, with AI-powered fraud detection and intelligent routing to optimise success rates. Regulated as a Payment Institution by the Malta Financial Services Authority, the company serves iGaming, e-commerce, and other high-volume verticals from its headquarters in Sliema.

Pelico

Paris, France · Startup

Pelico is a manufacturing and supply-chain orchestration platform that helps industrial operations teams identify and respond to disruptions in real time. It connects data, teams and tools across complex manufacturing operations to reduce part shortages and backlogs, cut inventory costs and improve on-time delivery. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Paris, the company counts large manufacturers among its users and raised a $40 million strategic financing round led by General Catalyst in 2025 to advance generative AI in its platform and expand in North America.

Pennylane

Paris, France · Startup

Accounting and financial management platform growing its engineering footprint in Spain. Pennylane is a startup based in Paris, France at the growth stage. The company operates in the Fintech, Accounting, SaaS space. Learn more at their website.

PFR Ventures

Warsaw, Poland · Venture Capital

PFR Ventures is the venture capital arm of the Polish Development Fund (Polski Fundusz Rozwoju), wholly owned by the Polish state, established in 2014 and based in Warsaw. The firm operates as the largest fund-of-funds manager in the Central and Eastern Europe region, managing over PLN 3 billion in assets across 80+ private VC funds that have collectively supported more than 900 startup investments. PFR Ventures co-invests alongside private LPs to leverage EU structural funds and catalyse private capital into the Polish venture ecosystem, backing early-stage through growth-stage funds in sectors including deep tech, SaaS, fintech, and life sciences. Its Innovate Poland programme launched in November 2025 with at least PLN 4 billion earmarked for the next investment cycle.

Philippe Corrot

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Mirakl, the marketplace and e-commerce software platform he co-founded in 2012. He scaled it into a global SaaS leader valued at over $3.5bn, backed by 83North, Permira and others.

Philippe de la Chevasnerie

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder and CEO of papernest, the platform that automates household subscriptions and contracts. A former McKinsey consultant, he co-founded the company in 2015 and expanded it across Europe.

Pipedrive

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Pipedrive is a sales-focused CRM platform originally founded in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia by Timo Rein, Urmas Purde, and a team of experienced salespeople and developers. The platform provides an intuitive pipeline-management interface that helps small and mid-sized businesses track deals, automate follow-ups, and forecast revenue. Pipedrive serves over 100,000 paying companies in 175 countries and employs more than 850 people. In 2020, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake at a reported $1.5 billion valuation. Pipedrive is one of Estonia's most prominent tech exports and a pillar of the Baltic startup ecosystem.

Pitch

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Pitch is a Berlin-based collaborative presentation platform founded in 2018 by Christian Reber, the creator of Wunderlist. The product enables teams to build, design, and present slide decks together in real time with built-in templates, brand controls, and analytics. Backed by investors including Index Ventures, Lakestar, and Thrive Capital, Pitch competes with Google Slides and Canva in the modern workplace productivity space and has attracted hundreds of thousands of teams worldwide.

Plum

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Plum is a money management fintech that offers a mobile app with smart tools for automated saving, budgeting and investing, helping users manage personal finances with minimal manual effort. Founded in 2016 by Victor Trokoudes and Alex Michael, the company is headquartered in London with additional offices in Athens and Nicosia, and serves more than 2 million users across Europe. In July 2024 it raised a £16 million Series B round to support growth and a push toward profitability, with strategic investor Eurobank having taken a minority stake.

PortfoLion Capital Partners

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.

Practica Capital

Vilnius, Lithuania · Venture Capital

Practica Capital is the most established venture capital firm in the Baltics, founded in Vilnius in 2011 and managing four funds totalling over €130 million in assets under management. The firm invests at pre-seed, seed, and selected Series A stages in marketplace, SaaS, and deep/industrial tech startups originating from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and now has partners on the ground in all three Baltic capitals. Its portfolio of 70+ companies includes CGTrader, TransferGo, PVcase, Interactio, Eneba, and Ovoko, with one IPO and six acquisitions to date. The €80 million third fund, closed in February 2024, is the largest seed fund ever raised in the Baltic region.

Prezi

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

Prezi is a Budapest-founded visual communication and presentation platform that introduced a non-linear, zoomable canvas as an alternative to traditional slide-based presentations. The company has expanded beyond its original presentation product into Prezi Video, which overlays visual content alongside a speaker's live video feed for more engaging virtual presentations and meetings. With over 100 million users globally, Prezi is one of Hungary's most recognized consumer technology brands and an early example of a Central European startup building a globally adopted SaaS product. The company has raised over $70 million and continues to innovate in the visual storytelling and remote communication space.

Pricefx

Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn, Germany · Startup

Pricefx is a cloud-native pricing software company founded in 2011 by Marcin Cichon, Christian Tratz and Martin Wricke. Headquartered in Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn, Germany, with additional operations including Prague and Ostrava, its SaaS platform provides price optimisation and management and configure-price-quote capabilities for enterprises, and it has added AI features such as PricingAI and AI Agents. The company raised a $65 million Series C round in 2020 led by funds advised by Apax Digital, and reported continued growth and AI adoption through 2025.

Printify

Riga, Latvia · Startup

Printify is a print-on-demand platform founded in Riga in 2015 that connects e-commerce merchants with a global network of third-party print providers. Merchants can design and sell custom products — apparel, accessories, home goods — without holding inventory. In 2021 the company raised $45 million, including from H&M Group. In late 2024 Printify merged with fellow Latvian unicorn Printful to form one of the world's largest print-on-demand groups.

Probely

Porto, Portugal · Startup

Developer-first Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and API vulnerability scanner. Founded 2016 in Portugal; raised EUR 7.7M Series A in 2022; acquired by Snyk in November 2024.

Productboard

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

Productboard is a Prague-founded software company building one of the defining systems of record for modern product management. The platform helps teams collect customer feedback, connect it to feature requests, prioritize product decisions, and communicate roadmaps across engineering, sales, and leadership. That matters because product work often suffers from fragmented information spread across support systems, CRM notes, internal docs, and ad hoc spreadsheets. Productboard turns that sprawl into a more structured workflow for deciding what should be built and why. In the Central and Eastern European ecosystem, it is a particularly strong reference case because it proves that category-leading B2B SaaS products can emerge from Prague and scale globally while retaining a major engineering footprint in the region. It also occupies an important position in the software operating stack of growth companies, since fast-moving startups need better ways to align customer demand with product execution. As a result, Productboard is not only a Czech success story, but also a useful link between early-stage product discipline and later-stage organizational scale.

Profitroom

Poznan, Poland · Startup

Profitroom is a Poznan-based hospitality technology company founded in 2008, providing booking engines, channel managers, CRM tools, and marketing automation for hotels and resorts. The platform helps properties drive direct bookings and reduce reliance on OTAs like Booking.com, serving over 3,500 hotels across Europe. Profitroom has raised funding from Enterprise Investors and expanded into DACH, Southern Europe, and the UK. The company is one of Poland's most established B2B SaaS exports in the travel technology sector and a growing competitor to Mews and SiteMinder in the European hotel-tech stack.

Project A Ventures

Berlin, Germany · Venture Capital

Project A Ventures is a Berlin-based early-stage operator VC founded in 2012 by Florian Heinemann, Uwe Horstmann, Christian Weiss, Ben Fischer, Anton Waitz, and Thies Sander. The firm closed its fifth and largest fund at €325 million in 2025, bringing total assets under management to approximately €1.2 billion. What sets Project A apart is its in-house platform of over 140 functional experts in engineering, business intelligence, marketing, sales, and recruiting who work directly inside portfolio companies alongside capital. Investments span seed through Series B across SaaS, fintech, logistics, and consumer technology, with a notable portfolio including Trade Republic, sennder, Catawiki, WorldRemit, KRY, and Voi.

Prolific

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Prolific operates an online marketplace that connects organisations with vetted, fairly paid human participants for data collection, surveys, and AI work. Founded in 2014 at the University of Oxford by Phelim Bradley and Ekaterina Damer, it began as a tool for academic researchers needing reliable study participants and has since expanded into AI training and evaluation. Today it supplies human data for tasks like reinforcement learning from human feedback, model red-teaming, AI evaluation, and specialist annotation, serving both academic institutions and commercial AI customers. It is headquartered in London.

PVcase

Vilnius, Lithuania · Startup

PVcase is a Lithuanian solar PV software company providing an end-to-end solar project development platform that covers site selection, PV system design and energy yield optimisation for utility-scale, commercial rooftop and data-center projects. Its software automates terrain-based solar engineering to reduce design errors and project risk. Headquartered in Vilnius with additional offices in Spain, the UK and the US, the company serves solar developers and engineering firms internationally, and acquired solar site-selection software company Anderson Optimization in 2023.

Rafał Sonik

Krakow, Poland · Angel Investor

A well-known entrepreneur and rally champion (Dakar Rally winner), Rafał channels his business success into startup investments. He founded Gemini Holding (shopping malls) and now, as an angel, focuses on B2B services and SaaS. For example, he was an early investor in HR platform HCM Deck, helping enterprises manage talent. Associated startups: HCM Deck, Sundose (personalized nutrition), and other SaaS startups.

Re-Pie Asset Management

Istanbul, Turkey · Venture Capital

Re-Pie is Turkey's first and largest alternative portfolio management company, established in 2015 under a Capital Markets Board licence and managing assets worth over 73.5 billion TL across 41 venture capital, 36 real estate, and 13 securities investment funds. Its venture capital arm backs Seed to Series A technology companies with cheques of $1M–$10M, with a notable portfolio including Getir, Hepsiburada, ikas, Modanisa, Colendi, and Ace Games. Re-Pie combines financial structuring expertise from its broader asset management platform with active strategic and operational support for portfolio companies. The firm is headquartered in Istanbul and is regulated by Turkey's CMB.

Ready Player Me

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Ready Player Me is an Estonian avatar-platform company that provides developer tools for creating cross-platform, cross-game 3D avatars usable across thousands of games and virtual worlds, giving users a single portable digital identity. The company evolved from physical 3D scanning booths into a software avatar SDK adopted by game studios and app developers. It raised a $56M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2022, and in December 2025 Ready Player Me was acquired by Netflix.

Recombee

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

AI-powered real-time recommendation and personalized search engine offered as a SaaS API; uses 100+ proprietary ML models and the ReQL query language, serving media, streaming, e-commerce and marketplaces.

Recruitee

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

Recruitee is an Amsterdam-based applicant tracking and recruitment collaboration platform, founded in 2015 and serving talent acquisition teams globally. The platform offers structured hiring workflows, branded career sites, and candidate pipeline management. In 2021 Recruitee and Finnish HR software firm Sympa joined forces under the Tellent group backed by PSG, with both products continuing to operate independently. The combined group serves over 4,000 customers across Europe and the USA.

Redigo Carbon

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Cloud-based sustainability platform using machine learning to help businesses measure, analyse and plan carbon emissions reductions. Founded in 2022, it supports European companies in meeting ESG reporting requirements.

Remote

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

Global employment platform offering Employer of Record (EOR), global payroll, contractor management and compliance across 100+ countries on owned infrastructure. Founded 2019 in Lisbon; a Portuguese unicorn.

Renderforest

Yerevan, Armenia · Startup

Renderforest is an all-in-one branding platform founded in Yerevan, enabling users to create videos, logos, websites, and graphic designs without prior design skills. The platform serves over 20 million users globally, including large companies such as Vodafone, Sony Music, and GE. Founded by Narek Safaryan, the company has kept its headquarters and engineering operations fully in Armenia.

Restream

Kyiv, Ukraine · Startup

Restream is a Ukrainian-founded live-streaming platform that lets creators, brands, and event organizers broadcast a single video feed simultaneously to more than thirty destinations — YouTube, Twitch, Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live, X, and dozens of others — while managing a unified chat, analytics, and recording layer across all of them. Founded in 2015 by Alexander Khuda and Andrii Surzhynskyi, the product removed one of the most painful operational blockers for independent broadcasters (having to pick a single platform at the expense of every other audience) and became a go-to tool for podcasters, gamers, educators, and B2B marketers running webinars at scale. Restream raised venture funding from Insight Partners and others, and relocated its commercial operations to Texas while keeping engineering in Kyiv. It is one of the most globally adopted pieces of creator-economy infrastructure to come out of Ukraine.

Revo Capital

Istanbul, Turkey · Venture Capital

Revo Capital is Turkey's largest technology-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2013 by Cenk Bayrakdar and Berkin Toktaş, having raised over $250M across three funds. Fund II closed at a landmark €90M in 2021 — oversubscribed with backing from IFC, EBRD, EIF, DEG, and the Turkish Development and Investment Bank — and Fund III reached an $86M first close in 2024 targeting over $100M. The firm has invested in 48 startups across Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, achieving 18 exits and producing unicorns Getir and Builder.ai; portfolio companies have attracted $3.5B in follow-on capital between 2021 and 2025. Revo concentrates on early-stage B2B and B2C ventures in fintech, SaaS, cybersecurity, health tech, AI, and gaming.

RIFFSEC

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Cybersecurity startup launched in 2022 offering a European-focused cyber threat intelligence platform. It monitors darknet, deep web, and messaging channels for leaks and compromised credentials and helps teams detect phishing domains before campaigns go live.

Rigma

Paris, France · Startup

Vulnerability-management platform built by the founders of the Paris pentest firm Mobeta. It ingests penetration-test reports from any provider and turns them into dynamic dashboards with automated re-verification scripts that confirm remediation without manual counter-audits. Available as SaaS or on-premise, compliant with NIS2, DORA and ISO 27001, hosted in France on Scaleway.

RTA Ventures

Warsaw, Poland · Accelerator

Founded 2011. Early-stage investor focused on digital health, telemedicine, and SaaS. RTA Ventures is an accelerator programme based in Warsaw, Poland. The programme supports startups in Digital Health, Telemedicine, SaaS.

Ruben Nieuwenhuis

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Angel Investor

Ruben Nieuwenhuis is a Dutch entrepreneur, angel investor, and ecosystem builder who co-founded StartupAmsterdam, the city's official public-private initiative to support tech entrepreneurship. He later co-founded Startup Delta (now Techleap.nl), the national platform connecting Dutch startups with government, corporates, and investors. As an angel, Nieuwenhuis invests in early-stage tech companies across the Netherlands, with a focus on marketplace models, SaaS, and civic tech. His deep connections to Dutch government, corporate, and VC networks make him an especially valuable angel for founders who need more than capital. He is widely considered one of the architects of Amsterdam's rise as a top European tech hub.

SaaS Group

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Startup

SaaS Group is a Luxembourg-based acquirer and operator of bootstrapped B2B SaaS businesses, founded with the goal of providing founder-friendly exits for software companies between $1 million and $10 million in ARR. The group currently operates 18 portfolio companies spanning online marketing, productivity, and developer tools, with combined annual recurring revenue exceeding $60 million and teams spread across 33 countries. It distinguishes itself by preserving the autonomy and culture of acquired companies while providing shared functions in marketing, finance, and HR.

SaaStanak 2026

Sibenik, Croatia · Event

Central and Eastern Europe's largest SaaS conference, run as an immersive format where 300-600 founders, operators, and investors stay together at a single Adriatic resort for three days of talks, dealmaking, and side events. Strong fit for early-to-growth-stage B2B SaaS teams.

Saga

Belgrade, Serbia · Startup

Saga is an AI-powered collaborative workspace for notes, docs, and tasks, designed to help teams organise knowledge in one connected interface. Founded in 2021 by Filip Stanev with Serbian roots, Saga automatically interlinks knowledge across workspaces, integrates with tools such as Google Drive and Linear, and includes a built-in AI assistant powered by the latest large language models. The platform offers real-time collaboration, Kanban task views, and public sharing. With over 40,000 users in its beta phase and hundreds of teams relying on it weekly, Saga raised $850,000 in a pre-seed round in early 2023 and competes with Notion and Obsidian in the knowledge-management space.

SALESmanago

Kraków, Poland · Startup

SALESmanago is a Kraków-based marketing-automation platform serving mid-market e-commerce companies across Europe. Founded by Grzegorz Błażewicz in 2011, the company offers customer data, segmentation, omnichannel campaign execution, and AI-driven personalization. SILVER LAKE Waterman acquired a majority stake in 2022, valuing the company at hundreds of millions of euros, after which Błażewicz continued investing through Borubar Ventures.

SaleSqueze

Škofja Loka, Slovenia · Startup

SaleSqueze is a Visual CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) SaaS platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Škofja Loka. It enables manufacturers and sellers of complex, configurable products — including modular homes, agricultural equipment, RVs, and medical devices — to build interactive product configurators and automate the lead-to-order process without coding. In June 2024 the company raised €1.4 million in a seed round led by Underline Ventures, with participation from Robin Capital and Fortech Investments. It was the largest disclosed funding round in Slovenia in H1 2024.

Salv

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Salv is an Estonian anti-financial-crime (RegTech) company building a compliance SaaS platform for banks, fintechs and payment providers. Its products cover AML transaction monitoring, sanctions and transaction screening, customer risk scoring and fraud detection. Salv also operates Salv Bridge, a cross-border real-time platform that lets financial institutions collaboratively share intelligence to fight crime. The founding team previously worked together on AML, KYC and fraud systems at TransferWise (Wise) and Skype.

Sascha Konietzke

Berlin, Germany · Person

Sascha Konietzke is Co-founder of the headless-CMS company Contentful. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Sascha leads the headless-CMS company Contentful.

Scalingo

Strasbourg, France · Startup

Scalingo is a French Platform-as-a-Service startup founded in 2014 in Strasbourg, offering a developer-friendly cloud deployment platform for web applications and APIs with a focus on European data sovereignty. The platform provides one-click deployments, auto-scaling, and managed databases, serving startups and enterprises seeking reliable European cloud hosting. Scalingo participates as a Silver sponsor at Sunny Tech 2026.

Secfense

Kraków, Poland · Startup

Secfense was founded in 2018 in Kraków by Tomasz Kowalski and Marcin Szary. The company develops a User Access Security Broker that lets enterprises deploy multi-factor authentication and passwordless login across existing applications without modifying their code. It raised early backing from Bitspiration Booster followed by a $2M round in 2022 led by Tera Ventures, Presto Ventures, and RKKVC, and counts enterprise clients such as BNP Paribas Bank Polska.

SEED Capital

Copenhagen, Denmark · Venture Capital

SEED Capital is Denmark's largest early stage venture fund and a first check investor for many of the country's most successful startups. The firm invests at seed and Series A and supports founders with hands on company building and follow on fundraising. SEED has backed Danish scale ups across SaaS, fintech, and consumer tech, with notable wins including Trustpilot, Vivino, Templafy, and Lunar. It is a key pillar of the Danish venture landscape.

Semble

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Clinical platform and EHR for outpatient and private healthcare providers, connecting scheduling, billing, telehealth and patient records in one system. Serves 1,700 customers including Nuffield Health; 10M+ UK patients have been seen by a clinician using it.

Sensie

Ghent, Belgium · Startup

Builds real-time plant intelligence hardware for professional greenhouse growers. Its Sensie Omni device combines direct plant feedback with root-zone and micro-climate data to optimise irrigation, ventilation and climate strategy.

Shapr3D

Budapest, Hungary · Startup

Shapr3D is a Budapest-based developer of 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software, founded by István Csanády. The product began as an iPad-first 3D modeling app and pioneered professional CAD on the iPad Pro, later expanding to run natively on Windows, macOS, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. The software is built on the Siemens Parasolid geometric modeling kernel and offers sketching with constraints, 3D modeling, 2D drawings, physically based rendering, augmented reality and collaborative review features. It serves industrial design, product design, manufacturing, 3D printing and woodworking users, positioning itself as CAD simple enough for beginners yet powerful enough for engineers.

Shotgun

Paris, France · Startup

Shotgun is a live-events platform and ticketing solution focused on nightlife and electronic music. It provides software for venues, collectives, festivals, labels and artists to organise events, sell and manage tickets, and engage their communities, while serving as a discovery marketplace where attendees find events and buy or resell tickets. The company emerged from the Parisian underground electronic music scene and has expanded internationally, with offices beyond Paris including Marseille, Lisbon, São Paulo, New York and Miami.

Signal AI

London, United Kingdom · Startup

AI-powered external intelligence platform that ingests media, social, broadcast and regulatory data across 226 markets and 75+ languages to deliver enterprise risk, reputation and ESG insights. Founded in London, 2013.

Silverfin

Ghent, Belgium · Startup

Silverfin is a cloud accounting software company based in Ghent, Belgium, founded in 2013 by Joris Van Der Gucht and Tim Vandecasteele. Its connected accounting platform standardises and centralises financial data so accountants can automate compliance and reporting work and deliver advisory services more efficiently. The company operated across multiple countries with a customer base that included large accounting firms. In September 2023 the Norwegian software group Visma acquired Silverfin in a deal reported at around €300 million, one of the larger Belgian tech transactions.

Simplicity

Bratislava, Slovakia · Startup

Simplicity is a GovTech and smart-city super-app that aggregates municipal news, payments, notifications, and city services into a single mobile experience. The platform evolved from local deployments in Slovakia and Europe into a US-focused expansion strategy, winning contracts with cities seeking a modern digital engagement layer. By 2026, Simplicity is a fast-scaling civic tech company turning city services into a unified digital channel.

Sipay

Istanbul, Turkey · Startup

Payments and embedded finance platform offering payment processing, digital wallets, prepaid cards and FX for merchants and consumers across emerging markets. Serves 6.3M users and 25,000 merchants.

Siteimprove

Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup

Siteimprove is a Copenhagen-based SaaS company founded in 2003 that provides a comprehensive website governance and digital experience platform covering accessibility compliance, SEO optimization, content quality, and analytics. The platform helps enterprises and public sector organizations ensure their websites meet WCAG accessibility standards, maintain brand consistency, and perform well in search rankings. With over 500 employees and thousands of customers worldwide, Siteimprove is a market leader in digital accessibility tooling and one of Denmark's most established B2B software companies.

Skello

Paris, France · Startup

Skello is a SaaS workforce-management platform that helps businesses build and manage employee schedules, track time and absences, and handle related HR and payroll-preparation tasks. It is widely used in shift-based sectors such as retail, hospitality, pharmacies, bakeries and gyms. The company is headquartered in Paris and raised a 40 million euro Series B round in 2021 led by Partech, with existing backers XAnge and Aglaé Ventures, to expand across Europe.

SmartBill

Sibiu, Romania · Startup

Invoicing, inventory and accounting software for Romanian SMEs with native e-Factura integration; used by 65,000+ businesses issuing millions of invoices monthly. Majority-acquired by Visma.

Smartly

Helsinki, Finland · Startup

Smartly is an AI-powered advertising platform that enables brands and agencies to automate and optimise paid social and cross-channel ad campaigns at scale. Founded in Helsinki in 2013, the platform handles creative automation, campaign management and performance analytics across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Snapchat, Amazon DSP and connected TV. The company serves over 700 enterprise advertisers globally and reported $221 million in annual revenue in 2026. Its AI Studio has generated nearly two million creative assets, delivering an average 27% performance lift versus static creatives.

Smartsupp

Brno, Czech Republic · Startup

Conversational e-commerce platform combining live chat, chatbots and an AI shopping assistant (Mira) to engage visitors and convert leads; used on 100,000+ websites, with leading live-chat market share in Central Europe.

Sortlist

Wavre, Belgium · Startup

Sortlist is a Belgian marketplace that connects companies with marketing, creative and digital agencies, helping businesses discover, evaluate and hire service providers. Founded in 2014 and registered in Wavre, it operates across multiple European markets. It raised an early round in 2019 with investors including Sambrinvest, and an €11 million round in 2021 backed by SRIW and The Club Deal. In 2024 the company reported reaching operational profitability, and in 2025 it named co-founder Nicolas Finet CEO alongside a new innovation lab.

Spaceti

Prague, Czech Republic · Startup

PropTech platform unifying workplace apps and building systems (BMS, HVAC, lighting, access, IoT) into one AI-driven layer for space utilization, booking, digital twins and ESG tracking across real estate portfolios.

Specialist VC

Tallinn, Estonia · Venture Capital

Formerly United Angels VC, Specialist VC was founded in 2017 by Riivo Anton and Gerri Kodres and rebranded in 2022 upon closing its €50M Fund II — the first Baltic VC fund to integrate secondary transactions alongside primary venture investing. The firm focuses on B2B, SaaS, fintech, and marketplace startups in the Baltic region and beyond, writing initial cheques from €200K to €1M at seed through Series A. Its Fund I portfolio includes two unicorns, Bolt and Veriff, alongside Starship Technologies and Monese, making it one of the highest-performing early-stage funds to emerge from Estonia.

Spendesk

Paris, France · Startup

Spendesk is a Paris-based fintech founded in 2016 that provides an all-in-one spend management platform combining corporate cards, invoice and expense management, approvals and budgeting for mid-market companies. It reached unicorn status in 2022 after a funding round of more than 100 million euros and serves thousands of finance teams across Europe.

Spryker

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Spryker is an enterprise commerce platform offering a composable, API-first architecture for B2B and B2C digital commerce. Based in Berlin and Hamburg, Spryker enables large enterprises to build custom transactional experiences across marketplaces, IoT commerce, and unified commerce scenarios. The company serves enterprise customers across manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, and has raised over $200 million from investors including TCV and One Peak.

Stanislas Niox-Chateau

Paris, France · Person

Co-founder and CEO of Doctolib, the e-health booking and software platform he started in 2013. He scaled it into one of Europe's most valuable health-tech companies, serving hundreds of thousands of practitioners.

Storyblok

Linz, Austria · Startup

Storyblok is a headless content management system founded in 2017 in Linz, Austria by Dominik Angerer and Alexander Feiglstorfer. The platform provides a visual editor and API-first architecture that enables developers and marketing teams to create, manage, and publish content across websites, mobile apps, and digital displays from a single source. Storyblok has raised over $80 million from investors including Mubadala Capital, HV Capital, and 3VC. The company serves thousands of customers including Adidas, Tesla, and Pizza Hut. As a fully remote-first Austrian company that competes with Contentful and Sanity, Storyblok is a standout example of enterprise SaaS innovation from outside Europe's traditional tech hubs.

Stream

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Stream, rebranded from Wagestream in September 2025, is an employer-partnered workplace finance platform. Through partner employers, frontline workers gain flexible early access to their earned wages, alongside budgeting and financial-planning tools, a savings account, affordable credit, and money coaching. In 2025 it expanded into workplace pensions via its acquisition of Zippen. The platform serves several million workers across more than 2,000 employers in the UK, Europe, and the US, with partners including Asda, Bupa, Greene King, and the NHS.

StuDocu

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.

SuperScale

Bratislava, Slovakia · Startup

SuperScale delivers revenue optimization for mobile games, combining AI with expert growth teams to revive older titles and improve monetization for new launches. The company partners with major global studios and provides a services-plus-software model that drives measurable uplift. By 2026, SuperScale is a leading Slovak gaming analytics and growth platform.

Swan

Paris, France · Startup

French embedded-banking (banking-as-a-service) platform letting software companies embed accounts, cards and payments. Licensed electronic money institution authorised by the French ACPR; partnered with BNP Paribas.

Synthflow AI

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Synthflow AI is a Berlin-based no-code platform for building and deploying AI voice agents that automate phone conversations. It lets non-technical business users create customisable voice agents without engineering resources, applying a no-code approach to conversational phone AI. The agents handle inbound and outbound calls for use cases such as customer service, appointment scheduling, and lead qualification, and connect to external systems through integrations with calendars, CRMs, and telephony platforms. The company also operates in-house telephony infrastructure and targets enterprise and BPO/contact-center customers.

Taxfix

Berlin, Germany · Startup

Taxfix is a mobile-first tax filing app that simplifies income tax returns for individuals in Germany and other European markets. The app guides users through their tax declaration using a conversational interface and automatically optimizes deductions. Taxfix has served millions of users and raised over $200 million in venture funding, making tax filing accessible to people who previously avoided the complexity of traditional tax software.

Team-GPT

Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup

Team-GPT is a Bulgarian-founded enterprise AI collaboration platform launched in 2023 by five co-founders including Vassil Valchanov. The platform helps companies discover and deploy AI use cases at scale, enabling teams to work with large language models in a shared workspace. Team-GPT raised $4.5 million in November 2024, closing what was reported as the largest Bulgarian seed round of that year. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with its founding team in Sofia.

Teamleader

Ghent, Belgium · Startup

Teamleader is a Ghent-based SaaS company that provides cloud software for small and medium-sized businesses, combining CRM, project management, quotation and invoicing tools in a single platform. Founded in 2012 by Jeroen De Wit, Mathias De Loore and Willem Delbare, it expanded into multiple products including Teamleader Focus for small teams and Teamleader Orbit for agencies. After raising rounds backed by Fortino Capital and Keen Venture Partners, the company was acquired by the Norwegian software group Visma in June 2022 and continues to operate under its own name.

TECHSPO

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Event Organisator

Organiser of the TECHSPO technology expo series, which brings developers, brands, marketers and technology providers together across internet, mobile, AdTech, MarTech and SaaS. TECHSPO Amsterdam is co-located with the DigiMarCon Europe digital marketing conference.

TECHSPO Amsterdam 2026 (September 2026)

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Event

A two-day technology expo bringing together developers, brands, marketers, technology providers, designers and innovators across internet, mobile, AdTech, MarTech and SaaS. It is co-located with DigiMarCon Europe, letting attendees move between the expo floor and the digital marketing conference sessions.

Tempo Software

Reykjavik, Iceland · Startup

Tempo Software is an Icelandic-founded project and portfolio management company whose flagship time-tracking product for Atlassian Jira originated at TM Software in Reykjavik in 2007 before spinning off as an independent company in 2015. Tempo's suite covers time tracking, resource planning, roadmapping, and financial management inside Jira, and is used by more than 30,000 companies including one in three Fortune 500 firms. The company has a significant engineering hub in Reykjavik alongside offices in Boston and Montreal.

TerGo

Gdańsk, Poland · Startup

Full-stack carbon management platform offering SaaS tools for CO2e calculation, reporting and reduction. Its Tergoscope helps companies meet sustainability regulations, while TERbit tracks emission savings from eco-friendly transport choices.

TestGorilla

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

Skills-based pre-employment assessment platform offering 350+ tests, AI video interviews and resume scoring to help companies hire on real skills. Founded 2019 in Amsterdam.

The Venture City

Madrid, Spain · Venture Capital

The Venture City is a hybrid accelerator and venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Laura Gonzalez-Estafani (ex-Facebook) with offices in Madrid, Miami, and San Francisco. The firm invests from seed to Series A in product-led startups across Europe and the Americas, with typical tickets of $500K-2M. The Venture City differentiates through its in-house growth team offering data analytics, product optimization, and go-to-market support. Portfolio companies include Cabify, Lingokids, and Internxt. The firm manages over $150M and focuses on fintech, SaaS, and mobile-first businesses.

Tidio

Szczecin, Poland · Startup

Customer service platform for small and midsize businesses combining live chat, AI chatbots, and helpdesk automation. Tidio helps e-commerce teams improve support response times and drive conversion from website traffic.

Tomasz Świeboda

Warsaw, Poland · Person

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Inovo Venture Partners, Poland's leading seed-stage fund. Previously an investment banker at Rothschild and an investor at Penta Investments, he has led Inovo's backing of companies such as Packhelp, Restaumatic and Symmetrical, and helped raise the firm's three funds totalling roughly €167M.

TourRadar

Vienna, Austria · Startup

TourRadar is a Vienna-based online travel marketplace specialising in multi-day organised tours. Founded in 2010 by brothers Travis and Shawn Pittman, it connects travelers with tour operators worldwide across adventure travel, safaris, river cruises, food tours and hiking trips. The platform lets users browse, compare and book multi-day trips, read traveler reviews and access booking-protection services. It positions itself as an organised adventure platform and has raised venture funding through a Series C round with backers including TCV, Cherry Ventures and Speedinvest.

Tremend

Bucharest, Romania · Startup

Tremend is a software engineering and technology consultancy headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 2005 by Ioan Cocan and Marius Hanganu. It provides custom software development, digital transformation, product engineering and consultancy across industries including finance, banking, telecom, automotive, healthcare and public services. The company was bootstrapped rather than venture-backed and grew to over 650 engineers before Publicis Groupe acquired it in January 2022 to expand the European delivery capabilities of its Publicis Sapient arm.

Trengo

Utrecht, Netherlands · Startup

Trengo is a customer engagement platform headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded in 2017. It consolidates customer communications across email, WhatsApp, live chat, social media, and voice into a single shared inbox, enabling teams to collaborate on customer requests. The company raised a $36 million Series A in 2021 and serves over 3,000 customers globally across industries including finance and e-commerce. Trengo is backed by Insight Partners and Peak Capital.

Trickest

Belgrade, Serbia · Startup

Trickest is an offensive security automation platform built for bug bounty hunters, penetration testers, and enterprise SecOps teams. Founded in 2020 by Nenad Zaric — a former top-ranked HackerOne researcher with credits at Uber, PayPal, and Snapchat — and Mihailo Tomic, the platform provides a visual workflow builder and a large library of tool nodes for attack surface mapping, vulnerability scanning, and automated recon. Teams can compose, share, and run complex security workflows without custom scripting. Trickest raised a €1.4M seed round backed by Credo Ventures and Earlybird Digital East, with angel investors including UiPath's Daniel Dines.

Truecaller

Stockholm, Sweden · Startup

Truecaller is a Stockholm-based company that develops a mobile caller-identification, spam-blocking and call/SMS-management app for Android and iOS. Founded in 2009 by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam, the app lets users identify unknown callers and filter spam, with India being its largest market. The company listed its Class B shares on Nasdaq Stockholm in October 2021 and has grown to roughly 500 million active users, while expanding into adjacent data services.

Trustpilot

Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup

Founded in 2007 by Peter Holten Muhlmann, Trustpilot is a Copenhagen-born consumer reviews platform that helps people share feedback about businesses and helps companies respond to and learn from customers. The platform operates a freemium model, pairing public reviews with paid tools for analytics, review invitations, and trust widgets. Trustpilot scaled internationally, opened major offices in London and New York, and went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2021. Today it hosts hundreds of millions of reviews and remains one of Denmark's best known global software successes.

Tuum

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Cloud-native, API-first core banking platform letting banks, fintechs and neobanks launch accounts, payments, lending and cards on modular infrastructure. Clients include LHV Bank and OP Financial Group; raised EUR 25M in 2024.

Typeform

Barcelona, Spain · Startup

Typeform is a Barcelona-based no-code SaaS platform for building conversational forms, surveys, quizzes, and data-capture experiences with a distinctive one-question-at-a-time UX that consistently outperforms traditional forms on completion rates. Founded in 2012 by David Okuniev and Robert Muñoz, it serves 130,000+ customers and generates over $141M in annual revenue. The platform integrates with Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, and 500+ tools. Backed by General Atlantic, Sofina, Connect Ventures, and Index Ventures with 720+ employees globally, Typeform is valued at ~€935M and continues operating as an independent product with active development in 2026.

Unbabel

Lisbon, Portugal · Startup

AI-powered Language Operations (LangOps) platform combining machine translation with human editors for multilingual customer support and content. Founded 2013 in Lisbon; acquired by TransPerfect in August 2025.

Uncapped

London, United Kingdom · Startup

Revenue-based, non-dilutive working capital provider offering USD 10k to 2m to ecommerce and online businesses via fixed-fee, no-equity financing. Founded 2019; operations also in Warsaw, Poland.

Uni.Fund

Athens, Greece · Venture Capital

Uni.Fund was founded in 2018 in Athens by Katerina Pramatari (Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business), Panos Lioulias, Sotiris Papantonopoulos, and Stelios Eliakis, with backing from the EquiFund programme. Fund I deployed €30M into 23 pre-seed and seed companies commercialising research from universities and research institutions across Greece and Europe. Uni.Fund II launched in 2023 with a €50M target, extending the same thesis to spin-offs and deep-tech startups at pre-seed through early Series A. Focus sectors include IoT, fintech, healthcare, robotics, and SaaS.

Unleash World 2026

Paris, France · Event

The world's leading HR and workforce technology conference and expo, organized by UNLEASH Group at the Paris Convention Center on 20-22 October 2026. Three days across seven conference stages, summits, an exhibition and startup showcases covering AI, skills, workforce strategy, reward, people analytics and the future of work, drawing thousands of senior HR leaders and HR-tech buyers.

Upvest

Berlin, Germany · Startup

API-first investment infrastructure provider (brokerage, settlement, custody) for banks, brokers and fintechs like Revolut and N26. Regulated by BaFin and the FCA. Founded 2017.

Useberry

Athens, Greece · Startup

Remote UX research and unmoderated usability-testing platform for product teams, with card sorting, tree testing, prototype analytics and Figma/Sketch imports. Founded 2018, backed by Metavallon VC.

UserGuiding

Istanbul, Turkey · Startup

No-code product adoption platform for building in-app onboarding flows, tooltips, walkthroughs, knowledge bases and surveys to reduce churn. Founded 2017; clients include Uber and UNICEF.

Uteach

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.

Velocity.Partners

Athens, Greece · Venture Capital

Velocity.Partners was founded in 2017 in Athens, growing out of the Found.ation startup ecosystem, and is supported by the EquiFund programme and the EU Operational Programme "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation". The fund is sector-agnostic but has particular depth in Maritime-tech, MedTech, FinTech, and Travel-tech — verticals where Greek founders hold a structural edge. It invests at pre-seed and seed stage with initial tickets typically up to €500K, then follows on into later rounds. The team combines operators, founders, and investors with hands-on industry experience.

VentureFriends

Athens, Greece · Venture Capital

VentureFriends was founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneurs Apostolos Apostolakis and George Dimopoulos in Athens to back early-stage scalable startups across Europe and MENA. The firm has raised three funds — VF1 (€20M, 2016), VF2 (€50M, 2018), and VF3 (€100M, 2021) — totalling €170M in AUM. It focuses on pre-seed through Series A investments of €330K–€2.8M in FinTech, PropTech, Marketplaces, TravelTech, and SaaS. With 83 portfolio companies, the firm has produced 2 unicorns, 1 IPO, and 10 acquisitions, with Blueground among its flagship investments.

Viberate

Ljubljana, Slovenia · Startup

Viberate is a Ljubljana-based music-industry analytics platform that tracks artists, songs, festivals, and venues using live data from streaming services, social media, and live-event networks, and packages it into a Bloomberg-terminal-style product for record labels, agencies, investors, and music-tech builders. Its core dataset covers hundreds of thousands of artists and is used by A&R teams for signing decisions, by festivals for booking, and by rights buyers for catalog valuation. Founded by Vasja Veber and Matej Gregorčič in 2014, the company is publicly listed on the Ljubljana Stock Exchange and is one of the most prominent Slovenian examples of a vertical SaaS built around alternative data, with an English-language product that sells directly into New York, London, and Los Angeles. Viberate rounds out the directory's picture of CEE music-tech alongside Celtra in adtech and Outfit7 in entertainment software.

Victor Riparbelli

London, United Kingdom · Angel Investor

Victor Riparbelli is a Danish entrepreneur based in London and the co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the AI video generation platform valued at over $2 billion and one of Europe's most prominent AI companies. Alongside scaling Synthesia, he is an active angel investor in European AI and software startups, backing founders applying generative AI to enterprise workflows — including the AI coworker company Viktor.

Viktor

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

Viktor is an AI coworker platform that lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams and executes business workflows end-to-end rather than only suggesting text. Connected to thousands of tools, it autonomously generates reports, builds dashboards, writes code, manages ad accounts, and runs data analysis on behalf of teams, positioning itself as an "AI hire" rather than a tool. Founded in 2023 by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, the company is headquartered in Warsaw with a second office in Munich. After a public launch in February 2026 it reached a €12.9 million revenue run rate within 10 weeks and is used by more than 2,000 organisations. In May 2026 Viktor raised a $75 million (€64.7 million) Series A led by Accel — reported as the largest Series A ever raised by a Polish technology company — with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital, alongside angels including Slack co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson and Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli.

Vispera

Istanbul, Turkey · Startup

Image-recognition and AI platform for retail and CPG companies, automating shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, price tracking and competitive intelligence from in-store imagery.

Vladimir Danila

Berlin, Germany · Person

Romanian-born founder and CEO of Linearity, the Berlin-based design-software company formerly known as Vectornator. He started the product after winning Germany's Jugend Forscht science competition in 2017 and has grown it into a vector and marketing-design tool used by a large global base of creators and teams.

VoFact

Paris, France · Startup

AI-powered invoicing SaaS for freelancers and tradespeople that generates compliant PDF invoices in under 10 seconds from voice or text messages on WhatsApp, handling French requirements including sequential numbering, VAT and the 2026 e-invoicing mandate.

Wasp

Zagreb, Croatia · Startup

Wasp is an open-source, full-stack TypeScript web framework co-developed by Croatian founders Matija and Martin Šošić. It integrates React, Node.js, and Prisma through a declarative configuration language, generating complete web applications with built-in auth, background jobs, and deployment. The company is Y Combinator alumni (W21) and raised EUR 1.3 million in seed funding led by Lunar Ventures.

WEBCON

Krakow, Poland · Startup

WEBCON is a Krakow-based low-code enterprise automation platform that enables large organizations to design, deploy, and iterate on business process applications without heavy custom development. The platform is used to digitize workflows such as invoice approvals, contract management, HR onboarding, and compliance processes, with deep integration into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint environments. WEBCON serves enterprise customers across Europe and North America and differentiates through its InstantChange technology, which allows modifications to live applications without downtime or redeployment.

Welcome Pickups

Athens, Greece · Startup

Welcome Pickups is an Athens-based travel technology company offering personalised airport transfers and in-destination travel experiences. Founded in 2015 by Alexandros Trimis and Savvas Georgiou, the platform lets travelers pre-book rides at fixed prices and combines transfers with additional in-destination services. It operates across more than 100 destinations and partners with hotels, airlines and travel agencies to handle guest transfers. In December 2022 it raised a €5.3 million round led by Market One Capital, Flashpoint and Venture Friends to expand its destination network.

WeTransfer

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

WeTransfer is an Amsterdam-based file-transfer and creative-tools company founded in 2009, best known for its simple service for sending large files, alongside products for creative professionals. It grew into one of the Netherlands' most recognised consumer internet brands and was acquired by the Italian software group Bending Spoons in 2024.

Whereby

Oslo, Norway · Startup

Whereby is an Oslo-based video communication platform founded in 2013 (originally as appear.in inside Telenor). It offers browser-based video meetings requiring no downloads or guest logins, and a developer-facing Whereby Embedded API for adding video calling to third-party products. GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified, the platform supports healthcare, telehealth and education use cases. The company raised $12 million in Series A funding from Point Nine and SaaStr in 2021 and saw a 450% user surge during the pandemic, with adoption across 150 countries.

Wia

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

Wia is a Dublin-based IoT cloud platform that helps businesses monitor occupancy, air quality, and energy consumption in real time to create smarter and more sustainable environments. Founded in 2015 by Conall Laverty, the platform is used by over 10,000 clients across 100 countries. Backed by Suir Valley Ventures and Enterprise Ireland, Wia has raised approximately €1 million in venture capital and its founder was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. The company positions itself as an accessible developer-friendly IoT infrastructure layer.

Wiktor Namysł

Warsaw, Poland · Angel Investor

Managing partner at Orbit Capital and former managing partner at McKinsey in Poland, Wiktor provides high-level strategic support to growth-stage companies. His investment and board activity emphasizes global scaling, commercial discipline, and founder support beyond capital. Notable involvements include Tidio (board member), Packhelp (board observer), and a broader portfolio of high-growth scaleups.

Wiktor Schmidt

Poznan, Poland · Angel Investor

Business Angel of the Year 2022 and co-founder of Netguru, Wiktor became a prolific startup investor after scaling one of Europe’s best-known digital consultancies. Through Supercharge Capital, he focuses on global SaaS and e-commerce enablement companies. Notable portfolio examples include Tidio, Packhelp, and Customly.

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Wolves Summit 2026

Warsaw, Poland · Event

CEE-focused networking summit in Warsaw with 2,000+ in-person attendees, 500+ investors, and hybrid participation from across Central and Eastern Europe. Founder tickets typically EUR 300-700. Core value is high-volume matchmaking through pre-scheduled 15-minute investor-founder meetings across SaaS, IoT, PropTech, and deep tech, a top CEE deal-flow event.

Woodpecker.co

Wrocław, Poland · Startup

Woodpecker.co is a Wrocław-based B2B SaaS platform for cold email outreach and sales automation, founded in 2015 by Mateusz Tarczyński and Maciej Cieśla. The product lets sales and business-development teams run personalised, automated email sequences at scale and serves thousands of users across more than 100 countries. Largely bootstrapped, the company later listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker WPR), making it one of the few Polish SaaS firms to reach public markets.

WordCamp Europe 2026

Krakow, Poland · Event

Europe's largest WordPress community event, drawing thousands of developers, agency owners, founders and open-source contributors to the ICE Krakow Congress Centre. A Contributor Day on 4 June precedes two days of talks, workshops and networking. Strong ground for SaaS builders, plugin and agency startups, and bootstrapped founders in the open-source WordPress economy.

WorkFlex

Amsterdam, Netherlands · Startup

WorkFlex is a travel compliance automation platform that helps companies manage international employee mobility, including workations, business trips, and work-from-abroad arrangements. Its software assesses cross-border compliance risks such as tax, labour law, and social security, and automates the related paperwork, handling A1 certificates, visas, posted-worker declarations, and tax requirements. Employers use it to track and approve temporary remote work from abroad while staying compliant. The company was founded in 2022 by Patrick Koch and Pieter Manden, the latter a tax lawyer who previously led PwC's remote work compliance function. WorkFlex is headquartered in Amsterdam.

Workhuman

Dublin, Ireland · Startup

Workhuman operates a cloud-based employee recognition and continuous performance management platform used by over 7.5 million employees across 180 countries. Founded as Globoforce in Dublin in 1999 and rebranded in 2019, the company enables peer-to-peer recognition moments that drive engagement, culture, and retention at enterprise scale. Headquartered in both Dublin and Massachusetts, Workhuman employs over 600 staff in Ireland and has attained unicorn status, with clients including LinkedIn, Cisco, and Procter & Gamble.

Workvivo

Cork, Ireland · Startup

Employee experience and internal communications platform unifying intranet, engagement, comms and AI-powered search into one app. Founded 2017 in Cork; acquired by Zoom in 2023 and still operates from Cork.

Xolo

Tallinn, Estonia · Startup

Admin platform for solo freelancers and one-person businesses, handling company setup (incl. e-Residency), invoicing, taxation and compliance. Serves 150,000+ users across 160 countries and has processed over EUR 6B in invoices.

YuLife

London, United Kingdom · Startup

UK insurtech offering group life insurance and employee benefits gamified with wellbeing rewards to encourage healthy living. Founded 2016 in London; expanded to the US and South Africa.

Zefir

Paris, France · Startup

Zefir is a French proptech company operating an AI-powered real-estate marketplace that aims to accelerate residential property transactions for sellers, buyers and agents. Its technology pools listings across competing agents and helps reduce transaction times, and it has launched ZIA, an AI-powered home-search assistant for buyers. Founded in 2020 and based in Paris, Zefir raised a 15 million euro Series B round in September 2025 led by FinTech Collective, bringing total funding to roughly 50 million euro.

Zendesk

Copenhagen, Denmark · Startup

Zendesk was founded in Copenhagen in 2007 by Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour to make customer support software simpler and more usable. The company built a cloud helpdesk that unified email, chat, voice, and social support, then expanded rapidly after relocating headquarters to San Francisco while keeping Danish roots. Zendesk went public in 2014 and later returned to private ownership in 2022, but it continues to shape the global customer experience software market and remains a landmark Danish founded SaaS company.

ZGI Capital

Riga, Latvia · Venture Capital

ZGI Capital is one of the most experienced venture capital firms in the Baltics, founded in 2005 in Riga. It has operated four successive fund generations (ZGI-1 through ZGI-4), with ZGI-4 attracting the largest single private VC investment in Latvia at €10M. The firm targets seed and Series A rounds of €500k–€5M in Latvian and Baltic companies across SaaS, fintech, food-agtech, logistics, and industrial sectors. ZGI Capital has won Latvia's VC & PE sector award six times, including in 2024 and 2025.

Zowie

Warsaw, Poland · Startup

AI customer-service platform co-founded in 2019 by Maja Schaefer (originally as Chatbotize, rebranded 2021). Zowie lets enterprises in e-commerce, banking and telecom deploy AI agents across chat, voice, email and app using a deterministic decision engine, and counts L'Oréal, InPost and Avon among its customers. It has raised around $20M, including a Series A led by Tiger Global.