Warsaw, Poland · Accelerator [m]spark, powered by Knowledge Hub, is described as the first marketing-technology (MarTech) accelerator programme for startups on the Polish market. Based in Poland, it supports early-stage MarTech and adtech founders with mentoring, corporate connections and access to its ecosystem to help them validate and scale their products.
Evora, Portugal · Accelerator The Alentejo Accelerator is a regional startup acceleration programme run by ANJE, the Portuguese National Association of Young Entrepreneurs, supporting early-stage founders in the Alentejo region around Evora. It provides training, mentoring and networking to help new businesses develop and grow.
Vienna, Austria · Incubator aws First is a pre-startup incubation programme run by Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws), the promotional bank of the Austrian federal government. It supports aspiring founders and very early-stage teams with grants, coaching and structured guidance to develop their business ideas into viable startups, sitting at the earliest end of Austria's public startup-support pipeline.
Barcelona, Spain · Incubator Public incubator network founded in 1986 by the City Council, running multiple accelerators and training programs such as mStartup Barcelona. Scope: Regional (Barcelona). Support: incubation space, free training, mentorship, and access to city contracts and EU awards.
Lisbon, Portugal · Accelerator Beta-i is a Lisbon-based innovation and acceleration organisation founded in 2009 that runs startup programmes, including its well-known Lisbon Challenge accelerator, and helps corporates innovate through open-innovation initiatives. With a presence spanning Lisbon, Brussels, Boston and Sao Paulo, it has supported thousands of startups across Europe and beyond.
Warsaw, Poland · Incubator Centrum Przedsiebiorczosci Smolna is an entrepreneurship centre run by the City of Warsaw that offers free training, workshops, mentoring and advice to residents who want to start or grow a business. It is one of the city's main public points of support for early-stage founders and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Nicosia, Cyprus · Startup Chrysalis LEAP is a Cyprus-based accelerator and innovation hub that supports early-stage startups through structured mentorship, workspace, and access to regional investor networks across the Eastern Mediterranean. The programme focuses on technology-driven ventures and helps founders refine product-market fit, build sustainable business models, and connect with corporate partners in sectors like fintech, healthtech, and sustainability. As one of the few dedicated accelerators operating on the island, Chrysalis LEAP plays a critical role in building the local startup ecosystem and retaining entrepreneurial talent in Cyprus.
Warsaw, Poland · Innovation Hub CIC Innovation Campus in Warsaw, located at Varso Place, is part of the global CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center) network founded in 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It provides flexible office and lab space, community and programming for startups, scaleups and innovation teams, acting as a physical hub that connects Warsaw's technology ecosystem to CIC's international network.
Paris, France · Support Organization Government-backed program supporting France's most promising scale-ups and fast-growing tech companies with dedicated resources and visibility, part of the wider La French Tech initiative.
Paris, France · Accelerator French Tech Tremplin is a national programme run by La French Tech, launched in 2019, that promotes equal opportunity in the French tech ecosystem by supporting entrepreneurs from underrepresented and less-privileged backgrounds. It combines grants, incubation and mentoring to help these founders launch and grow their startups across France.
Vienna, Austria · Accelerator Grow F is an accelerator programme run by Female Founders, a Vienna-based organisation building one of Europe's leading communities and support networks for women entrepreneurs. The programme supports female-led, high-growth startups with mentoring, investor access and a structured curriculum to help them raise funding and scale internationally.
Limerick, Ireland · Incubator The Hartnett Enterprise Acceleration Centre is a business incubation centre at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) in Limerick, Ireland. It provides workspace, mentoring and support programmes for early-stage entrepreneurs and university spin-outs, helping them develop and grow new businesses in Ireland's mid-west region.
National, Ireland · Accelerator New Frontiers is Enterprise Ireland's nationwide startup incubation and funding programme, delivered through partner universities and institutes of technology across Ireland. It supports early-stage founders with innovative, scalable business ideas through structured phases of training, mentoring, workspace and a stipend, helping them build revenue-generating companies.
Nicosia, Cyprus · Support Organization PwC Cyprus runs a dedicated startup support programme that provides early-stage technology companies with advisory services spanning tax structuring, audit readiness, legal compliance, and go-to-market strategy for the EU single market. The programme leverages Cyprus's favorable corporate tax regime and EU membership to help startups establish efficient holding and operational structures for scaling across Europe and the Middle East. It represents an important piece of the Cypriot startup infrastructure by connecting founders with professional services expertise that is otherwise hard to access at the early stage.
Poznan, Poland · Accelerator Startup Booster is the acceleration programme run by Huge Thing, a Poznan-based innovation firm with over a decade of experience that helps startups scale and supports corporations with their innovation strategy. Huge Thing has worked with dozens of corporate partners and screened thousands of startups, running structured programmes to strengthen founding teams and their go-to-market.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Support Organization Startup Lithuania is the national startup ecosystem facilitator operating under the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation as part of Enterprise Lithuania. It connects startups, investors, corporations, and government bodies, administers the Startup Visa and Startup Employee Visa programmes, maintains a national startup map, and organises the annual Startup Fair — Lithuania's largest international startup event. The organisation also manages the Startup Lithuania Accelerator powered by Plug and Play.
Linz, Austria · Incubator tech2b is a startup incubator in Upper Austria, based in Linz, that supports innovative, future-oriented founders in building and scaling their businesses. It runs structured incubation and pre-seed programmes, offering coaching, funding access and connections across the regional innovation ecosystem.
Tallinn, Estonia · Innovation Hub Tehnopol Science and Business Park is a Tallinn-based innovation hub that helps early-stage and growing technology companies scale faster through incubation, acceleration, office and lab space, and connections to universities and investors. Home to hundreds of technology companies, it runs the Tehnopol Accelerator (formerly its startup incubator) and is one of Estonia's central startup-ecosystem institutions.