Startup directory in Europe
Browse startup organisations across Europe. Each entry links to its country, city, and sector pages.
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Plat.AI
Plat.AI is an Armenian AI technology company founded in 2020, specializing in predictive analytics solutions for the fintech and insurtech industries. Its platform processes up to 10 million predictions daily for credit and insurance organizations, and has deployed products in cooperation with Armenia's banking and social protection sectors in partnership with the Nork Technology Center. Plat.AI is an active contributor to data science education in Armenia and serves as a Gold Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
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PLD Space
Elche-based private launch company developing the Miura family of reusable rockets. Miura 1 completed Spain's first private suborbital rocket flight in October 2023, making PLD Space the first European private company to successfully fly a rocket. Miura 5, a small orbital launcher, targets commercial payloads for the global new-space market.
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Pleo
Pleo is a Copenhagen-founded B2B spend-management unicorn that replaces paper expense claims with smart Mastercard-powered cards for employees and a real-time software platform for finance teams. Founded in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra (former Tradeshift colleagues), it covers corporate cards, invoice management, vendor cards, multi-currency accounts and, since 2025, a full cash-management and treasury suite. As of mid-2025 Pleo serves 45,000+ businesses and over a million employees across 16 European markets, with the UK its largest. Pleo reached unicorn status in 2021 and closed a $200M Series C extension led by Coatue in December 2021 at a $4.7bn valuation, then Denmark's most valuable private tech company. Total funding exceeds $476M, backed by European investors Kinnevik (Sweden), Creandum (Sweden), Founders (Denmark) and Seedcamp (UK) alongside US growth funds Stripes, Coatue and Thrive Capital. FY2025 net revenue was about €130M (up 25%), with break-even targeted for 2027 and a possible Copenhagen IPO under consideration.
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Pliant
Pliant GmbH, based in Berlin, operates a corporate credit card and spend-management platform (Card & Spend OS) that lets businesses issue physical and virtual cards, automate expense workflows and accounts payable, and access flexible credit for payments. The company is a licensed e-money institution in the EU through its Finnish subsidiary Pliant Oy, is a principal Visa member, and also operates entities in France and Austria. Bulgarian investor BrightCap Ventures exited its investment in Pliant.
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Plum
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.
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Podimo
Podimo is a Copenhagen founded subscription platform for podcasts and audiobooks, focused on local language content and creator revenue sharing. Launched in 2019, the company built exclusive catalogs in markets such as Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands, and later expanded to Latin America. Podimo uses a subscription model that pays creators based on listen time, giving podcasters an alternative to advertising. The company has raised significant funding to scale its content studio and international footprint.
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PolyAI
PolyAI is a London-based conversational AI company founded in 2017 by Cambridge machine-learning researchers that builds voice assistants, which it calls customer experience agents, capable of handling natural, open-ended customer service calls for enterprises in banking, hospitality, retail and telecoms. Its systems handle millions of customer interactions, and it raised a 50 million dollar round in 2024 at a valuation of around 500 million dollars.
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Poolside
Poolside is arguably the most important "import" to the European AI ecosystem in the last decade. Founded by Jason Warner (former CTO of GitHub) and Eiso Kant, the company started in the United States but relocated its headquarters to Paris in 2024 to tap France's deep talent pool in mathematics, systems engineering, and AI research. Its mission is unusually ambitious: not just to build code autocomplete, but to create the world's most capable AI for software engineering, with a long-term goal of systems that can build and evolve software autonomously. This framing has made Poolside a defining player in the AI-for-developers category. By 2026, Poolside has established itself as a core node in the "Paris AI Triangle" alongside Mistral and H. After a massive $500M Series B in late 2024 led by Bain Capital Ventures, the company launched its flagship foundation model trained on a distinct corpus of code, software architecture, and repository-level structure. The emphasis on engineering artifacts rather than general internet text allows Poolside's models to reason about large codebases, infer intent from architectural patterns, and propose higher-level refactors instead of one-off snippets. This technical posture differentiates Poolside from generalist models and makes it uniquely useful for enterprises grappling with decades of technical debt. The company's 2026 platform looks less like a plugin and more like a "shadow engineering team." Poolside can analyze legacy banking systems, plan migrations across stacks, and coordinate changes across modules while preserving compliance and auditability. That capability has made it a darling of large financial institutions such as HSBC and Citi, and it explains why strategic investors are embedded alongside venture capital. Poolside is also scaling Project Horizon, a 2-gigawatt AI data center campus in Texas in partnership with CoreWeave, while keeping its research and model development anchored in Paris. This split setup reflects a broader pattern: US-scale compute, European R&D depth. Poolside's ecosystem ties are deep. It is a central node at Station F and an active participant in the Paris AI Hub, and its relocation is often cited by the French government as a proof point for attracting foreign tech leadership. The investor roster underscores its strategic importance: Bain Capital Ventures led the growth round, DST Global joined as a late-stage backer, Xavier Niel provided early strategic support to facilitate the Paris move, and Nvidia is a hardware partner. In 2026, Poolside stands out as Europe's most credible attempt to build an AI-native software engineering stack at frontier scale.
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Popsink
Popsink is a real-time data replication platform specialising in change data capture (CDC), enabling enterprises to extract live data from mission-critical systems — including legacy databases, mainframes, ERPs, and CRMs — and synchronise it to modern data lakes and cloud data warehouses without disrupting production operations. The platform supports multiple deployment modes including SaaS, bring-your-own-cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped environments, and holds SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications. Popsink serves enterprise clients ranging from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 companies, including BlaBlaCar and AssoConnect.
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Porterbuddy
Porterbuddy (legally Instabox Norway AS, part of the Instabee Group) is an Oslo-based last-mile delivery company offering flexible, same-day home delivery for e-commerce orders, letting customers choose their delivery time and track shipments via SMS and a live tracking link. The company prioritises electric vehicles for deliveries and offers contactless delivery with photo confirmation, handling thousands of parcels daily for online retailers of all sizes.
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Portmanat
Portmanat is Azerbaijan's first domestically developed electronic wallet, launched by Mobile Payment Solutions LLC in 2012. It enables users to pay utilities, mobile operators, internet providers, and merchants via mobile number-linked wallet accounts, QR codes, and card terminals. Portmanat is a founding member of the Azerbaijan Fintech Association and has bank integration partnerships with Bank Respublika and others.
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Powerful Medical
Powerful Medical builds clinical-grade AI for cardiology. Its flagship product, PMcardio, can diagnose acute heart attacks by analyzing a photo of a 12-lead ECG, outperforming average human interpretation in critical scenarios. The system is FDA and MDR certified and is being rolled out in hospitals across Europe and the UK. By 2026, Powerful Medical is one of the region’s most credible medical AI companies with global regulatory traction.
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Praktika.ai
Praktika.ai is an AI-native language learning platform focused on conversation-first fluency practice with realistic voice avatars. Founded in 2022, it helps users overcome speaking anxiety through real-time feedback on pronunciation and grammar, personalized lesson paths, and adaptive roleplay. The company has reported strong commercial traction and is backed by investors including Blossom Capital, Creator Ventures, and 500 Global.
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Predicting Health
Predicting Health develops AI-based clinical risk prediction tools that analyze patient data to support early intervention and improve care quality. The company is a spin-off from the KAGes Data Science Team in Graz and operates in the same category as platforms like PIPRA.
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Preply
Preply is a Ukrainian-founded online tutoring marketplace that matches learners with one-on-one language tutors through a search-and-book flow, a subscription-based lesson plan, and an in-browser classroom that handles video, shared docs, homework, and scheduling. Founded in 2012 in Kyiv by Kirill Bigai, Dmytro Voloshyn, and Serge Lukyanov, Preply now serves millions of learners and tens of thousands of tutors across more than 180 countries, with particular strength in English, Spanish, French, German, and — increasingly — business-skills subjects beyond pure language. The company has raised over USD 120 million from investors including Owl Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, and Point Nine, and officially relocated its headquarters to Barcelona in 2023 while keeping significant engineering operations in Kyiv. Preply is a canonical example of Ukrainian B2C SaaS that became genuinely global and represents a rare European challenger to Cambly, italki, and other US-led language-tutoring marketplaces.
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Prezi
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.
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Pricefx
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.
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Printful
Printful is a Riga-founded print-on-demand and fulfillment company that enables e-commerce entrepreneurs, creators, and brands to sell custom-designed products without holding inventory. The platform handles printing, warehousing, and shipping of apparel, accessories, and home goods through its own fulfillment centers in the US, Europe, and Mexico. Printful integrates with major e-commerce platforms including Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, and Amazon, and has fulfilled over 70 million items. With over 1,000 employees and revenues exceeding $200 million, Printful is Latvia's largest technology company and one of the Baltic region's most significant startup success stories, demonstrating that global-scale e-commerce infrastructure can be built from Riga.
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Printify
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.
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Probely
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.
