Startup directory in Europe
Browse startup organisations across Europe. Each entry links to its country, city, and sector pages.
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UiPath
UiPath is the Bucharest-born enterprise automation company that defined the robotic process automation (RPA) category and rode it to one of the largest European software IPOs ever: the company listed on the NYSE (PATH) in 2021 at a roughly USD 35 billion valuation, making co-founder Daniel Dines the first Romanian tech billionaire. Founded in 2005 by Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă as an outsourced desktop-automation shop, the company pivoted in the mid-2010s into selling a platform for orchestrating software robots that mimic human workers against legacy enterprise applications, and used aggressive community-led adoption to become the de facto RPA standard at thousands of Fortune 500s. Post-IPO, UiPath has extended into AI-powered document understanding, process mining (via the 2022 Re:infer acquisition), and — most importantly — agentic automation, a 2024 platform launch that orchestrates LLM-based agents alongside traditional robots inside the same workflow engine. The company is now headquartered in New York but continues to run its largest engineering center out of Bucharest, and it remains the single most influential reference story for Romanian deep-tech.
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UMNAI
UMNAI is a Malta-based deep-tech AI company founded in 2019 by Dr. Angelo Dalli and Ken Cassar. The company has developed a neuro-symbolic Hybrid Intelligence framework that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning, enabling AI systems to make consequential decisions that are explainable, auditable, and compliant with EU AI regulation. UMNAI's technology is deployed in financial services, healthcare, insurance, and justice, where regulatory accountability is non-negotiable. The company has been granted 30 patents with a further 22 pending, and Cassar represents Malta at the CEN/CENELEC JTC 21 AI standards committee.
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Unbabel
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.
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Uncapped
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.
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Unibank Digital
Unibank is one of Azerbaijan's leading commercial banks and has invested heavily in digital transformation, launching mobile-first banking products, contactless payment infrastructure, and fintech partnerships that position it as the country's most digitally progressive financial institution. Its innovation arm develops API-based services, digital onboarding flows, and data-driven lending products aimed at modernizing how Azerbaijani consumers and SMEs interact with financial services. Unibank's fintech initiatives are important to the local ecosystem because they create integration opportunities for startups building on open banking and embedded finance rails.
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Unity Technologies
Unity Technologies was founded in Copenhagen in 2004 as a small game studio and evolved into the Unity game engine, a widely used platform for building 2D, 3D, and real time experiences. Unity helped democratize game development with a friendly pricing model, cross platform deployment, and a massive developer ecosystem. The company expanded into industries like automotive, architecture, and simulation, and it went public on the NYSE in 2020. Unity remains one of the most influential Danish founded technology companies in the global developer tools space.
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Universal Robots
Universal Robots was founded in Odense in 2005 and pioneered collaborative robots that are safe, flexible, and easy to program for small and mid sized manufacturers. The company introduced affordable robotic arms like the UR5 and helped establish the global cobot category. After strong growth, Universal Robots was acquired by Teradyne and continued expanding its product line and ecosystem. It is a cornerstone of Denmark's robotics cluster and a global automation leader.
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Upvest
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.
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Useberry
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.
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UserGuiding
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.
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Uteach
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.
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uviago
Mobile app (Android and iOS) that rewards everyday drivers by automatically accumulating points in the background as they drive, with no manual interaction. Points are redeemable for discounts at partner merchants, and geo-discovery surfaces nearby offers along a driver's usual routes. Early-stage and recruiting its first national merchant partners.
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VanMoof
VanMoof is a Dutch e-bike maker known for its design-forward electric bicycles with a built-in anti-theft system, companion app for unlocking, ride tracking, and motor and gear customization. Its current flagship model is the S6, and the company sells and ships internationally from its Netherlands base after restructuring and relaunching following a 2023 bankruptcy.
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Varjo
Varjo designs and manufactures industrial-grade virtual and mixed reality headsets used in professional simulation, defence training, and engineering visualisation. Founded in 2016 in Helsinki by Nokia and Microsoft alumni, the company has raised over $200 million and pivoted strongly toward military and defence customers. In 2026 it launched ready-to-deploy XR systems for air-gapped and secure environments, backed by a €40 million R&D programme co-funded by Business Finland, and attracted a €5 million strategic investment from defence technology firm THEON.
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Vay
Vay is a Berlin-based mobility company founded in 2018 that develops teledriving technology, where trained human drivers remotely operate road vehicles from a station using a live video and control link. It offers a driverless door-to-door car service without an in-car driver and runs commercial operations in Las Vegas as well as testing in Europe.
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Vekia
Vekia is a Lille-based supply chain AI company whose platform forecasts demand, inventory, and logistics operations, generating AI-driven purchase and replenishment proposals prioritized to simplify day-to-day decisions. Its shortage management features give retailers and distributors a global view of stock levels with proactive stockout alerts, and the platform integrates with existing ERP systems to feed optimized order proposals directly into them. Legally a societe par actions simplifiees, Vekia is led by president Manuel Davy.
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Veridion
Deep-tech B2B data vendor (formerly Soleadify) providing AI-curated firmographic and supplier data via APIs for sourcing, risk, underwriting and market intelligence across tens of millions of companies.
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Veriff
Veriff is an Estonia-born identity verification company that has become part of the trust layer for digital businesses operating in regulated or fraud-sensitive environments. The platform helps companies confirm that a user is real and matches the identity documents they present, combining document analysis, biometric checks, liveness detection, and contextual fraud signals into a single workflow. That matters for fintech, mobility, marketplaces, and online platforms that need to balance conversion, compliance, and abuse prevention at scale. Estonia is a fitting home for a company like Veriff because the country's digital-state legacy and export-oriented software culture created strong conditions for trust infrastructure businesses. Within the broader European ecosystem, Veriff stands out as a Baltic company that turned regional technical strengths into a globally relevant category. It also connects naturally with adjacent infrastructure players in the directory: onboarding-heavy fintechs need identity verification, and workflow platforms can automate the compliance and security processes around those checks. As a result, Veriff is not just another startup profile, but a useful example of how European infrastructure companies become indispensable across many other sectors.
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VeritaCell
VeritaCell is a Latvian medtech company developing a point-of-care medical kit that lets surgeons extract a patient's own skin cells during surgery to accelerate post-surgical skin renewal and healing. The company describes its cell-isolation methodology as the most advanced simple, accessible approach to skin regeneration available to operating-theatre teams.
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Verkor
Verkor is the industrial champion of the French "Battery Valley" and one of Europe's most important energy manufacturing plays. While many battery startups emphasize chemistry R&D, Verkor's differentiator is execution at scale. Its gigafactory in Dunkirk, which began commissioning in late 2025, is designed to reach 16 GWh of annual capacity—enough to power roughly 300,000 electric vehicles. The facility is among the most advanced battery plants in Europe, built to supply automotive OEMs with locally produced, low-carbon cells. The year 2026 is Verkor's start-of-production milestone. Its cells are the core of the new Alpine A390 and other Renault Group EV programs, giving the company a high-profile anchor customer and a direct path to volume demand. Verkor positions itself around "low-carbon performance" by combining France's low-emission nuclear grid with a highly digitized Industry 4.0 production system that reduces scrap rates and energy intensity. The company argues that its batteries carry a materially smaller carbon footprint than cells manufactured in coal-heavy regions, which is increasingly important as automakers track embedded emissions across supply chains. Beyond production, Verkor is investing in future chemistry and process innovation. The Verkor Innovation Centre (VIC) in Grenoble is expanding its work on next-generation chemistries, including sodium-ion cells that reduce reliance on lithium and cobalt. This R&D focus strengthens supply-chain resilience and creates optionality for lower-cost, lower-risk storage solutions as electric mobility scales. Verkor's roadmap also includes tighter integration between materials sourcing, cell design, and recycling, positioning it to meet Europe's stringent regulatory requirements on battery sustainability and traceability. Verkor is backed by a mix of strategic and infrastructure capital. Macquarie Asset Management and Meridiam provide long-term project finance muscle, Renault Group anchors demand and industrial validation, EQT Ventures provides growth capital, and Sibanye-Stillwater supports raw material security. It was co-founded and supported early by EIT InnoEnergy and has strong operational ties to Schneider Electric, which helped design its digital factory systems. With support from the Macron administration and the European Investment Bank, Verkor has become a poster child for European industrial sovereignty. In 2026, it stands as proof that Europe can manufacture critical clean-tech hardware at global scale—and do it with a lower-carbon footprint.
