Startup directory in Europe
Browse startup organisations across Europe. Each entry links to its country, city, and sector pages.
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Bitdefender
Bitdefender is a Bucharest-founded global cybersecurity company providing advanced threat prevention, detection, and response solutions for consumers, enterprises, and managed service providers. Founded in 2001 by Florin Talpes, the company has grown into one of the world's leading cybersecurity vendors, protecting over 500 million systems across 170+ countries with technologies spanning endpoint protection, network security, cloud workload security, and extended detection and response (XDR). Bitdefender's threat research labs are among the most respected in the industry, and the company licenses its detection technology to numerous other security vendors. With over 1,800 employees, Bitdefender is Romania's largest and most globally recognized technology company.
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Bitmovin
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.
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Bitpanda
Bitpanda is one of Austria's most visible fintech scale-ups and has evolved from a consumer crypto trading app into a broader digital wealth platform. The product now combines access to cryptocurrencies, precious metals, ETFs, and other investment products in a single interface aimed at making investing feel simple for mainstream European users. A major part of Bitpanda's strategic value is not just consumer distribution, but the compliance and infrastructure layer it has built around regulated digital investing. That regulatory posture helped the company move from a retail app narrative toward financial infrastructure, including B2B services that let banks and fintechs offer investing products through Bitpanda's rails. In the European ecosystem, Bitpanda represents the maturation of fintech and digital-asset infrastructure on the continent: not only speculation-led growth, but operational depth around licensing, custody, user onboarding, and cross-border product rollout. Its presence also expands the directory's coverage of companies that sit between retail experience and regulated financial plumbing. That makes Bitpanda a strong reference point for founders and investors tracking how European fintech platforms transition from category breakout into foundational market infrastructure.
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Bitrise
Bitrise is a Budapest-founded mobile CI/CD platform that automates the build, test, and deployment pipeline for iOS and Android applications. The platform enables mobile development teams to ship faster by providing pre-configured integrations, automated testing workflows, and release management tools purpose-built for the complexities of mobile app development. Bitrise has raised over $80 million and is used by thousands of mobile teams including companies like Virgin Mobile, Grindr, and Transferwise. As one of Hungary's most successful developer tools companies, Bitrise demonstrates the depth of Budapest's engineering ecosystem in building infrastructure software adopted by global development teams.
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Bitstamp
Bitstamp is one of the oldest continuously operating cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, founded in 2011 in Ljubljana by Nejc Kodrič and Damijan Merlak as a European alternative to Mt. Gox, and the first crypto exchange to obtain an EU-wide payment-institution license via Luxembourg. The exchange became a workhorse for professional traders and corporate treasuries in the early bitcoin era because of its deep order books, straightforward fiat rails, and relatively boring, compliance-first posture compared to more speculative venues. Bitstamp has moved its headquarters structure across Luxembourg, London, and the US over the years but its Slovenian origin and engineering roots remain, and in 2024 Robinhood announced a USD 200 million acquisition to use Bitstamp as the backbone of its European and institutional crypto business — a validating exit that puts Slovenia on the map for globally significant crypto infrastructure. For the directory, Bitstamp is the canonical Slovenian fintech deep-tech story.
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Bitvavo
Bitvavo is an Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2018 that lets retail and institutional users buy, sell and store digital assets, and is one of the largest crypto trading platforms in the Benelux region by volume. It is registered with the Dutch central bank and has expanded across Europe under the EU's MiCA regulatory framework.
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BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform, often hailed as France’s flagship startup success. Founded in 2006 by Frédéric Mazzella (along with Francis Nappez and Nicolas Brusson), BlaBlaCar was born from Mazzella’s realization that countless car journeys had empty seats. The platform (named after users’ self-described chattyness level – “Bla”, “BlaBla”, or “BlaBlaBla”) connects drivers with spare seats to passengers traveling the same way, so they can share the ride and costs. Today, BlaBlaCar has a 100 million-member community across 22+ countries, serving over 25 million travelers per quarter pre-pandemic. It operates in most of Europe and parts of Latin America and Asia, having successfully localized carpooling in markets like Germany, Russia, Brazil, and Turkey. The company also branched into bus travel: in 2018, BlaBlaCar acquired Ouibus from SNCF, rebranding it BlaBlaBus, to offer intercity bus routes alongside carpool rides. BlaBlaCar’s business model charges a roughly 10–20% booking fee from passengers in mature markets, though in new markets it often launches free to build liquidity. Known for its strong community culture, BlaBlaCar emphasizes trust – it introduced verified profiles, ratings, and even an optional “Ladies Only” carpool option. The company achieved unicorn status in 2015 when it raised $200 million at a $1.6 billion valuation and later was valued around $2 billion. Despite the pandemic’s impact on travel, BlaBlaCar rebounded by 2022, even reporting profitability. In 2023, it raised €100 million in financing to fuel growth. BlaBlaCar is often cited in case studies (Harvard, etc.) as a pioneer of the sharing economy in Europe, proving that a people-powered platform can transform intercity transport. By bringing cost-effective travel to millions and fostering new friendships on the road, BlaBlaCar has truly brought “ridesharing” into the mainstream – and stands as one of Europe’s few consumer-tech unicorns with global reach.
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Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a German AI research lab focused on generative visual intelligence, describing itself as a frontier lab for models that understand, reason, and act in the world. It is best known for the FLUX family of image generation models, offered via a playground, an API, and open-weights releases on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub. The FLUX models have been widely adopted across open-source and enterprise platforms. In December 2025 the company raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B post-money valuation, co-led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, with participation from a16z, NVIDIA and others.
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Blackshell
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.
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Blackwall
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.
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BLIK
Poland's dominant mobile-payment system, launched in 2015 by Polski Standard Płatności — a joint venture of six major Polish banks. BLIK enables in-store, online, ATM and peer-to-peer payments via six-digit one-time codes generated in a banking app, processes billions of transactions a year and has expanded internationally. Led by CEO Dariusz Mazurkiewicz.
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Bling Energy
Residential solar company offering panels, batteries, EV chargers and backup systems via a no-upfront-cost subscription model, aiming to cut household electricity bills by up to 50%.
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Blockbrain
Blockbrain builds private enterprise AI assistants that connect to internal knowledge tools such as Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and email. The platform creates context-aware internal search and answer workflows to reduce information fragmentation and speed up employee access to institutional knowledge.
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Blockpit
Blockpit is a Linz-based crypto tax and portfolio compliance platform, founded in 2017 as one of Europe's earliest crypto tax regulation trailblazers. Its tools include a crypto tax calculator, portfolio tracker, tax optimizer, and source-of-funds reporting, generating more than 1 million tax reports for over 350,000 customers across Austria, Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and other markets. Legally Blockpit AG, the company made two acquisitions in 2020 and 2023 to expand its European crypto compliance footprint and is led by co-founders Florian Wimmer (CEO), Gerd Karlhuber (CFO), Magnus Berchtold (CPO), and Tom Buchsteiner (CTO).
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Bloomin
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.
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Bloomineral
Creates carbon-negative materials using biomineralisation — permanently storing CO2 as a limestone filler derived from cement-industry waste. Founded in 2024 at the LSCE in Paris-Saclay, targeting industrial decarbonisation.
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Bloop
Bloop is a Lisbon-based social-commerce startup founded by Francisco Rodrigues (CEO) and João Neves (CTO), both alumni of companies including Amazon, Farfetch, Microsoft and Uber. Conceived in 2022 and formalised in 2024, it operates what it calls the world's first social shopping network — a platform that fuses a product marketplace with the mechanics of a social feed, turning ordinary consumers into paid recommenders. Users earn wallet credits of up to 10% of a purchase's value for publishing authentic recommendations, and up to 5% commission on referral sales, while sellers gain community-generated exposure instead of paid ads. At its July 2025 public beta the platform carried 200,000+ products from 150+ brands and reported a ~4.5% conversion rate. Bloop has raised about €1.5M in pre-seed capital co-led by Monarque Funds and Insure Broker, including one of Portugal's largest retail crowdfunding rounds, and targeted a €5M seed to expand into Spain and France.
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Blueground
Blueground is an Athens-founded proptech company launched in 2013 by Alexandros Chatzieleftheriou that leases, furnishes, and rents apartments for mid-to-long-term stays of one month or more. The company operates in over 30 cities worldwide including New York, London, Paris, Dubai, and Athens, targeting business travelers, relocating professionals, and remote workers who want hotel-like convenience with the space of an apartment. Blueground has raised over $310 million from investors including WestCap, Eurazeo, and VentureFriends. It is Greece's most prominent venture-backed startup and a leading European alternative to traditional corporate housing.
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Boleron
Digital insurance broker offering a marketplace to compare and buy auto, travel, health, life and property policies fully online, plus services like e-vignettes; licensed by the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission.
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Bolt
Bolt is an Estonia-born mobility superapp operating ride-hailing, micromobility (scooters and bikes), food delivery, grocery delivery via Bolt Market, and car sharing through Bolt Drive. The company reported about EUR 2.0b in revenue in 2024 and has said it is preparing for a potential stock market listing when conditions are favorable. Bolt continues to expand across Europe with a multi-vertical platform built around local operations and logistics density.
