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Midas
Midas (Midas Software GmbH) is a Berlin-based fintech building infrastructure for tokenised real-world assets and composable on-chain investment products. It lets strategy managers turn institutional investment strategies into compliant, blockchain-based tokens (mTokens) that aim to give investors transparency, instant redemptions, and composability across DeFi protocols. Its first product, mTBILL, tokenises US Treasury bills as an ERC-20 token so holders can earn yield on-chain. The company describes itself as a German, BaFin-regulated and MiCA-compliant entity.
Mister Spex
Mister Spex is Europe's leading digitally native omnichannel optician, founded in Berlin in 2007 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker: MRX) since 2021. The company sells prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses online across five European countries and operates 65 physical stores in Germany alongside a network of over 300 partner opticians. Mister Spex serves over 8 million customers and employs around 1,000 people. It pioneered the online-to-offline model in European eyewear retail.
mRNA-Based Therapeutics Summit Europe 2026
Dedicated summit in Berlin for mRNA-based therapeutics, bringing together pharma executives, biotech researchers, and clinical development leaders. Covers R&D breakthroughs, manufacturing scale-up, and regulatory pathways for mRNA technologies in Europe. Relevant for biotech startups working on next-generation mRNA platforms and delivery systems.
N26
N26 is a Berlin-based digital bank with a mobile-first current account and financial products for consumers across Europe. In May 2024, BaFin lifted the growth restrictions previously imposed on the bank, clearing the way for renewed customer expansion. In 2025 N26 rolled out free stock and ETF trading for all eligible customers, adding investing to its core banking offering. The company positions itself as a full-stack European challenger bank with a focus on product breadth and operational discipline.
n8n
Berlin-based open-source workflow automation platform with 350+ integrations that lets technical teams build complex automations combining AI, APIs, and databases without vendor lock-in. Reached a $5.9B valuation in 2026 after SAP's strategic investment.
Net Zero Events
Leading event series organiser focused on accelerating the decarbonization of data centres and other energy-intensive industries. Through conferences and expos held across European cities, Net Zero Events connects sustainability-focused startups with facility operators, energy providers, and policymakers working toward net-zero carbon targets.
Net-Zero Data Centre Summit Europe 2026
Europe's leading event focused on accelerating data centre decarbonization, bringing together operators, technology providers, and sustainability leaders in Berlin. Covers renewable energy integration, cooling innovation, and carbon-neutral infrastructure design. Relevant for cleantech and infrastructure startups targeting the rapidly growing data centre market.
Net-Zero Data Centre Summit Europe 2027
The 4th Net-Zero Data Centre Summit Europe runs 12-13 January in Berlin. The summit brings together hyperscalers, colocation providers, utilities and policymakers to address Germany's 100% renewable electricity mandate, EnEfG energy-efficiency requirements and the first EU sustainability labels for data centres, moving the industry from ambition to regulatory-grade implementation.
NOAH Conference Berlin 2026
Invitation-only Berlin conference connecting 1,500+ digital CEOs, growth investors, and corporate M&A leads across fintech, SaaS, marketplaces, and digital health. Passes typically EUR 2,000-3,500. Known for high-quality pre-scheduled 1:1 matchmaking, a key deal-flow venue for Series B+ founders seeking late-stage capital.
Oliver Merkel
Oliver Merkel is Co-founder & CEO of the instant-grocery delivery company Flink. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Oliver leads the instant-grocery delivery company Flink.
OneFootball
Berlin-based football media and technology platform founded in 2008, offering live scores, news, stats and streaming (OneFootball TV) across 200+ leagues to a global audience.
Orbio Earth
Orbio Earth is a German climate-tech company providing satellite-based methane-emissions monitoring for the financial and energy sectors, helping operators detect leaks and prioritize emissions-reduction opportunities ahead of incoming regulation. Its platform delivers real-time measurement data for oil and gas infrastructure to support compliance and portfolio-risk management.
Parloa
Parloa is the German champion of enterprise AI for customer service. While consumer chatbots attract headlines, Parloa has built the operating system for large contact centers, enabling non-technical teams to deploy AI agents that handle complex voice and chat interactions. Its platform is trusted by large European enterprises such as Allianz, Decathlon, and Swiss Life, and it focuses on governance, compliance, and integration with legacy systems rather than flashy demos. In January 2026, Parloa announced a $350M Series D led by General Catalyst, reportedly valuing the company at about $3B. The round validated its strategic shift from "chatbots" to "agent fleet management." Parloa does not just deploy a single bot; it manages and audits thousands of agents, ensuring they remain compliant, minimize hallucinations, and integrate cleanly with back-office systems such as SAP and Salesforce. This operational emphasis is why Parloa has become the default choice for risk-sensitive industries like insurance, retail, and financial services. Parloa's 2026 roadmap is "voice-first AI." The company has developed speech-to-speech models that reduce the latency and robotic cadence that make older IVR systems frustrating. Its agents can handle interruptions, use backchannel cues, and operate across regions with language and accent adaptation, which is critical for multinational contact centers. With fresh capital, Parloa is acquiring smaller AI boutiques to consolidate the European market and is building a significant presence in New York to serve Fortune 500 clients in North America. The company is deeply connected to the Berlin AI ecosystem, with ties to Merantix and the wider Berlin AI Campus, and it has a strategic relationship with Microsoft for Startups and Azure deployment. Its investor base includes General Catalyst, Altimeter Capital, EQT Ventures, Newion, and Senovo, giving it a mix of global growth capital and specialized SaaS expertise. In 2026, Parloa stands out as Europe's clearest enterprise AI winner in customer service: a scaled, governance-heavy platform that makes autonomous agents safe and effective inside the largest organizations.
Patronus Group
Berlin-based healthtech company offering an emergency smartwatch paired with a companion app for elderly people living independently. The SIM-enabled device connects to a 24/7 emergency call centre at the press of a button and keeps family members informed. Serves 25,000 users and has handled over 500,000 emergency calls.
Paul-Tech
Paul-Tech is a German agri-tech company providing real-time soil and nitrogen-uptake monitoring hardware and software to help farmers, agronomists and agricultural businesses make data-driven fertilizer decisions. Its Soil-Station devices and field-management tools are available with English, Estonian, Finnish and Lithuanian language support, reflecting its reach across Northern and Baltic Europe.
Pitch
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.
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.
Point Nine
Point Nine is a Berlin-based seed-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Christoph Janz and Pawel Chudzinski, specializing in B2B SaaS and online marketplaces. The firm manages over EUR 500M across multiple funds and typically invests EUR 500K to EUR 3M at seed, with follow-on capacity into Series A. Point Nine has backed notable companies including Zendesk (pre-IPO), Algolia, Typeform, Mambu, Chainalysis, and DocPlanner, establishing a strong track record in vertical SaaS and developer tools across Europe and North America.
Project A Ventures
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.
Qdrant
Qdrant (pronounced "Quadrant") provides the memory layer for AI applications. As companies build AI agents in 2026, they quickly discover that large language models do not remember internal company data. Qdrant solves this by offering a high-performance vector database that stores embeddings for documents, images, and conversations and retrieves the most relevant context in milliseconds. That capability is the foundation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agent workflows across enterprises. Born as an open-source project in Berlin, Qdrant has become a default choice for teams building on modern AI stacks, especially in Rust and performance-critical environments. Its adoption accelerated because it can run anywhere—from embedded devices to large Kubernetes clusters—without locking users into a proprietary cloud. This flexibility, combined with strong performance and transparent licensing, has allowed Qdrant to surpass older competitors in developer mindshare and production deployments. By late 2025 it had raised a Series B and was widely described as a "soonicorn" within the AI infrastructure category. The 2026 breakthrough is Qdrant's hybrid search engine. Pure vector search captures semantic similarity but can miss precise keyword matches that matter in enterprise contexts. Qdrant combines semantic retrieval with keyword filters and metadata constraints, enabling queries such as "find a part like this" while also honoring exact identifiers like "Part #404-X" or compliance tags. This hybrid approach is now table stakes for enterprise RAG, and it has made Qdrant the database of choice for large-scale deployments at organizations such as Discord, Mozilla, and Deloitte. Qdrant Cloud is the company's managed service offering and is growing quickly as enterprises move from prototypes to production. It provides enterprise controls, observability, and multi-region deployments without sacrificing the portability that developers expect from the open-source core. Qdrant's ecosystem roots include Techstars Berlin and a strong open-source community, where the project has amassed tens of thousands of GitHub stars. Its investor base includes Spark Capital, Unusual Ventures, 42CAP, and IBB Ventures, giving it both global capital and local Berlin support. In 2026, Qdrant is the clearest European winner in vector databases: the infrastructure layer that lets AI systems remember and reason over real company data.
