AI startup ecosystem
Artificial intelligence is one of Europe's fastest-growing startup sectors, with hubs in London, Paris, Berlin, and Helsinki driving advances in generative AI, computer vision, and NLP. European AI startups benefit from strong academic research, increasing VC specialisation, and growing enterprise demand across industries. We track 892 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Ewa Chronowska
Ewa Chronowska is a Warsaw-based venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded Next Road Ventures, a Polish early-stage VC backing B2B SaaS and marketplace startups across Europe. She is also founder and CEO of Vestbee, the largest startup-investor matchmaking platform in Central and Eastern Europe, and organises the annual CEE VC Summit — the region's flagship gathering for fund managers and LPs. Recognised as one of Europe's youngest female General Partners, she has backed 15+ companies including TrustMate, Epinote and Sunroof.
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Exabel
Exabel is a financial technology company, based in Oslo, New York, and London, that operates an alternative data platform for investment managers. It integrates more than 75 alternative datasets with fundamental KPIs from providers such as FactSet and Visible Alpha, letting portfolio managers, data scientists, and data strategists discover, evaluate, and analyze data to generate investable insights. Clients cited on its site include hedge funds, pension funds, and global asset owners managing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets.
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ExoMatter
AI-driven materials-discovery platform spun out of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) that accelerates identification of novel materials by up to 90%. Clients including Audi, Airbus and Infineon use it to focus R&D on the most promising candidates.
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EY Malta Future Realised 2026
Future Realised is EY Malta's flagship annual business forum, now in its 22nd year, held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta. The 2026 edition is built around two themes, geopolitics and artificial intelligence, convening over 1,000 senior executives, policymakers and international stakeholders to discuss Malta's competitiveness, resilience and how organisations can scale AI, including sovereign AI, with proper governance and control.
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Fawzi Goussous
Fawzi Goussous is the Founder and CEO of Qualia Solutions, an award-winning AI company delivering custom AI agents, voice assistants, and business automation solutions. He leads a team focused on practical AI deployments for enterprise clients across Cyprus and the broader MENA region. He is a confirmed speaker at the Cyprus AI Expo 2026, where he presents on applied AI deployment and intelligent automation for business.
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Feedzai
AI-native fraud and financial-crime prevention platform for banks and payment networks, securing trillions in payments annually. Founded 2011; unicorn since 2021; selected by the ECB for Digital Euro fraud prevention.
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Festival of Entrepreneurs 2026
A founder-centric event at the NEC expecting 5,000 founders, 200 speakers, and 150 exhibitors. The 2026 agenda targets the decisions founders are making now — raising capital, applying AI in the business, leadership, and preparing to scale.
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Fifth Dimension AI
London-based AI decision-intelligence platform for real-assets investors and managers. Its agentic AI Ellie unifies fragmented institutional and market data to prepare deal analyses, draft IC memos, monitor portfolio variance, and surface risk proactively. Serves clients with 98.4% accuracy on high-value lease-data extractions. Raised €22M Series A led by HV Capital.
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Fifth Quarter Ventures
Fifth Quarter Ventures is an early-stage VC fund founded in 2023 and based in Novi Sad, investing in startups across the Western Balkans and Adriatic region. The fund is led by General Partners Tihomir Bajić and Pedja Predin, both experienced operators who aim to be the first significant institutional investor in portfolio companies, taking board seats. Investment focus spans AI, developer tools, open-source software, Industry 5.0, and crypto/Web3. The fund received co-financing through Serbia's state Innovation Fund Serbia Ventures program and manages a portfolio of 12 companies.
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Filigran
Paris-based cybersecurity company that builds OpenCTI, an open-source threat intelligence platform used by national CERTs, defence agencies, and Fortune 500 security teams. The platform ingests and correlates threat feeds to help analysts map adversary infrastructure and prioritise incident response. Raised a Series A to accelerate international expansion.
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FinTech North: Leeds 2026
The tenth annual FinTech North Leeds conference, debuting a Pitch360 startup competition and backed by West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Mastercard. A direct, founder-relevant day for a Northern fintech startup to pitch, meet investors, and connect with corporates.
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FinTech North: Newcastle 2026
The sixth annual Newcastle conference from FinTech North, the focal point for fintech in the North East. Aimed at fintech founders, banks, and investors, it covers payments, AI, fraud, and regulation — a practical day for a North-East fintech startup to meet partners and corporates.
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Fintech Summit 2026 (Edinburgh)
A national fintech summit at the EICC Edinburgh, with content spanning green wealthtech, payments, and AI. Good for a Scottish or UK fintech founder wanting investor and ecosystem exposure at low cost.
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Fintech Talents Festival 2026
Billed as the UK's largest fintech festival, with nine content stages on open finance, payments, embedded finance, AI transformation, and fraud at The Brewery in London. For a fintech founder it offers broad coverage of regulatory and product trends plus access to banks and incumbents in one place.
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Firstminute Capital
Firstminute Capital is a London-based seed-stage venture firm founded by Brent Hoberman (Lastminute.com, Founders Forum) and Spencer Crawley. The fund backs first-cheque seed rounds across consumer, B2B SaaS, deep tech, and AI, with a strong LP base that includes more than 100 European founders. Firstminute is known for its global founder network and for taking convicted bets very early in a startup's life.
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FIRSTPICK
FIRSTPICK is a Vilnius-based pre-seed and inception-stage VC fund founded in 2022 by Dmitrij Sosunov and Andra Bagdonaitė. It backs early-stage founders from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with initial cheques of €100,000 to €500,000 and follow-on capacity up to €1 million, focusing on AI-enabled software. In 2026 the fund raised a second €25 million vehicle, bringing total AUM across two funds to €45 million. Portfolio companies gain access to a network of 100+ operators and 250+ founders.
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Flanks
Flanks is a Barcelona-based WealthTech platform that aggregates multi-custodian investment portfolio data for banks, wealth managers, and advisory firms. Founded in 2019 by Joaquim de la Cruz, Álvaro Morales (ex-Global Head of Santander Private Banking), and Sergi Lao, it is regulated as an AISP by the Bank of Spain. In early 2026 Flanks launched an AI Financial Advisor co-pilot, was selected by CaixaBank to power its GlobalView private banking aggregation, and introduced EDX — Europe's first standardised financial data exchange protocol. Over 100 institutions managing €37B+ in portfolios use the platform. Total funding: €14M (Series A, February 2025).
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Flo Health
Flo Health is the world's most popular women's health app, offering AI-powered period and ovulation tracking, pregnancy monitoring, and personalized health insights to over 300 million users. The company combines reproductive health data with machine learning to provide tailored content and predictions, and has expanded into telehealth and wellness features. Flo represents a major European consumer health success story.
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Florian Douetteau
Co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, the enterprise AI and data-science platform he co-founded in 2013. He grew it into a global leader valued in the billions, backed by ICONIQ, Tiger and a16z.
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Flower
Flower is a Stockholm-based energytech company founded in 2020 by John Diklev; its name is a contraction of flexible power. Flower develops hardware-agnostic AI and machine-learning software for forecasting, optimisation, and trading of flexible energy assets, including large-scale battery energy storage systems, solar and wind farms, hydro, EV charge points, and data centres, operating them as a virtual power plant to provide grid balancing, frequency regulation, congestion management, and day-ahead trading. Alongside its optimisation platform, Flower develops and operates grid-scale battery storage projects in Sweden. The company raised a Series A round led by Northzone in 2024.
