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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Flowtly
Flowtly is a Warsaw-based AI business-management platform — marketed as an AI ERP — that replaces a stack of disconnected tools with a single system for small and medium-sized businesses in Central and Eastern Europe. The platform covers finance and invoicing, HR and team operations, leave tracking, project management, time tracking and a reservation system, accessible via web and mobile apps. It targets service-oriented SMBs of 2–100 employees in sectors such as software, consulting, marketing, B2B real estate and medical services. Built and operated by Flowtly P.S.A., the company is led by co-founders Bernhard Huber (CEO), Katarzyna Lisiecka (CRO) and Andrzej Nowiczenko (COO), whose backgrounds span enterprise software, high-growth digital products and financial supervision. Flowtly offers a developer API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration connecting to 50+ platforms, and in November 2025 launched a verified connector on Make for no-code automation. The product holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and is GDPR-compliant. No external funding has been publicly disclosed.
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Flyer One Ventures
Flyer One Ventures is a Ukrainian early-stage VC originally founded in 2018 as Genesis Investments by Vital Laptenok (co-founder of Genesis and BetterMe), rebranding under its current name in 2021. The firm has invested nearly €39M across 95 startups in Ukraine and Central & Eastern Europe across four funds. In July 2025 it closed Fund V at a target of €50M, backed by EBRD (€6.5M) and IFC (€5M), focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage founders from Ukraine and CEE building global products. The fund maintains a Kyiv identity and active pipeline of 1,300+ Ukrainian and regional founders despite operating with a distributed team.
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Fonoa
Dublin-based AI tax operating system for global businesses covering the full indirect tax lifecycle: ID validation, real-time determination, e-invoicing, and returns across 190+ jurisdictions processing over a billion transactions annually. Clients include Uber, Netflix, and Canva. Raised €94.4M Series C in 2026 and acquired PwC's tax platform.
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Food 4 Future - Expo FoodTech 2026
Europe's largest food innovation congress at Bilbao Exhibition Centre, with 250+ exhibitors and 320+ speakers covering automation, robotics, AI, packaging, and sustainability across the food and beverage value chain. Italy is 2026 guest partner country.
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Formula VC
Founded in 2021 by Grigor Hovhannisyan and Karen Vardanyan, Formula VC is a Yerevan-based early-stage fund focused on SaaS, IoT, and AI startups with Armenian roots. Fund I ($7M) was fully deployed into 22 companies including CoinStats, EasyDMARC, BlueQubit, Expper Technologies, and Zoomerang. In February 2025 Formula VC launched Fund II with a $30M target, aiming to back 40 Armenian-founded startups globally at pre-seed and seed. The fund invests $500K–$1M per company and is backed by C-QUADRAT AAM Armenia among other LPs.
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FOTOhub
FOTOhub, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Bydgoszcz, is an AI-powered creative platform that lets users generate and edit images, video, audio and text within a single system. Its orchestration layer integrates multiple AI models so creators and businesses can produce multimedia content without switching tools, alongside a browser-based studio with timeline video editing, audio mixing and design tools. The company reports over 400,000 users globally.
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Frank Thelen
Frank Thelen is one of Germany's most recognized tech investors and serial entrepreneurs, widely known for his role as a judge on the TV show Die Hoehle der Loewen (the German equivalent of Shark Tank). Thelen founded several technology companies before launching 10xDNA, his deep-tech venture capital fund focused on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space tech, and synthetic biology. As an angel investor, he has backed dozens of early-stage German and European startups, bringing operational experience from building and scaling software companies since the late 1990s. He is a vocal advocate for bolder tech ambition in Germany and frequently speaks on digital transformation policy.
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Frédéric Pascal
Frédéric Pascal is the Director of the DataIA Institute at Université Paris-Saclay and Vice-President for AI at Paris-Saclay University, one of France's leading research universities. DataIA is France's premier AI research and training institute, bringing together approximately 800 researchers across 47 laboratories and receiving official Cluster-IA certification from the French government in 2024. Pascal is a key figure in France's academic AI ecosystem and serves on the Advisory Board of Big Data & AI Paris 2026.
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Frumtak Ventures
Frumtak Ventures is Iceland's oldest active venture capital firm, founded in 2008 with a mandate to back local innovation with global potential. The firm takes a concentrated, high-conviction approach from seed through later growth stages, partnering closely with founders across AI, healthcare, logistics, energy, climate, and ocean-tech. Its fourth fund, closed in July 2024 at $87 million and oversubscribed, is primarily backed by Icelandic pension funds. The portfolio of 34 companies includes notable companies such as Controlant (pharma cold-chain) and Sidekick Health (digital therapeutics).
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Future Banking Summit 2026
Romania's largest fintech-focused banking summit at QOSMO Hotel in Brasov, with 30+ debate topics covering payments trends, SME financing, neobanking, and geopolitical impact on banking; 500+ participants and 50+ speakers in 2025.
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Future Product Days 2026
A three-day AI-focused conference at Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, blending curated talks with hands-on masterclasses. Targets product designers, engineers, and data professionals building real-world AI products, emphasising practical insights over hype.
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Future Week 2026
Media City Bergen's annual innovation week, anchored by the mcb tech conference for C-level and tech leaders, with workshops and open sessions. Relevant for media-tech and AI founders in western Norway.
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FutureTech Oulu 2026
One of Oulu's biggest autumn tech events, free and in English, gathering professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs around AI, human-machine collaboration, and dual-use and cybersecurity themes.
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FYLD
FYLD is a London-based company offering an AI-powered frontline intelligence and field work execution platform for the global infrastructure sector, including utilities, heavy civil infrastructure, and energy. Field teams capture short videos instead of completing static forms, and FYLD's AI analyses site conditions to identify safety, quality, and delivery risks before they escalate, while giving managers live visibility across jobs and automatically documenting actions for compliance and audit. It serves complex infrastructure organisations including Southern Water, Yorkshire Water, Ferrovial, Kier, and Amey.
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Fyxer AI
Fyxer AI is a London-based startup that builds an AI assistant for email and meetings, working inside Gmail and Outlook so users have nothing new to learn. Its product organises and prioritises the inbox, drafts replies in the user's own voice based on past conversations, and acts as a meeting companion that joins calls and takes notes. The company grew out of an executive assistant agency run by brothers Richard and Archie Hollingsworth before they launched the AI product, with Matt Ffrench as CTO. In September 2025 it raised a $30M Series B led by Madrona to expand into the US market.
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Gabriel Hubert
Co-founder and CEO of Dust, building AI agents for the enterprise. A repeat founder, he previously co-founded the product studio Alkemics and worked at Stripe before starting Dust.
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GAN Integrity
GAN Integrity is a compliance and ethics software company, originally founded in Denmark by the Global Advice Network (GAN) through a partnership among six European countries, that now operates from offices in Copenhagen, New York, and London. Its Integrity Platform covers third-party risk management, AI-driven due diligence, conflicts of interest, incident and whistleblowing case management, policy management, and gifts, donations and sponsorship tracking for corporate ethics and compliance teams. The company's CTO, Casper Guldberg, is based in its Copenhagen office.
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GapMinder Ventures
GapMinder Ventures is a Bucharest-based early-stage VC firm investing in B2B deep tech and SaaS startups from Romania and Southeast Europe, with portfolio companies including Druid.AI, FintechOS, TypingDNA, and Cyscale. Its second fund, GapMinder Fund II, targets €80 million — described as the largest VC fund with a primary Romania focus — and deploys first tickets up to €2.5 million in seed and late-seed stage companies across fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise automation, and data analytics. The fund targets founders from Romania, Moldova, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.
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GDG DevFest Istanbul 2026
One of the largest Google Developer Group events in Europe, drawing 1,500+ developers for sessions on Android, Flutter, cloud, and machine learning. Istanbul's massive developer community makes this a key hiring and community-building event for tech companies expanding to Turkey.
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Gege Gatt
Gege Gatt is the Chief Executive Officer of ebo.AI, a Malta-based conversational AI platform company focused on customer engagement automation for enterprises. He is a recognised figure in the Maltese technology and AI ecosystem and a frequent speaker at major industry events. Gatt is a confirmed speaker in the Data & AI track at TechTok 2026.
