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 929 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
