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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Madrid Tech Show 2026
A large umbrella tech event with 27,000+ visitors, 470+ exhibitors, and 400+ speakers, bundling cloud and AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, big data, and e-commerce shows at IFEMA Madrid. For B2B SaaS and infrastructure founders it is an enterprise lead-generation and exhibitor venue targeting IT decision-makers.
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Maître AO
AI-powered SaaS that helps SMEs and foreign companies respond to French public procurement tenders. Automates DCE analysis, technical proposal drafting and mandatory administrative forms, scanning 20+ procurement platforms in real time.
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Maja Schaefer
Co-founder and CEO of Zowie, the AI customer-service platform she started in 2019 (originally Chatbotize). A software-engineering graduate of AGH University in Kraków, she has scaled Zowie to serve enterprises like L'Oréal and InPost, raising around $20M from investors including Tiger Global, and has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
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Maker Faire Rome 2026
14th edition of Europe's largest open-innovation faire, held at the Gazometro Ostiense. Schools, university labs, early-stage startups and independent makers exhibit side by side across robotics, AI, IoT, digital fabrication, agritech, sustainability and space.
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Makersite
Makersite is a Stuttgart-based AI-powered product lifecycle intelligence platform that helps manufacturers understand and optimise their supply chains and products. The software connects a company's product and supply chain data with material, process, and supplier databases to support automated lifecycle assessments, product carbon footprint calculations, supply chain risk analysis, cost optimisation, and regulatory compliance. It integrates with enterprise CAD, ERP, and PLM systems and partners with firms such as Siemens, PTC, Autodesk, and Ansys. The company was founded in 2018 by Neil D'Souza, previously CTO at Thinkstep.
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Maki.vc
Maki.vc was founded in 2018 in Helsinki by serial entrepreneur and Slush Chairman Ilkka Kivimäki and former F-Secure executive Pirkka Palomäki, and now manages €260 million across three funds. Its November 2024 Fund III of €100 million targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the Nordics and Northern Europe, with tickets of €300,000–€3 million, focusing on deep tech, AI-native, quantum computing, green tech, and brand-driven consumer startups. The fund is backed by LPs including founders of Skype, Wise, RELEX Solutions, Aiven, and Supercell. Portfolio includes IQM Quantum Computers (unicorn 2025) and Enfuce.
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Malloc
Malloc is a Nicosia-based AI-driven mobile cybersecurity company, founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (YC S21), Urban Innovation Fund, and Dragon Capital. The company develops on-device protection against spyware, surveillance, and data theft for individuals, enterprises, and government agencies, with over one million users worldwide. Its flagship product, Antistalker, detects and blocks unauthorised microphone and camera access in real time. Malloc collaborates with NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and VISA on privacy and AI-based defence research.
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Malta Venture Capital (MVC)
Malta Venture Capital (MVC) is a €10 million government-backed equity fund launched in 2024 and managed from offices in Sliema, under the auspices of Malta Government Investments. It co-invests alongside private investors in early-stage, high-growth digital and technology-driven businesses, with each eligible startup able to receive up to €500,000 in equity. Target sectors include video game development, fintech, e-sports, life sciences, agritech, AI, and green energy. Since launch MVC has invested in five companies and assembled a network of 30 accredited co-investors.
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Malte Kosub
Malte Kosub is Co-founder & CEO of the conversational-AI customer-service platform Parloa. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Malte leads the conversational-AI customer-service platform Parloa.
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Mangrove Capital Partners
Mangrove Capital Partners is one of Europe's most storied early-stage venture capital firms, founded in Luxembourg in 2000 by Mark Tluszcz, Gerard Lopez, and Hans-Jürgen Schmitz. The firm manages over $1 billion in assets and has backed 8 unicorns, including Skype (a $2 million investment that returned $200 million) and Wix (an $8 million bet that returned $700 million). Mangrove invests at pre-seed and seed stage across Europe and Israel, with a team spanning Luxembourg, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, and London. Portfolio companies include Flo Health, WalkMe, K Health, Talkwalker, and Doctena.
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Manta
Manta is a data lineage and metadata-management platform that gives organisations visibility into their data environments by automatically scanning the data stack and mapping data flows, sources, transformations and dependencies. By generating this lineage and an audit trail, it helps businesses trace where data originated and how it evolved, and can discover and anonymise sensitive data to reduce regulatory risk. Founded in Prague in 2016, Manta was acquired by IBM in October 2023 and its data lineage was integrated into IBM's watsonx data and AI governance portfolio.
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Marathon Venture Capital
Marathon Venture Capital was founded in 2017 by George Tziralis and Panos Papadopoulos (co-founder of BugSense, acquired by Splunk) in Athens to back ambitious Greek and diaspora founders building global technology companies. Fund I reached €32M and Fund II expanded to €70M; Fund III closed at €75M in May 2025 (with €20M from EIF), bringing total AUM to approximately €175M. The fund leads seed rounds of €500K–€1M in sectors including cybersecurity, AI, defense tech, robotics, and energy. Notable portfolio companies include Hack The Box (cybersecurity training, $55M Series B led by Carlyle) and Augmenta (precision agriculture robotics, acquired by CNH Industrial for $110M).
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Marc Benioff
Chair and CEO of Salesforce, the enterprise cloud-software company he co-founded in 1999, and a prominent advocate for stakeholder capitalism and ethical technology. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
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Marc Blanchon
Head of Physical AI at the global technology and consulting firm Capgemini, working on the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the physical world. He researches and applies embodied and physical AI to industrial use cases, and is a confirmed speaker at the Techpoint Conference 2026 in Kristiansand.
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Marcin Żukowski
Co-founder of Snowflake and one of the most successful Polish founders globally, Marcin is active as a deeptech angel focused on data infrastructure and enterprise AI. Following Snowflake’s landmark NYSE IPO, he expanded his investment activity into European high-growth technical startups. Notable investments include Respo.Vision, Nomagic, and Mirai.
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Marios Anastasiou
Technology specialist at Google working on cloud and AI solutions. He is an announced speaker at the 5th Digital Cyprus Conference 2026 in Nicosia.
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MarketLeap
Luxembourg-based AI platform enabling direct-to-consumer brands to expand across global marketplaces by automating inventory management, pricing, marketing, logistics, compliance, and fulfilment. Founded by ex-Amazon executives in 2022. Raised $8M Series A from Expon Capital and Smedvig Ventures.
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Markus Pflitsch
Co-founder and CEO of Terra Quantum, the St. Gallen-based quantum-as-a-service company he co-founded in 2019. Pflitsch built Terra Quantum to bridge near-term quantum hardware with practical enterprise problem-solving in finance, pharma, logistics, and energy using hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. He previously worked in finance and technology entrepreneurship. Terra Quantum raised a Series A backed by Lakestar and Investcorp and has established research partnerships across European academic institutions.
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Mati Staniszewski
Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the AI voice and audio company. A former Palantir deployment strategist, he started ElevenLabs with childhood friend Piotr Dabkowski to build lifelike text-to-speech and voice cloning.
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Matsuko
Matsuko builds real-time holographic communication, enabling lifelike 3D telepresence using only a smartphone camera. The technology captures and transmits volumetric video without requiring VR headsets for capture, making it a practical “Skype for holograms.” By 2026, Matsuko has partnered with major telecoms such as Deutsche Telekom and Orange to demonstrate 5G use cases and positions itself as a leader in next-gen communication.
