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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Alex Shershebnev
Engineering leader at Zencoder working on AI-assisted software development and developer tooling. He is an announced speaker at the DEV: Challenge Accepted 2026 conference in Sofia.
Alexandre Lebrun
Co-founder and CEO of Nabla, the clinical-AI assistant for clinicians. A repeat AI founder, he previously built VirtuOz and Wit.ai (acquired by Facebook) and led conversational-AI research at Meta.
Algorithmiq
Quantum software company relocated its global headquarters from Helsinki to Milan in May 2026, marking Italy's largest-ever quantum computing investment round of €18M. Develops quantum algorithms and classical-quantum hybrid software targeting drug discovery and industrial optimisation, with a focus on near-term quantum hardware.
Alicorn
Podgorica digital agency and ICT Cortex member describing itself as a 360 degree partner for everything digital. Its work spans branding and user experience, web and mobile development, artificial intelligence and automation, video game creation, and live event production and streaming, alongside marketing campaigns, analytics and search optimisation.
Alithea Bio
Accelerates cancer immunotherapy development with its HLA-Compass platform, a large quantitative database of HLA peptide presentation. AI-driven analytics predict off-target toxicity and support target discovery for safer, more precise therapies.
Alliance Venture
Alliance Venture is a Nordic venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies, with its main office at Parkveien 41B in Oslo and further presence in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. It backs Nordic founders with global ambitions, and its published portfolio spans fintech, healthtech, legal tech and climate tech.
Amar Shah
Co-founder of Wayve and a machine-learning researcher who completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge alongside co-founder Alex Kendall before starting the autonomous-driving company.
Amsterdam AI Conference 2026
Conference in Amsterdam focused on artificial intelligence, organized by Startup Network Europe. Brings together AI founders, researchers, and enterprise buyers for talks on applied ML, generative AI, and responsible AI deployment. Valuable for AI startups seeking early customers and visibility in the Dutch tech ecosystem.
Andre Retterath
General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital, where he leads investments in AI, software infrastructure and fintech. He is well known for data-driven venture research and writing on how machine learning is reshaping early-stage investing in Europe.
André Zayarni
André Zayarni is Co-founder & CEO of the vector-database company Qdrant. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, André leads the vector-database company Qdrant.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Andreessen Horowitz is a global venture firm that led ElevenLabs' early growth rounds and participated again in the company's 2026 Series D. The firm is active across AI infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise software, and consumer internet.
Antler Munich
Munich program operator for Antler's pre-seed founder residencies and investment cohorts. Antler Munich is an event organiser based in Munich, Germany. Organising events in the Accelerator Programs, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Tech space.
Antler Munich 2026 Cohorts
Pre-seed accelerator and VC program for founders in AI, data, and deep tech. The spring 2026 application cut-off passed on February 27, 2026 for a March 9 cohort start; applications continue on a rolling basis for subsequent 2026 cohorts. Typical Antler offer includes early investment and startup-building support from day zero.
Anton Osika
Swedish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI coding startup that lets people build software through natural language. He previously co-founded the e-commerce product-discovery company Depict.ai and was an early engineer at Sana Labs, with earlier research work at CERN.
Anyline
Anyline is a Vienna-based computer vision company founded in 2013 that provides mobile OCR and scanning SDK technology, enabling smartphones and tablets to read text, barcodes, IDs, license plates, and meter readings using the device camera. The company serves enterprise clients in energy, logistics, government, and automotive, with deployments in over 100 countries. Anyline has raised approximately $20 million and partners with organizations like the US Department of Homeland Security. It is a standout Austrian deep-tech company that turned on-device AI scanning into a scalable B2B platform.
Apex Ventures
Apex Ventures is a Vienna-based seed-stage venture capital firm launched in 2017 by Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, Wolfgang Berner, and Ulrich Gall, focused on deep tech, AI, medical devices, and digital health. The firm manages over EUR 50M and invests EUR 250K-1.5M in science-driven teams with defensible intellectual property, often emerging from leading European research institutions. Apex has backed companies including Prewave, Ribbonfish, and contextflow, and provides hands-on support in technology commercialization and clinical market access.
APX
APX is an earliest-stage investor based in Berlin, backed by Axel Springer and Porsche. It invests in pre-seed startups, positioning itself as the first institutional cheque a founding team takes. Neither cheque size nor programme terms are published on its site, so none are recorded here.
Aqemia
Aqemia is a Paris-based pharmatech company building an AI-driven drug discovery platform that combines quantum-inspired physics and machine learning to generate and prioritise novel drug candidates at scale. Founded in 2019 by quantum physics researcher Maximilien Levesque and former BCG consultant Emmanuelle Martiano, the company aims to design new molecules faster and cheaper than traditional methods. It raised a 60M euro Series A and later a $38M round led by Cathay Innovation in December 2024, bringing total funding past $100 million as it moves toward clinical trials and global expansion, including a London office.
Arbio
Arbio Group is a Berlin-based proptech company that operates an AI-native operating system for managing short-term rentals and serviced apartments across Europe. It combines full-stack property management services with technology to automate core operations including dynamic pricing optimisation, guest communication, accounting, and distribution across booking platforms, while keeping human oversight for hospitality quality. The company has grown partly through strategic acquisitions of existing property-management portfolios, and serves property owners and managers across the DACH region and beyond.
Arcads
Arcads is an AI-powered platform for creating video advertisements, primarily UGC-style ads featuring AI actors and avatars. Users provide a script, choose or customise an avatar, and the platform generates polished video ads with localisation across 30+ languages. It targets performance marketers, direct-to-consumer brands, and marketing agencies. Founded in 2024 by Dylan Fournier and Romain Torres, the company raised a $16 million seed round in December 2025 led by Eurazeo and said it was already profitable, with more than half of its users based in the United States.
