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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Veridion
Deep-tech B2B data vendor (formerly Soleadify) providing AI-curated firmographic and supplier data via APIs for sourcing, risk, underwriting and market intelligence across tens of millions of companies.
Veriff
Veriff is an Estonia-born identity verification company that has become part of the trust layer for digital businesses operating in regulated or fraud-sensitive environments. The platform helps companies confirm that a user is real and matches the identity documents they present, combining document analysis, biometric checks, liveness detection, and contextual fraud signals into a single workflow. That matters for fintech, mobility, marketplaces, and online platforms that need to balance conversion, compliance, and abuse prevention at scale. Estonia is a fitting home for a company like Veriff because the country's digital-state legacy and export-oriented software culture created strong conditions for trust infrastructure businesses. Within the broader European ecosystem, Veriff stands out as a Baltic company that turned regional technical strengths into a globally relevant category. It also connects naturally with adjacent infrastructure players in the directory: onboarding-heavy fintechs need identity verification, and workflow platforms can automate the compliance and security processes around those checks. As a result, Veriff is not just another startup profile, but a useful example of how European infrastructure companies become indispensable across many other sectors.
Vibecoder Wednesday #16
An open demo night at Kolektyw3 for people building with AI: participants bring a working app, a half-broken prototype or a weird experiment and show it, with open discussion, an open mic and no slides required. This edition is a special one for Poland Tech Week 2026, and tickets are pay-what-you-want.
Victor Riparbelli
Victor Riparbelli is a Danish entrepreneur based in London and the co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, the AI video generation platform valued at over $2 billion and one of Europe's most prominent AI companies. Alongside scaling Synthesia, he is an active angel investor in European AI and software startups, backing founders applying generative AI to enterprise workflows — including the AI coworker company Viktor.
Vienna Tech Summit 2026
A two-day tech and careers summit in central Vienna connecting developers, tech companies, and startups, with a job fair, talks, and networking. Useful for founders building engineering teams in the DACH region.
Viktor
Viktor is an AI coworker platform that lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams and executes business workflows end-to-end rather than only suggesting text. Connected to thousands of tools, it autonomously generates reports, builds dashboards, writes code, manages ad accounts, and runs data analysis on behalf of teams, positioning itself as an "AI hire" rather than a tool. Founded in 2023 by former Meta engineers Fryderyk Wiatrowski and Peter Albert, the company is headquartered in Warsaw with a second office in Munich. After a public launch in February 2026 it reached a €12.9 million revenue run rate within 10 weeks and is used by more than 2,000 organisations. In May 2026 Viktor raised a $75 million (€64.7 million) Series A led by Accel — reported as the largest Series A ever raised by a Polish technology company — with participation from Bek Ventures, Kaya VC, Inovo VC, and Tenacity Capital, alongside angels including Slack co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson and Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli.
Vilnius University
Vilnius University is Lithuania's oldest and largest university, founded in 1579, with a strong research profile in computer science and artificial intelligence. The university serves as the local organizing institution for Declarative AI 2026, a joint academic conference combining RuleML+RR, DecisionCAMP, and the 22nd Reasoning Web Summer School, held in Vilnius on August 24–30, 2026. The local chair, Linas Petkevičius, coordinates the event logistics and local arrangements on behalf of the university.
Vishal Marria
Founder and CEO of Quantexa, the decision-intelligence company using contextual data and AI to fight financial crime for banks and governments. He founded it in 2016 and grew it to unicorn status.
Visiopharm
Visiopharm is a Hoersholm-based AI-driven precision pathology company, legally Visiopharm A/S, that builds image analysis software combining 20 years of pathology and research experience with AI. Its products span tissue image analysis for research (Discovery), spatial biology multiplexed image analysis (Phenoplex), and CE-IVD diagnostic apps used with digital pathology scanners and PACS-IMS integrations, serving pharma services, drug development, and diagnostics customers. The company holds Quality System Certification and is headquartered at Agern Alle 24, Hoersholm, Denmark.
Vispera
Image-recognition and AI platform for retail and CPG companies, automating shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, price tracking and competitive intelligence from in-store imagery.
Viva Technology (VivaTech) 2026
Europe's largest startup and technology event at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, marking its 10th anniversary in 2026. Core value for founders is open-innovation deal flow with corporates and investors. Startup Challenge applications typically run on rolling tracks and often close in late March to early April 2026 depending on partner challenge.
Viva Technology (VivaTech) 2027
The 2027 edition of VivaTech, held 16-19 June 2027 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on Place de la Porte de Versailles. The organisers describe VivaTech as the world's rendezvous for startups and leaders to celebrate innovation, gathering the world's brightest minds, talents and products, and it remains one of Europe's largest technology and startup gatherings.
VNTR Summit Lisbon 2026
An invitation-style investor summit gathering roughly 300 vetted VCs, angels, family offices, and capital allocators during Web Summit week, a short walk from the main venue. For founders raising larger or later rounds, it concentrates curated deal flow and co-investment conversations away from the Web Summit crowd.
VoFact
AI-powered invoicing SaaS for freelancers and tradespeople that generates compliant PDF invoices in under 10 seconds from voice or text messages on WhatsApp, handling French requirements including sequential numbering, VAT and the 2026 e-invoicing mandate.
Voize
Berlin-based AI companion for nurses and care workers that listens as staff speak care notes aloud and instantly converts speech into structured EHR records, giving clinicians back up to 30% of their shift. Deployed at 1,500+ care facilities across Germany serving 100,000+ nurses. Raised €43M Series A led by Balderton Capital.
VRG Therapeutics
Biopharma R&D company using AI-driven protein engineering and wet-lab directed evolution to design highly selective miniprotein therapeutics targeting disease mechanisms resistant to small molecules and antibodies.
W3N 2026
The sixth edition of Estonia's emerging-tech festival, held at Vaba Lava in Narva on the EU's eastern edge. Gathers builders, founders, and operators around Web3, AI, and creative industries with a substance-over-hype focus — a rare flagship tech event outside the capital.
Wakeo
Wakeo is a Paris-based supply chain visibility company offering an AI-powered platform for shippers, freight forwarders, and carriers. Its products include real-time multimodal shipment tracking with predictive ETAs across sea, air, road, rail and parcel, a Trusted Routes tool for disruption alerts and route risk scoring, intelligent analytics on carrier performance, and a carbon footprint calculator for transport emissions. Customers cited on its site include Air Liquide, Corteva, Clasquin, and Fracht. Wakeo went through the Techstars Paris accelerator program in its first cohort and counts 50 Partners among its backers.
Wandelbots
Wandelbots is a Dresden-based robotics company founded in 2017, spun out of TU Dresden, that makes industrial robots easier to program. Its software abstracts away vendor-specific robot languages so that a single interface can control robots from different manufacturers, and it has moved toward AI-driven ('Physical AI') robot control for manufacturing.
Warsaw AI Breakfast #5
A breakfast meetup for AI practitioners at Kolektyw3 on Koszykowa 54, running every three to four weeks. The hundred-minute format opens with breakfast and networking at 8:30 and introductions at 8:45, then four-minute lightning talks called Reels in which speakers demonstrate what they have built. Sessions run in English and a ticket includes a day in the coworking space.
