Developer Tools startup ecosystem
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3VC
Founded in 2017 as Capital300 and rebranded to 3VC, this Vienna-based firm invests EUR 1-10M at Series A in European tech challengers originating from DACH and CEE. The firm manages over EUR 250M and targets enterprise software, developer tools, and consumer internet companies with strong product-market fit. Portfolio includes GoStudent (edtech unicorn), Prewave (supply chain AI), and Storyblok (headless CMS). 3VC provides deep operational support through its network of 100+ tech executives across Europe.
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Agent Harbor
Developer platform for deploying and managing fleets of AI coding agents in copy-on-write sandboxes that mirror production, with stall detection, multi-OS testing and a unified orchestration dashboard.
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Alexander Lichter
Developer relations engineer at VoidZero and a Nuxt and Vue.js ecosystem contributor, known for his web development teaching and open-source tooling work in JavaScript and TypeScript. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Alven
Alven is an independent Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Guillaume Aubin and Charles Letourneur, making it one of the oldest and most established VC institutions in France. The firm manages €2 billion in assets under management across six successive funds, with its latest fund closing at €350 million in 2022. Alven focuses on seed through Series B investments across B2B software, fintech, marketplaces, developer tools, and consumer technology, predominantly backing French and European startups. Notable unicorn investments include Qonto, Dataiku, and Algolia, alongside a broader portfolio of 164 companies that includes Ankorstore, OpenClassrooms, Happn, and Meero.
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AmDev
Minsk Hi-Tech Park resident founded in 2017 and the development arm behind Amasty, which has built Magento extensions for over a decade. More than 260 products have come out of the product teams in Minsk, with over 250 modules shipped on the Magento platform, all created, implemented and supported from the same office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Apify
Apify turns the web into an API by providing a platform where developers build and monetize “actors” that extract data from websites. It has become a critical part of the AI data supply chain, powering scraping, monitoring, and automation at scale. The company bootstrapped to profitability before raising capital and maintains a strong open developer ecosystem. By 2026, Apify is a global leader in web automation infrastructure.
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Aptoide
Independent alternative Android app store and distribution platform with 430M+ users and 1M+ apps, one of the largest Android stores globally, with an AppCoins crypto rewards layer. Founded 2009.
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Arnau Gómez Farell
Senior full stack engineer at Tiptap, building the headless rich-text editor framework used across modern JavaScript and web applications. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Atila Fassina
Software engineer and developer advocate, lead of the SolidStart project and a core contributor to the Solid.js JavaScript framework, working as a fullstack engineer in the developer-tools space. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf.
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Awesomic
Subscription talent marketplace founded in Kyiv in 2020 (Y Combinator S21) that matches companies with vetted designers, developers and marketers within 24 hours.
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Bartek Pucek
Bartek Pucek is a Polish serial entrepreneur, prolific angel investor and AI writer. He was an early investor in ElevenLabs and Alokai (formerly Vue Storefront) and has backed 50+ pre-seed and seed startups across AI, infrastructure and deep tech, often alongside funds such as a16z, Sequoia and Y Combinator. Previously Chief Digital Officer at IKEA Poland and head of mobile at Grupa Onet–Ringier Axel Springer, he co-founded the AI lab Forward Operators and the AI startup Proofs, and now leads The Thinking Company, an AI transformation firm serving enterprise clients across Europe and the US.
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Bitmovin
Bitmovin is a video-streaming developer-infrastructure company that provides cloud-based tools for encoding, playing and analysing video, including a VOD encoder, a live encoder, a multi-device player and streaming quality-of-experience analytics. It originated from MPEG-DASH adaptive-streaming research at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and its founders were among the co-creators of the MPEG-DASH standard. Serving media and enterprise customers, the company operates dual headquarters in Klagenfurt and San Francisco and has raised venture funding including from Highland Europe, Atomico and Dawn Capital.
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Bitrise
Bitrise is a Budapest-founded mobile CI/CD platform that automates the build, test, and deployment pipeline for iOS and Android applications. The platform enables mobile development teams to ship faster by providing pre-configured integrations, automated testing workflows, and release management tools purpose-built for the complexities of mobile app development. Bitrise has raised over $80 million and is used by thousands of mobile teams including companies like Virgin Mobile, Grindr, and Transferwise. As one of Hungary's most successful developer tools companies, Bitrise demonstrates the depth of Budapest's engineering ecosystem in building infrastructure software adopted by global development teams.
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Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a German AI research lab focused on generative visual intelligence, describing itself as a frontier lab for models that understand, reason, and act in the world. It is best known for the FLUX family of image generation models, offered via a playground, an API, and open-weights releases on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub. The FLUX models have been widely adopted across open-source and enterprise platforms. In December 2025 the company raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B post-money valuation, co-led by Salesforce Ventures and AMP, with participation from a16z, NVIDIA and others.
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BUILD STUFF 2026
One of Europe's top software development conferences, held annually in Vilnius. Features world-class speakers on software architecture, DevOps, functional programming, and engineering leadership. Attracts 800+ senior developers and CTOs from across Europe. Tickets from EUR 300-600 with early-bird discounts.
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Carmen Huidobro
Chief Technology Officer at Incredible Holding GmbH and a web development educator active in the JavaScript and frontend community. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 ZurichJS Conf in Zurich.
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Cast AI
Application performance automation platform for Kubernetes that automates workload rightsizing, infrastructure scaling, cost optimization and self-healing across cloud environments. A Lithuanian unicorn serving 2,100+ companies.
