SaaS startup ecosystem
Software-as-a-service is a cornerstone of European B2B tech. From process mining in Munich to HR platforms in Dublin, European SaaS companies compete globally with strong unit economics and increasingly efficient go-to-market strategies. The Nordics and DACH region are particularly strong. We track 453 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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DOJO AI
Dojo AI is a Lisbon-based agentic marketing platform, founded in 2024 by Duarte Garrido (a marketing leader from Coca-Cola and Sky) and António Alegria (an AI architect from Portuguese unicorns Feedzai and OutSystems). Marketed as an Intelligent Marketing System, it uses multi-agent AI to autonomously monitor, analyse and act across marketing channels, built on a proprietary DOJO Graph that maintains a living digital twin of each customer's marketing operation. Its AI agents track paid and organic campaigns, audit SEO visibility, generate on-brand content and execute workflows in real time, positioning the product as a marketing operating system that consolidates many traditional tools. Serving challenger and enterprise brands primarily in the US and UK, Dojo AI has raised around $7M — a $1M pre-seed (2025) led by Berlin's Heartfelt VC and a $6M / €5.1M seed (2026) led by Lisbon's Armilar Venture Partners at a reported $30M valuation — with capital focused on US expansion.
Dublin Tech Summit 2026
Two-day summit at the RDS in Dublin with around 8,000 attendees, 300+ speakers, and strong buyer presence from IDA-backed multinationals. Passes typically EUR 300-700 with startup rates available. Programming emphasizes B2B startup-to-enterprise partnerships across cloud, SaaS, fintech, and AI, a key pipeline for founders targeting Irish and UK buyers.
Dublin Tech Summit 2027
Dublin Tech Summit 2027 runs 26-27 May at the RDS Dublin as part of Dublin Tech Week. The summit offers programming for IT professionals and teams across enterprise IT, SaaS, cloud, fintech and big data, alongside partnership and sponsorship opportunities for companies targeting the European tech ecosystem.
e-Logi Fest 2026
Armenia's specialized trade fair at the intersection of logistics, e-commerce, and supply chain innovation, combining expo, summit, and hackathon formats at the Karen Demirchyan Complex. Summit tracks cover sustainable logistics, cross-border trade compliance, AI in supply chains, and digital commerce trends.
eAgronom
eAgronom is an Estonian agriculture climate-tech company that helps farmers adopt regenerative practices and generate additional revenue through its Carbon Program, which develops and sells Verra-certified soil carbon credits. Its farm management software and automated data collection are used by more than 3,500 farmers across 13 countries on over 2.5 million hectares. In 2026 the company sold 29,000 Verra-certified soil carbon credits, generating EUR 1.46 million in revenue for participating farmers. eAgronom also offers sustainable farmer loans and leasing to help farmers finance the transition to regenerative agriculture.
Early Game Ventures
Early Game Ventures is a Bucharest-based venture capital firm that launched its first fund in 2019 focused on Romanian tech startups, achieving a reported 45% IRR on Fund I with 4 exits from 28 portfolio companies including Bunnyshell and Profluo. In April 2024 the firm launched Fund II targeting €60 million to invest in early-stage startups across CEE — primarily Romania (60–70%), with the remainder across Europe — at ticket sizes up to €6 million. Focus sectors include SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and deep tech.
Eight Roads Ventures
Eight Roads Ventures is the global venture capital platform of Fidelity, tracing its roots to Fidelity Ventures (1969). Headquartered in London for its European and Israeli operations, it invests exclusively from Fidelity's balance sheet rather than raising external LPs — a structure that affords long holding horizons. The European arm has deployed four successive funds, growing from £100M to a $450M fourth fund (2021), within a global platform managing over $5bn across Europe, Israel, India and Asia. The London team focuses on growth-stage and scale-up investments, writing $5–50M cheques into companies past product-market fit (roughly Series A–C) in SaaS and enterprise software, fintech, healthtech, consumer technology and climate tech. Notable European portfolio companies include Spendesk (France), Hibob (Israel/UK), Funnel.io (Sweden), Tibber (Norway), Swan (France) and Amenitiz (Spain); key exits include InnoGames (€260M to MTG, 2016), Compte-Nickel (BNP Paribas, ~€200M, 2017) and Made.com's 2021 London IPO. The team is led by Managing Partner Davor Hebel with partners Lucile Cornet and Michael Treskow.
Eléonore Crespo
Co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, the business-planning and forecasting platform. A former Index Ventures investor and Google analyst, she co-founded Pigment in 2019 and grew it into a fast-rising enterprise SaaS.
ElixMail
Professional email platform from Toulouse-based NovaForma Studio, combining a unified inbox (Gmail OAuth plus 20+ IMAP providers), AI features (summaries, multi-tone drafting, smart categorisation, 11-language translation), a built-in CRM, email tracking and voice dictation. Positioned as a GDPR-compliant French sovereign alternative to Gmail and Outlook.
Emma
Emma is an AI-powered English language learning app developed by the Paris-based EdTech company Edailabs. The app focuses on conversational immersion: learners practice speaking with an AI coach that analyses pronunciation, corrects grammar and adapts the conversation to the learner's level, aiming to reproduce natural spoken-exchange conditions. The product features an interactive avatar tutor. In December 2025 Edailabs raised €5M led by the specialist fund Educapital, with participation from Breega, Seedcamp, DMG Ventures and Yellow Ventures. This is the French AI-tutor company, distinct from the unrelated mattress brand of the same name.
Endeit Capital
Endeit Capital is a growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 and headquartered in Amsterdam, with additional offices in Hamburg and Stockholm. It manages a €303 million fund focused on AI-enabled fintech, climate tech, future of work, and security companies across the DACH, Benelux, Nordic, and UK markets, investing €7–15 million at late Series A to early Series B. The firm has made 64 investments and 25 exits, including the $330 million acquisition of 3D Hubs by Protolabs.
Ensk.ai
EnskAI is an EU company registered in Bulgaria that builds an AI-driven operating system for football agents and agencies, unifying player portfolios, club requests, contracts, commission tracking and scouting reports in one platform with a WhatsApp-based assistant. More than 200 agencies use the platform, which the company says has tracked over EUR 3 billion in player value; it was originally backed as a football sports-analytics company reducing subjectivity in transfer decisions. Ensk.ai is a portfolio company of Morningside Hill Capital Management.
Entrepreneur First
Entrepreneur First (EF) is a London-headquartered talent-first investor founded in 2011 by Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck, both former McKinsey consultants. EF pioneered the concept of Talent Investing — recruiting exceptional individuals before they have a co-founder or idea, then supporting them to form teams and build companies — across offices in London, Paris, Bangalore, New York, and San Francisco. The firm manages a fund of $158 million and has helped create over 600 companies with a combined portfolio value exceeding $11 billion. EF's standout portfolio companies include Tractable (AI for accident repair, valued at ~$1 billion), Cleo (personal finance AI), and Magic Pony Technology (acquired by Twitter).
Epidemic Sound
Epidemic Sound is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm that operates a royalty-free music and audio licensing platform for content creators. Founded in 2009, it provides creators, businesses, broadcasters and agencies access to a library of music tracks and sound effects, owning the rights to its catalog so users can publish and monetise content without separate licensing. The platform offers a Studio tool, mobile and desktop apps, and integrations with software such as Adobe Creative Cloud. In March 2021 it raised a growth round led by EQT Growth and Blackstone at a reported $1.4 billion valuation.
Episode 1 Ventures
Episode 1 Ventures is a London-based seed and pre-seed fund founded in 2013 by Simon Murdoch, Damien Lane, and Adrian Lloyd, all experienced entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies. The firm closed its third fund at £76 million in February 2024, bringing total capital managed to over £170 million across three vehicles. Episode 1 focuses on software-driven businesses in AI, infrastructure, health, open-source, and marketplace sectors, writing initial cheques of up to £2 million. The fund has backed 69 companies and achieved a 73% Series A graduation rate — three times the industry average — with notable portfolio companies including Carwow, Huboo, CloudNC, and Robin AI.
Esas Ventures
Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, Turkey's largest family-owned investment group backed by the Şevket Sabancı family, founders of the Sabancı Holding conglomerate. Founded in 2018 and operating from Istanbul with a London presence, the fund has built a portfolio of 38+ companies including four unicorns, with Getir, Deel, and Misfits Market among its most notable exits and holdings. The firm invests primarily at Seed and Series A stages in B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and consumer tech, with a global mandate spanning Turkey, the US, and Europe. Esas Ventures backed Insider through its $500M Series E led by General Atlantic, underscoring its capacity for large follow-on rounds.
Ethiack
Autonomous ethical-hacking platform combining AI agents and human hackers to run continuous penetration testing across external assets, internal networks, mobile apps and cloud environments.
EU-Startups Summit 2026
Summit at the Mediterranean Conference Centre with 2,500+ attendees and 400+ investors. Features the Big Pitch Competition with a prize package worth over EUR 1M and strong media visibility.
Ewa Chronowska
Ewa Chronowska is a Warsaw-based venture capital investor and entrepreneur who co-founded Next Road Ventures, a Polish early-stage VC backing B2B SaaS and marketplace startups across Europe. She is also founder and CEO of Vestbee, the largest startup-investor matchmaking platform in Central and Eastern Europe, and organises the annual CEE VC Summit — the region's flagship gathering for fund managers and LPs. Recognised as one of Europe's youngest female General Partners, she has backed 15+ companies including TrustMate, Epinote and Sunroof.
Expon Capital
Expon Capital is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Alain Rodermann, Jérôme Wittamer, Lily Wang, and Marc Gendebien. The firm has deployed over €90 million across 33 companies in 14 countries through successive Digital Tech Funds, with Fund IV planned for 2026. It backs seed and early-stage tech startups across cybersecurity, fintech, regtech, digital health, and edtech, with a particular focus on Luxembourg-origin companies. Notable portfolio successes include Salonkee, which grew to 250+ employees and raised a €28 million Series B led by PeakSpan Capital after Expon's initial investment.
