Startup directory in Europe
Browse startup organisations across Europe. Each entry links to its country, city, and sector pages.
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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.
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VXSoft
VXSoft is an Armenian software company specializing in e-Governance solutions, including electronic document management systems, business registers, and civil status registers for the public sector. Co-founded by Ruben Manukyan (CTO and Architect) and Vahagn Mkhitaryan (Founder and President), the company operates offices in Yerevan, Dublin, and other locations, with core software development carried out in Armenia. VXSoft is the Diamond Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026, and its CTO Ruben Manukyan serves as a member of the event organizing committee.
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Vytal
Vytal is a German reusable-packaging company providing a deposit-free reusable container system for the food and beverage industry, letting restaurants, cafes and retailers replace single-use packaging with trackable reusable containers returned via a network of partner locations. The system is designed to cut single-use plastic waste from takeaway and delivery food.
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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.
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Wallapop
Wallapop is a Barcelona-based mobile-first marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods, designed as a hyper-local consumer-to-consumer platform for used items. Launched in 2013, it grew into one of Spain's leading second-hand marketplaces and a key player in the circular economy. South Korean internet group Naver, an investor since 2021, agreed to acquire full ownership in a deal announced in August 2025 and completed in early 2026, while the company remained headquartered in Barcelona.
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Wallbox
Wallbox designs and manufactures smart EV charging hardware and energy management software, selling chargers in 100+ countries. Co-founded in 2015 by ex-Tesla engineer Enric Asunción and Eduard Castañeda, the company listed on the NYSE in 2021. Its Barcelona factory produces up to 1 million chargers annually. Q1 2026 revenue reached €29.7M with a 37.3% gross margin. A major Iberdrola contract for 10,000 Hypernova ultrafast public chargers is set to double ultrafast public charging in Spain, cementing Wallbox as the European leader in home and commercial EV charging.
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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.
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Wargaming
Wargaming is a Nicosia-headquartered game developer and publisher best known for the massively multiplayer online titles World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes, which together have accumulated hundreds of millions of registered accounts and defined the mid-2010s hardcore free-to-play category. Founded in 1998 in Minsk as a small strategy-game studio, the company moved its commercial headquarters to Cyprus in the 2010s for EU access and favorable IP treatment, and in 2022 shut its Russian and Belarusian operations entirely following the invasion of Ukraine, transferring the CIS business to a local licensee and concentrating development and live operations in Nicosia, Vilnius, Prague, Chicago, Austin, and Belgrade. Wargaming pioneered the free-to-play model for military simulation games, built its own proprietary engine and live-ops tooling, and runs one of the largest esports programs in the sector. In the European ecosystem it is the anchor of the Cypriot gaming cluster and a useful case study of a Minsk-origin studio reconstituting itself entirely outside the post-Soviet space.
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Wasp
Wasp is an open-source, full-stack TypeScript web framework co-developed by Croatian founders Matija and Martin Šošić. It integrates React, Node.js, and Prisma through a declarative configuration language, generating complete web applications with built-in auth, background jobs, and deployment. The company is Y Combinator alumni (W21) and raised EUR 1.3 million in seed funding led by Lunar Ventures.
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WaterSense
Cleantech spinout from Warsaw University of Technology building autonomous floating WaterStation units for inland water monitoring. The platform combines disposable electrochemical sensors with forecasting models to detect and predict ecological threats.
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Wayflyer
Wayflyer is a Dublin-based revenue-based financing platform that provides non-dilutive working capital to e-commerce and consumer brands, using their store, payments, and marketing data to underwrite advances in days rather than weeks. Founded in 2019 by Aidan Corbett and Jack Pierse, the company became one of the fastest Irish startups ever to reach unicorn status after raising a Series B at a USD 1.6 billion valuation in 2022, off the back of explosive demand from DTC brands that needed alternatives to equity and bank debt during the post-pandemic inventory crunch. Wayflyer's technical edge is its underwriting model, which ingests Shopify, Amazon, Facebook Ads, and bank data to produce forward revenue forecasts and risk-adjusted offers, and it has expanded from pure cash advances into a broader financial-operations product for e-commerce merchants. In the European ecosystem it is the clearest example of fintech built specifically around the growth capital needs of modern digital brands.
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Wayve
Wayve is a London-based autonomous driving company built around the idea that vehicles should learn to drive through end-to-end machine learning rather than depend primarily on hand-coded rules and pre-mapped environments. That design choice makes Wayve one of the most important applied AI companies in Europe, because it pushes autonomy closer to a generalized intelligence problem than a traditional automotive software stack. By learning from raw driving data and behavior rather than fixed rulesets alone, Wayve aims to create systems that adapt more fluidly to unfamiliar roads and edge cases. This approach places the company near the frontier of embodied AI, where perception, planning, and action are trained together. In ecosystem terms, Wayve sits alongside Europe's most ambitious AI infrastructure and model-building efforts, but with a direct path into physical-world deployment through automotive and fleet partnerships. It is therefore a strong example of how European AI can move beyond content generation into safety-critical systems. The company also highlights London's role as a regional AI hub where capital, research talent, and commercialization pathways increasingly overlap.
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We4Sea
We4Sea is a Dutch maritime-technology company providing real-time ship-performance monitoring for fuel efficiency and emissions reduction without requiring onboard hardware. Using a digital-twin approach, it reports vessel performance in near real time (up to 96 updates per day) for charterers, ship owners and other fleet operators.
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WEBCON
WEBCON is a Krakow-based low-code enterprise automation platform that enables large organizations to design, deploy, and iterate on business process applications without heavy custom development. The platform is used to digitize workflows such as invoice approvals, contract management, HR onboarding, and compliance processes, with deep integration into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint environments. WEBCON serves enterprise customers across Europe and North America and differentiates through its InstantChange technology, which allows modifications to live applications without downtime or redeployment.
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WeedBot
WeedBot builds autonomous laser weeding machines for organic vegetable farming, using computer vision and directed laser beams to destroy weeds without chemicals or manual labour. Founded in 2020 out of research at the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, the company raised €425k in a round led by Overkill Ventures in 2023. Its Lumina Laser Weeder is initially targeted at carrot cultivation, with plans to expand to other row crops.
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Wefox
Wefox is a Berlin-based insurtech company that digitizes insurance distribution and management for both brokers and end consumers. The platform enables insurance agents to manage policies digitally while also offering direct-to-consumer products. Wefox was valued at $4.5 billion at its 2022 peak and operates across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Poland. The company represents one of Europe's most ambitious attempts to modernize the insurance value chain through technology.
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Welcome Pickups
Welcome Pickups is an Athens-based travel technology company offering personalised airport transfers and in-destination travel experiences. Founded in 2015 by Alexandros Trimis and Savvas Georgiou, the platform lets travelers pre-book rides at fixed prices and combines transfers with additional in-destination services. It operates across more than 100 destinations and partners with hotels, airlines and travel agencies to handle guest transfers. In December 2022 it raised a €5.3 million round led by Market One Capital, Flashpoint and Venture Friends to expand its destination network.
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WeTransfer
WeTransfer is an Amsterdam-based file-transfer and creative-tools company founded in 2009, best known for its simple service for sending large files, alongside products for creative professionals. It grew into one of the Netherlands' most recognised consumer internet brands and was acquired by the Italian software group Bending Spoons in 2024.
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Whatagraph
Whatagraph is a Lithuanian marketing-reporting SaaS company offering a data hub to store, clean and transform marketing data, plus automated reporting for agencies, e-commerce teams and multi-location operators. Its product line includes an MCP integration to connect Whatagraph to AI tools and an early-access 'IQ Agents' feature for marketing intelligence.
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Whereby
Whereby is an Oslo-based video communication platform founded in 2013 (originally as appear.in inside Telenor). It offers browser-based video meetings requiring no downloads or guest logins, and a developer-facing Whereby Embedded API for adding video calling to third-party products. GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified, the platform supports healthcare, telehealth and education use cases. The company raised $12 million in Series A funding from Point Nine and SaaStr in 2021 and saw a 450% user surge during the pandemic, with adoption across 150 countries.
