Startup directory in Europe
Browse startup organisations across Europe. Each entry links to its country, city, and sector pages.
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Wia
Wia is a Dublin-based IoT cloud platform that helps businesses monitor occupancy, air quality, and energy consumption in real time to create smarter and more sustainable environments. Founded in 2015 by Conall Laverty, the platform is used by over 10,000 clients across 100 countries. Backed by Suir Valley Ventures and Enterprise Ireland, Wia has raised approximately €1 million in venture capital and its founder was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe. The company positions itself as an accessible developer-friendly IoT infrastructure layer.
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Wirestock
Wirestock is an Armenian AI data marketplace startup that sources and curates multimodal creative datasets — including images, videos, 3D models, and audio — for major AI foundation model developers. Founded in Yerevan, the company raised approximately $26 million total, including a $23 million Series A in 2026 led by Nava Ventures with participation from Formula VC and I2BF Ventures, and counts six of the world's largest AI model developers among its clients. Wirestock is a Platinum Sponsor of PyData PyCon Yerevan 2026.
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Wise
Wise (formerly TransferWise) is a London-based fintech that built a peer-to-peer international money transfer platform offering transparent, low-cost cross-border payments at the real mid-market exchange rate. Founded by Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus, Wise went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and now serves over 16 million customers, processing billions in cross-border volume each quarter. The company has expanded into multi-currency accounts, business payments, and a platform API used by banks and large enterprises.
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Wizata
Wizata is a Belgian industrial-AI company offering a platform for real-time insights and closed-loop automation across manufacturing processes in industries such as steel, cement, mining, food and beverage, and chemicals. It reports connecting more than 100 plants and 1,000+ assets globally, with clients citing improvements in quality, energy consumption, equipment efficiency and yield.
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Wolt
Wolt is a Helsinki-based delivery platform founded in 2014 by Miki Kuusi that expanded from restaurant food delivery into grocery, retail, and merchandise delivery across 27 countries. Known for its polished user experience and strong operational execution, Wolt became one of the Nordic region's most successful consumer tech companies. DoorDash acquired Wolt in 2022 for approximately $8.1 billion in an all-stock deal, using Wolt as its vehicle for international expansion. The Wolt brand and Helsinki-based team continue to operate DoorDash's business outside North America and Japan.
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Woltair
Woltair is a digital marketplace and installation platform for heat pumps and solar systems. It streamlines the complex process of finding qualified contractors, securing subsidies, and completing installations. By 2026, the company is a notable Czech green-tech player pushing heat pump adoption across Central Europe. Its operational advantage is a software-driven workflow layered on top of local installer networks.
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Wonderkind
Wonderkind is a Dutch recruitment-marketing technology company that automates candidate attraction on social media, prequalification, and delivery of interview-ready candidates into a company's applicant tracking system. It reports over 51% lower sourcing costs and under 48-hour candidate delivery for its clients, and counts staffing and recruitment agencies among its customers.
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Woodpecker.co
Woodpecker.co is a Wrocław-based B2B SaaS platform for cold email outreach and sales automation, founded in 2015 by Mateusz Tarczyński and Maciej Cieśla. The product lets sales and business-development teams run personalised, automated email sequences at scale and serves thousands of users across more than 100 countries. Largely bootstrapped, the company later listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (ticker WPR), making it one of the few Polish SaaS firms to reach public markets.
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Wordsmith
Edinburgh-based legal AI platform designed for in-house legal teams that captures, triages, resolves, and records every legal request from the business with AI assistance. Serves 500+ companies including BT, Financial Times, and Canva. Raised £52M ($70M) Series B from Highland Europe and Index Ventures in June 2026.
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Workable
Workable is an Athens-founded HR and recruiting platform that helps companies source, evaluate, and hire candidates through an integrated applicant tracking system, AI-powered sourcing, and structured interview workflows. The platform serves over 27,000 companies and has expanded from recruitment into broader HR operations including onboarding, time tracking, and employee management. Founded in 2012, Workable has raised over $100 million and built a globally competitive product from Greece, making it one of the country's most prominent B2B SaaS exports and a demonstration that world-class HR technology can originate outside traditional tech hubs.
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WorkFlex
WorkFlex is a travel compliance automation platform that helps companies manage international employee mobility, including workations, business trips, and work-from-abroad arrangements. Its software assesses cross-border compliance risks such as tax, labour law, and social security, and automates the related paperwork, handling A1 certificates, visas, posted-worker declarations, and tax requirements. Employers use it to track and approve temporary remote work from abroad while staying compliant. The company was founded in 2022 by Patrick Koch and Pieter Manden, the latter a tax lawyer who previously led PwC's remote work compliance function. WorkFlex is headquartered in Amsterdam.
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Workhuman
Workhuman operates a cloud-based employee recognition and continuous performance management platform used by over 7.5 million employees across 180 countries. Founded as Globoforce in Dublin in 1999 and rebranded in 2019, the company enables peer-to-peer recognition moments that drive engagement, culture, and retention at enterprise scale. Headquartered in both Dublin and Massachusetts, Workhuman employs over 600 staff in Ireland and has attained unicorn status, with clients including LinkedIn, Cisco, and Procter & Gamble.
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Workvivo
Employee experience and internal communications platform unifying intranet, engagement, comms and AI-powered search into one app. Founded 2017 in Cork; acquired by Zoom in 2023 and still operates from Cork.
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Xeropan
Xeropan is a Hungarian edtech company offering an AI-powered app for learning English, Spanish, French, German or Hungarian through interactive lessons. Beyond general language learning, it offers specialized courses in business, IT and legal vocabulary aimed at professional fluency, and its app has tens of thousands of App Store and Google Play reviews.
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Xolo
Admin platform for solo freelancers and one-person businesses, handling company setup (incl. e-Residency), invoicing, taxation and compliance. Serves 150,000+ users across 160 countries and has processed over EUR 6B in invoices.
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Xopero
Xopero Software is a Polish cybersecurity company building enterprise backup, disaster-recovery and data-protection solutions, including Xopero ONE, an MSP platform and GitProtect.io for DevOps environments (GitHub, GitLab, Jira). Poland's first cloud-backup provider for SMEs, it serves 100,000+ customers.
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YData
YData is a Portuguese data-quality and synthetic-data company offering a Fabric platform with a data catalog, synthetic-data generation and data pipelines, alongside an open-source YData SDK (including the ydata-profiling library). It serves financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and retail customers and has been recognized as a leading synthetic-data vendor in industry benchmarks.
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Yellow Submarine
Yellow Submarine d.o.o., trading as Submarine, operates a chain of gourmet burger restaurants in Croatia, with a location most recently opened in Rovinj. The company positions its burgers as all-natural and homemade, using organic produce, local dairy and 100% local beef patties prepared in-house. Yellow Submarine is a portfolio company of the Zagreb-based investor Prosperus Invest.
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Yokoy
Yokoy is a Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019 by Lars Mangelsdorf, Philippe Sahli, and Michael Fehr. The company automates expense reports, invoice processing, and corporate card management using machine learning, reducing manual finance workflows for mid-market and enterprise clients. Yokoy raised a Series B of CHF 80 million in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech funding rounds of that year, and has since expanded across DACH, the UK, and the Netherlands. The platform integrates with major ERP systems including SAP and Oracle and is used by companies including DocMorris and Montana. Yokoy competes with Concur and Payhawk in the European spend management category.
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YuLife
UK insurtech offering group life insurance and employee benefits gamified with wellbeing rewards to encourage healthy living. Founded 2016 in London; expanded to the US and South Africa.
