Krakow, Poland · StartupAnswear.com is a Krakow-based online fashion retailer founded in 2011 that sells apparel, footwear, and accessories from over 500 international brands across Central and Eastern Europe. The company operates in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine, and went public on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2021. Answear focuses on mid-to-premium fashion with strong logistics and localization for each market. It has become one of the leading multi-brand fashion e-commerce platforms in CEE, competing with Zalando and About You in the region.
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Lisbon, Portugal · StartupClass of Wonders is an impact-focused edtech startup building gamified classroom tools and inclusive learning experiences, including language-learning adaptations for migrant children. Through Lisboa Innovation for All, the team presented MAGOS for All, and it has also participated in ecosystem initiatives such as Techstars Startup Weekend in Viseu.
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Vienna, Austria · StartupGoStudent is a Vienna-based online tutoring platform founded in 2016 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Mueller. The platform connects students with vetted tutors for one-on-one video lessons across subjects from math and science to languages. GoStudent raised over EUR 675 million and was valued at EUR 3 billion at its 2022 peak, making it one of Europe's most valuable edtech companies. The company operates in over 20 countries and has served more than 1.5 million tutoring sessions. After rapid pandemic-era growth, GoStudent refocused on unit economics and profitability, while expanding into AI-powered learning tools and school partnerships.
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Tbilisi, Georgia · StartupPhubber is a Tbilisi-based fashion re-commerce marketplace that combines the feed-driven social-shopping pattern popularized by Depop and Vinted with a mixed C2C and small-B2C inventory model tuned for the Caucasus. Buyers browse a scrollable, algorithmically ranked feed of pre-loved and indie-brand apparel; sellers can list in minutes with photos taken directly from the app; and the platform handles payments, local delivery integration, return flows, and dispute mediation so that trust — the usual blocker in peer-to-peer fashion — is not the user's problem. Phubber emerged as a breakout from the 500 Georgia/Eurasia program and is one of the more visible consumer-marketplace experiments coming out of Georgia, where most local tech is still B2B and fintech. It is a useful data point on how social-commerce patterns originally built for Western Gen-Z audiences are being re-implemented for emerging regional markets.
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Como, Italy · StartupD-Orbit is an Italian space infrastructure company focused on in-orbit transportation and services for satellites. Its best-known product line is built around orbital transfer and deployment: rather than leaving smaller satellite operators constrained by the primary mission of a launch vehicle, D-Orbit helps place payloads into more precise target orbits after launch. That changes the economics and flexibility of access to space for customers who need better control over deployment profiles. The company also reflects a broader trend in European deep tech, where success increasingly depends on integrating hardware, software, mission operations, and long sales cycles into a single commercial platform. D-Orbit therefore matters beyond aerospace alone. It shows that European startups can participate in the frontier infrastructure layer of the space economy instead of limiting themselves to downstream software or research projects. In this directory, D-Orbit helps extend coverage into spacetech and aerospace logistics, while also connecting naturally to the ecosystem's support organizations, accelerators, and cross-border industrial networks that often help hard-tech companies reach early validation and partnerships.
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Milan, Italy · StartupSatispay is a Milan-based mobile payments company founded in 2013 by Alberto Dalmasso, Dario Melpignano, and Samuele Pinta. The platform enables consumers to make in-store and online payments, peer-to-peer transfers, and savings directly from their smartphones without needing a traditional card. Satispay has built a network of over 350,000 merchant acceptance points across Italy and is expanding into France, Germany, and Luxembourg. The company has raised over EUR 450 million, reaching unicorn status with a valuation above EUR 1 billion. Satispay is Italy's most prominent fintech startup and a rare example of a homegrown payments network challenging card incumbents in Southern Europe.
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