Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in Europe

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. With a talent network of more than 30,000 people across hundreds of domains, Mercor is building a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. While computing power and engineering talent have advanced rapidly, AI models can only improve when they learn from real human expertise across disciplines like law, medicine, coding, and finance. Mercor bridges this gap by connecting top professionals with frontier AI labs, enabling them to share insights, provide expert feedback, and shape the reasoning capabilities of next-generation models. Backed by $350 million in Series C funding led by Felicis, with Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures, Mercor is now valued at $10 billion. At its core, Mercor’s culture thrives on impact, agility, and growth. Mercor powers its teams to build at the frontier of technology.

What are we building? Software was supposed to help us. Instead, it swallowed the working day. Everywhere you look people are buried under the burden of software. We are starting with automating email, turning it from a burden into a powerful competitive edge for people who grow businesses and build a reputation in their inbox. Think real estate, consultants, recruiters - people who spend hours on emails, scheduling, and follow ups. Unlike other startups, we're a pure-play applied AI company and not a SaaS company with AI features hastily bolted on. We use the best techniques (fine-tuned open-source models, tool use, and retrieval-augmented generation), and as a result, users send 53% of the email drafts we generate. How has it been going? From $1M to $25M ARR in the last 10 months, making us the fastest growing startup ever in the UK. We are backed by top-tier investors including: Marc Benioff (Founder of Salesforce), Harry Stebbings (Founder of 20VC), Douwe Kiela (Founder/CEO Contextual AI/Creator of RAG), David Singleton (Former CTO of Stripe), Des Traynor (CTO Intercom), Madrona (First Investors in Amazon/Snowflake). What do we value? We're very intentional about adding new people. We believe a small team of exceptional people working hard at a problem they care about will always outperform a larger, more unfocused team. That means you'll need to bring an intensity to this role that might not be expected at other companies but it also means you'll be fast-tracked into roles with greater responsibilities far earlier.

We are creating the base layer of monetization for the intersection of entertainment and e-commerce. Through the use of computer vision, we aim to radically change consumer shopping trends forever.

We focus on solving the hardest, most overlooked problems for the enterprises that depend on them. Supply chains have always been volatile, but the last few years have shattered any illusion of stability. Three ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ supply chain shocks—COVID-19, war in Europe, and tariffs—have tested even the most resilient operations. Most enterprises have hundreds of employees dealing with suppliers at different operational levels. Making analysts sift through siloed data and thousands of contracts is neither feasible nor economically viable. Companies must act fast to seize value to stay competitive. Humans alone simply can’t keep pace. Our first wave of Mages focuses on just this. Mages join teams as employees, executing work end-to-end to deliver savings on the back of the data transformation work that companies have worked hard on.

Aurify is an AI-powered creative platform that turns everyday photos into stunning AI-generated videos, avatars, and content — no prompts or editing skills required. We're building at the intersection of AI, social media, and creator culture, helping millions of people become part of extraordinary visual experiences.

We’re an end-to-end solution for launching, upskilling, or switching into a career in AI & data. We deliver an immersive programme that launches careers in Ai & Data at supersonic speed. Over 18 weeks, users log into the AiCore Portal, which gives them access to a sandbox cloud environment where they find everything that they would encounter in industry (data, running code, and other stuff) and are challenged to build and deploy production-grade systems, learning under the mentorship of industry experts. These systems are created using blueprints from leading companies such as Facebook, Airbnb, Pinterest and more, developed in collaboration with the engineers who built them. 'It's like a flight simulator for working environments' 97 million roles in AI & data will be created by 2025. There is no single path to one of those 97 million roles. But, there is a proven path - the AiCore programme. Hundreds of learners commit to the programme to launch their careers every year. You will play a vital role in scaling this to 3000 this year. We’ve been growing at +92% each quarter for over a year now. To keep up this pace, we need more ambitious individuals to join our high performing team and take on vital responsibilities.

Polyaxon is an enterprise-grade platform for building, training, and monitoring large scale deep learning applications. We're building a Cloud Native Machine learning Automation Platform. We are making a system to solve reproducibility, automation, and scalability for machine learning applications. With increasingly fragmented landscape of disparate tools, applications, computation resources across different special hardware and cloud providers, Polyaxon unifies and abstracts away infrastructure for easier and highly efficient machine learning and deep learning.