Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in Europe

At Maihem, our mission is to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, to invent and build anything using intelligent robots. We are witnessing the start of a new industrial revolution—an era of rapid innovation and advanced manufacturing powered by AI and robotics. We aim to lead this shift by putting these tools into the hands of every manufacturer, ensuring the power to invent and build at scale isn’t a privilege of the few. But this era of abundance depends on solving a systemic labor crisis. For any economy to advance its industry and secure its supply chains, it must address the work that no longer attracts a human workforce. We are building AI to handle the dull, dirty, and dangerous. By offloading the hazardous and the mundane to intelligent machines, we empower manufacturers to compete globally while driving prosperity locally. In doing so, we enable the creation of new, purposeful jobs—ensuring that the future of innovation remains human-centric, boundless, and accessible to all. We are: - Backed by Y Combinator and founders of PayPal, Affirm, Slack – with a $6M seed round. Scout investments by Sequoia, a16z, Accel, and Kleiner Perkins. - Founding team of AI PhDs and previous startup CTOs** – everyone has a founder/CTO background. - Building with real industry partners from the start** – focused on shipping robotic solutions for real-world deployment in record time. Founding Team: - Max Ahrens (Founder & CEO):** ML PhD + Postdoc (Oxford University); led AI research projects with the Alan Turing Institute and UK Ministry of Defence; ex-McKinsey. - Simon White (Founding Software Engineer):** former YC startup founder/CTO; ex-defence systems engineer. - Joel Kang (Founding Product Engineer):** former AI startup founder/CTO; ex-LinkedIn; product-minded engineer focused on shipping end-to-end systems.

- Paytech solutions - Programmable payments - Solutions for fintech and SMBs

The Goodstack Company delivers the future of mobile applications. Design is headed up from our San Francisco office, and development is handled remotely in India.

The AI Travel Company: Building the next generation of trip booking and planning After returning from a solo trip through Europe, Founder Connor Wilson had the realization that life was more rewarding in person. He had enough of “social” media truly meant to manufacture FOMO to keep people online and sell them ads. Frustrated by the lack of tech designed to bring people together to discover and share memorable moments in the real world, Connor teamed up with co-founders Yu-Wei and Avinash to realize the belief that technology should enable real-life experiences, not impersonate them. ‍ Since launching in 2022, that ambition has centered on travel, building the platform for global travel experiences. Built for today’s tech, the heart of it all has always been this: helping people live happier lives through shared experiences. It’s why we design tools that make it easy to discover, plan, book, and share trips. The most meaningful moments don’t happen in apps; they happen with the people you share them with in the real world. Everything you need to make trips happen: We know OTAs like Expedia have made planning trips a mostly chaotic experience, but it doesn’t have to be. Our product ethos of building a hub for you and your group’s travel experience is rooted in three principles: collaboration, centralization, and simplicity. Built for large groups and solo dreamers alike, Pilot combines beautiful design with powerful functionality, helping you book, plan, and share trips in one seamless space. Whether it’s your first backpacking trip or your fiftieth team offsite, from daydreaming to departure, Pilot supports you (and 50,000+ others) every step (and stopover) of the way.

ComplyAdvantage is helping firms rethink how they combat financial crime and comply with regulations (specifically around Sanctions, AML and CTF). The team is on a personal mission to combat the rising threat of terrorism and fight the negative impact on society of money laundering. ComplyAdvantage's proprietary, dynamic global database of individuals, organisations and all their connections, provides fresh insight into financial crime risks (e.g. Sanctions, Watchlists, Politically Exposed Persons, Adverse Media). ComplyAdvantage's screening platform helps to safely automate the risk assessment of customers and transactions, and their real-time analytics enable firms to monitor customer activity and spot suspicious behaviours. ComplyAdvantage uses machine learning and big data coupled with a tailored risk-based approach to help a wide range of insurance companies and financial institutions improve automation, reduce manual work (‘false positives’) and make decisions faster.

A global platform that empowers sustainability: news, articles, startups, and a sustainability index. OUR STORY We were founded in Rome in 2014. From there, we established our presence online via our sustainability news portal: impakter.com PARTNERS We are partners of many UN organisations, NGOs, think tanks, research centers and Universities. PROFILES: Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/impakter Twitter: twitter.com/Impakterdotcom Facebook: facebook.com/impakterdotcom Instagram: instagram.com/impakter

Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.