Top Tech Startups in Europe in 2026

Our mission: to connect every system in the world! Tyk is an open-source API Gateway that is fast, scalable and modern. Out of the box, Tyk offers an API Management Platform with an API Gateway, API Analytics, Developer Portal and API Management Dashboard. SaaS, On-premises or Multi-Cloud? API Gateways require low latency, scalability, performance and reliability whilst minimising your total cost of ownership. We have designed Tyk Platform to work for your services, your team and your budget. With Tyk, you can focus on creating services instead of implementing management infrastructure. From completely isolated, on-premises installations to SaaS and Multi-Cloud deployments,m we have API gateway options that match your needs. With Tyk, you can focus on creating services instead of implementing management infrastructure.

Orb is developer-first billing infrastructure built to help companies succeed with usage-based pricing. We handle all the complexity of turning millions of usage data points into a simple invoice, so companies don’t have to staff whole engineering teams on billing. We power monetization for the building blocks of the internet.

Monte Carlo is leading one of the most promising emerging categories in SaaS, Data Reliability. Monte Carlo helps data teams manage data reliability in the same way that New Relic helps engineering teams manage application reliability. As companies invest millions to become data-driven, Monte Carlo helps solve one of the biggest challenges data/analytics/ML teams face today: making sure data can be trusted at all times by minimizing data downtime. Founded in 2019 by Barr Moses and Lior Gavish, Monte Carlo is backed by Accel, GGV, the former Chief Technologist of Cloudera, and former Chief Data Scientist of the United States.

Secfix helps companies stay secure at every stage of growth. With our security monitoring platform, we help companies get secured and certified (e.g. for ISO27001) fast and easy. We have been through the top accelerator and incubator programs in Germany, featured by prominent journals like Handelsblatt, and recently closed first funding round. With our initial product, a b2b marketplace for ethical hacking, we were able to win innovative startups and large enterprises as customers. Now, we are expanding our vision to help companies get secured and certified with help of automation and security monitoring tools.

Swoop is building a secure, distributed operating system, allowing our customers to securely harness their data and construct a programmable, autonomous edge. The edge is where digital rubber meets the real-world road. Where data is produced, consumed, or networked to accomplish an objective. It is covered in assets -- chips, memory, networking interfaces -- that comprise a distributed computing platform. The edge is strategically important and asset-rich. Swoop is helping unlock its potential, so that search and analysis no longer end simply with incremental insights or neatly organized search results, but with autonomous action directly at the edge. Swoop's technology has been deployed in some of the world's most sophisticated environments. Our team is purposeful in directing our technology toward solving important problems. We are building for a future where advancements in critical infrastructure, smart grids, supply chains, and manufacturing are programmed into existing systems -- rapidly, adaptive, and economically feasible.

Pirical is pioneering the field of people analytics in the legal sector with two market-leading products in UK & USA markets. Our technology supplies simple and beautiful data to recruitment, market intelligence, HR and diversity teams. We already count many of the world’s top law firms among our customers. Like us, you’ll enjoy working at Pirical if: > You want to be more than a number. You’re looking for somewhere to learn, grow and have experiences you wouldn’t get in a big corporate. Last year 1 in 4 of us had the opportunity to try a completely new role or team. > You want to work in a talented, hard-working and supportive team. > You’re mission-driven and motivated by using data and cutting-edge technology to improve thousands of workplaces around the world. Pirical has grown organically since 2015 thanks to customer love for our products. As a tech startup with solid fundamentals, Pirical is a great place to build a career. Our voluntary attrition rate is low: the average employee will stay with us for 9 years. If you're interested in how that number is calculated, you're in the right place.

Capital on Tap believe that the future is all about the impact that small businesses can have in the world. As such we are on a mission to help them thrive – cash flow shouldn’t be a barrier to success. Since launching our business credit card and business loans in 2017 we have been taking off like a rocket! We are one of the fast growing companies in the UK (Sunday Time Fast Track 100 in 2017 and 2018) while still posting a profit to fund our future growth. 2019 looks to be just as exciting (and busy!) as we continue on our incredible trajectory. Our people (and our office dogs) really are the best thing about working at Capital on Tap. We have built a dynamic, fun and vibrant culture where your opportunities for growth are as big as your ambitions.

Everyone should be able to live and work wherever they want. That is why housing should be as convenient as possible so that there is more time for the really important things in life. This is exactly what we at Wunderflats enable by offering furnished apartments on our platform from one month onwards. As the market leader in Germany, we want to give our tenants and landlords a unique service experience and empowering them with a new sense of freedom. Wunderflats was founded in January 2015 and is well funded by successful VCs and business angels from the real estate as well as the internet sector. We raised the last round in July 2019 with €8 million, which leads to total funding of €12 million. So that we can enable everyone to live anywhere anytime our team is looking forward to the support of more enthusiastic and like-minded people.

SPREAD’s mission is to make product information easily accessible & actionable for everybody. Our Engineering Intelligence Network connects all kinds of product data to help engineering teams gain an objective understanding of ultra-complex systems like cars, industrial and precision machinery, aircraft, and beyond. With use cases from R&D to Aftersales, SPREAD helps customers like Mercedes, VW Group, and Infineon to accelerate development cycles, increase quality, and eliminate millions in inefficiencies.

AlphaLab Capital Group is a technology-driven trading group that transacts over $2B daily in cryptoassets on 40+ exchanges, both centralized and decentralized. Since 2017, we have consistently generated exceptional returns (aka alpha). We were one of the first movers in quantitative trading on the blockchain, and today we operate thousands of algorithms 24/7 on a globally distributed network of trading servers. We see blockchain as the foundational technology of our generation. Just as ship-building innovations in the 1450s launched the Age of Exploration or TCP/IP in the 1970s launched the internet as we know it, blockchain now opens up new worlds of possibility. Much of the infrastructure, applications, and software that we will all take for granted in a few decades are only glimmers in someone’s imagination today. We founded AlphaLab because there is huge potential in building that future. It’s also going to be a lot of fun.