Top Tech Startups in Europe in 2027

Smartly is the AI-powered advertising technology company transforming ad experiences for brands and their consumers. Our comprehensive advertising platform seamlessly integrates the capabilities of media, creative, and intelligence to power more than 800 billion impressions and generate more than 300 billion creatives annually, delivering tangible business outcomes for brands and advertisers. Smartly is the only company in the industry recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Creative Advertising Technologies with PwC validating the results it delivers for brands. We manage creative and media for 700+ brands worldwide and $6B in ad spend across the largest media platforms, including Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Snap, and TikTok. Our end-to-end technology, unmatched access to media platforms and exceptional customer service help Fortune 500 brands to reach and engage consumers and learn what performs best.Smartly is a multinational and diverse team of 750+ Smartlies from 60+ nationalities, working in 13 countries. Together, we want to create and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and heard. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion approach is at the heart of it.

SeedLegals is the one-stop destination for taking care of all the legals you’ll need to build, run and fund your company. There are 100,000 new growth startups in the UK every year. Each spends thousands of pounds on unique documentation. SeedLegals uses the power of the network to change that. Using mass deal data and the network effect, SeedLegals gives you the knowledge, documentation and data to build corporate, team and funding agreements that are perfect for your company. SeedLegals gives each the knowledge & data to make the best decisions for their startup funding & legals, and puts them in control.

Intercom is the world’s first customer platform helping internet businesses accelerate growth. Thanks to the internet, the way people communicate is drastically different than it was 10, even 5 years ago. Messengers like WhatsApp have become the preferred mode of communication in every aspect of consumers’ lives, and now that switch is happening with businesses too. Intercom builds a suite of messaging-first products that all modern internet businesses can use to accelerate growth across the customer lifecycle- from acquisition, to engagement, and support. Today more than 25,000 businesses, including New Relic, Sotheby’s, and Shopify, use Intercom to connect with a billion unique people worldwide.

We are behind some of the most exciting technology in business today! With a nationwide VoIP network, we power leading brands changing the way people communicate, connect and do business. Crave innovation? We live for it. Our newest offering, Republic Wireless, is the nation's first wifi-based cell phone. Thanks to a team of skilled engineers, developers and marketers, we launched Republic to unprecedented national attention. Want to be inspired by a team of creative, passionate people? You've come to the right place. We've got a vibrant culture with some of the brightest minds in business. We're 350+ strong with experts in software engineering, development architecture, finance, analytics, R&D, sales, marketing and more.

Faire was founded in 2017 on the belief that the future is local. We’re helping independent entrepreneurs chase their dreams by building an online wholesale marketplace that connects local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands. Our platform empowers independent retailers with the advantages of big-box terms, and helps independent makers build and simplify their wholesale business.

Altinity is the leading service and software provider for ClickHouse - an open source SQL data warehouse offering industry-leading query speeds on petabyte-scale data. Altinity offers the highest expertise on the market to help customers deploy and run the most demanding analytic applications. We also provide innovative software to manage ClickHouse in Kubernetes, cloud, and bare metal environments.

MixRank specializes in providing ultra-high-frequency technographic, people, and company data to a diverse clientele, including data platforms, sales tools, recruitment solutions, and investment firms. Established in 2011 and operating as a remote, employee-owned company, MixRank offers the most updated data feeds in the market, updated hourly to ensure clients have the latest information. The company boasts a comprehensive database that includes over 20 million mobile app and SDK datasets, utilized by technology companies and agencies for enhancing sales, competitive analysis, and market strategy planning. MixRank’s website and tech install data offer insights into technology usage across company web pages, while its firmographic data covers over 45 million company profiles, providing key details on company locations, sizes, industries, and employee trends. MixRank’s people data is equally impressive, encompassing over 500 million employee profiles. This dataset aids in identity verification, sales enablement, investment insights, and talent platform development.

CarGurus (cargurus.com) is an online auto community that helps consumers research and shop for cars. Our free listings search tool analyzes prices of millions of available listings on the fly, so you can quickly find the best local deals from the best rated dealers. CarGurus was founded by Langley Steinert, co-founder and former Chairman of TripAdvisor.

Partly is UK-based, with an early team in the US, and our core engineering team in Christchurch, New Zealand. Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts and we're doing that by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Our big vision is to accelerate the world towards a sustainable future where waste is eliminated and all replacement parts are universally searchable, accessible and available to all. We've more than tripled our team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months. We're a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia. Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilise bleeding-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry. We provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Partly's solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online. Blackbird Ventures (Canva, CultureAmp etc.) led both our Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, alongside I2BF (NYC), Hillfarrance, Icehouse, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-Founder) and Dylan Field (Figma Co-Founder). We're continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring Partly is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. We're proud of the culture we've built at Partly, and our values are lived throughout every experience.

Payhawk is the leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses, present in more than 32 countries across two continents. Our customer-centric organisation and the product-oriented team have helped disrupt the expense management market, by combining company cards, expenses and invoice payments - enabling finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale. The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies including LuxAir, Gtmhub, and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Earlybird Digital East, and Eleven Ventures. Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work.