Top Tech Startups in Western Europe in 2024

We hold a firm conviction that small businesses serve as the backbone of our economy and are an essential part of the social fabric that connects people. With the advancements in technology and access to resources, starting a small business has become more accessible than ever before. However, despite this progress, many small businesses struggle to succeed due to the high cost of business tools and services, which are often priced for larger enterprises. This unfortunate reality puts small businesses at a disadvantage, as they lack the resources to invest in expensive tools and services that could help them grow and compete in their respective markets. They are often unable to allocate significant funds towards marketing and advertising, which are critical for expanding their reach and attracting new customers. We believe that small businesses deserve access to affordable tools and services that can help them thrive and compete with larger companies. Our mission at Social Cat is to provide small business owners the tools and resources to run marketing as a professional without breaking the bank. Our goal is to level the playing field for small businesses and help them grow, succeed, and make a positive impact on the economy and the communities they serve.

GF-ACCORD AI was voted the runner-up startup in Geneva in 2023 by the Hackernoon magazine: hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-geneva-switzerland?ref=hackernoon.com hackernoon.com/company/gfaccord An AI project with mid-sized company level traction. In the fundraising phase. Top Google USA position for “AI Global Business Consulting” for the website of our Geneva based start-up gf-accord.biz and the sur.ly cybersecurity, “brilliantly safe” award in 2022 Benefitting from over 40-years’ combined experience in the use of IT to replace human work GF-ACCORD AI inherits the know-how of the original non-AI GF-ACCORD. Our AI replaces business analysts, marketers, strategists, financiers and representatives by software. Our products are the software modules which do a lot of the intermediate- advanced intellectual work and involve AI text processing. The employees are much less needed which is cost-efficient. The processes are accelerated and can be freely combined. Our software outputs can be tokenized and sold as NFTs “The global artificial intelligence market was valued at USD 65.48 billion in 2020, projected to reach USD 1,581.70 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 38.0% from 2021 to 2030”. Global value of IP trading in tech companies in general circa 1 trillion USD. 80% of value in Tech comes from intangible assets. Based on research of similar Silicon Valley start-ups, past history, digital impact, IP assets and the current technical valuation trends, the projected value of GF-ACCORD AI in 4 years will between 135 and 360 million CHF

Cognite is a global industrial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company enabling the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries. Our core software product, Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), powers companies with contextualized OT/IT data to develop and scale solutions that increase safety, sustainability, efficiency, and drive revenue. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Cognite has garnered the attention and partnership of some of the world's top industrial and tech companies, and the company’s success has been profiled in publications like Boston Consulting Group, Bloomberg, Digital Energy Journal, and Houston Chronicle. Google awarded Cognite Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year 2019 for Manufacturing and Austin Business Journal named Cognite 2020 Best Places to Work.

We're a company that specializes in cloud accounting services, offering an all-in-one business invoicing and accounting solution. Our software is easy to use, and since it's using cloud based technology, you can carry it everywhere you go, on PC or mobile devices. Our software also connects with a lot of the business world's most commonly used apps, such as Stripe, G Suite, and Shopify, so you don't have to change your core business payment model in order to integrate our software! With plans starting at $15 a month (even less when billed in bulk)< Our software along with our A-grade customer service will fit all of your business's accounting needs.

FINESSE is the new age of fashion, Zara meets Netflix - a vertically integrated fashion house leveraging AI on big data & community feedback to predict trends, forecast demand, and optimize distribution, producing hit sell-outs every time in record time & eliminating the guesswork and overproduction inherent to fashion today. Founded out of Stanford by computational artist Ramin Ahmari and backed by top investors across deep tech & consumer, FINESSE is creating the new age of fashion. With a largely female & POC team comprised of ex-execs & talent from leading fashion houses, published AI researchers and scientists who’ve worked under Nobel Prize winners, FINESSE strives to create an entirely new, tech-led paradigm of sustainable & ethical fast fashion. Beyond being the first, truly AI-led fashion house, FINESSE caters to an unapologetic new generation - one that refuses labels and stereotypes, denounces the lack of sustainability in fashion and lives for true self-expression.

We are travel agency and travel search aggregation company. We process over 6 billion queries across our platforms each year for travel information, helping millions of travelers around the globe make confident decisions. With every query, we search hundreds of travel sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages.

DailyPay is the leader in the on-demand pay industry with an unrivaled technology platform, an unmatched list of blue-chip clients and an extensive list of industry awards. We are rewriting the invisible rules of finance by creating a new financial system. A financial system that is more equitable and inclusive, and benefits everyone. A financial system that enables workers to access their earned pay when they need it. We believe that money should move faster and smoother between employer and employee, between merchant and shopper, between financial institution and customer. We are a mission-driven company hyper-focused on designing technology that can build a better financial system and future. It’s no wonder that we are growing at an extraordinary pace. Now we are looking for people who are as passionate as we are about reimagining how money moves. If you’re willing to define new rules, change systems and lives, come join us at DailyPay.

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale application infrastructure and applications. Combining metrics, traces, and logs from servers, databases, and applications, Datadog delivers sophisticated, actionable alerts, and provides real-time visibility of your entire stack. Datadog includes 350+ vendor-supported, pre-built integrations, and monitors hundreds of thousands of hosts. datadog.com

We launched Riot Games in 2006 to develop, publish, and support games made by players, for players. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve the League experience both in and out of game. Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and currently under the leadership of CEO Nicolo Laurent, we're headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and have 2,500+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide.

UpGuard is a complete third-party risk and attack surface management platform. Our security ratings engine monitors millions of companies every day. VendorRisk enables UpGuard's enterprise customer to control third-party risk and improve their cyber security posture by monitoring, rating and sending targeted security questionnaires to its vendors. upguard.com/product/vendorrisk UpGuard's BreachSight continuously monitors businesses for data exposures, enabling them to prevent breaches, protect their reputation and avoid regulatory fines. upguard.com/product/breachsight Companies in regulated industries such as financial services, energy and health count on UpGuard daily to guarantee their systems. UpGuard.com