Europe's Rising Stars

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Myota

United Kingdom

Myota is a London-based gut-health startup making patented, clinically-validated prebiotic fibre blends designed to work across different gut microbiomes -- maximising short-chain fatty acid production while minimising the GI discomfort common with high-fibre products. Founded by CEO Kat Stennett and CSO Thomas Gurry, it sells flavourless fibre powders and snack bars direct-to-consumer (tripling its D2C base to over 60,000 customers last year) and is now building a B2B ingredients business supplying clinically-tested fibre blends to food, beverage and wellness manufacturers across the UK, US and EU.

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Ora Computing

Austria

Ora Computing is an Austrian deep-tech startup building information-theory-based compression software for large AI models, letting customers shrink LLMs by up to 80% in memory and run them several times faster with minimal accuracy loss. Its hardware-agnostic approach works with standard inference frameworks and targets the cost and energy of AI inference for cloud providers and edge-silicon use cases. The company was founded in 2025 by quantum-computing researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

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Ingenix.ai

Poland

Ingenix.ai is a Warsaw-based biotech startup developing a proprietary multimodal and multiscale generative AI co-pilot platform that simulates clinical drug trials from molecular to population levels, enabling granular predictions of clinical endpoints and adverse events to improve drug development efficiency and reduce failure rates.

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FaceUp

Czechia

FaceUp Technology operates a secure ethics and compliance platform combining anonymous whistleblowing, case management, an AI-powered hotline, surveys, and audit-ready reporting. The Czech-founded SaaS company serves 3,600+ organizations across 70+ countries, including Mercedes-Benz, Zendesk, Heineken, Sephora, KFC, and Vercel. It positions itself against legacy GRC providers by shifting compliance from a reactive checkbox to real-time workplace risk prevention.

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Innok Robotics

Germany

Innok Robotics is a German robotics company that builds fully-integrated autonomous mobile robot (AMR) systems, combining its own vehicle hardware, software, and AI-based 2D/3D sensor technology. Founded in 2012 and based in Regenstauf, Bavaria, it targets industrial automation and intralogistics use cases.

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MokN

France

MokN offers the first real technical response to ID theft, ingeniously using deceptive technology. By luring attackers into believing they have an easy point of entry to the network (a fake SSL VPN, for example), the solution recovers credentials that may have been stolen before they are used. Counterattack and Phish-Back your credentials.

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Circular11

United Kingdom

Circular11 is a Dorset, UK-based cleantech company, founded in 2021, that converts low-grade, hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-carbon composite lumber for fencing, furniture, and landscaping products aimed at the construction and estates sectors. Its proprietary, machine-learning-driven manufacturing process adapts to highly variable waste streams to produce a durable, low-maintenance alternative to timber. The company tracks the plastic diverted and carbon footprint of every product through its own digital operating system.

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Archestra.AI

United Kingdom

Archestra.AI is a London-based startup developing an open-source platform that empowers non-technical users to safely build and connect Autonomous AI agents to corporate data, addressing enterprise AI adoption challenges by layering security, permissioning, and compliance on the Model Context Protocol.

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Twinco Capital

Spain

Twinco Capital is a Dutch-Spanish fintech providing purchase-order finance, advancing capital to suppliers the moment a purchase order is issued rather than waiting for invoice settlement. Founded in 2016 and dual-headquartered in Amsterdam and Madrid, it uses proprietary risk models and real-time operational data to underwrite supplier performance risk in emerging markets, funding up to 60% of order value upfront and the balance on delivery. Its clients include retailers such as Mango, Vertbaudet, Lojas Renner and Centric Brands, and it has financed over $1 billion in transactions with zero credit losses.