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Ahti Heinla
Ahti Heinla, born 1972, is an Estonian software engineer who was chief technical architect of Skype and co-founded Starship Technologies, the sidewalk delivery robot company, in 2014.
Alex Kendall
Alex Kendall, born 1992, is a New Zealand entrepreneur and AI researcher who co-founded London-based autonomous-driving company Wayve in 2017 and leads it as chief executive.
Alex LeBrun
Alex LeBrun is a French AI entrepreneur and CEO of AMI Labs, the Paris AI lab founded by Yann LeCun, after cofounding Nabla and selling Wit.ai to Facebook.
Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob is a French quantum computing company in Paris, founded in 2020 by Théau Peronnin and Raphaël Lescanne, building a fault-tolerant quantum computer from superconducting cat qubits.
Amar Shah
Amar Shah is a British machine-learning researcher who co-founded the autonomous driving company Wayve and served as its first chief executive from 2017 to 2020.
Ambarish Mitra
Ambarish Mitra (born 1977) is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded and led Blippar, the British augmented reality unicorn that collapsed into administration in December 2018.
Aura Aero
Aura Aero is a French aerospace manufacturer founded in 2018 at Toulouse-Francazal by three engineers, which builds the certified Integral two-seat aircraft and is developing the 19-seat hybrid-electric ERA regional airliner.
Ben Maruthappu
Ben (Mahiben) Maruthappu is a British doctor and founder and chief executive of Cera, a London home healthcare and health technology company founded in 2016 that became a unicorn in 2025.
Blippar
Blippar is a London-based augmented reality technology company founded by Ambarish Mitra and Omar Tayeb, known for an app that unlocked digital content from objects and ads.
Carl-Erik Lagercrantz
Carl-Erik Lagercrantz is a Swedish entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the Stockholm firm Vargas with Harald Mix in 2014, building companies such as Northvolt, Stegra, Aira, and Syre.
Cera
Cera, also known as Cera Care, is a London-based healthcare technology and home-care company founded in 2016 by former NHS doctor Ben Maruthappu, using AI to predict health deterioration.
Charles Mimouni
Charles Mimouni is a French physician and founding president of Medadom, a Paris-based teleconsultation company founded in 2017 that places teleconsultation devices in pharmacies and was the first approved by the French Ministry of Health.
Christophe Jurczak
Christophe Jurczak is a French quantum physicist turned venture investor who co-founded Quantonation, the Paris-based quantum venture firm, and the neutral-atom quantum computing company Pasqal.
Cradle
Cradle is an Amsterdam-based software company founded in 2021 by Stef van Grieken, a former Google manager, selling a generative-AI protein engineering platform to pharma and biotech customers.
David Reger
David Reger, born 1988, is a German entrepreneur and founder and CEO of NEURA Robotics, a Metzingen robotics company that raised about $1.6 billion.
Dr. Alexander Glätzle
Dr. Alexander Glätzle is a quantum physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded planqc in 2022, a neutral-atom quantum computing startup in Garching near Munich, and leads it as CEO.
Dr. Sebastian Blatt
Dr. Sebastian Blatt is a quantum physicist who co-founded the quantum computing startup planqc in Garching near Munich and leads the Strontium group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.
Dr. Simon Haddadin
Dr. Simon Haddadin, born 1986 in Bad Oeynhausen, is a German physician and robotics entrepreneur who co-founded Franka Emika in Munich in 2016 and won the 2017 Deutscher Zukunftspreis.
Einride
Einride is a Stockholm-based freight technology company, founded in 2016, that operates autonomous all-electric trucks and was the first to run a cabless heavy vehicle on public roads in Europe.
Elie-Dan Mimouni
Elie-Dan Mimouni is a French physician and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Medadom, a teleconsultation company founded in 2017 that has served more than 10 million patients.
Emmanuelle Martiano Rolland
Emmanuelle Martiano-Rolland is a French engineer and business strategist who co-founded Aqemia, a Paris-based AI drug-discovery company, in 2019 with Maximilien Levesque and serves as its chief operating officer.
Fabien Raison
Fabien Raison is a French aerospace engineer and former Airbus pylon designer who co-founded the Toulouse aircraft maker AURA AERO in 2018, serving as its Chief Operations Officer.
FENECON GmbH
FENECON GmbH is a German manufacturer of battery energy storage systems for home, commercial, and grid-scale use, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Iggensbach, Lower Bavaria.
Filip Lilja
Filip Lilja (born 1982) is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded Einride, the electric and autonomous freight transport company, in Stockholm in 2016 with Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed.
Grzegorz Krysiak
Grzegorz Krysiak is a Polish technology executive who served as chief technology officer of ZnanyLekarz.pl, the Polish brand of DocPlanner, a Warsaw-founded doctor appointment booking platform that became the first Polish startup unicorn.
Gundbert Scherf
Gundbert Scherf is a German technology executive who co-founded Helsing in Munich in 2021, a defense startup that raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation in 2026.
Hans Steinbichler
Hans Steinbichler is a German pioneer in laser and optical metrology who co-founded the industrial 3D printing company EOS GmbH with Hans J. Langer in 1989.
Harald Mix
Harald Mix is a Swedish private equity investor based in Stockholm who co-founded Industri Kapital and Altor and backed Northvolt and green steel company Stegra through Vargas Holding.
Hjalmar Nilsonne
Hjalmar Nilsonne (born 1986) is a Swedish engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Neko Health, the Stockholm health-scanning company he started with Daniel Ek in 2018.
Jérémy Caussade
Jérémy Caussade is a French aerospace engineer and glider pilot who co-founded the aircraft manufacturer Aura Aero in 2018 and serves as its president and chief executive.