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Bitvavo
Bitvavo is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Amsterdam, founded in 2018, with over 2 million users across Europe and a leading share of euro spot trading.
Björn Jeffery
Björn Jeffery is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded Toca Boca, the Stockholm maker of digital toys for children, and led it as chief executive from 2010 to 2017.
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.
Brent Hoberman
Brent Hoberman, born 1968, is a British entrepreneur who co-founded lastminute.com with Martha Lane Fox in 1998, sold it in 2005, and later founded Made.com and firstminute capital.
Cameron Borrett
Cameron Borrett is a German-based product manager and startup co-founder, credited as co-founder and Chief Product Officer of the Berlin climate fintech Cloover from 2022 to 2023, after senior product roles at Klarna.
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.
Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse is a British mobile phone retailer founded by Charles Dunstone in 1989, whose stores closed in 2020 as the name became a Currys online channel.
Celonis
Celonis is a German enterprise software company, founded in 2011 as a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich, that sells process mining and process intelligence software.
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.
ChapsVision
ChapsVision is a French data-intelligence and agentic-AI software group, founded in 2019 by Olivier Dellenbach, that has grown through about 29 acquisitions into the Argonos platform.
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.
Charlie Mortimer
Charlie Mortimer is a British technology entrepreneur who co-founded Moneybox, the London savings and investing app, in 2016; the company reached about 1.9 million customers by 2026.
Checkout.com
Checkout.com is a London-based global payments company founded by Guillaume Pousaz, which began as Opus Payments in Singapore in 2009 and processed over $300 billion in 2025.
Chris Hulatt
Chris Hulatt, born 1976, is a British entrepreneur who co-founded Octopus Group in London in 2000 with Simon Rogerson and Guy Myles, and manages its institutional investor relationships.
Christian Hecker
Christian Hecker is a German fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Trade Republic, the Berlin neobroker and bank, in 2015; by 2025 it was valued at €12.5 billion.
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.
Clare Flynn Levy
Clare Flynn Levy is a fintech founder and former fund manager who founded Essentia Analytics, a London-based behavioral data analytics provider for professional investors, in 2013.
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.
Creatio
Creatio is a privately held enterprise software company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, with Ukrainian roots, selling a no-code platform combining CRM, workflow automation, and AI agents.
Dame Stephanie Shirley
Dame Stephanie Shirley, known professionally as Steve, is a British software entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the all-woman programming company Freelance Programmers in 1962 and became a major autism donor.
Daniel Kjellen
Daniel Kjellen is a Swedish technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Stockholm open banking platform Tink in 2012 and led it as chief executive until its acquisition by Visa for 1.8 billion euros.
Daniel Krauss
Daniel Krauss, born 1983, is a German technology entrepreneur who co-founded Flix SE, the Munich-based intercity bus and rail platform, and serves as its CIO and CHRO.
Darren Mills
Darren Mills is a British video-game executive who co-founded the Sheffield developer Sumo Digital in 2003, led its studio as director, and left when the founders stepped down in 2025.
Dávid Mészáros
Dávid Mészáros (Mészáros Dávid) is a Hungarian internet entrepreneur who founded ingatlan.com in 1997 as an architecture student and built it into Hungary's dominant property portal.
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.
Demet Mutlu
Demet Mutlu is a Turkish entrepreneur who founded and leads Trendyol, Turkey's largest e-commerce company, leaving a Harvard MBA to start it with $300,000 of savings.
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.
Eberhard Hinderer
Eberhard Hinderer is a German mechanical engineer who co-founded Vector Informatik near Stuttgart in 1988, managed it for about 26 years, and retired in 2014.