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/c/europe/ · updated 2026-05-08
region profile · #3 of 6 regions

Europe
is #3 in AI funding.

Europe is a top-3 power in the global AI race — $22.4B of all-time AI capital across 51 orgs, and 183 MW of operational AI compute across 11 datacenters.

LIVE #3 OF 6 REGIONS 5% OF WORLD UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$22.4B
all-time AI capital raised
#3/ 6
AI ORGS
51
notable AI organisations
#3/ 6
NOTABLE MODELS
9
shipped to date
#3/ 6
OPERATIONAL MW
183 MW
across 11 live DCs
#4/ 6
02 — Share of world
Europe 5/100 rest of world 95/100
Europe = 5% of world AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding worldwide: $407.8B across 40 countries.
Europe: $22.4B · rank #3 of 6regions.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF WORLD AI FUNDING
03 — Roster

Top 9 of 51 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding

see all 51 orgs
ORG LATEST FUNDING
Wayve 🇬🇧 London
A London autonomous-driving company founded in 2017 in Cambridge by Cambridge ML PhDs…
Feb 2026
$3.5B
Mistral AI 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-based open-weight LLM lab founded in 2023 by ex-Meta and ex-DeepMind researchers…
Sep 2025
$3.0B
Nebius 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
Dec 2024
$1.7B
Helsing 🇩🇪 Munich
A Munich-based defense AI company founded in 2021 by Gundbert Scherf (ex-German MoD,…
Jun 2025
$1.6B
Neura Robotics 🇩🇪 Metzingen
A Metzingen, Germany cognitive-robotics company founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur…
$1.5B
Contentsquare 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-founded digital-experience analytics company founded in 2012 by Jonathan Cherki.
$1.2B
Nscale 🇬🇧 London
Sep 2025
$1.1B
Ami Labs 🇫🇷 Paris
Advanced Machine Intelligence, a Paris-based world-models lab launched in March 2026 by…
Mar 2026
$1.0B
Legora 🇸🇪 Stockholm
A Stockholm legal-AI workspace founded in 2023 by Max Junestrand and Sigge Labor.
Apr 2026
$816M
ElevenLabs 🇬🇧 London
A London voice-AI lab founded in 2022 by Polish high-school friends Mati Staniszewski…
Feb 2026
$781M
Poolside 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-headquartered AI coding lab founded in early 2023 by Jason Warner, the former CTO…
$626M
IQM Quantum Computers 🇫🇮 Espoo
An Espoo, Finland superconducting-qubit hardware company spun out of Aalto University and…
$600M
Isomorphic Labs 🇬🇧 London
A London-based AI drug-discovery company spun out of DeepMind in 2021 as an Alphabet…
Mar 2025
$600M
Parloa 🇩🇪 Berlin
A Berlin contact-center AI company founded in 2017 by Malte Kosub and Stefan Ostwald to…
$560M
Lovable 🇸🇪 Stockholm
A Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform founded in 2023 by Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin,…
Dec 2025
$544M
Aleph Alpha 🇩🇪 Heidelberg
A Heidelberg-based AI company founded in 2019 by ex-Apple AI researcher Jonas Andrulis…
Nov 2023
$533M
Synthesia 🇬🇧 London
A London AI video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, and…
Jan 2026
$530M
Black Forest Labs 🇩🇪 Freiburg
A German image-generation lab founded in 2024 in Freiburg im Breisgau by ex-Stability AI…
Apr 2026
$450M
DeepL 🇩🇪 Cologne
A Cologne-based AI translation company founded in 2017 by Jaroslaw Kutylowski as a…
$415M
Pigment 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-based business planning software company founded in 2019 by Eleonore Crespo…
$397M
Quantum Systems 🇩🇪 Munich
A German aerial intelligence and defense drone manufacturer headquartered near Munich at…
$370M
Owkin 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris- and New York-based biotech-AI company founded in 2016 by oncologist Thomas…
$354M
Kyutai 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris non-profit AI research lab launched in November 2023 with €300M of seed funding…
$330M
Multiverse Computing 🇪🇸 San Sebastián
A San Sebastián, Spain quantum-AI software company co-founded in 2019 by CEO Enrique…
$326M
Stability AI 🇬🇧 London
A London-based generative AI company founded in 2019 by Emad Mostaque, best known for…
Jun 2024
$225M
H Company 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-based agentic AI lab founded in 2024 (originally as Holistic) by ex-DeepMind…
$220M
Pasqal 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-region neutral-atom quantum-computing company founded in 2019 by Nobel laureate…
$200M
PolyAI 🇬🇧 London
A London-based enterprise voice AI company founded in 2017 by Nikola Mrkšić, Tsung-Hsien…
$200M
Granola 🇬🇧 London
A London-based AI notetaker founded in March 2023 by Chris Pedregal (ex-Google, Socratic…
Mar 2026
$192M
T
Tractable 🇬🇧 London
Jul 2023
$185M
Xelix 🇬🇧 London
A London-based fintech company founded in 2018 specializing in agentic AI for accounts…
$185M
PhysicsX 🇬🇧 London
A London-based AI engineering company founded in 2019.
$170M
S
Sereact 🇩🇪 Stuttgart
Apr 2026
$140M
CuspAI 🇬🇧 Cambridge
A Cambridge, UK materials-discovery lab founded in 2024 by Chad Edwards (ex-Quantinuum)…
Sep 2025
$130M
1X Technologies 🇳🇴 Moss
A Norwegian-American humanoid robotics company founded in 2014 in Moss, Norway by Bernt…
Jan 2024
$125M
Riverlane 🇬🇧 Cambridge
A Cambridge, UK-based quantum computing company founded in 2016 by Steve Brierley as a…
Aug 2024
$125M
T
Tessl 🇬🇧 London
Nov 2024
$125M
Cradle 🇨🇭 Zurich
A Zurich- and Delft-based protein-engineering AI startup founded in 2021 by Stef van…
Nov 2024
$106M
Bioptimus 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-based biology foundation-model lab founded in 2024 by Jean-Philippe Vert…
Jan 2025
$76M
DeepJudge 🇨🇭 Zurich
A Zurich legal-AI company founded in 2020 by ex-Google researchers Paulina Grnarova,…
Nov 2025
$52M
Humanoid 🇬🇧 London
A London humanoid-robotics startup founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov, with offices in…
$50M
L
Latent Labs 🇬🇧 London
Feb 2025
$50M
Maisa AI 🇪🇸 Valencia
A Spanish agentic-process-automation company founded in 2024 by David Villalón and Manuel…
Aug 2025
$30M
Ankar 🇬🇧 London
A London IP-software startup founded in 2024 by ex-Palantir operators Tamar Gomez and…
Dec 2025
$24M
Gravis Robotics 🇨🇭 Zurich
An ETH Zurich spinout founded in 2022 in Schlieren, Switzerland by Ryan Luke Johns and…
Nov 2025
$23M
Browser Use 🇨🇭 Zurich
A San Francisco open-source startup founded in 2024 by Magnus Müller and Gregor Zunic.
Mar 2025
$17M
Linkup 🇫🇷 Paris
A Paris-based startup founded in 2024 building a production-grade web search API for AI…
Feb 2026
$13M
Procure AI 🇬🇧 London
A European procurement-automation company building an AI-native platform with 40+ agents…
Nov 2025
$13M
Anam 🇬🇧 London
A London-based digital-humans startup founded in 2024 by Synthesia alumni Caoimhe Murphy…
Jul 2025
$11M
Apertus Swiss AI Initiative 🇨🇭 Lausanne
A Swiss sovereign-AI initiative jointly led by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National…
Eclairion 🇫🇷 Paris
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04 — Compute skyline

17 datacenters 183 MW live · 634 MW planned

75 MW Nebius Mäntsälä A… 40 MW Start Campus Sine… 30 MW Nscale Glomfjord … 17 MW JUPITER (Forschun… 9 MW Leonardo (CINECA … 8 MW LUMI (CSC IT Cent… 4 MW MareNostrum 5 (BS… 310 MW Nebius Lappeenran… PLANNED 230 MW Stargate Norway (… PLANNED 50 MW Nscale Loughton A… PLANNED 44 MW Mistral / Eclairi… PLANNED
operational planned total: 817 MW
FACILITY POWER STATUS
Nebius Mäntsälä AI Cloud
Mäntsälä, Uusimaa, Finland
75 MW
operational
Start Campus Sines Data Campus
Start Campus - Sustainable Data Center Services, Sines, Portugal
40 MW
operational
Nscale Glomfjord AI Data Centre
Sam Eydes vei 47, Glomfjord, Meløy, Nordland, Norway
30 MW
operational
JUPITER (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany
17 MW
operational
Leonardo (CINECA Tecnopolo Bologna)
Tecnopolo di Bologna, Via Stalingrado 84, 40128 Bologna, Italy
9 MW
operational
LUMI (CSC IT Center for Science)
CSC Datacenter, Renforsin Ranta, Kajaani, Finland
8 MW
operational
MareNostrum 5 (BSC-CNS)
Torre Girona, c/ Jordi Girona 31, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
4 MW
operational
CoreWeave Crawley (Digital Realty LHR15)
Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom
operational
CoreWeave London Docklands (Global Switch)
East India Dock, London Docklands, United Kingdom
operational
Deucalion (MACC)
Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC), Riba de Ave, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
operational
Karolina (IT4Innovations)
IT4Innovations, VSB-TUO, Ostrava-Poruba, Czechia
operational
Nebius Lappeenranta AI Factory
Lappeenranta, South Karelia, Finland
310 MW
planned
Stargate Norway (Kvandal)
Kvandal, Narvik, Nordland, Norway
230 MW
planned
Nscale Loughton AI Campus
Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom
50 MW
planned
Mistral / Eclairion Bruyères-le-Châtel
Bruyères-le-Châtel, Essonne, France
44 MW
planned
Arrhenius (KAW Foundation / Linköping)
National Supercomputer Centre (NSC), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
planned
Stargate UK (Cobalt Park, North Tyneside)
Cobalt Business Park, North Tyneside, Newcastle, United Kingdom
planned
BAR HEIGHT ∝ MW · SORTED LIVE-FIRST, THEN POWER 11 LIVE / 17 TOTAL