Czech startups are emerging as a quiet powerhouse for European innovation, with AI, deep tech, and green solutions set to redefine the country’s economy by 2026.
Author: Kyle Kelley
Baseten secures $300M from IVP and CapitalG to scale enterprise AI inference infrastructure and challenge fast‑growing rival Together AI.
Berlin-based Cloover lands a €1.04 billion financing commitment to power its vision of becoming the “Shopify of energy” for installers, retailers and households across Europe.
UK startup Asymmetric secures $4.2M to cut cyber investigations from days to hours, using AI-driven graph tech to help security teams outpace attackers.
At Davos 2026, European leaders admit they are losing the AI race to the US and China and pledge fresh capital, regulation and deeptech support to narrow the gap.
How Poki’s browser-based platform, tools, and revenue model helped indie studios reach 1 billion plays by putting game developers first.
Female-founded Legato secures $7M to launch a no-code ‘vibe-coding’ platform that lets non-technical teams design and deploy custom SaaS apps at scale.
Munich deep tech startup Orbem raises €55.5M Series B to expand its AI-powered MRI from poultry to fruit, vegetables and healthcare, aiming to industrialise sustainable imaging.
Ethernovia raises a $90M Series B led by Maverick Silicon to develop Ethernet chips that enable real-time AI in autonomous vehicles and robots, with backing from Porsche SE and Qualcomm.
Jonathan Anguelov, co-founder of Aircall, returns for his third appearance at the EU-Startups Summit, set to share hard-earned lessons on scaling SaaS globally.