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🗺️ Mapping AI Europe
Headline put out its 2026 AI Europe 100 last week, splitting 100 AI-native European companies into six "breeds" by what they sell, not by sector. System Builders make up over 40% of this year's list (Attio, Wordsmith, Maki among them) and Lovable's zero to $400M ARR run is still the fastest curve on the board. Read the full list here.
Want to start building your own entry for next year's list? We are hosting a full day AI hackathon in Berlin on Saturday, 18 July. There are still a few spots available, so apply here.
👥 Open Asks & Co-Founder Matching
Looking to get matched or want to reach out to one of these builders? Use this form.
Early operator across startups, VC, and PE, now building a management OS for lawyers, tax advisors, and accountants in Germany, already with a pilot underway. Looking for a full-stack CTO co-founder, coffee or döner on him, he'll come to your city. Reach out through this form if that sounds like you.
Fixed income analyst who has spent years assessing construction and building materials companies from the credit side, now building an AI model that helps architects and engineers plan for off-site manufacturing earlier in the design process, cutting the back-and-forth between design and construction teams. Looking for a technical co-founder with experience in spatial or graph-based AI models. Reach out through this form!
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🚀 Early Stage Teams to join
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BottleCap AI is hiring an NLP Researcher and a Machine Learning Engineer to keep building efficiency-first LLMs. The Prague team just shipped ThinkingCap, cutting reasoning tokens by 46% on a fine-tuned Qwen3.6-27B, released open on HuggingFace under Apache 2.0.
Finto just raised $3.4M (Y Combinator, Gradient, Lightspeed) building AI agents that run accounting autonomously, already live at Arminia Bielefeld and Eat Happy Group. They're hiring an Entrepreneur in Residence to work directly with the CTO on high-ownership, end-to-end projects, a launchpad if you want to found your own company down the line. Apply here.
Gradium just extended its seed to $100M with NVIDIA joining, building real-time voice AI infrastructure (streaming STT, TTS, live translation) out of Paris. They're expanding to the Bay Area, but still hiring in Paris too, including a first Developer Community Lead hire to build Discord, GitHub, meetups and hackathons from scratch. Apply here.
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