The registry

Adyen

NetherlandsFree tier

Amsterdam acquirer sitting behind a large share of European e-commerce checkouts.

Aleph Alpha

Germany

Heidelberg lab building auditable, on-premise models for government and regulated industry.

Amp

United StatesFree tier, then $20/mo

The frontier coding agent — run locally or in orbs that keep working after you close your laptop.

Anytype

GermanyOpen source

Berlin local-first workspace: encrypted objects, offline by default, sync when you say so.

awork

Germany

Hamburg project and time tracking, shaped around how agencies actually bill.

Baserow

NetherlandsOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Amsterdam database-spreadsheet hybrid that runs on your own Postgres.

Beeble

South Koreafrom $19/seat/mo

AI VFX for filmmakers — relight, rotoscope and composite any shot, frame by frame, in one canvas.

BetaList

Singapore

A curated launch directory where early adopters meet pre-launch startups — paid submission, refunded in full if you're not selected.

Bitdefender

Romania

Bucharest vendor whose detection engine is licensed across half the industry.

Black Forest Labs

GermanyOpen source

Freiburg team behind the FLUX image models, with open weights at the smaller tiers.

Brevo

France

Paris email, SMS and light CRM in one place, with EU-held contact lists.

Bunny.net

Slovenia

Slovenian edge network with per-region pricing, edge scripting, and a dashboard that stays out of the way.

bunq

Netherlands

Amsterdam bank built mobile-first, with EU-wide IBANs for residents and businesses.

Cleura

Sweden

Swedish OpenStack public cloud with a managed Kubernetes layer and no US parent company.

CleverReach

Germany

German newsletter tool whose lists never leave German data centres.

Codeberg

GermanyOpen source

Git hosting run by a Berlin non-profit association, funded by members rather than a platform strategy.

Collabora Online

United KingdomOpen sourceSelf-hostable

LibreOffice in a browser tab, deployed next to your own file storage.

Contabo

Germany

Munich VPS provider competing almost entirely on how much RAM a euro buys.

Contentful

Germany

Berlin content platform for large multi-brand, multi-locale estates.

Coolify

HungaryOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Push-to-deploy for apps and databases, on a server you are already paying for.

Cortex Docs

United StatesOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Generate typed SDKs, interactive docs, and MCP servers from your API specs

Cryptomator

GermanyOpen source

Client-side vaults for the files you still keep in somebody else’s cloud.

CryptPad

FranceOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Zero-knowledge docs, sheets, slides and whiteboards, where the server cannot read the document.

Dailymotion

France

Paris video platform with a serious publisher and player business behind it.

DeepL

Germany

Cologne translation engine that professional translators quietly switched to years ago.

Deezer

France

Paris music streaming with lossless tiers and a deep European catalogue.

Ecosia

Germany

Berlin search that spends its ad margin on tree planting and publishes the receipts monthly.

Elastx

Sweden

Stockholm OpenStack and managed platform services, run fossil-free by design.

Element

United KingdomOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Matrix collaboration that several European governments already run on their own infrastructure.

Elva

United States

API management rebuilt for the agentic era — discover every API in your code and expose it to developers and AI agents.

ESET

Slovakia

Bratislava endpoint security, and one of the longest-running AV research shops anywhere.

EvilCharts

United StatesFreeOpen sourceSelf-hostable

MIT-licensed React chart components that ship twice — the same API on Recharts and Apache ECharts.

Executor

United StatesOpen sourceSelf-hostable

The open source tool gateway — connect any agent to everything.

Exoscale

Switzerland

Swiss and Austrian zones, a console you can learn in an afternoon, and no pricing calculator required.

Factorial

Spain

Barcelona HR suite covering absence, time tracking and document sign-off.

Filen

GermanyOpen source

German zero-knowledge cloud where the clients are open source and the keys never leave the device.

Forgejo

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

The self-hostable forge behind Codeberg: pull requests, actions and packages on your own box.

Fuga Cloud

Netherlands

Dutch OpenStack cloud that makes data residency the headline rather than the footnote.

G DATA

Germany

Bochum antivirus maker that processes its telemetry exclusively in Germany.

Gandi

France

A French registrar since the nineties, with mailboxes and hosting attached to the domain.

Gcore

Luxembourg

Luxembourg edge platform bundling CDN, DDoS scrubbing and GPU inference at the same points of presence.

Geoapify

Germany

German geocoding, routing and static-map APIs priced for small products.

Ghostery

GermanyOpen source

German tracker blocker with a private search front-end attached.

HERE

Netherlands

Amsterdam mapping and location APIs, owned by a consortium of European carmakers.

Hetzner

Germany

Cloud instances, dedicated boxes and colocation out of German and Finnish halls, at prices that make hyperscaler invoices look decorative.

Higgsfield AI

United States

The AI-native creative suite — 30+ video and image models, face swap, virtual try-on and Cinema Studio in one platform.

Hornetsecurity

Germany

Hanover mail security and Microsoft 365 backup, sold largely through managed service providers.

Hyrax

United States

Autonomous code review that ships verified fixes — and writes the codebase context back into your repo.

Icedrive

United Kingdom

Welsh provider whose selling point is a real mounted drive rather than a sync folder.

Infomaniak

Switzerland

Geneva host running on renewable power, with mail, drive and meetings stacked on top.

Infomaniak kSuite

Switzerland

Mail, drive, docs and video calls sold as one Swiss-hosted workspace.

Internxt

SpainOpen source

Valencia zero-knowledge drive with open-source clients and a separate photo vault.

IONOS

Germany

Domains, shared hosting and an enterprise cloud from the group that has hosted a large share of the German web for decades.

JetBrains

Czechia

Prague-headquartered IDEs, CI and issue tracking — the toolchain a lot of Europe writes code in.

Jimdo

Germany

Hamburg site builder aimed at the tradesperson who needs five pages and a contact form.

Jottacloud

Norway

Norwegian backup with unlimited photo storage, held under Norwegian privacy law.

Klarna

Sweden

Stockholm checkout, instalments, and the shopping app attached to them.

Koofr

Slovenia

Slovenian storage that can also mount the Drive and Dropbox accounts you are migrating off.

Leafcloud

Netherlands

Amsterdam cloud that puts its servers inside buildings that need the waste heat.

LightOn

France

Paris vendor selling the whole generative stack to run inside your own perimeter.

LimeSurvey

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Hamburg survey engine with unlimited responses once you host it yourself.

Livestorm

France

Paris webinar platform that runs entirely in the browser, registration pages included.

Mailbox.org

Germany

Berlin mail with PGP, an office suite, and a standing commitment never to run an ad business.

MailerLite

Lithuania

Vilnius newsletter platform with automations on a free tier that is actually usable.

Mailfence

Belgium

Belgian mail suite with an OpenPGP keystore built into the webmail itself.

Mailjet

France

Paris transactional and campaign email API with a proper EU sending region.

MapTiler

SwitzerlandSelf-hostable

Swiss vector tiles you can consume hosted or run on your own tile server.

Mastodon

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Berlin non-profit behind the federated network where nobody owns the whole graph.

Mistral AI

FranceFree tier, then $14.99/seat/moOpen source

Paris lab shipping both open-weight and frontier models, servable inside EU regions.

Mojeek

United Kingdom

Brighton crawler with a genuinely independent index — no Bing or Google underneath.

Mollie

Netherlands

Amsterdam payments with onboarding a small merchant can finish in an afternoon.

Mullvad VPN

SwedenOpen source

Gothenburg VPN that issues you an account number instead of an identity, and still takes cash.

N26

Germany

Berlin mobile bank operating on its own German banking licence.

n8n

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Berlin workflow automation with hundreds of nodes and a licence that lets you run it yourself.

netcup

Germany

Long-running Karlsruhe host with cheap root servers and a quiet following among German developers.

Nextcloud

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Files, calendar, contacts, chat and office on hardware you control — the default answer when the answer has to be self-hosted.

Nextcloud Talk

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Calls and chat inside your own Nextcloud, with no third-party signalling server in the path.

Nhost

SwedenOpen source

Swedish backend-as-a-service on Postgres and GraphQL, with EU regions by default.

Nimble

United States

Expert-level web search for agents — self-learning retrieval that delivers higher accuracy with fewer tokens.

NordVPN

Lithuania

Lithuanian VPN with a large European server fleet and repeated third-party audits.

Odoo

BelgiumOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Belgian open-source ERP covering CRM, invoicing, stock and payroll in one codebase.

Olvid

FranceOpen source

French messenger with no server-side directory at all, certified by the national cyber agency.

ONLYOFFICE

LatviaOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Riga-built editors with the strongest OOXML fidelity outside Redmond, self-hostable per seat.

Open Telekom Cloud

Germany

OpenStack operated by a German carrier under German contract law, aimed squarely at public-sector procurement.

OpenStreetMap

United KingdomOpen source

The community map database nearly every non-Google map is built on.

Orca

United StatesOpen sourceSelf-hostable

The agent development environment - run coding agents in parallel, each in its own worktree.

Orgo

United States

Cloud computers for AI agents — provision a Linux desktop and drive it over the API, SDK, or MCP.

Ory

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Munich identity, session and permission services split into composable open-source servers.

OVHcloud

France

Europe’s largest independent host, running its own fibre and building its own data centres end to end.

ownCloud

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

The original German file-sync server, rebuilt as Infinite Scale for larger estates.

Paddle

United Kingdom

Merchant of record that absorbs the sales-tax problem on behalf of software companies.

Passbolt

LuxembourgOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Luxembourg password manager designed around team sharing, self-hostable from day one.

pCloud

Switzerland

Swiss consumer drive with lifetime plans and optional client-side encryption.

PeerTube

FranceOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Federated video hosting from a French non-profit: no ads, no recommendation engine, no single owner.

Penpot

SpainOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Madrid design and prototyping tool built on web standards, self-hostable in full.

Personio

Germany

Munich HR system that already knows what a German employment contract looks like.

Pipedrive

Estonia

Tallinn-founded CRM organised around the pipeline stage rather than the quarterly report.

Pirsch Analytics

Germany

German cookie-free analytics with a server-side SDK for teams whose users block client scripts.

Piwik PRO

Poland

Wrocław analytics suite with consent management attached and a private-cloud option.

Plausible Analytics

EstoniaOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Cookie-free analytics in one small script, hosted in the EU or on your own box.

Playhead

United StatesSelf-hostable

Let your AI agent watch the video — any clip into timestamped contact sheets a model can read.

Pollo AI

Singapore

The ultimate AI creative suite for creators and marketers — video, image and avatar generation in one platform.

Posteo

Germany

One euro a month, anonymous signup, green power, and a transparency report nobody forced them to publish.

PostSider

Poland

Schedule and publish to 30+ social networks from one calendar — or hand the queue to your AI agent.

PrestaShop

FranceOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Paris open-source shop software with a deep module market and no platform fee.

Proton Mail

SwitzerlandOpen source

Encrypted mail, calendar and drive under Swiss jurisdiction, funded by subscriptions instead of adjacency to an ad business.

Proton VPN

SwitzerlandOpen source

Swiss VPN with open-source clients on every platform and audited no-logs claims.

Psono

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

German self-hosted password manager with granular sharing for ops teams.

Qobuz

France

Paris hi-res streaming that will also just sell you the files outright.

Qonto

France

Paris business account with invoicing, cards and bookkeeping exports built in.

Qwant

France

French engine building its own index, with no behavioural profile behind the results.

Revolut

United Kingdom

London neobank with multi-currency personal and business accounts across Europe.

Rows

Portugal

Lisbon spreadsheet that treats a live API call as a first-class cell.

Runbox

Norway

Norwegian host that has run mail on hydroelectric power since the late nineties.

Ryte

Germany

Munich website quality monitoring: crawl errors, content and Core Web Vitals in one report.

Ryze AI

United States

Autonomous AI agents that execute Google, Meta and ChatGPT ads, SEO, GEO and CRO — plus a hosted MCP server.

Scaleway

France

Bare metal, managed Kubernetes and serverless from a French operator with an API you can read in one sitting.

Seobility

Germany

German audit and rank tracking, priced for sites that are not enterprises.

Sherpa by Pocket FM

India

Pocket FM's AI story-writing partner — plan arcs, keep canon straight, then publish the draft as audio drama.

Shopware

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

German commerce platform that dominates European mid-market retail for good reasons.

Silo AI

Finland

Helsinki lab doing applied model work and European-language foundation models.

Simple Analytics

Netherlands

Amsterdam analytics with no cookies, no personal data, and dashboards you can make public.

SISTRIX

Germany

Bonn SEO toolbox whose visibility index is a reference point in German-speaking markets.

SoundCloud

Germany

Berlin platform where independent artists publish first and negotiate second.

Spotify

Sweden

Stockholm streaming service — the rare category where the incumbent is already European.

Spryker

Germany

Berlin composable commerce for B2B catalogues and genuinely strange order flows.

Stability AI

United Kingdom

London company behind Stable Diffusion and a family of open-weight media models under its own community licence.

Stackfield

Germany

Munich work platform where the tasks and the messages are both end-to-end encrypted.

STACKIT

Germany

A sovereign cloud spun out of a European retail group, operated only in German and Austrian regions.

StartMail

Netherlands

Dutch paid mailbox with unlimited aliases, from the team behind Startpage.

Startpage

Netherlands

Dutch front-end that fetches Google results on your behalf so Google never sees you.

Storyblok

Austria

Linz headless CMS with a visual editor marketers will actually open.

Strapi

FranceOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Paris open-source headless CMS that runs on your own Node and your own database.

SumUp

United Kingdom

Card readers and point of sale for the market stalls, salons and cafés of Europe.

Surfshark

Netherlands

Amsterdam-registered VPN that does not count devices per account.

Sylius

PolandOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Łódź Symfony commerce framework, for shops that are really custom applications.

Synthesia

United Kingdom

London AI video studio that turns a script into a presenter-led training clip.

Tally

Belgium

Ghent form builder that behaves like a text document until you hit publish.

Teamleader

Belgium

Ghent CRM with quoting, time tracking and invoicing for agencies and trades.

Threema

SwitzerlandOpen source

Swiss messenger that needs no phone number and keeps no contact graph to hand over.

tiun

Switzerland

The unified backend for AI and SaaS companies — auth, payments, customer database and analytics in one system.

TomTom

Netherlands

Amsterdam maps, live traffic and navigation SDKs for anything that moves.

Tresorit

Hungary

End-to-end encrypted storage aimed at firms that have to prove where a file went.

Tuta

GermanyOpen source

Hanover encrypted mail with post-quantum key exchange and fully open-source clients.

Typeform

Spain

Barcelona-built forms that ask one question at a time, and the whole survey industry that copied them.

UpCloud

Finland

Finnish VPS built around unusually fast block storage, billed by the hour.

Vivaldi

Norway

Oslo browser with mail, feeds and serious tab management built in, and no telemetry business.

Weave

United States

Engineering and token intelligence — what your team actually ships, and what your AI spend actually returns.

Webnode

Czechia

Brno site builder that treats multilingual pages as a default, not an add-on.

weclapp

Germany

Marburg cloud ERP built for mid-market trading and manufacturing firms.

Whereby

Norway

Norwegian video rooms that live at a fixed URL and never ask anyone to install anything.

Wire

GermanyOpen source

Berlin-built encrypted messaging and conferencing on the MLS standard, deployed in regulated settings.

Wise

United Kingdom

Estonian-founded cross-border transfers at the mid-market rate, with multi-currency accounts.

WithSecure

Finland

Helsinki enterprise security and incident response, spun out of F-Secure.

Zammad

GermanyOpen sourceSelf-hostable

German open-source helpdesk that treats mail, chat and social as one ticket queue.

Zitadel

SwitzerlandOpen sourceSelf-hostable

Swiss identity platform with real multi-tenancy and a self-host path that is not an afterthought.