The Netherlands dominates this list, contributing seven of the ten companies, with Amsterdam alone home to three. But the range is what stands out: medical imaging AI, energy grid optimization, defense command software, and industrial disassembly robotics all sit alongside more familiar categories like fintech automation and e-commerce personalization. Belgium and Luxembourg round things out with autonomous driving and end-of-life processing robotics. From deep learning for mammogram reading to AI-powered command and control for unmanned military systems, these are the companies proving that Benelux’s AI economy spans some of the highest-stakes applications in Europe.
Companies are listed in alphabetical order. This list is non-exhaustive.
1. Aidoptation
Headquarters: Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium | Total Funding: $28.6M | Last Funding: December 19, 2025
Autonomous driving remains one of the hardest unsolved problems in AI, requiring systems that can perceive, predict, and react to a physical environment with a margin for error that most other AI applications never have to contend with.
Aidoptation develops autonomous driving technology, working at the sharp end of an AI problem where reliability and safety cannot be compromised for speed of development. The company has raised $28.6 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in December 2025, as it continues to advance its autonomous driving technology.
2. CM.com
Headquarters: Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $20.9M | Last Funding: February 13, 2025
Businesses communicating with customers across telecom, payments, and messaging channels have traditionally had to integrate a separate provider for each one, adding cost and complexity to what should be a single, coherent customer conversation.
CM.com connects businesses to people and people to businesses via telecom operators, worldwide payment providers, and messaging channels, consolidating that fragmented stack into a single platform. The company has raised $20.9 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in February 2025, as it continues to expand its communications and payments platform globally.
3. Convious
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $25.1M | Last Funding: March 6, 2025
Attractions and ticketed venues have historically priced and marketed tickets using static, one-size-fits-all approaches, leaving significant revenue on the table relative to what dynamic, demand-driven pricing could capture.
Convious provides AI-driven e-commerce and revenue management software for attractions, covering ticketing, pricing, and customer engagement in one platform. The company has raised $25.1 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in March 2025, as it expands its revenue management platform across attractions and venues.
4. Dexter Energy Services
Headquarters: Amsterdamsche Veld I, Drenthe, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $41.0M | Last Funding: July 2, 2025
Energy markets are becoming more volatile and more distributed as renewable generation scales, and the forecasting and dispatching decisions that keep supply and demand balanced have grown too complex for traditional, less data-intensive methods to handle well.
Dexter offers forecasting and dispatching solutions based on AI and cloud-based technology, built to increase efficiency and lower costs as energy systems absorb more variable generation. The company has raised $41 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in July 2025, as it expands its AI-driven forecasting platform across energy market participants.
5. Gradyent
Headquarters: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $42.8M | Last Funding: April 2, 2025
District heating systems are under growing pressure to cut carbon emissions while keeping costs manageable, but optimizing complex heating networks has traditionally relied on static models that cannot adapt to real-time conditions.
Gradyent is an AI cloud platform that helps heating companies optimize their heating systems and reduce CO2 emissions, replacing static models with continuous, AI-driven optimization. The company has raised $42.8 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in April 2025, as it expands its platform across heating network operators.
6. Intelic
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $36.5M | Last Funding: July 3, 2026
Unmanned military systems are proliferating faster than the command and control infrastructure needed to coordinate them, leaving operators to manage growing fleets of autonomous assets with tools built for a much smaller scale of operation.
Intelic develops command and control software for military unmanned systems, giving operators the coordination layer that modern unmanned fleets require. The company has raised $36.5 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in July 2026, reflecting continued investor interest in European defense-tech.
7. R3 Robotics
Headquarters: Foetz, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Total Funding: $32.3M | Last Funding: February 5, 2026
End-of-life processing for electronics and other complex products has remained a largely manual, labor-intensive process, even as the volume of products needing disassembly and material recovery continues to grow with tightening circular economy regulations.
R3 Robotics is an industrial robotics company that develops AI-powered automated disassembly systems for end-of-life processing, bringing automation to a stage of the product lifecycle that has lagged behind manufacturing in adopting it. The company has raised $32.3 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in February 2026, as it expands its automated disassembly technology.
8. ScreenPoint Medical
Headquarters: Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $49.0M | Last Funding: April 17, 2026
Mammogram reading requires radiologists to catch subtle signs of cancer across large volumes of imaging, work that is both cognitively demanding and subject to the kind of variability that comes with any manual, high-volume diagnostic task.
ScreenPoint develops deep learning and image analysis technology for automated reading of mammograms, aiming to bring more consistency and support to a diagnostic task where missed detections carry serious consequences. With $49 million in total funding, the highest on this list, and its most recent round closing in April 2026, ScreenPoint continues to expand its mammography AI platform.
9. Stacks
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands | Total Funding: $33.4M | Last Funding: February 19, 2026
The financial close process remains one of the more manual, error-prone workflows in accounting, requiring teams to reconcile data across systems on a tight monthly or quarterly deadline with little room for mistakes.
Stacks is a software platform that helps accounting teams automate and manage the financial close process with AI-driven tools, reducing the manual reconciliation work that has traditionally made close season stressful. The company has raised $33.4 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in February 2026, as it expands its financial close automation platform.
10. Timefold
Headquarters: Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium | Total Funding: $21.8M | Last Funding: June 23, 2026
Scheduling and routing problems, whether for logistics fleets, field service teams, or workforce shifts, involve enormous numbers of variables and constraints that quickly outpace what manual planning or basic software can optimize well.
Timefold is a platform that optimizes complex scheduling and routing tasks, applying AI-driven optimization to problems that grow exponentially harder as the number of variables increases. The company has raised $21.8 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in June 2026, as it expands its optimization platform across logistics and workforce planning use cases.
This was a brief overview of Benelux’s rapidly expanding AI scale-up landscape. If there is a company you think belongs on this list, reach out to our editorial team and we will make sure they are included on the next one.
