Central and Eastern Europe’s AI scale-up scene punches well above its funding numbers, with the Czech Republic alone contributing three of the ten companies on this list, spanning fraud detection, embedded lending, and behavioral biometrics. Poland brings the region’s two largest raises in warehouse robotics and customer intelligence, while Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, and Estonia round out a list heavy on cybersecurity and fraud prevention. From cancer target discovery to AI glasses for the blind, these are the companies proving that CEE and the Baltics are producing some of Europe’s most technically ambitious AI, often with a security or fraud-prevention edge shaped by the region’s proximity to persistent digital threats.
Companies are listed in alphabetical order. This list is non-exhaustive.
1. BlackWall
Headquarters: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia | Total Funding: $62.6M | Last Funding: March 13, 2025
Bots now generate a significant share of all web traffic, and distinguishing malicious automated traffic from legitimate users has become an ongoing arms race that most hosting and managed service providers are not equipped to fight on their own.
Blackwall is a cybersecurity company offering bot mitigation and web security solutions for hosting and managed services, giving providers a way to fight that arms race without building the capability in-house. The company has raised $62.6 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in March 2025, as it expands its bot mitigation platform across hosting providers.
2. Druid AI
Headquarters: Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania | Total Funding: $81.6M | Last Funding: September 16, 2025
Automating business workflows with AI agents requires more than a single chatbot bolted onto existing systems; it requires a platform that can build, deploy, and manage multiple agents working across different parts of an enterprise.
Druid AI is an enterprise AI platform that builds and deploys AI agents and intelligent applications to automate business workflows at that scale. With $81.6 million in total funding, the second-highest on this list, and its most recent round closing in September 2025, Druid AI continues to expand its enterprise agent platform.
3. Flowpay
Headquarters: Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic | Total Funding: $35.8M | Last Funding: March 19, 2025
Small and medium businesses often struggle to access financing through traditional lending channels, and the platforms they already use for payments or commerce are usually not built to offer credit directly at the point of need.
Flowpay is a data and AI company that has built an embedded lending infrastructure, letting platforms extend credit to businesses at the moment financing is actually needed. The company has raised $35.8 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in March 2025, as it expands its embedded lending infrastructure.
4. .lumen
Headquarters: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania | Total Funding: $33.0M | Last Funding: October 20, 2025
Assistive technology for visually impaired people has historically lagged behind advances in AI perception, leaving a gap between what computer vision can now do and what actually reaches people who could benefit from it most.
.lumen is the deeptech startup that develops pedestrian autonomous driving AI, first showcased in its Glasses for the Blind, bringing autonomous navigation technology to a use case built specifically around human mobility rather than vehicles. The company has raised $33 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in October 2025, as it continues to develop its pedestrian autonomous driving technology.
5. nexos.ai
Headquarters: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania | Total Funding: $43.2M | Last Funding: September 29, 2025
As enterprises adopt more AI tools and agents across different teams, orchestrating all of it into a coherent, manageable operation has become its own challenge, one that most organizations are solving with a patchwork of disconnected point solutions.
nexos.ai offers an agentic AI orchestration platform that helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth by coordinating AI deployment rather than leaving it fragmented across teams. The company has raised $43.2 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in September 2025, as it expands its orchestration platform across enterprise clients.
6. Nomagic
Headquarters: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland | Total Funding: $84.6M | Last Funding: January 28, 2026
Order fulfillment centers face constant pressure to pick and pack goods faster and more accurately, but the variety of items warehouses need to handle has made full automation of picking one of robotics’ more stubborn unsolved problems.
Nomagic provides smart pick and place robotic solutions for order fulfillment, tackling the variability problem that has kept full picking automation out of reach for most warehouse operators. With $84.6 million in total funding, the highest on this list, and its most recent round closing in January 2026, Nomagic continues to expand its robotic picking technology across fulfillment centers.
7. Resistant AI
Headquarters: Prague, Hlavní město Praha, Czech Republic | Total Funding: $55.4M | Last Funding: October 13, 2025
Document fraud and suspicious transactions have grown more sophisticated as fraudsters adopt their own AI tools, leaving traditional rules-based fraud detection systems increasingly unable to keep pace with how fraud is actually being committed today.
Resistant AI is a fraud detection company that specializes in document fraud detection and transaction monitoring, built to counter AI-enabled fraud with AI-driven detection of its own. The company has raised $55.4 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in October 2025, as it expands its fraud detection platform across financial institutions.
8. Synerise
Headquarters: Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland | Total Funding: $79.5M | Last Funding: November 22, 2025
Customer experience and business intelligence have traditionally lived in separate systems, one focused on engaging customers and the other on analyzing the business, leaving companies without a unified view connecting the two.
Synerise is a data-driven AI platform that automates customer experience and business intelligence in a single system, closing the gap between how businesses understand customers and how they act on that understanding. The company has raised $79.5 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in November 2025, as it expands its customer intelligence platform.
9. ThreatMark
Headquarters: Brno, Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic | Total Funding: $34.6M | Last Funding: January 7, 2025
Financial institutions face growing pressure to stop scams and account takeovers in real time, but conventional fraud controls tend to generate high volumes of false positives that frustrate legitimate customers as much as they deter fraudsters.
ThreatMark helps institutions stop scams, block account takeovers, and reduce false positives with real-time behavioral intelligence, distinguishing genuine customers from fraudsters based on how they actually behave. The company has raised $34.6 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in January 2025, as it expands its behavioral intelligence platform across banks and financial institutions.
10. Turbine
Headquarters: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary | Total Funding: $61.9M | Last Funding: February 24, 2026
Cancer drug discovery has historically relied on trial-and-error experimentation to identify viable targets, a slow and expensive process given how little of cancer’s underlying cellular mechanics researchers can observe directly.
Turbine’s platform understands the inner mechanisms of cancer, enabling the discovery of novel targets and precision medicinal therapies grounded in how cancer cells actually behave. The company has raised $61.9 million in total funding, with its most recent round closing in February 2026, as it continues to advance its cancer target discovery platform.
This was a brief overview of the CEE and Baltics’ 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.
