Curate 80 EU Hospitality Startups
Budget: €30 – €250 EUR
I need a thoroughly-researched list of 80 European startups that are genuinely innovating hospitality, restaurant, and food-and-beverage operations through technology. My priority is strategic management—especially venue optimisation and resource management (metric is reducing effort to manage venues or full automation) — but I still want a balanced view of the wider ecosystem, so please place each company in one of the four buckets below:
• Strategic management (management of venues)
• Back office (admin-task automation etc.)
• Creative food & beverage management (menu development, recipe engines, etc.)
• Front office (wait-staff, cleaning, cashiers, robots, cooking etc.)
What makes a company qualify:
• Headquarters in Europe
• Founded in 2017 or later
• Total funding strictly under €20 million
• Clear focus on hospitality / restaurant / F&B or retail operations (no generic AI agents)
• Offers software, hardware, or a blend—AI SaaS, robotics, computer-vision tools, smart kitchen devices, etc.—that cuts labour time or fully automates routine tasks
Exclusions:
• ePOS cashier systems
• Loyalty / CRM point collectors
• Delivery marketplaces such as Foodora, Wolt, Deliveroo, etc.
• Re-listing near-identical players more than twice
Deliverable:
A spreadsheet (Excel or Google Sheets) with one row per startup containing:
1. Company name & homepage URL
2. Year founded
3. HQ country & city
4. Funding to date (EUR, source link)
5. Product snapshot (1-2 lines on the solution and what task it replaces/optimises)
6. Category (from the four above)
7. Primary tech type (AI software, robotics hardware, or hybrid)
8. Source links (press, Crunchbase, company deck, etc.). The startups need to be active.
I will review the list against the criteria above; entries that miss a requirement, duplicate a technology more than twice, or fall into the excluded groups will need replacing. Feel free to use ChatGPT and other LLMs but please double check the links.
• Strategic management (management of venues)
• Back office (admin-task automation etc.)
• Creative food & beverage management (menu development, recipe engines, etc.)
• Front office (wait-staff, cleaning, cashiers, robots, cooking etc.)
What makes a company qualify:
• Headquarters in Europe
• Founded in 2017 or later
• Total funding strictly under €20 million
• Clear focus on hospitality / restaurant / F&B or retail operations (no generic AI agents)
• Offers software, hardware, or a blend—AI SaaS, robotics, computer-vision tools, smart kitchen devices, etc.—that cuts labour time or fully automates routine tasks
Exclusions:
• ePOS cashier systems
• Loyalty / CRM point collectors
• Delivery marketplaces such as Foodora, Wolt, Deliveroo, etc.
• Re-listing near-identical players more than twice
Deliverable:
A spreadsheet (Excel or Google Sheets) with one row per startup containing:
1. Company name & homepage URL
2. Year founded
3. HQ country & city
4. Funding to date (EUR, source link)
5. Product snapshot (1-2 lines on the solution and what task it replaces/optimises)
6. Category (from the four above)
7. Primary tech type (AI software, robotics hardware, or hybrid)
8. Source links (press, Crunchbase, company deck, etc.). The startups need to be active.
I will review the list against the criteria above; entries that miss a requirement, duplicate a technology more than twice, or fall into the excluded groups will need replacing. Feel free to use ChatGPT and other LLMs but please double check the links.