Devtools directory
The Best Developer Tools Startups in Europe
Developer tools are the software that engineering teams use to build, ship, run, and secure other software, from cloud infrastructure to databases and API platforms. Europe has produced deep technical talent and a strong open source culture, making it a natural home for this category. Many of the most widely adopted developer tools today were started by European founders.
Why devtools now
Every company is becoming a software company, which pushes spending toward the tools that help engineers move faster and stay secure. The shift to cloud native architectures, real time data, and AI workloads keeps expanding demand for new infrastructure and tooling. European data sovereignty rules and the appetite for open source give regional players a durable edge.
18 devtools startups across Europe
A curated, editorial list of European companies.
Aikido Security
Ghent, BelgiumAikido Security provides a developer first platform that scans code, containers, and cloud environments for vulnerabilities.
Aiven
Helsinki, FinlandAiven provides managed open source data technologies such as PostgreSQL and Apache Kafka across major clouds.
Better Stack
Prague, Czech RepublicBetter Stack unifies uptime monitoring, incident management, on call scheduling, status pages, and log management.
Bitrise
Budapest, HungaryBitrise runs a continuous integration and delivery platform built for mobile app development teams.
Bump.sh
Angers, FranceBump.sh helps teams build, publish, and track API documentation and detect changes in API contracts.
Checkmk
Munich, GermanyCheckmk builds an IT monitoring platform for cloud, hybrid, container, and data center infrastructure.
Code Intelligence
Bonn, GermanyCode Intelligence runs an application security testing platform that uses fuzzing to find vulnerabilities and bugs.
GitGuardian
Paris, FranceGitGuardian provides automated secrets detection and remediation across the software development lifecycle.
Hetzner
Gunzenhausen, GermanyHetzner runs data centers and offers cloud servers, dedicated servers, and hosting for developers and teams.
Mergify
Toulouse, FranceMergify automates pull request workflows with merge queues and continuous integration optimization for GitHub.
Northflank
London, United KingdomNorthflank offers a platform that deploys and scales containerized apps, databases, and AI workloads on Kubernetes.
OVHcloud
Roubaix, FranceOVHcloud provides cloud computing, bare metal servers, and hosting from its own European data centers.
Qdrant
Berlin, GermanyQdrant builds an open source vector database and search engine for AI applications and retrieval augmented generation.
QuestDB
London, United KingdomQuestDB develops an open source time series database built for fast data ingestion and querying.
Semaphore
Novi Sad, SerbiaSemaphore provides a cloud native continuous integration and delivery platform for software teams.
Sonar
Geneva, SwitzerlandSonar provides automated code review and code quality and security analysis across many programming languages.
SurrealDB
London, United KingdomSurrealDB offers a multi model database that unifies document, graph, time series, and vector data with a SQL style query language.
Tyk
London, United KingdomTyk offers an open source API gateway and management platform with analytics and a developer portal.
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