1、Show guides!Generic Report measurementsQuarterly report measurementsCreated byStartups driving EuropesAI transformationAnalysing startup&investor activity across ten industrial verticals of the EUs Apply AI StrategyNovember 2025Page/2 Accelerating EuropeAbout the state of European growth and the rel

2、ationship with innovation,competitiveness,entrepreneurship and venture capital:challenges and opportunitiesThis report is the final part of the Innovation Radar Bridge SeriesEU Framework ProgrammesData-driven deep dive into EU framework programmes and their impact.EU-backed in this report refers to

3、startups funded under the EU framework programmesMarch 2025Feb 2025EU Apply AI StrategyData-driven mapping of the European Unions AI startups in light of the EU Apply AI Strategy and ten focus verticals,highlighting startup&investor activityThis reportPage/3 Source:Dealroom.co.*Excludes the Public S

4、ector vertical,not analyzed in this report.Executive SummaryWinning in AI:Europes path forwardGlobal AI leadership rests on three pillars:compute(infrastructure),models,and applications.Europe currently represents about 5%of global AI compute,and the Commission is spending 20B in AI gigafactories to

5、 strengthen its technological base.The EU is also pursuing a global strategy of providing AI compute as a public good,leading over the US in this approach.While the US leads in proprietary foundation models,Europes opportunity lies in open source models,as well as in AI applications.The EU Apply AI

6、Strategy builds on this opportunity,looking to advance AI adoption across 11 strategic verticals from Agri-Food to Robotics,notably through dedicated support of startups and SMEs.Mapping startups across the EU Apply AI verticalsEuropes AI ecosystem is scaling fast,with over 4.1K VC-backed startups a