The LLM-BRIDGE Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) brings together 31 promising startups from across Europe that are developing practical applications of large language models, generative AI and natural language processing.
Selected startups will receive targeted support to accelerate product development, validate their solutions with customers and prepare for sustainable growth. The cohort reflects the breadth of European AI innovation, with companies working across enterprise software, education, regulatory compliance, climate and energy, public services, health, manufacturing, and the creative industries.
The LLM-BRIDGE Venture Incubation Programme (VIP) supports early-stage startups developing solutions with generative AI, multilingual AI, and natural language processing.
The programme is designed to help participating startups move from technical validation to market adoption and demonstrate that their solutions address genuine market and societal needs. Its incubation services will focus particularly on accelerating product development, customer discovery and commercial validation.
Depending on their individual needs and the resources available, startups may also receive:
Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB) has been selected as the official incubation partner for the first cohort of the LLM-BRIDGE Venture Incubation Programme.
Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini brings extensive experience in entrepreneurship, innovation and impact-driven business support. Its approach combines structured mentoring, validated impact measurement and access to a network of more than 2,000 experts.
Working alongside the LLM-BRIDGE consortium, FGB will oversee the design and implementation of the entire 12-week programme. The incubator will provide participating startups with the practical support, specialist knowledge, and connections needed to develop their products, reach customers and prepare for growth.
The partnership brings together operational incubation expertise and a shared commitment to strengthening Europe’s trustworthy, multilingual and sovereign generative AI ecosystem.
The first LLM-BRIDGE VIP cohort brings together 31 startups from 13 countries.
Together, they demonstrate how language models can be applied across sectors while responding to distinctly European requirements concerning trust, multilingualism, accessibility and regulatory compliance.
The cohort’s principal areas of activity include:
Netherlands | Education and skills
And AI is developing an adaptive AI Academy designed to help professionals and organisations keep their AI knowledge and skills current as the technology evolves.
Sweden | AI governance and compliance
AuroraTrust is developing AI compliance automation for small and medium-sized companies deploying or integrating AI systems.
Netherlands | Legal technology
CaseCanvas is a survivor-centred, AI-powered platform supporting legal intake, case documentation and the structured collection of sensitive information.
Germany | Enterprise data
Claro AI provides an AI-powered execution layer for managing, structuring and improving product and supplier data.
Türkiye | AI governance and compliance
Cyber&Legal AI is developing tools that make AI governance and regulatory compliance more practical, accessible and actionable for organisations.
France | Marketing technology
DeepFirst helps companies monitor and optimise how their brands and products appear in answers generated by AI-powered search and conversational systems.
Italy | Climate and agriculture
EcoShade develops technology connecting crop management, agricultural operations and the generation and verification of carbon credits.
France | Professional education
FaceUpAI provides conversational, AI-powered learning experiences for professional education and workplace training.
Latvia | Health technology
HEMM is developing an AI-powered application to support early awareness, preliminary assessment and the management of haemorrhoid-related health concerns.
France | Energy and decarbonisation
Hyggle develops AI-powered orchestration and optimisation technology for green fuels and other components of a decarbonised energy system.
Germany | Industrial technology and robotics
KinetiCAD Solutions is developing an intelligence layer connecting computer-aided design systems with robotics and automated industrial processes.
Greece | Sovereign AI infrastructure
layer42labs develops sovereign, on-premises agentic AI infrastructure for organisations operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments.
Czechia | Education technology
Learniva is building an AI-native adaptive mathematics learning platform that personalises learning activities to individual students.
Italy | Workforce and resource management
moobee is developing an AI-powered decision engine that helps project-based small and medium-sized companies determine how and why employees should be assigned to particular projects.
Greece | AI governance and compliance
Protos AI Agency develops LLM-powered legal and compliance platforms, including tools designed to help organisations implement requirements under the EU AI Act.
Bulgaria | Civic technology
ProtestSmart applies large language models to the analysis and understanding of political protests and collective civic action.
France | Sovereign AI infrastructure
Proxima Green is building a confidential, sovereign and environmentally conscious generative AI platform hosted in France.
Germany | Human-AI interaction
SapySync develops real-time AI technology designed to improve communication and coordination between people and AI systems.
France | Sales technology
Shaarp AI is an LLM-powered copilot that helps field sales teams in small and medium-sized businesses identify prospects, prepare meetings and close opportunities.
Portugal | Climate resilience and emergency response
SIION is developing next-generation technology to support wildfire prevention, monitoring and emergency response.
France | Enterprise AI governance
SupraOS develops governed LLM agents that help organisations identify value leakage and translate AI-generated insights into verifiable actions.
Poland | Accessibility technology
Synchrogen is developing an AI platform for producing real-time audio descriptions and making audiovisual content more accessible.
Greece | Built environment
Tacit is building an agentic AI intelligence layer for asset owners and professionals responsible for operating and maintaining buildings.
France | Enterprise knowledge management
Teamenu helps teams of people and AI agents find and access the organisational resources, tools and deep links needed to complete their work.
Germany | Future of work
Tedix develops autonomous AI workers designed to support employees with routine tasks and operational processes across an organisation.
Croatia | Industrial manufacturing
Textiloop is developing an AI-powered, on-demand cutting and computer-aided design service for textile manufacturers, with a particular focus on the needs of small and medium-sized companies.
Greece | Space technology
Twins Technologies is developing AETHER, an AI-native mission-assurance and orchestration platform for space and other technically complex operations.
Netherlands | Government technology
UrbanVue is developing a conversational, European-hosted AI copilot that helps municipalities inspect and manage public-space assets.
Poland | Recruitment technology
VERIDA develops sHRark, an AI-powered applicant-tracking and recruitment-memory platform designed to make hiring information more structured, auditable and reusable.
Czechia | Immersive technology
Vibe VR is developing a web-based platform that allows users to create virtual-reality experiences through natural-language instructions and AI-assisted coding.
Sweden | Enterprise AI orchestration
WeLoveBlue.ai develops human-centred orchestration technology that helps organisations work across multiple AI models and select the most appropriate systems for different tasks.
Over the course of the VIP, the selected startups will work with Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, the LLM-BRIDGE consortium and a wider network of technical and business experts.
The programme will support each company in identifying its most important product, market and growth priorities. Startups will test assumptions, engage prospective customers, strengthen their commercial strategies and explore opportunities to use European technical resources and infrastructure.
Updates from the programme will introduce the founders, follow the development of their solutions and share lessons from building trustworthy and competitive AI companies in Europe.
There will be two more cohorts of the Venture Incubation Programme. The next Open Call for Incubator will launch in September 2026. Stay tuned!
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