European Champions Alliance

Unite Europe’s Innovators. ​ Empower Tech Champions.​

The European Champions Alliance promotes European technology and values and strengthens Europe’s strategic autonomy through smart collaboration. We connect startups, scaleups, corporates, investors and institutions to turn European innovation into real projects and scalable growth.

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ABOUT ECA

Europe Needs More Champions.

ECA is a non-profit alliance that initiates, connects and orchestrates collaboration across Europe. Our high-trust community helps technology leaders find the right partners, navigate complex markets and bring ambitious ideas into action.

We empower Tech Champions

The European Champions Alliance

“Innovation is blocked at the next stage: we are failing to translate innovation into commercialization.”

MARIO DRAGHI, The Future of European Competitiveness, September 2024

The ECA initiates, connects and orchestrates real projects with a pan-European community of innovators. We bridge startups, scaleups, corporates, VCs and institutions across four pillars:

Shape the Future

A strategy room for innovation leaders. We walk the talk and bring new concepts to life.

Connect Business with Innovation

A dynamic pan-European community built on smart collaboration that supports scaleups.

Help Navigate Complexity

Hands-on strategic and operational support, plus mentoring platforms and industry mappings.

We Make You Shine

We amplify your voice on podcasts, at conferences and across our networks.
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Who we serve

The European Champions Alliance

The European Champions Alliance unites startups, corporates, public institutions and investors for structured collaboration, strategic dialogue and scalable growth – high-trust networks advancing Europe’s technological leadership.

Start-ups

Build strong. Connect early. Get ready to scale. Tap into the experience, connections and ecosystem you need to move faster. Meet peers, experts and investors, strengthen your foundations and prepare your company for its next stage of growth.

Scale-ups

Cross borders. Win new markets. Become a European champion. Turn proven traction into European scale. Connect with corporates, investors, partners and experts who can help you enter new markets, build visibility and accelerate your next stage of growth.

VCs & Investors

Invest in Europe. Find the next European champion, and help it scale.. Connect with promising European technology companies and the corporates, experts and ecosystem leaders shaping their markets. Discover opportunities, understand emerging markets, connect portfolio companies with the ecosystem they need to scale, and contribute to building stronger European technology champions.

Large enterprises

Access European innovation. Turn it into business. Connect with emerging European technology players and fellow innovation leaders. Discover solutions, explore new opportunities and collaborate with the ecosystem shaping Europe’s technological future.

Creating a Thriving Pan-European Community

Empowering European Economic Sovereignty

European scale-ups are not fully leveraging the potential of the Single Market. The European Champions Alliance (ECA) mobilizes its ecosystem to address key challenges, including:

  • Market fragmentation
  • Technical and operational barriers
  • Cultural differences and trust gaps
  • Limited funding

ECA is committed to driving change by shaping decision-makers’ perspectives, ensuring that fast-growing scale-ups remain headquartered in Europe.

We unite industry experts and business leaders to foster cross-border collaboration and innovation. Through a pan-European network ECA delivers hands-on strategic and operational support in international business development, sales, marketing, recruitment, governance, and operational scaling.

Our members

Our strength lies in our diversity. From DeepTech pioneers to industrial giants, our members are the architects of Europe’s digital sovereignty.

Experience One joined the European Champions Alliance because Europe needs more than AI adoption. It needs ownership. Of technology, innovation, and the future customer experience. Agentic AI is a defining shift. Europe now has the chance to shape it, not follow it.
Kai Henrik Müller
Founder and CEO | Experience one
At Mitigant, we believe in simplifying cloud security and cyber resilience to address the challenges of rapidly evolving cloud attacks for companies. As a German cybersecurity startup, our roots anchor us in the heart of European interests and values that directly resonate with ECA’s mission. We look forward to collaborating and growing with ECA to be the European cloud security solution champion.
Nils Karn
CEO | Mitigant
I was invited to participate in the ECA Technology Summit in Darmstadt in February, where I led workshops and participated in a panel session addressing Sustainability. This is one of the core tenets of the ECA alongside Cyber and AI. The energy, exchange of ideas, and networking were infectious. Inevitably, a lot of focus on AI for business value but Sustainable AI was equally considered. The ECA aligns with the values of Greenpixie.
Kevin Leslie
CRO | Greenpixie
Guardian360 joined the European Champions Alliance because it is looking for partners all over Europe. Digital sovereignty, resilience, and compliance cannot be built by any single company or country alone; they require a trusted European ecosystem of vendors, integrators, and distributors that share the same values.
Jan Martijn Broekhof
Founder and CEO | Guardian360
Uniting with fellow European champions, Enginsight accelerates cross-border collaboration, drives trustworthy AI and cybersecurity adoption, and safeguards our Single Market. Together, we build resilient digital infrastructure, fostering innovation that ensures European values, security, and societal resilience.
Mario Jandeck
CEO | Enginsight
OT-Secure joined the European Champions Alliance to actively contribute to the European dialogue on OT cybersecurity, resilience and industrial risk. We believe that strengthening collaboration between research, industry and public stakeholders across Europe is essential to protect critical infrastructure.
Jeffrey Poldervaart
Director | OT Secure

Our Vision

We want start-ups founded in Europe to take the technological lead in key technologies of the future, remain in European hands, and accompany, support and protect our citizens and industries in the digital age!

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