# European tech worth paying attention to.

A personal list of the model labs, robotics teams, and rocket companies quietly building Europe’s future — just the ones I’d tell a friend about.

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## Where I’d start

A few I keep coming back to.

Black Forest Labs: Generative image and video AI models. Black Forest Labs is a generative AI lab building state-of-the-art text-to-image and video models, including the open FLUX family, from the team behind Stable Diffusion. Headquarters: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Categories: Foundational AI, Developer Tools, Open Source. Legal name: Black Forest Labs Inc.. Legal domicile: Delaware, United States.

Isar Aerospace: European orbital rockets for small satellites. Isar Aerospace builds Spectrum, a two-stage orbital launch vehicle for small and medium satellites, manufacturing the majority of the rocket in-house in Munich to give Europe its own independent route to orbit. Headquarters: Ottobrunn, Germany. Categories: Space, Hardware, Defense. Legal name: Isar Aerospace SE.

Polybot: Autonomous AI robots that harvest greenhouse crops. Polybot builds fully autonomous farming robots that learn dexterous tasks like picking tomatoes end-to-end from human demonstrations, aiming to make diverse, sustainable polyculture farming economical. Headquarters: Tübingen, Germany. Categories: Robotics, Applied AI, Hardware. Legal name: Polybot GmbH.

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## Lately

Funding, launches, and milestones from across the list.

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    launchBlack Forest Labs

    FLUX 3 makes BFL's world model multimodal

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    partnershipmimic robotics

    FLUX-mimic puts a multimodal world model on Audi robots

    ](/companies/mimic-robotics)
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    fundingSereact

    $116M Series B gains Zalando as strategic investor

    ](/companies/sereact)
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    acquisitionPrior Labs

    SAP's €1B+ Prior Labs acquisition closes

    ](/companies/prior-labs)
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    fundingmicroagi

    $55M seed — Germany's largest

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    launchmimic robotics

    M1 hand and U1 wearable launch as one dexterity stack

    ](/companies/mimic-robotics)