myTomorrows Joins AWS Pioneers Project 2026

AWS Announces 2026 Pioneers Project Cohort: Twelve European AI Startups Redefining Healthcare, Climate, and Human Safety 

New research confirms Europe’s AI startups are the continent’s most powerful innovation engine 

18 March 2026, Brussels: Amazon Web Services (AWS) has today announced the latest cohort of its Pioneers Project, celebrating twelve extraordinary European companies using AI and cloud technology to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. From diagnosing rare cancers in hours to mapping the ocean floor with zero-emission vessels, this year’s Pioneers are proof that Europe’s AI ecosystem is producing world-class innovation with real-world impact. 

The announcement is backed by new AWS research, “Unlocking Europe’s AI Potential”, confirming that AI-first startups are at the forefront of Europe’s innovation, driving productivity gains, accelerating growth, and leading the charge on next-generation AI. 

The AWS Pioneers Project 

Now in its second year, the AWS Pioneers Project was created to shine a spotlight on breakthrough European companies that are using AWS to transform millions of lives and protect vital ecosystems. Pioneers are selected for placing global impact at the heart of their operations — spanning healthcare, climate, safety, resilience, and humanitarian response. By amplifying their stories, AWS aims to inspire the next generation of innovators and celebrate a community proving that breakthrough technology can serve both people and the planet. 

Meet the 2026 AWS Pioneers 

This year’s cohort brings together twelve companies from across Europe, each using AI and cloud infrastructure to drive measurable change: 

1. Callyope (France): Callyope is bringing objectivity to mental health care with AI that detects early signs of relapse — before a crisis strikes. Validated rigorously on thousands of patients, Callyope empowers mental health professionals to monitor and support patients safely, remotely, and at scale. 

1. CareMates (Germany): In social care, time is the most valuable resource. CareMates is Germany’s first AI-powered software for patient admissions, cutting admission time from five hours to one. 

1. ETERNO (Germany): Doctors often have just seven minutes to understand a patient’s full story. ETERNO is helping clinicians use that time more effectively. With LENI, their AI assistant, ETERNO helps doctors listen better and make more informed decisions faster. 

1. Hala Systems (Portugal): When human life is under threat, Hala Systems turns data into life-saving decisions. From Syria to Ukraine, Hala’s technology has helped save lives and protect the most vulnerable communities. 

1. Iktos (France): Drug discovery once took years, but now it can take months. Iktos combines AI and automated laboratory robotics to help design and make molecules faster than ever before and identify promising drug candidates that traditional methods would miss. 

1. Mindflow (France): IT professionals can waste hours on repetitive tasks. Mindflow is an Agentic Enterprise Automation platform that brings together a fleet of autonomous AI agents, an ultra-intuitive no-code workflow engine, over 4,000 integrations, and enterprise-grade governance. 

1. MLL Munich Leukaemia Laboratory (Germany): By combining deep medical expertise with AI and cloud-scale genomics on AWS, MLL can diagnose rare leukaemia subtypes in hours and days, not weeks. With over 1.4 million cases analysed and petabytes of data powering precision diagnostics, MLL is redefining how fast and accurate cancer diagnosis can save more lives. 

1. myTomorrows (Netherlands): Active in 135 countries and having helped over 17,700 patients, myTomorrows bridges the gap between medical innovation and access — empowering families with even the rarest conditions to discover and access pre-approval treatments globally. 

1. Paebbl (Sweden & Netherlands): By accelerating nature’s own mineralisation process, Paebbl helps construction companies reduce their concrete’s carbon footprint. It’s the future of construction — where every new structure helps restore the planet. 

1. Proximie (UK): Surgical teams face critical challenges in coordination, resource constraints, and knowledge sharing — contributing to a global crisis where 5 billion people lack access to safe surgery. Proximie addresses these challenges with a software layer that connects people, data, and devices inside operating rooms. 

1. Quandela (France): Quantum computers don’t have to look futuristic to change the future. Quandela is building photonic quantum machines that run at room temperature and connect through existing fibre networks, opening a new path toward quantum advantage. 

1. XOCEAN (Ireland): Most of our oceans remain unmapped, yet they hold the key to the planet’s future. XOCEAN operates a global fleet of autonomous, zero-emission vessels that collect critical ocean data across 23 jurisdictions for renewable energy projects. 

Europe’s AI startups: a thriving ecosystem Europe can’t afford to lose 

Findings from AWS’ latest research report “Unlocking Europe’s AI Potential”, a study of 17,000 businesses across 17 European markets, reveal that AI-first startups are leading the continent’s innovation charge: 91% report accelerated innovation driven by AI adoption, 89% have noticed productivity gains, and 97% expect AI to drive further growth this year. 

But the report also sounds a warning. Without change, Europe risks losing its best innovators: 38% of European startups would consider relocating outside Europe to scale, rising to 51% among the highest-growth startups. Losing them would also mean losing the businesses that are most ready for next-generation AI — 78% of startups say they’re prepared for agentic AI, compared to just 19% of businesses overall. 

Failure to deepen AI adoption could impact Europe’s ability to access its share of €1.5 trillion of global GDP that cloud-enabled AI is estimated to generate globally by 2030. If frontier companies leave, Europe risks losing a generation of innovators and the flywheels they create: jobs, talent pools, supply chains, future investment, and tomorrow’s tech leaders. When asked what would convince them to stay, 65% pointed to a clearer, more proportionate and stable regulatory environment that supports innovation. 

Sasha Rubel, Head of AI/Generative AI Policy, EMEA, AWS, said: “While each pioneer’s story is unique, they share one conviction: that audacious vision, combined with the capacity to think big and world-class AI and cloud infrastructure, can transform ideas into measurable impact. These innovators are advancing Europe’s position as a global AI leader — mapping the oceans, revolutionising patient care, accelerating drug discovery, and predicting imminent threats to help save lives. They demonstrate what’s possible when AI innovation drives both competitive advantage and societal benefit.” 

AWS’s commitment to Europe’s innovators 

AWS will continue to work closely with European governments to support businesses across the continent. Last year, AWS committed $1 billion in cloud credits for startups developing generative AI solutions, and $100 million over the next five years to support underserved learners in gaining AI and cloud computing skills as part of the AWS Education Equity Initiative. 

The window for action is narrowing. Europe’s businesses have embraced AI — now they need the conditions to transform with it. To learn what’s at stake for Europe’s AI future, read the full report here. 

For more information about AWS and its pioneers, please contact Jack and Laura at awspioneersPR@33seconds.co 

About the research
The research was conducted by Strand Partners for Amazon Web Services across 17 European markets (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK), surveying 17,000 business leaders and 17,000 citizens — 34,000 respondents in total. 

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