Agentic Automation in Europe: Startups and Use Cases

Free Content Report Intelligent Business Process Automation October 2026 29 pages pdf

What you will learn

AI agents dominate the AI debate, but how much of the promise is real process automation?
The Report maps 151 European Agentic Automation startups, which raised $1.92 billion, with the top 10 capturing 83% of funding.
On the demand side, it analyzes 178 use cases from Europe’s top 100 companies: one third are agentic, but only one in four of these acts autonomously on business processes.
Nine cases show where agent autonomy creates value.

Table of Contents

1
Introduction
2
Agentic Automation in European Startups
3
Agentic use cases in the top 100 European companies
4
Practical research use cases

Index of Graphs

1
Definition of AI Agent
2
The difference between AI Agent and Agentic Automation concepts
3
The sample of European startups analyzed
4
The distribution of startups by founding year

You will know how to answer these key questions

How many European startups have a value proposition focused on AI Agents and Agentic Automation, where are they concentrated, and how much capital have they raised?
What types of offerings do these startups provide, and which categories are investors focusing on?
How widespread is Agentic Automation among the top 100 European companies, and in which application areas and industries?

The methodology used in this Report

The research combines two complementary analyses. The startup survey identified, through Crunchbase and secondary sources, startups with a value proposition centered on AI Agents and Agentic Automation, founded on or after January 1, 2021 and funded by institutional investors on or after January 1, 2024. The European perimeter includes 151 startups in 28 countries, within an international survey of 918. Each startup was classified across six non-exclusive offering categories, industry and business function; funding data is updated as of March 2026. The use case survey was carried out through desk research on the top 100 companies in the Fortune Europe ranking (completed in September 2026), based on company communications, vendor case studies and specialized press. Only cases already in production or pilot were included, for a final corpus of 178 use cases across 95 companies, classified by level of autonomy.

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