About the Atlas

Why this exists

Europe designs the machines that print the world's chips, launches its own rockets, builds foundation models and quantum computers — yet it is still easier to name the American giants than the European ones. The Technical Atlas of Europe maps that ecosystem across seven domains: artificial intelligence, semiconductors, space, quantum, robotics, software and cybersecurity.

Listed here are the organisations themselves — publicly traded manufacturers, venture-backed startups and independent open-source projects alike. What they share is that they are headquartered in Europe.

Built on European open source

That principle describes how this site is built, not what it catalogues: the Atlas runs on European and vendor-neutral open source — no proprietary map vendor, no closed platform, no tracking. The entries it lists are a different matter, and most of them are commercial companies.

How the content is gathered

Entries are researched by an automated agent that searches the web, extracts structured facts and records a source for every claim. Nothing it finds is published automatically: every entry is verified against independent data and reviewed by a human first, because a company's stated headquarters is often a sales office rather than the real one. Each entry lists the sources it rests on, so you can check it.

The site is static and self-contained. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and makes no request to any third party — the fonts, icons and map data are all served from this domain.