The EuroMakers Journal
European software,up close.
Deep dives into products made in Europe, stories from the makers behind them and guides you can use today.
Lesson Dino names the model, and the price of free
Lesson Dino, a lesson planner run from Malta, looks your topic up before it writes and numbers every fact with its source. Its privacy policy goes further than the marketing: it names the model (Meta's Muse Spark), admits Meta may keep your prompts during the beta, and tells you exactly which service sees what.
Legora Is Swedish; Its Series E Is Not
Legora, the Stockholm-born legal AI platform, raised $550 million on 21 October at an $8.8 billion valuation. The press release is datelined New York first, the round is led from Boston, and the United States is already its largest market. Europe's biggest legal-AI company is a European success story whose centre of gravity has moved.
Celestio Sends Anthropic the Chart, Not Your Birthday
Celestio, a Bulgarian AI astrology app, splits your data in an unusual place: the model that writes your reading gets your name and the planet positions, but never your birth date, time or place. One-time reports, no subscription, and a real MCP server with a warning your assistant should read.
Databaas Keeps Your Data in Your Own Bucket
Wolk, a thirteen-person consultancy in Utrecht, launched Databaas on 20 October as Europe's answer to Snowflake and Databricks. The product is a managed bundle of open-source tools deployed wherever you choose — and the exit is part of the architecture.
Bitculator Is One Person in Denmark, and the Dutch Come Last
Bitculator wants to be the European CoinMarketCap: a crypto data site built and run by one Danish developer since 2021, hosted on Hetzner, free to use, funded partly by on-chain donations. Its own exchange table scores the only European exchange last.
Riff's European AI is Google's model on your machine
Riff, a free Chrome extension from a Tallinn OÜ, writes your social replies with Gemini Nano — the model Chrome downloads once and runs on your own GPU. No servers, no account, no bill. The independence story is real, and stranger than the marketing version.