All over Europe, we’ve witnessed a growing number of lean hardware companies popping up, trying to change the way you automate your home and appliances, keep track of your fitness, record memories, monitor air quality, lock doors and bikes, and about a million other things.

Hardware may or may not be the new software, depending on who you ask, but an increasing number of entrepreneurs are jumping into the hardware (+ software) space, thanks to the rising speed and flexibility of the manufacturing supply chain, and the decline in costs and risk.

In an effort to start seeing the forest for the trees, tech.eu put together a fairly comprehensive list, featuring 50 of the most exciting lean hardware startups in Europe:

Narrative /Sweden/

Automatic lifelogging camera. A tiny, automatic camera and app that gives you a searchable and shareable photographic memory.

Tado /Germany/

One third of the energy consumed around the world is used for heating or cooling buildings. Tado ream believes in state-of-the-art intelligent technology that fully automatically ensures that no energy is wasted.

Jolla /Finland/

Jolla was born in 2011 out of passion of its founders towards open innovation in the mobile space. At the core of Jolla is Sailfish, the most modern, mobile-optimized operating system. Running on Sailfish we are creating Jolla smartphones.
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