As Europe has started to build a startup track record, there's also a new category of people who are specializing in building tech startups that are and create a great deal of value for the entire business community on the continent. We call them the superfounders - they can be serial founders, or have built what investors call unicorns, and are great examples of go to people for rookies and other fellow founders looking for advice.

We have put together a comprehensive list of almost 100 such people from Europe - you can find it below structured by countries.

France

Stanislas Niox Chateau - Doctolib
Mathilde Collin - Front
Nicolas Dessaigne - Algolia
Thibaud Elzière - Fotolia
Solomon Hykes - Dagger
Daniel Marhely - Deezer
Frédéric Mazzella - Blabla Car
Olivier Pomel - Datadog
Jean Baptiste Rudelle - Criteo
Jean Charles Samuelian - Alan
Pierre-Edouard Stérin - Smartbox
Loïc Soubeyrand - Swile
Renaud Visage - Eventbrite

Germany

Jens Begemann - Wooga
Christian Hecker - Trade Republic
Sascha Konietzke - Contentful
Julius Köhler - sennder
Niklas Jansen - Blinkist
Christian Reber - Pitch
Hanno Renner - Personio
Alexander Rinke - Celonis
Rolf Schrömgens - Trivago
Tim Schumacher - Sedo
Maximilian Tayenthal - N26
Michael Wax - Forto

The UK

Michael Acton - Calm
Alexander Chesterman - Cazoo
Nick D'Aloisio - Summly
Samir Desai - Funding Circle
Nick Hungerford - Nutmeg
Herman Narula - Improbable
William Reeve - Lovefilm
Kristian Segerstråle - SuperEvil
Peter Smith - blockchain.com
Nigel Toon - Graphcore
Dominic Williams - Dfinity

Sweden

Peter Arvai - Prezi
Daniel Ek - Spotify
Emil Eifrém - Neo4j
Jacob de Geer - Zettle
Joachim Hedenius - Kry
Alex Ljung - Dance
Sebastian Siemiatkowski - Klarna
Eric Wahlforss - Dance
Hjalmar Winbladh - Ark Capital

Spain

Pedro Bados - Nexthink
Alejandro Sánchez Blanes - Freepik
Pedro Castillo - Devo
Federico Larsen - Copado
Iker Marcaide - Flywire
Rebeca Minguela - Clarity
Juan de Antonio Rubio - Cabify
Juan Urdiales - JobAndTalent

Netherlands

Pieter van der Does - Adyen
Adriaan Mol - Mollie
Ali Niknam - bunq
Sytse Sijbrandij - Gitlab

Finland

Timo Soininen - Small Giant Games
Mårten Mickos - MySql
Ilkka Paananen - Supercell

Belgium

Fabien Pinckaers - Odoo
Felix Van de Maele - Collibra

Denmark

Heini Zachariassen - Vivino
DHH - Basecamp

Norway

Karl Munthe-Kaas - Oda
Johan Brand - Kahoot

Switzerland

Guillaume Pousaz - checkout.com
Samuel Mueller - Scandit

Other Countries

Collison brothers -Stripe
Eric Demuth - Bitpanda
Daniel Dines - UIPath
David Helgason - Unity
Taavet Hinrikus - Wise
Urška Sršen - Bellabeat
Riccardo Zacconi - King
Dmitriy Zaporozhets - Gitlab