Copenhagen Suborbitals is my favorite recent successful European tech endeavor, but it's organized as a nonprofit rather than a startup. Kind of interesting to

Copenhagen Suborbitals is my favorite recent successful European tech endeavor, but it's organized as a nonprofit rather than a startup. Kind of interesting to think about when to use that model versus the startup model; I don't have solid conclusions on that. A few others: Unity (the game engine company, Denmark) was founded in 2004 and got big around 2008-09. Not sure if that counts as recent enough. Flattr (Sweden) is kind of niche-popular. One of the better attempts at micropatronage, I think, though I'm not sure I'd call it a big success. If you count cloud infrastructure, OVH (France) is growing massively. If you count games, Mojang (Sweden) and Rovio (Finland) are printing cash.