About
Who we are.
How it started
“The infrastructure that should have existed ten years ago.”
European digital resilience isn’t just a defensive posture — it’s an opportunity. The American technology marketplace has demonstrated what a well-capitalised, well-networked ecosystem can produce at scale. European companies have the engineering depth, the regulatory sophistication, and increasingly the ambition to compete at that level. What has been missing is the infrastructure to connect them to the capital, the buyers, and the relationships that make scaling possible.
The moment is also commercially compelling. Enterprises and governments actively seeking to de-risk their technology dependencies are looking for credible European alternatives — not out of ideology, but out of strategic necessity. That demand is real, it’s growing, and European companies are well-positioned to meet it if they can get in front of the right audiences.
EDR Labs was built to close that gap. A few founders, investors, and operators who had built on both sides of the Atlantic, who understood both what European companies need to land in the US market and what US buyers and investors need to engage with European technology seriously. Not a fund. Not a lobbying group. A platform built by people who had been there, for the companies ready to make the crossing.
Operating under EuroCham — the umbrella organisation of European Business Chambers in San Francisco — EDR Labs has direct access to the practitioners, investors, and institutions that matter.
Founded under
EuroCham SIG
European Chamber of Commerce · San Francisco
Focus
Mission-critical sectors · Transatlantic investment · European tech adoption
The initiative
What it is
A practitioner network
Connecting European tech companies to US capital, buyers, and distribution through people who have already made that journey.
An advocacy platform
With direct access to European institutional decision-makers and US investors, giving European tech a credible voice in both markets.
A stage for European companies
Through flagship events, webinars, and the annual Startup Championship — putting European companies in front of the right audiences at scale.
Open membership
Anyone building or backing European tech is welcome. The more diverse the community, the stronger it is.
What it is not
Not anti-US
US and European tech are complementary. The goal is not to replace US technology — it’s to ensure European alternatives exist, scale, and compete on merit.
Not a geopolitical response
European companies have struggled to scale for structural reasons — lack of capital, visibility, and cross-border infrastructure — that predate any political moment.
Not a lobbying group
We don’t represent institutional interests. We represent practitioners. The output is real companies scaling, not position papers.
Not a closed club
If you’re building or backing European tech, there’s a place for you here. Membership isn’t selective by design.