Europe is awash with talent and technology in the AI space. Here are 10 European start-ups to watch in 2019. There is a growing belief that the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution could be even more profound than the internet revolution. While the technology is often characterised as a threat to traditional job security, if you look closely at this crop of European start-ups, their use of AI is about improving outcomes in everything from health and safety to better communications and creativity. In other words, AI as a subject is very broad with a myriad of uses, and therefore could be put to work to augment human capabilities or solve big world problems.

Oxford University spin-off company Diffblue has raised $22 million (£16.9 million) in a Series A round led by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments and backed by Oxford Sciences Innovations and Oxford Technology and Innovations Fund. Founded in 2016, the company has developed AI that is able to automate computer programming: according to the company's description, the system can analyse code and perform "bug fixing, test writing, finding and fixing exploits, refactoring code, translating from one language to another, and creating original code to fit specifications." Diffblue's product is already available for Java and C, while the Python, C# and Javascript versions are currently under development. Diffblue founder and CEO--and Oxford's computer science professor--Daniel Kroening commented on the fresh round of funding in a statement. ""Software is becoming increasingly complex, interdependent and vulnerable and it's unrealistic to believe that humans can guarantee its safety and security,"he said. "We believe that the suite of tools we are developing at Diffblue has immense potential to help address these issues.