European Growth Leaders 2026

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An independent academic observatory making Europe’s listed growth companies visible.

Francesco Castellaneta, Full Professor of Strategy, SKEMA Business School · Scientific Committee Diego Zunino and Jackie Krafft

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Annual rank16

Poland · Technology

Cyber_Folks

Provides hosting, omnichannel communications, telecommunications, e-commerce tools and CPaaS services for email and SMS.

+143%revenue growth
FY2022–FY2025
+193%net-income growth
FY2022–FY2025
+355%stock return
FY2022–FY2025
−5%2026 stock return
current context only

Company profile

The layers behind a European online sale

Cyber_Folks is the parent-group story behind a widening European commerce stack. Its own infrastructure business supplies domains, hosting and online-business tools; the wider portfolio adds storefronts, checkout, integrations, back-office operations and customer communications. Shoper and Vercom remain distinct listed companies with their own profiles in this observatory. Here the focus is how the group connects those layers with controlled PrestaShop, Sylius and BitBag businesses, shared data and practical AI assistants.

Merchant journey

One order crosses six technology layers

A shop that looks simple to a buyer can depend on hosting and domains, a storefront and checkout, product and order backends, payment and logistics integrations, an app marketplace, and post-purchase communications. Cyber_Folks maps those pieces as one operating chain. The group does not build every function itself: partner agencies, software houses and integrators extend the platform, while shared infrastructure and data connect the components.

Store engines

Different architectures for different merchants

The group spans three distinct ways to build a store. Shoper supplies a hosted SaaS route; PrestaShop is an open-source platform that merchants and developers can customise; Sylius is a headless framework for more complex, integration-heavy commerce. The latter offers live examples for a standard shop, B2B distribution and marketplace projects. These products should not be collapsed into one generic “store builder”: they address different technical control and complexity requirements.

Scale and economics

The platform grows with the merchant

Cyber_Folks reports more than 700,000 customers across Europe after adding PrestaShop, Sylius and BitBag. Its model mixes recurring subscriptions with commissions and usage-linked revenue, so income can expand as merchants add products, integrations or transaction volume. The PrestaShop transaction widened the group toward France, Spain and Italy and added an open-source platform used by 230,000 active stores; the group reports about €35 billion of annual commerce across its platforms.

Applied AI

An assistant that changes DNS, not just answers questions

Cyber_Mind orchestrates the group's AI agents, while robo_Folks sits inside the hosting panel. A user can ask it to create an email account, inspect or change DNS records, install WordPress, update an SSL certificate or analyse site logs. In Q1 2026 the company said robo_Folks handled about 47% of customer chats, correctly resolved 86% and coincided with a 33% year-on-year fall in chats handled by support teams. Those are issuer-reported operating measures, not an independent assessment.

Current 2026 update

What has changed in 2026?

Merger approved 20 July 2026 · 20 July 2026

Merger approved 20 July 2026latest official update
4company-specific highlights
−5%2026 stock return · context only

First-quarter financial results

Q1 revenue rose 29% to PLN 245.3 million, adjusted EBITDA 35% to PLN 83.1 million and profit attributable to owners 71% to PLN 22.9 million; the company said both organic development and the integration of the acquired e-commerce ecosystem, including PrestaShop, contributed.

First quarter ended 31 March 2026

E-commerce GMV

Polish Shoper-platform GMV rose 59% to PLN 6.9 billion; PrestaShop and Sylius platforms generated PLN 33.1 billion of GMV in Europe during the quarter.

First quarter ended 31 March 2026

Shoper merger approved

Shareholders approved the Shoper merger; Shoper assets are to transfer to cyber_Folks in exchange for 3,215,165 newly issued Series F shares.

Merger approved 20 July 2026

Combined customer base

The combined group was described as serving more than 700,000 customers.

Merger approved 20 July 2026 · more than 700,000 customers

Annual record

Ranking history

Future editions add rows; they do not rewrite the 2026 record.

EditionMeasurement periodRankRevenue growthNet-income growthStock return
2026FY2022–FY202516+143%+193%+355%