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Startup Profile: Building an Ecosystem, Not Just a Startup — Luciano Almeida’s LDR Project Connects Brazil and Europe

Petto Design: A California Startup Is Turning Pet Furniture Into Modern Interior Design

Startup Profile: AloFor Is Building a Global Travel-eSIM Business from Romania — Without Owning a Network

Stephan Airapetian: The Los Angeles Attorney Bridging Personal Injury Law and Emerging Technology

Pixella Review: How Content Creators Are Producing 10x More Visuals Without a Design Team

Headwai Acquired by Agent Mama in Swedish AI AdTech Consolidation

Swedish AdTech Startup Camphouse Raises €5M Series A to Scale Media Management Platform

Yoola Drops YoolaStats: The Analytics Tool That Finally Shuts Up the Guesswork in Creator Economy

Energy Robotics Secures €11.5M to Scale AI-Powered Inspection Robots Across Critical Industries

Notion Capital Closes €114M Growth Fund to Double Down on AI and FinTech Scaleups

FinTech News: Stockholm’s Grasp Opens New York Office, Seeks US Managing Director

AITech Funding: Klang Raises SEK15M to Help European Businesses Make Conversations Searchable and Usable

Spiich Raises €3M Seed to Make Sales Human — Then Posts a “Founding Chef” Job Written Entirely in Sales Jargon

Folio Launches as a Fully AI-Built, Open-Source Alternative to Confluence and Notion

An AI App Builder Without an AI — Serverpod Bets on What Comes After Vibe Coding

BioTech News: Agteria Biotech Rebrands to Root Bio, Broadening Scope Beyond Methane

Italy’s Biorsaf Raises €5.2M and Acquires Cooki to Expand Its Food RegTech Platform

Nijmegen’s Gravity Gardens Raises €2.6M for Dry, Chemical-Free Seed Activation Technology

AgriTech Funding: Paris’s Tellia Raises €4.3M to Scale Voice-Enabled Data Capture for Farmers

UK’s EcoNomad Solutions Lands €466K to Turn Livestock Waste into Renewable Energy for Small Farms

From Scorpion Sting to Biotech Company — The Story Behind Swevenom

Stockholm’s Enginzyme Raises SEK 75M to Bolster Commercial Biomanufacturing Strategy

Belgium’s Novadip Biosciences Raises €10.4M to Fund Pivotal Clinical Trial and Unlock EIB Loan Tranche

BioTech News: Agteria Biotech Rebrands to Root Bio, Broadening Scope Beyond Methane

BioTech News: Swedish Startup Halmos Labs Joins Y Combinator to Build Automated Biotech R&D

Refinyx Emerges from Stealth with Acquisition of Northvolt Recycling Technology and First Major US Customer

London’s Reactive Technologies Secures €19M EIB Financing to Strengthen Europe’s Power Grids

London’s Metris Energy Raises €4.35M to Scale AI Platform for Managing Renewable Energy Assets

FoodTech Funding: Swiss-Italian Ferm Labs Secures €3M Seed Round to Scale Clean-Label Flavor Production

FoodTech Funding: Dutch Startup Greencovery Raises €1M to Bring Cocoa Upcycling Technology to Industrial Scale

Cybersecurity Funding: ‘One Click’ Cyber Company OneClickComply Raises £1M to Make Security Simple

Cybersecurity Funding: SCI Semiconductor Raises £5M to Meet “Overwhelming Demand” for Its Memory-Safe Microchip

Leeds Cybersecurity Startup Xentra Bags €3.18M to Scale SME Compliance Platform 

Swedish Government Selects Intric’s Sovereign AI Platform for Secure Public Sector AI

Europe’s Cloud Sovereignty Push Has a Catch — and Startups Will Feel It First

Amelle Raises SEK3M to Make Accounting Firms’ Risk Assessments Less Manual

From SEK20M to SEK100M in 18 Months — Baemingo Raises SEK10M to Hit the Gas for Real

Flowpay Named Among Europe’s Top 5 Fastest-Growing Startups

Luxembourg’s ANote Music Raises €2M to Transform Music Royalties into an Accessible Asset Class

London’s Veridue Raises €3.4M to Accelerate Investment and Project Financing for Renewables and Data Centres

Women’s Health Startup Aima Sense Fights Tech Giants’ Shadow — Despite Losing Millions: “We Never Give Up”

HealthTech Funding: NPF App Anna Grew Without a Single Marketing Penny — Now Its Owners Are Investing SEK 5M More

Amsterdam’s Blue Health Intelligence Raises €3.4M to Make Preventive Health More Accessible

Stockholm’s Tandem Health Scores $100M Series B, Led by EU’s €5bn Tech Startup Fund

Neko Health Publishes Year Three Data Story from 80,000+ Members in the UK and Sweden

Endra Launches Power Studio and Acquires Planlabs to Expand into Mechanical Engineering

Earth Ledger Gives Every Parcel of Land Its Own AI Intelligence Layer

London-based Prolo raises €4.9M Seed round to modernize construction procurement with AI

Cleean Raises €550K to Scale Drone-Powered Building Cleaning Services

Endra raises $50M Series A to scale AI-powered MEP platform

Approov Secures €5.7M to Tackle AI-Era Mobile App Threats

Fleequid Raises €3M to Digitize Europe’s Used Bus Market

Minimist Secures €350k Pre-Seed Funding to Empower Second-Hand Sellers Across Europe

Paris-based Phacet Secures €4M to Expand AI Solutions for SMEs

Ukrainian Startup Beholder Receives Gift from PRNEWS.IO at Latitude59 Pitch Competition

FoodTech Funding: Swiss-Italian Ferm Labs Secures €3M Seed Round to Scale Clean-Label Flavor Production

FoodTech Funding: Dutch Startup Greencovery Raises €1M to Bring Cocoa Upcycling Technology to Industrial Scale

Italy’s Biorsaf Raises €5.2M and Acquires Cooki to Expand Its Food RegTech Platform

From Regional Silos to a Unified Innovation System: Meet NILLA, Sweden’s AI for Startups

Proteinish Secures €450K Grant to Power AI-Driven Food Production Innovation

Amsterdam set to welcome thousands of Digital Asset professionals as Dutch Blockchain Week 2026 reveals the program

Cardinal Launches “Masspredict” — AI-Powered Prediction Markets Without Gambling

Dutch Blockchain Week 2026 Strengthens Its Position as Europe’s Leading B2B Blockchain Event Week

Best blockchain startups 2026: infrastructure, DePIN, RWA & AI leaders

Akurateco and Aquanow Join Forces to Power the Next Generation of Crypto Payments

Serbian-Hungarian InsurTech Ominimo Becomes a Unicorn with €20.1M Series B Round

How to Rise to the Occasion

Oxford Medical Simulation Secures €5.78 Million to Tackle Healthcare Training Gap with Virtual Reality

Top 10 education startups that changed the approach to learning

Sdui Group Secures Strategic Investment to Become Europe’s Leading EdTech Infrastructure

Japan’s Tenchijin Surpasses 100 Municipal Contracts for Satellite × AI Water Leak Solution “KnoWaterleak”

UTES2026: Free Exhibition Space for European Startups Working on Drones, Space Tech, and Autonomous Systems

FLEXOO Raises €11M to Scale Physical AI Sensors — Technology Already Powering NASA’s Lunar Rover

The top 11 aerospace startups

France’s Infinite Orbits Secures €40M to Accelerate Europe’s Satellite-Servicing Ambitions

Auxy Expands Beyond Software With First-Ever Music Hardware Instrument

Why Australian Gamblers Are Abandoning Crown for Digital Startups: A $4B Market Shift

How Online Casino Startups Are Disrupting Australia’s $25B Gambling Industry

Why Online Gambling Software Is Key to Today’s Casino Experience

Eschatology Entertainment Secures €10.2 Million to Fuel Game Development

Mobility News: Roboat Enters a New Phase as Joshua Jordan Succeeds Ynse Deinema as CEO

PortXL Presents Its 2026 Cohort of 11 Maritime Startups and Scale-ups

How About a Career in the Drone Industry?

Heart Aerospace Completes First Flight of World’s Largest Electric Aircraft

Swedish Startup Cognivity AI Partners with California Luxury EV Maker to Bring AI Directly Into Battery Systems