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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

DeepTech Funding: Freiburg’s VUSE XR Raises €1.2M Pre-Seed to Bring AI-Powered Mixed Reality Training to Enterprises

AITech Weekly: Anthropic Files to Go Public, Cohere Gets a Government Shareholder, and Europe Bets on Robots and Air Defence

AITech Funding: Kuaishou’s Kling AI Completes About $2.98B Round Just Months After Its Previous Raise, Ahead of a Planned IPO

AITech Funding: South Korea’s Furiosa AI Raises $623M Series D at About $2.89B Post-Money Valuation to Take Its AI Chips Global

AITech Weekly: DeepSeek Raises $15B, Four Startups Become Unicorns, and Robots Get Their Own Funding Boom

AgriTech Opportunity: Swedish Forestry Giant Södra Launches an Innovation Challenge to Tackle Wildlife Browsing Damage

AgriTech Weekly: Microbes Replace Chemicals, Robots Pollinate Avocados, and a Moroccan Marketplace Shuts Down

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

BioTech Weekly: Formation Bio Raises a $600M Fund for Stalled Drugs, Dren Bio Funds Its Launch, and Anthropic Buys a One-Person Biotech

Denmark’s Samplix Secures €25M First Close to Scale Antibody Discovery

BioTech Weekly: Cloned War Dogs, an Ex-OpenAI Lab Bringing Drug Chemistry Back to the US, and Lycia Jumps 67% on IPO

BioTech Funding: Sheffield Spinout Silvia Bio Raises £3M Seed Led by Northern Gritstone to Scale Its Biomanufacturing Platform

Switzerland’s Nouscom Raises €120M Series D to Bring Off-the-Shelf Cancer Interception Immunotherapy Closer to Registration

Germany’s Proxima Fusion Signs MoU with Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering During Chancellor Merz’s Visit to Strengthen the Fusion Supply Chain

Germany’s Rabot Energy Raises $50M Series B to Turn Homes into a Virtual Power Plant

Estonia’s Skeleton Technologies Becomes a Unicorn with a “9-Digit” Siemens-Led Investment to Power AI Data Centres in the US

CleanTech Weekly: AI’s Power Crunch Mints an Estonian Unicorn, Homes Become Power Plants, and Amazon Goes Nuclear Again

Leonardo DiCaprio Makes His First Direct Investment in a Swedish Company, Backing Energy Subscription Startup Elvy

Cybersecurity Weekly: AI Agents on Both Sides of the Firewall, a $30M Exit With No VC, and Q3’s $6.8B Haul

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

FinTech Weekly: Guidewire Pays $1.7B for AI Underwriting, Wealthsimple Hits C$13.8B, and Debt Facilities Outsize the Equity

Madrid’s Talky Raises €1.5M Pre-Seed to Teach AI the Unwritten Rules of Accounting

FinTech Funding: Former UK Minister Bim Afolami Co-Founds AI Insurance Broker i23, Reportedly Raising £4.9M Seed

Guidewire to Acquire UK Agentic Underwriting Startup Hyperexponential for $1.7B in Cash

Sweden’s BackingMinds Hits First Close of Fund III at Over €50M, with Minecraft and King Founders Joining as Investors

HealthTech Weekly: A $1.4B Fertility Exit, China’s Brain-Implant Race, and Healthcare Incumbents Back the Startups They Buy From

HealthTech Funding: Spain’s Impress Signs €40M EIB Venture Debt Loan to Expand Its Digital Orthodontics Network Across Europe

FinTech Expansion: Sweden’s Solace Care Launches in the Netherlands, Its Fifth Market, with Bouvy Advies as First Dutch Partner

HealthTech Milestone: Sweden’s Navari Surgical Uses Its AR Surgical Navigation on a Human Patient for the First Time

Sweden’s Suturion Secures SEK 20M Convertible Investment from Cradle Growth to Accelerate Commercial Expansion

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

Dutch Blockchain Week announces 2027 dates and return to Johan Cruijff ArenA

Crypto Weekly: Tether Turns VC, Tokenized Assets Hunt for Liquidity, and Farcaster Gets Its Third Owner This Year

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

EdTech Funding: Warsaw’s Coding Giants Secures Up to €6M in Venture Debt to Expand Its STEM Education Platform Beyond Europe

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

SpaceTech Weekly: Orbital AI, Lasers and a Seed-Stage Gold Rush

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

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 Weekly: Robovans and Pilotless Planes Raise Big, Nordic Money Electrifies the Global South, and Ukraine’s Ground Robots Consolidate

Dimitri Rudenko: Fixed Schedule Means Paying for Work Nobody Needs

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?