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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- E-commerce
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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AITech
Week of 26 October – 2 November 2026 · AITech This week brought about 40 rounds worth roughly $860M in disclosed equity, plus Cohere’s...
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Kling AI, the generative video unit of Chinese short-video company Kuaishou, has completed a funding round of about 19.8 billion yuan ($2.98 billion), announced on 30...
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Korean AI semiconductor company Furiosa AI has closed a Series D round of $623 million (820 billion won), the company said on October 29, 2026. The round...
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Sumesh Menon is a highly accomplished professional in the areas of strategic planning, visioning, program delivery, project management, and IT enablement. In addition, Sumesh...
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Undoubtedly, people have been overwhelmed as new AI-based applications hit the market on a mass scale. This story shows that it’s only a tiny...
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In January, the defx team launched @chat_openia_bot, which used the OpenAI API and was available to Ukrainians without registration. During this time, they processed...
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The first-ever Brave2Bloom Conference is set to take place in Tallinn, Estonia on April 3 and 4. This unique conference will bring together top...
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Avicenna.AI, a medical imaging AI company, has announced that it has raised a Series A funding round, bringing its total investment to €10 million....
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We are peers. We offer psychological help in small groups for depression and stress (anxiety coming in February). We have all been in challenging...
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Xceed, one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the live events scene, has raised €2 million to grow its intelligent event discovery platform from...
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A startup founded by Ukrainians PRNEWS.IO was named a winner in a Marketing and PR category in the Go Global Awards of the International...
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Finalists for the first TechChill Milano Startup Pitch Battle have been announced, with 10 early-stage startups from four countries making the cut to compete...
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Local creative businesses and potential investors meet at the Aros Art Museum to strengthen networks and discuss future collaboration opportunities. At the DCI GO!...
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