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- Startup Profile
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
Which European Cities Will Be Friendly to Startups in 2025?
How One Startup is Helping Immigrants Stay in the U.S.
- Startup Profile
- Verticals
- AdTech
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
- AITech
AITech News: HolidayHero Opens the AI Infrastructure It Built for Itself to Hotel Operators
Japan’s Tenchijin Surpasses 100 Municipal Contracts for Satellite × AI Water Leak Solution “KnoWaterleak”
Factorial Acquires Berlin AI Startup Empion to Expand Talent Assessment in Europe
Paris’s Ed.ai Raises €5M Seed to Expand in France and the US
Barcelona’s heydiga Raises €5.5M to Expand Its AI Conversation Platform for Local Businesses
- AgriTech
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
Swedish Forestry AI Startup Nordic Forestry Automation Raises SEK 48M to Scale Semi-Autonomous Forest Machines
- BioTech
BioTech News: Swedish Startup Halmos Labs Joins Y Combinator to Build Automated Biotech R&D
Rostock’s ARTCLINE Raises €3.4M to Prepare ARTICE® Launch for Septic Shock Treatment
Italy’s Biorsaf Raises €5.2M and Acquires Cooki to Expand Its Food RegTech Platform
Elsdorf’s BIOWEG Brings Series A to €30M, Plans Major Bacterial Cellulose Plant in Germany
BioTech Funding: Polish Deep-Tech Startup Science4Beauty Raises €1.6M to Scale Its Conotoxin Platform for Beauty
- CleanTech
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
Stockholm’s Tavion Secures €50M to Build Its First Battery Parks in Poland
Munich’s Furo Raises $4M to Expand AI Tools for Commercial and Industrial Energy Storage
AgriTech Funding: Paris’s Tellia Raises €4.3M to Scale Voice-Enabled Data Capture for Farmers
- Cybersecurity
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
Oplane raises $5.2M seed to build automated security architecture for AI-native systems
- FinTech
London’s Veridue Raises €3.4M to Accelerate Investment and Project Financing for Renewables and Data Centres
FinTech Funding: Solva Secures $6M to Rebuild Insurance Claims with AI, Backed by Paul Graham
FinTech M&A: Stockholm’s Kleer Acquires Plock to Build a Real-Time “Operating System” for SaaS and AI Companies
Quartr Raises $18M to Expand AI Infrastructure for Company Research
Transfer Galaxy Pays SEK 25M Dividend After Profitability-Focused Turnaround
- HealthTech
HealthTech Funding: JSK Investments Backs Andromeda Surgical’s Autonomous Surgical Platform in $15M Series A
Portugal’s Hope Care Raises €6M Series A to Expand Remote Patient Monitoring Across Europe
HealthTech Funding: Stockholm’s Elekta Secures €100M EIB Loan to Advance Cancer and Neurological Treatments
Zurich’s KOVE Medical Secures €1.7M to Reduce Preterm Birth Risk in Foetal Surgery
HealthTech Funding: Valencia’s iPremom Raises €15M to Advance Early Detection of Pregnancy Complications
- PropTech
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
Best real estate startups of 2026
- 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
- FoodTech
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
- Crypto / Blockchain / Web3
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
- EdTech
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
- SpaceTech
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
- GameTech
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
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
Acorel Relaunches Its Website to Put AI-Powered People-Counting Front and Center
NOVUS Launches First Customer Deliveries of Its Electric Lightbike, Defining a New Urban Mobility Category
- AdTech
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StartupBlink has released its Global Startup Ecosystem Index (GSEI) 2026, ranking 1,556 cities and 100 countries around the world. The picture it paints is one...
News
Startups from across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East are set to gather in Istanbul for the inaugural GITEX Ai Türkiye 2026,...
News
Ukraine’s startup scene has done something few ecosystems anywhere have had to prove: keep building, funding, and exporting through a full-scale war. Behind that...
BioTech
The Hellenic Development Investment Bank (EATE – pre-TANEO) is implementing a new programme to support innovative Greek start-ups through resources from the Resilience and...
FinTech
“The recovery of the Greek economy in 2021 was even stronger than expected and will exceed pre-pandemic levels by the end of the year.”...
FinTech
It’s not that big Polish companies cooperate with startups as a rule, at Maspex you didn’t do it for a long time either, and...
FinTech
Photo: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Alipay, or the dispute between American, Japanese and Chinese companies...
AdTech
More than three years ahead of schedule, France has surpassed the 25 unicorns. While the acceleration of the French startup ecosystem is to be...
AdTech
Last Thursday West Swedish Incubators and the #greenUps network invited startups, financiers and industrial companies to the Brewhouse for their regular matchmaking event. Nine...
FinTech
They are one of the few Polish startups operating in the contech industry. As they said during our previous conversation, this is a difficult...
FinTech
Bank account opened with a selfie Nest Bank has completely changed the design of its online banking and mobile application – the color scheme...
AdTech
Parisians, you don’t see yourself spending all your life in the capital? Some Parisian start-ups have decided not to lose sight of you by...
EdTech
More than 2.5 million Ukrainians have already arrived in Poland, and, unusually for the refugees we have encountered so far, most of them declare...
PropTech
