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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...
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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...
AdTech
Everyone has their own dreams. For some, it is to build up their own business. For this, they need their own ideas that are...
CleanTech
Yesterday hazardous marine waste – today high-quality roll-ups, displays and much more. SEAQUAL® YARN makes it possible: a sustainable yarn made from upcycled marine...
FinTech
Start-up killer number 1: lack of liquidity Start-ups have an endless list of challenges to overcome: recruiting skilled staff, building up distribution networks and...
E-commerce
Almi Invest is investing SEK 3.5 million in Boka Global, which operates the internet-based booking platform Boka.se. Private investors are also participating in the...
Mobility
Vasakronan has together with blq Invest started a joint company named Hydda. The purpose of the company is to accelerate the development of new...
FinTech
DalaCapital AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dalarna Science Park, invests in early-stage companies through so-called seed capital. The investments are made with the...
AdTech
The new Swedish social media app Kiliaro was founded by four programmers with extensive experience in building companies. The Kiliaro founders are no rookies...
AdTech
B2B fintech Pleo plans massive expansion in Europe, tripling valuation to USD$4.7bn with $200 Series C raise Fintech company Pleo, which simplifies business purchasing...
AdTech
You learn from the knocks you get along the way. Having founded three different SaaS startups, there are three precious lessons in particular that...
FinTech
Hidden Dreams opened for business in late 2019 and shortly thereafter founded its first two tech companies whose services today solve niche problems in...
PropTech
