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- Startup Profile
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
- 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: Stockholm’s Capable Launches a CRM That Your AI Runs for You
AITech M&A: Swedish-Founded Listen Labs Is Being Acquired by Salesforce in a Potentially $2B Deal
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
- AgriTech
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
- BioTech
BioTech Funding: France’s WhiteLab Genomics Raises €23.2M Series B to Accelerate AI-Driven Genomic Medicine
France’s Rivercell Emerges from Stealth with €22M for AI-Powered Drug Discovery Infrastructure
Gothenburg’s Aventix Raises €1.2M Pre-Seed to Build the Future of Bioanalytics
Umeå’s Omnio Raises €2.9M to Advance Chronic Wound Therapy Toward Clinical Trials
From Scorpion Sting to Biotech Company — The Story Behind Swevenom
- CleanTech
Swedish National Team Stars Back Hydro Diagnostics’ Rapid Water Tests as the Startup Raises SEK3.4M
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
- Cybersecurity
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
- FinTech
Invest Forum Malta 2026
FinTech News: Stockholm’s Brite Payments Brings Its International Pay-by-Bank Network to the UK
Float’s Co-Founder on Why Fast-Growing AI Companies Can Be Risky Borrowers
Trustly Secures $40M+ Equity Commitments from Nordic Capital and Alfvén & Didrikson to Accelerate AI-Powered Growth Strategy
London’s PlannerPal Raises $6M to Build the Client Intelligence Layer for UK Financial Advice
- HealthTech
JSK Investments Backs Imperial Spin-Out MintNeuro’s $5M Round to Build Chips for Neural Devices
HealthTech Funding: London’s Cori Clinical Raises €3.8M Seed to Accelerate Clinical Trials and Cut Delays
London’s MintNeuro Raises €4.4M for Neural Chips Aimed at Parkinson’s, Epilepsy and Depression Devices
BioTech Funding: France’s WhiteLab Genomics Raises €23.2M Series B to Accelerate AI-Driven Genomic Medicine
Nordic Life Science: Week in Review, 2–9 October 2026
- PropTech
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
- 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
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
- AdTech
News
By Vedran Obradović, founder, Vizura Studio® Startups measure a lot of milestones. Revenue, users, runway, headcount, product releases, market expansion. There is another one...
News
August is usually considered the “dead season” for publishing — but not this year. Major publishers dropped an impressive wave of business and nonfiction...
News
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...
AITech
The article was prepared in collaboration with TechBBQ. Hand-held stopwatches and manual notes on a pad of paper formed the backbone of the modern...
Crypto / Blockchain / Web3
At 21, Lasse Kalkars went all-in on his first big startup venture, a US-based crypto-focused investment app. He later became Nordic head of Revolut....
AITech
This article has been prepared in collaboration with TechBBQ. Almost ten years ago, Søren Würtz constantly encountered the same problem. He worked as an...
HealthTech
This article has been prepared in collaboration with TechBBQ. For many years, Jesper Thomsen had actually developed lamps and watches for consumers through his...
AITech
The article was produced in collaboration with TechBBQ. Half of the world’s population has an untreated oral disease, making it the world’s most underestimated...
AdTech
A historical model, now obsolete When we think of company canteens, images of self-service, huge, cold rooms in neon-lit basements spontaneously spring to mind....
FinTech
Renting is not giving up buying, it’s making the choice to finance in a different way, in a smart way. So, two years ago,...
FinTech
Published last November, the second edition of the Cegid / OpinionWay barometer on the ecosystem of entrepreneurs and their support in the face of...
FinTech
These last three years have been hard for French companies: at the end of 2018, there was first the yellow vest crisis, then in...
AdTech
Stagnation is not so bad in a year of recession. While at the beginning of 2020 French start-ups feared that venture capital would dry...
PropTech
