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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
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- 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 Weekly: An $870M Series A, Seed Rounds That Look Like Series B, and AI That Owns Outcomes
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
- 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: Oxford Spin-Out OMass Therapeutics Lands €275M Series C to Bring Novel Small-Molecule Therapies Closer to Patients
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
- CleanTech
Leonardo DiCaprio Makes His First Direct Investment in a Swedish Company, Backing Energy Subscription Startup Elvy
Sweden’s Abundry, Co-Founded by Einride’s Founders, Merges with Energy Storage Startup Ertzy to Build a Complete Grid Decision Platform
CleanTech Weekly: 1KOMMA5° Eyes the US, Epyr Bets on Industrial Heat, and Battery Recycling Gets Real
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
- 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
Sweden’s Turbine Capital Closes Fund I at SEK 608M, with Mycronic Joining Saab, Scania, Volvo Cars and Stena
E-commerce Investment: Embracer Founder Lars Wingefors Buys into Swedish Ticketing Company Tickster
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
- HealthTech
Sweden’s Most Profitable Tech Company Audiowell Goes Public via Reverse Takeover of Sleep Cycle in a SEK 2.25B Deal
HealthTech Funding: Sweden’s Yazen Raises €50M, Its Largest Round to Date, to Scale Digital Weight-Loss Care Across Europe
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
- 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
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
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
- 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
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AITech
Tenchijin Inc., a Japanese space-tech company originally incubated by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), announced that its water DX solution, Tenchijin COMPASS KnoWaterleak, has surpassed 100...
SpaceTech
European startups working on space, drones, autonomous systems, robotics, and related technologies are being invited to attend and exhibit at UTES2026 — Unmanned Technologies for...
AITech
As artificial intelligence expands beyond software into real-world machines, one challenge is becoming increasingly clear: AI systems need better physical data to interact with the...
AdTech
The goal of the President of the Republic was to reach, by 2023, 25 unicorns. This goal has already been surpassed, as there have...
FinTech
25e startup ecosystem in Aarhus is booming – across sectors and stages. We’ve gathered 7 of the most exciting new companies right now! Turning...
CleanTech
For a long time, space was the preserve of the States. Then, in the 2000s, with the success of SpaceX, it began to become...
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Subscription services – the new black for startups and scaleups? Coding integrations takes time and is extremely expensive. It therefore represents a common headache...
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Imagine if there was a less risky approach to entrepreneurship. An approach where you were sure you could market your products before you started...
SpaceTech
SkyMap is growing and strengthening its team to meet the high demand from both new and existing customers. For the newly created position of...
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– I am pleased to announce that we have completed the design review, the so-called “System Requirements Review”. System Requirements Review”, which is one...
GameTech
Experiences with XR elements are becoming increasingly common in the cultural and communication industries. This can be seen in film and theatre, where the...
AdTech
At the beginning of a company there is always a business idea, which should be elaborated by means of a business plan. However, the...
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Today, Tioex, a membership platform for investing in unlisted tech companies, announced that it has closed its first investment in the technology company Einride,...
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