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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

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 Funding: Czech Startup FLÆ Robotics Raises Over €1M Seed to Automate Hotel Guest Services with AI

AITech Funding: Rohlik Founder Tomáš Čupr’s Duvo Raises $32M Series A to Automate Enterprise Workflows Without Armies of Engineers

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

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

AgriTech Funding: Paris’s Tellia Raises €4.3M to Scale Voice-Enabled Data Capture for Farmers

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

Biopharma Deal-Making Enters a New Phase as BioPharma Deals 2026 Approaches

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

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

Sweden’s Abundry, Co-Founded by Einride’s Founders, Merges with Energy Storage Startup Ertzy to Build a Complete Grid Decision Platform

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

FinTech Funding: Stockholm’s Matters Emerges from Stealth with $5M Pre-Seed to Build an AI-Powered Consumer Bank

Norway’s Neonomics Secures $4M from Existing Shareholders to Scale Open Finance and Financial Data Services

FinTech Weekly: AI Agents Learn to Handle Money, Insurers Write the Big Cheques, and Intuit Goes Shopping

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

Bristol’s Siloton Wins €9.98M Innovate UK Contract to Develop Its Handheld Eye Imaging System

Belarus-Founded Unicorn Flo Health Gets a Strategic Investment from Google Health and a Multi-Year Women’s Health Partnership

Otter Health Raises $8M Seed to Ease Prior Authorisation and Improve Quality of Care

HealthTech Weekly: AI Takes Over the Back Office, Caregivers Get Paid, and Zocdoc Makes Its First Buy in 20 Years

Sweden’s Most Profitable Tech Company Audiowell Goes Public via Reverse Takeover of Sleep Cycle in a SEK 2.25B Deal

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

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 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

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

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 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

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 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

How About a Career in the Drone Industry?