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Eternal.ag raises €8M to automate greenhouse harvesting with AI-powered robots
Eternal.ag, a startup building autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouses, today announced it has raised €8 million in funding from Simon Capital, Oyster Bay Venture Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures and Backbone Ventures. Eternal.ag is developing fully autonomous robots that perform greenhouse crop work without human operators. Greenhouses are increasingly essential for securing the year-round supply of fresh read more
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Sequoia-backed Edra raises $30M Series A to turn enterprise data into self-improving AI agents
Today, startup Edra announced $30 million Series A led by Sequoia, which included investment from 8VC and A*z. Edra builds AI agents that learn how a business operates, then automate the work. Its AI agents reverse-engineer how a business actually runs from existing systems and create executable knowledge: structured, white-box instructions that agents can act read more
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Cleavr raises €1M to develop an AI solution for accounts receivable
Cleavr, an AI solution dedicated to autonomous accounts receivable management, has raised €1 million in a funding round backed by Kima Ventures, Better Angle, Raphaël Nahum (CFO of Pennylane), Régis Samuel (CEO of MyUnisoft), and Olivier Brourhant (CEO of Mantu). The company develops an AI solution designed to support finance teams across the full accounts read more
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Europe’s filmtech ecosystem is growing fast — here are the startups to watch
This week, the Oscars celebrated some of last year’s most outstanding achievements in cinema. In the meantime, the tools behind filmmaking are undergoing a profound transformation. Media and filmtech startups have fundamentally changed how films are storyboarded, edited, soundtracked, and enhanced with special effects. AI is also reshaping how speech is generated and reproduced, as read more
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Alpine Eagle scales Sentinel production with new Munich facility and European expansion
Today, counter-drone defence technology company Alpine Eagle announced it is scaling production of its Sentinel system. Alpine Eagle develops counter-drone (counter-UAS) systems designed to detect, track, and neutralise hostile drones, including increasingly sophisticated autonomous swarms. Its technology combines multiple sensing modalities —such as radar, radio-frequency scanning, and optical or infrared cameras — to identify aerial read more
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Zopa reports third consecutive year of profit, says new current account topping expectations
Zopa Bank, the UK savings and lending digital bank, has reported its third consecutive year of profit, as it says take-up of its new current account proposition has eclipsed expectations. The London-based bank reported pre-tax profits of £44.9m 2025, up from £31.6m in 2024, driven by its borrowing and savings products. The SoftBank-backed digital bank read more
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Ventech leads Bounti’s €4M funding to apply AI in the physical economy
Berlin-based Bounti has raised €4 million in a funding round led by Ventech, with participation from IBB Ventures, Robin Capital, Common Magic, and several business angels. While much of the technology has been deployed in knowledge-based work, sectors such as hospitality, retail, and services continue to face challenges, including labour shortages, high staff turnover, and read more
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Ringtime secures €1.8M to improve blue-collar hiring processes
Ghent-based Ringtime, an AI agent platform for managing inbound and outbound conversations, has raised €1.8 million in a seed round led by Volta Ventures, with participation from Syndicate One, JK Invest, New School VC and Allusion. The company is focused on addressing structural labour shortages across sectors such as retail, logistics and hospitality, where many read more
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Reson8 collects €5M to develop Europe-focused speech AI
Amsterdam-based Reson8, a speech technology company developing hyper-customised automatic speech recognition (ASR), has raised €5 million in a pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from NP Hard. The company aims to address limitations in existing speech recognition systems, where performance often declines across European languages, dialects, and domain-specific terminology. Instead of relying on read more
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Parallel raises $20M to scale AI solutions for hospital administration
Paris-based Parallel, a startup developing AI agents for hospitals, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Frst, Y Combinator, Hexa, and several angel investors. The funding follows a $3.5 million seed round less than a year earlier, with the company’s technology already deployed across multiple public read more
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Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions
MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items. Now, the researchers are leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to overcome a longstanding bottleneck that limited the precision of prior approaches. read more
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"When the Desert Breathes Again" by Photographer Gonzalo Palaveccino
A behind-the-scenes look at the largest religious festival in northern Chile by photographer and creator director Gonzalo Palavecino. Palavecino left Chile for Dubai in search of education and new experiences, he spent some time in Chicago as well before eventually returning to Chile to work with independent creative agency SORRYMOM. This project represents an effort read more
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The Gemini-powered features in Google Workspace that are worth using | TechCrunch
Google has been steadily integrating Gemini across Google Workspace, embedding AI into Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and Meet. With so many updates rolling out, the real question isn’t what Gemini can do; it’s what’s actually useful in day-to-day work. The best Gemini features are arguably the more practical tools that help you manage information read more
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Health Lean Analytics secures over €2.1M to automate hospital data and optimise surgical workflows
Barcelona-based startup Health Lean Analytics (HLA) has raised €2.1 million funding, encompassing a €1.4 million seed financing round by several family offices— including Inderhabs, Namarel and Braincats — as well as a loan granted by the Spanish National Innovation Company (ENISA), a public entity under the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism. HLA specialises in read more
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Mozilla is launching a free built-in VPN on Firefox 149 — but with some conditions
Firefox 149 is adding a built-in free VPN starting from March 24 It has a cap of 50GB of monthly data in the US, UK, Germany, France to start Mozilla is also rolling out a set of new tools to boost productivity Firefox is gearing up for its biggest browser update in years, and privacy read more
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Homaio lands €3.6M to extend access to energy transition assets
Paris-based Homaio has raised €3.6 million in a funding round led by RAISE Ventures, with participation from Groupe Eren, business angels, and existing investors XAnge and Redstone, bringing its total funding to over €5 million. Founded in 2023, Homaio is an investment platform that provides retail investors with access to emissions allowance markets, which have read more
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EU Inc. marks major win for startups as Commission unveils 28th regime proposal
It’s great news for the European startup ecosystem, as today the European Commission presented its proposal forEU Inc., a new single set of corporate rules that will serve as the cornerstone and starting point for the EU’s 28th regime. The announcement represents a major milestone for EU–INC, a policy movement backed by over 22,000 signatories, read more
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Islamic Futurism Here and Now
The future of Islamic art, boycott calls at the Venice Biennale, a guide to New York’s spring art fairs, and a different kind of Frida Kahlo exhibition. Just because a handful of cruel goons control world politics and wreak havoc upon entire populations and their civilizations doesn’t mean we should lose hope. If you read read more
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Rivia raises $15M to fix the broken data infrastructure behind clinical trials
Rivia, the Zurich-based data engine for clinical trial intelligence, today announced a $15 million Series A led by Earlybird, with participation from Defiant and existing investors Speedinvest, Amino Collective, and Nina Capital. Over the past three years, the company built what it calls the first reusable intelligence layer for clinical trials. Its data engine integrates read more
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Pi Labs leads $7M round in VerbaFlo for AI real estate platform
VerbaFlo, a conversational AI platform for real estate, has raised $7 million in a seed round led by Pi Labs, with participation from Haatch, Navigate Ventures, Old College Capital, the University of Edinburgh’s venture arm, and a group of family offices. The round brings the company’s total funding to approximately $9 million. Founded in 2024, read more
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