Category: business
Finance, startups, productivity
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Doctolib, AP-HP, and Roche launch startup programme to bridge healthtech–clinical gap
Doctolib, @Hôtel-Dieu (AP-HP) and Roche are launching Care Forward, a support program for European health startups at STATION F. Designed to help young companies develop, test and deploy their solutions as close as possible to care delivery needs, it brings together technological expertise, access to clinical environments, and medical and regulatory support. Based in the read more
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Germany’s Akbank AG successfully completes first phase of core banking migration to Mambu in partnership with Innovance
Akbank AG, the German subsidiary of Turkey’s leading bank Akbank TAS, has successfully completed Phase 1 of its core banking transformation, to the leading SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu. The transformation was delivered in close partnership with Innovance, Mambu’s strategic technology partner. The milestone marks a full transition away from Akbank AG’s legacy core system read more
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Cosine goes from benchmark leader to cornerstone of UK sovereign AI strategy
The UK government has selected Cosine, the British AI company whose models have outperformedOpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepSeek on independent coding benchmarks for two consecutive years, as one of the first partners in its newly launched £500 million Sovereign AI programme. Cosine was founded in 2022 by Alistair Pullen — who has been building AI read more
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Fund II second close strengthens Unconventional Ventures’ bet on overlooked founders
Today, Unconventional Ventures (UV) announced the second close of Unconventional Ventures Fund II. In a challenging global climate — marked by economic uncertainty and tightening capital markets — this close represents more than a fundraising milestone. It signals strong conviction that backing underinvested founders building scalable, category-defining companies remains a resilient and forward-looking investment thesis. read more
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“We are where ChatGPT was five years ago,” says European 3D AI foundation model startup boss
OneofEurope’stop AI researchers, who is heading upa3D AI foundation model startup, says that 3D AI models are “kind of where ChatGPT for language wasfive years ago”. Matthias Niessner,the CEO andco-founderofSpAItial,tooka leave of absence from leadingthe visualcomputingand AI lab at the Technical University of Munich to launch the Munich andLondon-basedstartupSpAItial,whichlast year landed a $13m seed round. read more
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£100M boost for UK healthtech as British Business Bank backs Apposite growth fund
The British Business Bank has agreed to make a £100 million commitment to Apposite Healthcare Growth I, a fund investing to support the growth of health technology companies, primarily in the UK. This will be the British Business Bank’s largest fund commitment to date and is the Bank’s first commitment to Apposite Capital, a specialist read more
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spektr raises $20M Series A to streamline financial compliance
Copenhagen-based spektr, a company building AI infrastructure for compliance in financial services, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was led by NEA, with participation from existing investors Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech. Compliance teams continue to spend significant time manually reviewing corporate documents, mapping ownership structures, verifying websites, and preparing risk read more
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Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents
Outcraft AI, an agentic AI platform focused on autonomous revenue execution, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from Practica Capital. The company also received early backing from venture builder Lost Astronaut. Businesses frequently miss revenue opportunities due to delayed or inconsistent customer engagement. Leads may go cold, free users fail to convert, declined payments read more
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Audrey AI secures $1.8M to develop AI platform for financial auditors
Audrey AI, a Dublin-based startup developing AI solutions purpose-built for financial auditors, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Delta Partners, with participation from Enterprise Ireland, Donnchadh Casey (former CEO of Calypso), Conor Jones (former Chief Business Officer at Wayflyer), and several former Big Four read more
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Trade Republic axes customer service chatbots, replaces them with over 1,000 humans
In a world of finance, where automation, AI and chatbots are becoming more commonplace, Germany’s most valuable startup is taking the opposite path. Trade Republic, which is valued at €12.5 billion, is ditching its customer service AI chatbots and replacing them with more than 1,000human customer service agents to ensure that customers can speak to read more
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Stendr secures $5.4M pre-seed to develop AI-driven defence systems
Stendr, a Norwegian defence technology company, has raised $5.4 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to advance its AI-native platform. The round was co-led by RainFall, ACME, and SkyFall, with participation from Sisyphus, Antler, StartupLab, Off Piste, and Andøya Ventures, alongside a syndicate of global technology founders and investors. Headquartered in Oslo, Stendr is read more
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Gizmo secures $22M Series A to advance AI-powered education
Gizmo, a London-based AI-powered learning platform, has raised $22 million in Series A funding to support its international expansion and further development of its technology. The round was led by Shine Capital, with participation from Ada Ventures, Seek Investments, GSV, and NFX, which previously led the company’s $3.5 million seed round. Founded by Petros Christodoulou read more
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Brix raises $5.5M to support the tokenisation of emerging market assets
Brix, a fintech platform focused on bringing emerging market financial assets on-chain, has raised $5.5 million in a funding round. The round included participation from global financial institutions and Web3 investors, including FRWRD Ventures, Circle Ventures, ConsenSys, Webrazzi Ventures, Borderless Capital, and Paribu Ventures. Angel investors Kemal Kaya, Fevzi Güngör, and Sertaç Özinal also participated. read more
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Cooling becomes strategic: Calyos brings passive thermal tech to Europe’s defence stack
Europe’s push for technological sovereignty is reshaping even the most overlooked parts of the stack—including how systems are cooled. Data centres and compute platforms are essential infrastructure for both the civilian digital economy and modern defence operations. They demand high energy efficiency, robust reliability, and low dependency on local environmental resources such as water or read more
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Allica and ClearBank’s UK businesses report third year of profits
UKSME lender Allica Bank today reported its third consecutive year of profit, whilethe UK business of another UK fintech, ClearBank, also reported its third consecutive year of profit. Pre-tax profits at fintechAllica were up 23 per cent year-on-year to £36.9m in 2025, on the back of increasing its loan book by 23 per cent year-on-yearto read more
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Agriodor raises €15 million to expand scent-based crop protection globally
French Agriodor, an agritech company developing crop protection solutions based on natural plant scents, has raised €15 million in Series A funding to accelerate its international expansion and the deployment of its olfactory biocontrol technology. The round was led by the Environmental and Solidarity Revolution Fund, financed by the societal dividend of Crédit Mutuel Alliance read more
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SolvaPay raises €2.4M to build payment infrastructure for agentic commerce
SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based AI payments platform, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed funding to develop payment infrastructure for the emerging era of agentic commerce. The round was led by European fintech venture capital firm Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with additional participation from Antler and Greens Ventures. As digital services continue to evolve, existing read more
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Mission Control Games launches with $4M to develop new casual gaming sub-genres
Mission Control Games, a mobile game studio focused on the casual puzzle genre, has announced its launch alongside the close of a $4 million pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Arcadia Gaming Partners and e2vc. The studio was co-founded by Kıvanç Okutur (CEO) and Murat Gürel (CTO), both read more
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Europe builds its first “kill-switch proof” cloud recovery stack
Today at the European Data Summit of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin, Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud, and StorPool Storage unveil Europe’s first fully sovereign disaster recovery pack. The system is designed to guarantee business continuity for organisations in the face of uncontrollable, catastrophic external events, including a potential foreign vendor kill-switch. It also safeguards European enterprises’ read more
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Europe ramps up autonomous warfare capabilities with German–Ukrainian drone production pact
Today Germany signed a cooperation agreement with Ukraine to enable the Auterion Airlogix Joint Venture GmbH to execute its first production contract for thousands of mid-range, heavy AI-guided autonomous strike systems. The contract turns a February 2026 announcement at the Munich Security Conference into fully funded, large-scale production in Germany of thousands of systems per read more
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