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OSS Resistance: it's time companies treat open source maintenance as real work
Mike McQuaid has a message for open source maintainers at profitable companies: “Stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on.” Open source software underpins critical infrastructure across the global economy, powering everything from public services and financial systems to energy grids, defence technologies and international organisations such as the United Nations. Yet read more
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Cleantech: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025
European cleantech companies raised €3.1 billion in 2025, with investment activity concentrated around clean energy infrastructure, industrial decarbonisation, advanced materials, recycling technologies, carbon management, and electrification. Large infrastructure and energy-transition projects attracted the biggest rounds of the year, particularly in areas such as battery storage, renewable energy, clean fuels, electric vehicle infrastructure, and low-carbon industrial read more
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AI: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025
European AI companies raised over €5.3 billion during 2025, with capital heavily concentrated among a small group of companies led by Mistral AI, Helsing, Black Forest Labs, Synthesia, ElevenLabs and n8n. While foundation models, defence AI and generative media attracted some of the year’s largest rounds, the broader market also showed strong momentum across applied read more
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White Circle lands $11M to help companies secure AI systems
White Circle, the enterprise AI governance company helping organisations monitor, protect and improve AI systems in real time, has raised $11 million in seed funding from a group of prominent AI and technology leaders. Investors include Romain Huet (OpenAI), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic, formerly OpenAI), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François read more
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EIC Scaling Club companies double peer funding growth with 66% increase
A recent report reveals that in the past 14-20 months, EIC Scaling Club members have achieved an average funding growth of 66.66 per cent. That is more than double the control group, which saw just 26 per cent growth in the same time period, according to the EIC Scaling Club Impact Report. Supporting Europe’s most read more
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Stilla emerges from stealth with $5M to address collaboration challenges in AI-driven companies
Stockholm-based Stilla has emerged from stealth with $5 million in pre-seed funding to develop an intelligence layer designed to support collaboration between humans and AI within product teams. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from a group of angel investors. As organisations accelerate the adoption of AI across workflows, coordination has become read more
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Yonda Tax raises £11M to simplify global tax compliance for scaling companies
Global tax automation platform Yonda Tax has raised £11 million in investment funding. Yonda Tax automates global tax compliance from registration to filing and remittance, so businesses can focus on scaling. Every jurisdiction has its own filing requirements and deadlines, which often change with little notice. In addition, tax authorities worldwide are intensifying their scrutiny read more
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Why expense infrastructure is becoming core tech for modern companies
For years, expense management sat in the administrative shadows – a necessary, vital but rather unremarkable process centred on receipts, reimbursements, and end-of-month corrections and scrambling. That model no longer fits the way modern companies operate. As European businesses scale faster, adopt cloud-heavy tech stacks, and expand across borders, spending has evolved from a back-office read more
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