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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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Verne launches Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb
Verne today announced the launch of Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service, starting in Zagreb, Croatia. Beginning today, members of the public can now book and pay for a Pony.ai-powered autonomous ride through the Verne app. The service will soon also be available through the Uber app, following a recently announced strategic partnership between the three read more
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The missing layer in Europe’s AI strategy: data ownership
As France and Germany push digital sovereignty up the policy agenda, a more practical question is emerging: who actually owns the data driving Europe’s AI systems? As models become increasingly commoditised, competitive advantage is shifting to the data layer, thereby raising the stakes around who owns and controls it. In an AI-driven economy, proprietary data read more
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Building Europe’s deeptech backbone: Inside European Deeptech Week 2026
From March 16 to 20, Paris became the command centre for the future of European deeptech, bringing together founders, industrialists, investors, and public decision-makers at Bpifrance’s headquarters to accelerate the transition from science labs and startup studios to commercial markets. A convergence of European deeptech power players Conceived by Bpifrance and INSKIP with the support read more
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Team Scaleup launches to close Europe’s post-Seed funding gap
Today sees the launch of a new venture targeting Europe’s scaleup gap. Europe is losing too many of its most promising companies in the critical growth phase after seed funding; only one in four ever graduates to a Series A round. In response,Team Scaleup, a newly launched platform, is building a bespoke accelerator that tailors read more
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Nathan Benaich's Air Street raises $232M Fund III, becoming Europe’s largest solo GP venture firm
Air Street Capital, founded by Nathan Benaich, has raised $232M for Fund III — making it the largest solo GP venture fund in Europe. The fund invests in AI-first companies in North America and Europe. The firm will lead early-stage rounds with cheques ranging from $500,000 to $15 million, alongside select growth investments of up 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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Partech’s €300M Impact Fund targets Europe’s next generation of industrial and climate tech leaders
Global investment firm Partech announces the final closing of its inaugural Partech Impact Fund, securing €300 million in total commitments to scale European B2B tech transforming global value chains. Partech Impact Fund was created to fill a structural gap in the European market: providing scale‑up capital and operational expertise to commercially mature companies, often exceeding read more
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Elaia closes €134M fund DTS3 to back Europe’s next generation of breakthrough startups
Elaia has closed its third deep tech seed fund (DTS3) at €134million, double the size of its previous deep tech seed funds. The fund is developed in partnership with leading European research institutions, including PSL, INRIA, CNRS, the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, and the Max Planck Foundation. Since its first close of €60 million in March read more
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Pure Data Centres and AVK deploy Europe’s first large-scale microgrid
Hyperscale cloud and AI data centre developer and operator Pure Data Centres Group, together with AVK, a provider of prime, standby and dispatchable power solutions for data centres and AI infrastructure, today announced the launch of Europe’s first, large-scale, 110 MW on-site microgrid, developed to support early‑phase site operational resilience. Located within Pure DC’s Dublin read more
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Samaipata launches €110M Fund III to back Europe’s next generation of AI-native startups
VC firm Samaipata has launched its third fund – Samaipata III – a €110 million vehicle aimed at backing early-stage tech startups building on the AI wave. Samaipata plans to invest in 25 to 30 early-stage companies, with the capacity to deploy up to €10 million per startup over time. The main focus is on read more
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Groundhawk raises €2M to digitise Europe’s underground infrastructure
Finnish infrastructure software technology company Groundhawk has raised €2 million in Seed funding to transform how underground utilities are mapped and documented. As Europe invests heavily in electricity grids, fibre networks, EV charging and renewable integration, a critical weakness remains: underground infrastructure is still documented using outdated, post-construction surveys and estimates. The result is over read more
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Tangled raises $4.5M to build Europe’s code infrastructure
GitHub alternative Tangled has raised a $4.5 million funding round. The code platform offers a primary European alternative to GitHub for developers, providing an open and extensible network built for the next generation of software creation. The funding round was led by byFounders, the community-powered VC firm, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and read more
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Can Berlin become Europe’s most builder-friendly tech city in 24 months?
When I tell people I live in Berlin at startup events abroad, I often receive a bad reaction, especially from investors. Many people associate Berlin with its heyday of Rocket Internet and see it as a city full of techno sex clubs, drug addicts, and founders more interested in partying than disciplined, global ambition. It’s read more
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Noxtua launches Europe’s first cross-border legal AI license
European sovereign legal AI Noxtua has introduced the market’s first Europe License, enabling legal professionals to access multiple European jurisdictions through a single interface with a single license, and to seamlessly cross-border legal work in a consistent Legal AI workspace. Europe’s legal landscape is characterised by distinct legal systems, languages, and traditions that shape the read more
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Invest Europe and EIF report: How gender and geography shape Europe’s VC ecosystem
Invest Europe, in collaboration with the European Investment Fund (EIF), has published a new report titled TheVC Factor: Skills Edition. The report analyses Europe’s venture capital landscape, with a focus on cross-border startup funding and the influence of education and gender on funding outcomes and startup development. Beyond mapping current investment volumes, the Skills Edition read more
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From blood tests to orbital labs: Europe’s next generation of cancer tech
Today, February 4, is World Cancer Day. Cancer kills around 10 million people each year — more than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. Fortunately, European startups are accelerating innovation across the cancer care pipeline, from early detection to post-treatment recovery. Here’s just some of the startups to watch: Aerion Bioscience (Luxembourg) Aerion Bioscience is developing read more
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CyberAlloy launches to unite Europe’s cyber defenders in a single trusted network
This week saw the official launch of Cyber Alloy, an independent connecting network organisation designed to bring together companies, governments, knowledge institutions, venture capitalists, and security specialists in a unified effort to build a cyber-resilient ecosystem. It aims to transform the cybersecurity landscape by harnessing collective intelligence, shared insights, and collaborative innovation. In a world read more
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Sinpex raises €10M Series A to redefine KYB automation for Europe’s AML era
Sinpex, an AI-powered platform for KYB / KYC lifecycle management, today announced its €10 million Series A financing round. Sinpex streamlines business client onboarding and continuous KYB compliance, empowering companies to meet the regulatory demands of the 2027 EU Anti-Money Laundering (EU AML) Regulation. Sinpex is an all-in-one platform that unifies every stage of the read more
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