Tech & AI

The 21 European investors funding NATO’s defence and innovation

NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has announced the first 24 investors who are joinin…

The startups fixing Europe’s AI power problem

Earlier this year, I wrote about the AI power crisis and argued that coordination now matters more than new capacity. Th…

Project Ventures debuts €5.8 million fund targeting DeepTech and AI startups linked to Imperial College London

Project Ventures, an early-stage VC firm rooted in the Imperial College London ecosystem, today announced the launch of …

Belgium’s NewSchool VC closes maiden fund at €10 million at to back B2B technology startups

NewSchool VC, a Belgium-based venture capital fund that invests in B2B pre-Seed technology companies, has closed its fir…

Belgium’s Novadip Biosciences raises €10.4 million to fund pivotal clinical trial and unlock EIB loan tranche

Novadip Biosciences, a Belgian late-stage clinical BioTech company specialising in regenerative medicine, has closed a €…

Plug and Play Tirana Expo 2026: Silicon Valley meets Balkans (Sponsored)

Plug and Play Tirana Expo returns to the Pyramid of Tirana from 7–8 October, bringing together startups, international i…

London’s Metris Energy raises €4.35 million to scale AI platform for managing renewable energy assets

Metris Energy, a London-based AI‑native platform for managing energy assets at scale, has raised a €4.35 million ($5 mil…

London’s Unit1 Studio secures €23.3 million to scale avatar concerts beyond the one-venue ABBA Voyage model

Unit1 Studio, the London-based end-to-end avatar concert producer, has raised €23.3 million (£20 million) in new financi…

London Demo Day 2026: startups to watch

New solo GP firm backing early-stage AI and deeptech startups hits first close of maiden fund

Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone

In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for leading companies are sceptical of the warnings…

Google's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test

The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC.…

Would Australians support a smart glasses ban?

As Australia considers barring the use of smart glasses in government offices, the BBC asks people in Sydney what they t…

Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec

Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache…

Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K

The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM…

UK Sovereign AI Fund in talks to back £500m raise for drug discovery startup

Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Sept. 14 – Sept. 18)

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With 200 million patients covered, Penelope Health secures €87 million in funding

Penelope Health, a real-time provider and payer policy intelligence platform out of London, today announced €87 million …

Paris-based Cycloid plugs into European Commission’s €180 million sovereign cloud framework following Series A

Cycloid, a French Internal Developer Portal and Platform company, will be used by the European Commission (EC) as the de…

London-based Big Picture Bio emerges from stealth with €2.55 million to develop AI-designed cancer drug combinations

Big Picture Bio, a London-based BioTech startup developing AI-designed combination therapies for cancer and other comple…

The biggest conversations in US VC right now

How consumer expectations are reshaping B2C insurance

Simply put, insurance is designed to provide support when something goes wrong, which has historically given insurers li…

Munich-based Arcos raises €5.5 million to build and operate civil safety infrastructure across Europe

Arcos, a Munich-based startup that builds and operates civil security infrastructure, has closed a €5.5 million Seed fun…

5 European success stories investors initially passed on

Venture capital is supposed to be about spotting the future – catch is the future has a habit of looking rather qu…