Tech & AI

Am I a fake founder? What it’s like joining a startup as a cofounder a year late

Exclusive: Legaltech Lexroom seals first two M&A deals four months after $50m Series B

Grindr to pay £26m to settle claims it allegedly shared users' HIV status

The long-running claim alleges Grindr breached UK privacy laws by sharing data with third parties.…

Robbie Williams-backed Tickets for Good raises €4.5 million for international expansion

Tickets for Good, a UK startup that provides key workers with low-cost tickets for live events, has raised a further €4.…

Matt Clifford quits ARIA after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns

CEE’s biggest checks: 10 standout startup raises of 2026

Europe’s startup ecosystem continues to produce ambitious companies tackling some of the biggest challenges across defen…

Exclusive: Jack & Jill raises £30m led by Air Street

OpenAI chief scientist warns no one is prepared for consequences of AI

The post comes as the firm releases GPT-6 Astra, which it says is its most powerful product yet.…

Molten Ventures raises €203 million to back UK and European growth-stage tech companies

Molten Ventures, a British VC firm with a 20-year track record, today announces the first close of its Growth Fund at €2…

Stockholm-based Fluencify raises €3.7 million to scale its end-to-end creator marketing platform

Fluencify, a Stockholm-based end-to-end creator marketing platform, has raised an oversubscribed €3.7 million ($4.3 mill…

The DeepMind mafia building startups in Europe

Dolly Parton's sister pleads for end to 'AI garbage' posts after singer's death

Since Parton's death in late August, dozens of AI-generated songs, images and videos have appeared online.…

Kilian Kaminski, refurbed co-founder, joins the EU-Startups Summit 2027

We are excited to announce that Kilian Kaminski, co-founder of refurbed, will take the main stage at the EU-Startups Sum…

UK launches £150m north of England scaleup fund

Why legal expertise is the next innovation ceiling

Only 29% of European startups have filed for an IP right. This is according to a joint 2023 study by the European Union …

Swiss startup Jaipur Robotics raises €4.3 million to expand its AI operating system across more waste-to-energy plants

Jaipur Robotics, the Swiss AI company transforming waste plant operations with computer vision and automation, today ann…

Milan-based Cato raises €6 million to help companies find and win public tenders with AI

Cato, a Milan-based AI platform that helps companies find, analyse and win public tenders, has raised a €6 million Seed …

London’s Claret Capital Partners closes Fund IV at €575 million to back European tech, life sciences and impact companies

Claret Capital Partners, a London-based independent growth debt fund manager, today announced the final close of its Cla…

Hugging Face’s $12.9bn sale is both inspiring and dispiriting for Europe

Exclusive: DeepMind veteran Thore Graepel quits to pursue AI reasoning venture

German spacetech Isar Aerospace’s second rocket launch reaches orbit in milestone

Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Aug. 31 – Sept. 04)

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OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims

OpenAI said it could not "meaningfully respond" to the report's findings because it hadn't been allowed to review it ahe…

Oulu-based Creoir secures Seed funding to scale voice AI for defence and mission-critical systems

Creoir, an Oulu-based DefenceTech company developing voice AI for defence and mission-critical systems, has raised a See…