Tech & AI

Italian PM files to trademark her voice against AI threats

Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second audio to a EU agency in a bid to protect her voice from deepfakes.…

NVM Ventures launches with €23.6 million fund targeting dual-use companies

NVM Ventures has officially launched with the announcement of a €23.6 million first close for the NVM Venture Lazio comp…

Paris- and London-based Spiko raises nearly €80 million to help businesses and individuals put idle cash to work

Spiko, a tokenised cash fund platform with headquarters in Paris and London, has raised €80.03 million ($90 million) in …

MeOut Summit 2026: Meet the Pitch Marathon contestants

Startups from across Europe are set to take part in an exclusive Pitch Marathon at the MeOut Summit 2026, held at Budape…

Is Europe’s secondaries boom only serving the 1%?

Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants feature

The regulator said Instagram had not fully assessed risks posed by its Instants feature prior to launching it.…

German unicorn Personio acquires spend management platform Circula

HRTech unicorn Personio today announced it has acquired Circula, a German spend management platform, to reportedly becom…

Hamburg’s Procuros raises €20 million Series A to build AI-native infrastructure for autonomous B2B trade

Procuros, a Hamburg-based supply chain connectivity platform, has raised a €20 million Series A funding round. The round…

Cybersecurity startup Hadrian raises €35.68 million to scale its agentic AI offensive security platform

Hadrian, a London-Amsterdam-based agentic AI offensive security platform, today announced a €35.68 million ($40 million)…

Paris-based WhiteLab Genomics raises €23.2 million to accelerate AI-driven genomic medicine development

WhiteLab Genomics, a Paris-based BioTech company that uses AI to design the building blocks of genomic medicines, has cl…

Voice AI startup Vocca raises $20m to automate patient phone calls

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Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs

Like OpenClaw but with access control…

Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool

Meet RemoveMacAI…

FashionTech startup Rodinia Generation aims to save 100 billion litres of water annually, secures €4 million

Danish FashionTech startup Rodinia Generation, a developer of clothing production technology, has raised €4 million to f…

Namespace secures €37 million to scale coding, build and test infrastructure across Mac, Windows and Linux

Zurich-based Namespace, a developer platform that offers fast coding, build, and test environments across Mac, Windows, …

RobCo hits unicorn valuation in employee share sale

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Munich-based RobCo becomes a robotics unicorn as valuation doubles in nine months

RobCo, a Munich-based robotics startup focused on industrial automation, today announced that it has surpassed an €892.4…

German startups deepen Ukraine ties over weekend as innovation moves closer to the frontline

Two German DefenceTech companies used Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to Kyiv this weekend to deepen their links with …

The orbital research economy will be won on standards

I watched SpaceX go public with the same mixed feeling I suspect a lot of people in this industry did, relief, mostly. T…

Germany’s Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a sovereign AI model for mission-critical government and industry applications

German AI company Aleph Alpha has launched Kolibri, a specialised large language model (LLM) built for mission-critical …

French cybersecurity startup Fleuret AI raises €4 million to automate penetration testing with AI agents

Fleuret AI, a Paris-based cybersecurity startup automating penetration testing with agentic AI, has closed a €4 million …