Tech & AI

Redstone unveils €10 million fund targeting DeepTech, defence and energy transition in Finland

Redstone, a German VC, today announced they are launching North Karelia Growth Fund II at €10 million, with intial ticke…

London’s HITAI acquires YC-backed fitness gaming studio Quell to boost its sports motion-tracking platform

HITAI, a London-based movement intelligence platform for sports, has acquired the technology and IP of Quell, a UK-based…

Urgent: maximise the positive uses of AI

I've been to Gamescom six times - here's what excited me this year

The BBC's Laura Cress gets a first look at the biggest games in Cologne from Witcher 3 to Alien: Isolation 2.…

Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Aug. 24 – Aug. 28)

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Biomaterials company Ponda closes crowdfunding round at €1.6 million – shattering their €230k minimum

Ponda, a biomaterials company out of Bristol restoring wetlands through regenerative farming, has closed its latest crow…

Are the Nordics really on fire?

Maastricht-based Clementine raises €1.7 million to scale its AI-powered hearing care platform

Clementine, a Maastricht-based startup that has built an AI-powered platform to help hearing clinics convert leads into …

Heidelberg-based Revier Therapeutics launches with €6 million to develop cardiometabolic therapies

Revier Therapeutics, a Heidelberg-based BioTech company advancing disease-modifying therapies for patients with cardiome…

Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution

100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses…

Why connection is reshaping the next consumer economy

A love of travel is nothing new in 2026, but it seems that so many people have never loved to travel quite as much as th…

Just three deals make up almost half of all VC funding in Germany this year

Berlin-based Nanolope secures €800k to turn building surfaces into thermal energy storage systems

Nanolope, a Berlin-based DeepTech startup developing high‑density thermal energy storage materials for buildings and ene…

French quantum scale-up Pasqal hits Nasdaq with €309 million in cash at closing

Paris-based quantum computing scale-up Pasqal is set to begin trading on Nasdaq today after completing its business comb…

Montpellier-based dental robotics startup Lupin Dental closes €15 million Series A round

Lupin Dental, a Montpellier-based early-stage robotics company focused on developing innovative dental technologies, has…

Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville among actors calling for law on AI voice cloning

The performers are asking the government to give every person in the UK a legal right to own their voice.…

Eurosummer is a thing of the past: 10 under-the-radar rounds you may have missed in Europe's second-busiest August ever

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Trump administration illegally retaliated against Anthropic, judge rules

The AI startup has been at loggerheads with the Pentagon over the use of AI for the US military.…

Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing

A string of failures has sapped confidence that robots will take over production at pizza restaurants.…

Reform of all social media should come with Meta changes, UN says

California's attorney general is now looking at TikTok and YouTube to enact teen safety features.…

Google, Microsoft and OpenAI among 100 firms calling for better cyber defences

The letter warns cyber-attacks which use AI will become more sophisticated in a matter of months.…

Tackling STI testing, Readily Diagnostics raises €811k for affordable alternative

Readily Diagnostics, a Swedish point-of-care diagnostics company, has received a grant of approximately €811k (about 9 m…

Anthropic strikes $45bn deal with Nscale to rent compute capacity