Tech & AI

The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Andreas Flodström, co-founder of Varangians

Join us for a conversation with Andreas Flodström, co-founder and chairman of Varangians, as we explore the journey that…

Stockholm’s Spiich raises €3 million to let AI handle admin work while sales teams focus on customers

Spiich, a Stockholm-based AI sales agent startup, has raised a €3 million Seed round. The Seed round comes ten months af…

What if companies could finally use their most valuable data?

Germany’s SPRIND and the Netherlands’ NADI launch €40 million challenge to fast-track European AI chip design

Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) and its Dutch counterpart, the National Agency for D…

Berlin-based mika raises €6 million to scale its AI-native alternative to traditional tax firms

mika, a Berlin-based vertical AI startup building an AI-native alternative to the traditional tax firm for Germany’s sma…

Exclusive: Connect Ventures raises $55m in first close of fifth fund to chase deeptech founders

Exclusive: VSquared and East X lead £10m seed for rare materials startup

US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

Under the draft laws, tech firms face fines if they do not give users the option to switch off algorithms.…

Will a switch to light speed cut power use at data centres?

To save power and add capacity, data centres are switching from copper wires to tech using light.…

A new skyline of data centres is rising from the rolling plains of rural China

Potato farmers rub shoulders with rows of gleaming new data centres as Trump and Xi meet to discuss AI safety.…

Rare look at the remote engine rooms powering China's AI ambitions

The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the …

Cloud startup Verda raises $189m in funding round led by Emergence Capital

Call of Duty's Activision to make next Halo game as Xbox cuts more jobs

The news comes as part of a "reset" announced by Xbox in July, with 3,600 planned job losses overall.…

Exclusive: Mistral acquires adtech startup Pimento in €12.7m cash-and-shares deal, filings show

The companies that were never fundable are now buildable

Ask a European founder how the company is going and you’ll usually hear a number of answers. Ask an investor how a portf…

Exclusive: NIF backs defence startup Terasi in €11m raise

Helsinki’s Verda becomes Europe’s latest unicorn after raising €164.8 million to scale its full-stack AI cloud

Verda (formerly DataCrunch), a Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company, announced today that it has raised €164.8 milli…

10 European funding vehicles dedicated to woman founders

Women founders remain significantly underrepresented in European venture capital. In 2024, companies founded solely by w…

Besançon-based Lightspring raises over €3.5 million to industrialise photonic chip packaging

Lightspring, a Besançon-based DeepTech startup that designs and manufactures the optical interfaces of photonic integrat…

Paris-based Primo raises €6.9 million to deploy autonomous AI agents for IT teams

Primo, a Paris-based AI platform that unifies device management, SaaS applications, identity and IT support, has raised …

Leuven-based Spott raises €18.3 million to build the AI-native operating system for recruitment agencies

Spott, a Leuven-based AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform for …

A16z wants to back more European startups — but won’t reopen European office anytime soon

N8n boss: ‘Our goal is to get to 1bn users with fewer than 1,000 employees'

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…