Danish AI startup os.energy exits stealth with Osmund, a power retailer that promises zero margin on electricity
Backed by €1M from PSV Tech, the Copenhagen company built its own supplier license and an AI-driven platform to sell…
The Importance of Being First
Lorenzo Bergadano, CTO & Co-founder of Quido AI, has never been anyone’s “first employee.” He went straight from university into…
Swish Basket Wants Every Hoop on Earth to Talk to Each Other — and the NBA Is Already Playing
Two kids shooting free throws on the same afternoon, one on a court in Tel Aviv and one on a…
It’s a Movement, Not the Summit: Cristian Frigo on Failure, Ownership, and To The Peak
StartupReporter.eu spoke with Cristian Frigo two weeks before To The Peak — the conference he founded three years ago in…
TechBBQ 2026 Theme Explained: “Emerging From Agency” — What It Says About European Founders Right Now
This piece is part of Startup Reporter’s coverage leading up to TechBBQ 2026, which takes place August 26–27 at Bella…
YEP Accelerator selects first cohort of seven Ukrainian startups for Silicon Valley — $3M in investment commitments secured
In May, we covered YEP Accelerator’s announcement that it was opening a Silicon Valley track for growth-stage Ukrainian startups —…
GenePlanet attracts Lauxera Capital as BlackPeak partially exits — Slovenian genomics platform targets unicorn status
In 2008, a biotechnology student at the University of Ljubljana won first prize at the MIT International Genetically Engineered Machine…
Eir Accelerator: Finland’s Free Women’s Health Startup Program Opens Applications
Women’s health has long been the most underfunded, under-researched corner of medtech. Finland just made a serious, structural move to…
Inside Italy’s First Founder House: Gaia Catalano and Alberto Ravasini on Underdogs, Community, and What Comes Next
In July 2026, two H-FARM College students turned a spontaneous favour — a free office for the summer — into…
Start it @KBC barometer: 67.6% of Belgian startups now build with AI as power law reshapes European funding
In 2024, 22.5% of startups joining Start it @KBC were building AI solutions. In 2025, it was 55.7%. In 2026,…
Surveily raises €2.5M to turn factory CCTV into real-time AI safety systems: 62% fewer incidents, zero cloud dependency
Every year, more than 7 million workplace injuries disrupt industrial operations worldwide. Despite decades of investment in safety protocols, training…
Two Deutsche Bank bankers quit to fix Europe’s 90 million streetlights: ENVIOTECH raises €1M+ pre-seed
When Adrian Rhaese’s best friend was rushed to hospital after a cycling accident caused by streetlights switched off to save…
Spain’s tech ecosystem surpasses 10,000 companies as AI grows 210% in one year
Something unusual is happening in Spain. While much of European tech coverage focuses on Berlin, London, Paris, and the Nordics,…
Aiven co-founder raises $4.7M to rebuild CI/CD for the AI era: Avrea emerges from stealth in Helsinki
AI has removed the bottleneck of writing code. At Google, 75% of new code is now AI-generated. Tools like Claude,…
eMabler raises €5.5M Series A to scale API-first EV charging across Europe — S Group’s 50% market share proves the model
The European EV charging market has a fragmentation problem. Drivers download standalone apps for every network. Operators build proprietary systems…
5 Questions with Romain Clément, Founder & CEO of ArcaScience
In a recent keynote this year, you shared your personal journey as a patient for the first time. Can you…
Beyond the Funding Headline: Why Keynotes Are the Ultimate Growth Hack for Early-Stage Tech
Clara Armand-Delille, Founder of ThirdEyeMedia, shared her thoughts on why a funding announcement is a starting gun rather than a…
The Italian Startup Reinventing Cross-Border Logistics with AI — From a Milan Basement to New York
SPS Fulfillment, founded by three Italian co-founders, is building what it calls the world’s first Agentic 4PL: an AI-native orchestration…
16 years in the making: NOVUS delivers its first Urban Lightbikes — a new vehicle category between e-bike, scooter and motorcycle
In 2010, René Renger made a sketch. Not a business plan, not a CAD model — a drawing of a…
RESONIKS raises seed funding to scale AI acoustic quality control — QCFlex makes defect detection plug-and-play for any factory
Imagine tapping a metal part and listening. A defect-free casting rings clearly; one with an internal crack or air pocket…
Mobility Signage raises €1.8M to fix public transport’s fragmented IT — BVG, Deutsche Bahn, and SSB already on board
When you check a departure board at a Berlin U-Bahn station, that information has typically passed through half a dozen…
Leipzig biotech Primogene raises €4.1M to produce human milk molecules at an industrial scale — starting with premature infant nutrition
Every year, around 13 million babies are born prematurely worldwide. For these infants, the gap between what breast milk provides…
The founder who closed IKEA’s innovation lab is building what comes next — Everyday^ raises €2.5M for intelligent home infrastructure
In August 2023, SPACE10 — IKEA’s globally recognised innovation lab — closed its doors after a decade. Its co-founder and…
Three Belgian founders with two exits between them launch Holmes — €1.1M pre-seed to automate software testing in the AI era
According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, 75% of all new code at Google today is AI-generated. Across the software industry,…
Ghent’s Exhibitly raises €1.4M to personalise B2B event websites — 114 events signed in nine months
Every year, over 35,000 trade shows take place worldwide. Organisers pour up to €20 million per event into digital marketing….
Finnish startup Craci raises €1.4M to automate EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance — with 112 days left
September 11, 2026. That is the date when the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act begins to bite — and when over…
Sedivention raises €2.9M for a one-time obesity treatment — no surgery, no drugs, no implants
Bariatric surgery works, but only a fraction of obese patients can access it. GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic work, but patients…
NanoStruct raises €2.6M to detect Listeria and Salmonella in hours, not days
Every day, food manufacturers across Europe make the same calculated bet. They ship products to stores before pathogen test results…
Fraunhofer spin-off Qurie raises €2.2M to reinvent refrigeration — without a compressor or refrigerant
The refrigeration industry has been running on the same 19th-century principle for over 150 years: compress a refrigerant, evaporate it,…
How This Innsbruck Startup Is Using AI to End “Dinner Chaos” in Luxury Hotels
Crqlar’s new platform digitises an entire hotel restaurant floor plan in under three minutes and turns scattered guest data into…
Tekst Raises €11.5M Series A Led by US VC Elephant — Belgian AI Tackles Enterprise Process Intelligence
A 26-year-old from Ghent just convinced a Boston VC that his company has built something Silicon Valley hasn’t — and…
Ajelix Launches AI Agent for Google Workspace — 320,000 Users, Zero VC
A bootstrapped Latvian duo built a 320,000-user AI platform with zero VC money — and just put it inside Google…
LMT IoT and Infineon Launch Free Mentorship Program for Edge AI IoT Startups
Free hardware, engineering support, and no equity taken — a Latvian-Austrian partnership opens its doors to IoT startups building the…
YEP Accelerator Opens San Francisco Office and Launches Silicon Valley Track for Ukrainian Startups
Ukrainian startup founders with traction, paying customers, and Silicon Valley ambitions now have a direct route to San Francisco —…
DATANA by BioSistemika Wins PODIM 2026 Pitching Competition
A Slovenian startup that stores digital data in synthetic DNA just beat 1,000+ applicants to win Central Europe’s most prestigious…
Detecht Raises €395K from Chalmers Ventures to Scale Motorcycle Safety App
The Gothenburg-based app detects crashes, plans scenic routes, and connects riders worldwide — now backed by one of the Nordics’…
BirdyChat Raises €1.7M and Launches Across Europe with 50K Waitlist
The Riga-based startup opens access to a 50,000-strong waitlist across Europe — and brings a GoCardless-exit founder to the messiest…
Belgian Startup Ventory Raises €2.65M to Kill the Spreadsheet in Field Inventory
KBC Securities leads the seed round as the Brussels-based startup posts 600% ARR growth in 2025 — with enterprise clients…
Early Game Ventures Bets $600K on Tryll, the Startup Running AI Directly on Your Gaming PC
There is a structural problem baked into how game studios think about AI today. Cloud-based AI charges per token. Every…
Podim 2026 Opens in Maribor on May 11: Europe’s Scaling Debate Comes to Slovenia
Europe produces more engineers than the United States. It leads globally in deep tech, sustainability, and industrial research. And yet,…