Atlas People Wants Companies to “Reforecast” Their Organisation the Way They Reforecast Their Finances
A Copenhagen startup bets that the biggest blind spot in corporate decision-making isn’t the market or the money; it’s the…
Opally Wants AI to Give Hotel Receptionists Their Time Back, Not Take Their Jobs
A 23-year-old solo founder built the first version of his hotel AI assistant in nine days, from an airport terminal,…
ArcaScience launches Flow, claims its specialised AI beats frontier LLMs on drug safety
Paris- and Boston-based ArcaScience has launched Flow, an AI platform that helps pharmaceutical teams assess the benefit-risk profile of drug…
“Most Businesses Aren’t Struggling to Access AI, They’re Struggling to Structure It”: Inna Bondarenko on Building Kalei
Kalei founder Inna Bondarenko spent eighteen years at Deloitte — corporate finance, then Deloitte Ventures, then working on the firm’s…
A Ukrainian Founder Wants to Build the “YouTube of Software” — and ZAS Ventures Just Wrote the First Check
Robutler opens a library of free, remixable professional apps where makers get paid when their work is used. Behind the…
What Europe’s Startup Gates Look Like From the Wrong Side
STATION F’s Landing Zone in Paris accepted Dastan Tomanbaev. Getting there would have cost roughly €5,000 — a plane ticket,…
Italy has 11 million people eligible for GLP-1 drugs. Almost none of them are getting help using them. Holifya just raised €2M to change that.
Milan-based digital clinic closes a €2M round led by CDP Venture Capital’s Next Age, doubling down on a bet that…
Anton Vedeshin on Snoika: From Vespia Exit to AI Visibility
Anton Vedeshin has spent most of his career on software nobody outside a niche ever sees — fleet management for…
Paula Petcu: “We’re Teaching Machines to Understand Humans”
The Co-founder and CEO of Interhuman AI on why an AI that only listens to your words is missing most…
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…
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 —…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Smartwage raises €2M pre-seed to turn Italy’s corporate welfare into a digital wallet
Every year, more than 20% of corporate welfare budgets in Italy go unspent. Not because companies don’t want to invest…
He Failed Once. Then He Raised €1.6M in Weeks. Meet Cato, the AI Rewriting Italian Public Procurement
A CEO who came back from public failure, a 23-year-old CTO who almost never returned to Italy, and a €500…
Principle wins KPMG Enterprise Innovation Award at SXSW 2026 — bringing Pentagon-style wargaming to the corporate boardroom
Ukrainian-founded strategic foresight AI startup Principle was selected from over 600 applicants to win the top enterprise award at one…
Choice Raises $7.1M Series A to Expand Its AI-Powered Restaurant SaaS Platform Across Europe
Choice, the all-in-one SaaS and QR ordering platform for restaurants, has announced a $7.1M Series A funding round. The round…
From Refugee to Builder: How Sohrab Hosseini Is Solving the Problem No One Wants to Talk About in AI
The co-founder of Orq.ai went bankrupt at 23, rebuilt himself through McKinsey and a string of operator roles, and then…
Maisa Hits 400% Growth Building What 95% of Enterprise AI Projects Are Missing: Accountability
The Valencia startup just earned Deloitte’s Rising Star recognition after growing its client base fivefold in a year. Its pitch:…
Orq.ai Spins Out Its AI Router as Standalone Product After Watching Customers Build — Then Abandon — Their Own
The Amsterdam-based platform is betting that routing will become the critical control layer for production AI. Its new standalone Router…
Occam Raises €3M After Ukraine Says Its Drone AI Actually Works in Combat — And That Almost Never Happens
The London-based startup passed field evaluation through Ukraine’s Brave1 platform, proving its software-only autonomy can operate under live fire without…
GenoGra Closes €1M Pre-Seed to Bring Pangenomics Out of the Lab — Starting With Crops, Not Clinics
The Milan-based startup is targeting agriculture, livestock, and industrial microorganisms first, using pangenomic graphs to decode population-scale genomic data faster…
From Brand to Database: The New Athlete Economy
We spoke with Antoine Lérault, Founder and CEO of Joue-La Comme, about the evolution of athlete value in the digital…
Calling European Founders: Equity-free Consumer AI Accelerator to Scale Startups to 100M+ Users
The 6-week program provides infrastructure proven at Disney, Xbox, and Nvidia scale, expert mentorship on growth, and VC access to…
Scavenger AI Raises €2.5M to Help Europe’s SMEs Talk to Their Data
The Frankfurt-based startup is building AI-powered business intelligence that turns every employee into a data analyst – no code required….
Jam 7 Raises €312k Seed at €10.4M Valuation for AI Marketing
Former Microsoft Worldwide Cloud Partner of the Year launches AI-powered marketing platform delivering 300% campaign boost for B2B tech companies…