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,…
brainjo Raises €2M to Treat Mental Health with Virtual Reality
Mental healthcare has a delivery problem. Therapists are overbooked, waitlists stretch for months, and patients — especially children — often…
Milan Longevity Summit 2026: Where the Future of Health Begins
Milan wants to be the city where the longevity revolution begins. Here’s what that actually means. Every few years, a…
Tripals wants to fix group travel — and it just threw a party to prove it
Every group trip starts the same way. Someone creates a WhatsApp group. Messages pile up. Decisions don’t get made. Bookings…
Openlaw raises $3.3M to end Europe’s company formation nightmare
In the United States, incorporating a company can take as little as 24 hours. In Germany, the same process takes…
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…
From pilots to MRR growth and first angel investments: how Bridge to Scale turned the cohort’s ambition into real investment readiness
A cohort of 15 Ukrainian-founded startups moved from early traction to investment readiness, reaching signed term sheets, enterprise LOIs, and…
The best way to understand a founder is to play sport with them
How Sports Rebels Club is building trust, deals, and ecosystem connectivity through sport — starting in Milan. I have spent…
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…
Final Call for Startups: Podim 2026 Applications Close on March 15
The window is almost shut. Applications for Podim 2026 — the leading startup and tech conference in the Alps-Adriatic region…
Europe’s EIC Scaling Club Just Produced Its First Unicorn — And Outperformed Rejected Applicants by 2.3x
Axelera AI hits a €1B+ valuation after a €250M raise, as new impact data show the 120-company cohort has raised…
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:…
This Slovenian Founder Is Tackling a €42B Market Healthcare Systems Can’t Solve — With a Sub-€1K Device
Neuro Muss targets 150M stroke survivors with NewPulse, a home rehab device that delivers the high-repetition therapy neuroplasticity requires. The…
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…
NATO’s Innovation Fund Just Backed SatVu, a Satellite Startup That Can See What You’re Doing Inside Buildings — At Night
SatVu closes €35M to scale its high-resolution thermal imaging constellation, delivering ‘Activity Intelligence’ that reveals operational patterns invisible to optical…
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…
TechChill Turns 15 With Its Biggest Bet Yet: A €1 Million Prize Pool to Crown Europe’s Next Breakout Startup
The Baltic region’s largest tech conference is marking its 15th anniversary with record investment commitments, a €10K no-strings cash prize,…
From Kyiv to Munich: How Ukraine’s Frontline Robotics Took Its Battle-Tested Drone to Industrial Scale — With Germany’s Help
President Zelenskyy received the first Linza 3.0 manufactured at the new German-Ukrainian joint venture, Quantum Frontline Industries, signalling a new…
Willo Raises €2.9M Pre-Seed to Scale Alignment-Free Wireless Power
Helsinki-based deep-tech startup emerges from Aalto University stealth mode with Best of CES award and backing from byFounders Finnish deep-tech…
Finnish EnergyTech Capalo AI Raises €11M for Battery Storage
Addressing Europe’s Energy Storage Challenge Finnish sustainable technology company Capalo AI today announces an €11 million Series A funding round…
Burning Heroes Pitch London 2026
Burning Heroes Hosts Its Third Early-Stage Pitch Competition in London in Partnership with Wise Burning Heroes Founders Association, a global…
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…