This week, leading market research platform Tracxn released its Geo Funding Trend Report, which found the UK tech sector raised $15.3 billion USD in 2025 – an 11% decline year-on-year from the $17.1 billion raised in 2024. The funding also represented a 15% decrease from the $17.9 billion raised in 2023. Not only has overall ... Read more ›
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Today, Dutch fintech firm Klearly announced it has raised €12 million as part of a Series A funding round led by PayPal Ventures with participation from Italian Founders Fund, Global PayTech Ventures, Antler Elevate, and Shapers – bringing the startup’s total funding raised to €20 million. According to the company website, Klearly aims to offer ... Read more ›
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Widely regarded as the most comprehensive legal framework governing artificial intelligence (AI) to date, the European Union marked a normative milestone on August 1, 2024, when the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) entered into force. The AI Act established harmonised rules for the development, deployment, and use of the technology across the EU. While formally ... Read more ›
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Leap Venture Studio, the world’s first and largest pet care startup accelerator, announced it will be accepting applications for its tenth Studio program, designed to help founders scale their impact in 2026 and in years ahead. The startup accelerator and community for pet care companies supports pet tech, wellness and service startups through VC investment, ... Read more ›
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On Monday, January 5, the European Commission said it’s looking into complaints against Elon Musk’s Grok, which is reportedly being used to generate sexually explicit images of children. This comes just after the public prosecutor’s office in Paris launched an investigation into X for the same reason. A spokesperson for the European Commission told journalists ... Read more ›
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A Swiss incubator for biotech ventures secured a major boost through a new partnership with the global biopharmaceutical company Takeda. The December 16, 2025 announcement by BaseLaunch, an incubator based in the life sciences hub of Basel, buoys the region’s status as a biotech destination in Europe. The Basel area is home to the headquarters ... Read more ›
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The symbiosis between US tech and the EU’s digital economy has been instrumental in shaping the region’s landscape. This relationship, underscored by significant investments and long-term strategic partnerships, has helped to foster a robust digital services landscape, driving technology adoption and economic growth across the continent. In particular, the dominance of US cloud services such ... Read more ›
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From automating repetitive tasks to streamlining complex workflows, AI agents are already everywhere, reshaping how organizations approach productivity and innovation. Yet, adoption remains shallow for many, and agents fail to deliver measurable enterprise-level impact. Three years after generative AI entered the mainstream, nine out of ten respondents say their organizations are regularly using AI, as ... Read more ›
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Lithuania may not yet be on your radar as a space hub, but the Baltic country is building on its strengths to make sure it is established as such. Ever since it launched its first two satellites in 2014, Lithuania has taken significant steps toward developing its space sector. The country joined the European Space ... Read more ›
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Is AI overvalued? The question of whether the sector is heading toward a bubble is one of the biggest questions in tech today. While there is growing concern that the U.S. market may be overvalued, Europe could prove a more resilient structure. According to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), the U.S. market collects ... Read more ›
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Today, global market intelligence provider Tracxn released the “European Defence Tech Report 2025: Is Europe’s Defence Tech Entering its Most Compelling Phase for Investors?”, which suggests that the European defence tech ecosystem could be entering a golden age. Defence tech startups- companies that develop advanced hardware, software and technology tailored for military and national security ... Read more ›
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In her award-winning book Supremacy, Bloomberg tech writer Parmy Olsen recounts the paths Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis took in order to arrive at the AI apexes on which they sit today. For both, early dreams of AI were woven with optimism, idealism, and a desire to solve humanity’s greatest problems. Of course, what we’re ... Read more ›
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Over the years, Estonia has consolidated its position as one of Europe’s most dynamic startup hubs. With over 863 startups and three unicorns, the Baltic country is quickly becoming one of Central Europe’s main innovation forces. According to the Startup Ecosystem Report 2025 conducted by global research platform StartupBlink, which analyzed ecosystems across 100 countries, ... Read more ›
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Europe’s venture capital (VC) ecosystem has spent the last few years cooling following its 2021 post-pandemic peak. But, as 2025 draws to a close, the environment has shown signs of a healthier recovery. European startups now account for 20% of global VC funding, while the region raised $57 billion USD this year alone- a $3 ... Read more ›
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Edinburgh-based Alpha Data has launched a new range of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) computing platforms built on AMD’s Versal™ RF Series adaptive SoCs, aimed at speeding up system deployment across defense, aerospace, and communications. The company’s three new products, ADA-PA310, ADA-SA320, and ADA-VA330, are the first deployable solutions to use AMD’s Versal RF adaptive SoCs. Together, ... Read more ›
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For seventy years, most people lived inside the same deal: trade your time for a salary, and in return, you got security. Be loyal and reliable, and you’ll have a safe job for life. That deal is now broken. You can feel it: wages shrinking, benefits sliced into perks, titles losing meaning. The middle is quietly ... Read more ›
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On October 31, the Italian tech unicorn Bending Spoons announced it had acquired the early web giant AOL from Yahoo!, itself owned by the investment firm Apollo Global Management. The purchase led to a surge in Bending Spoons’ valuation, which climbed to $11 billion after a significant fundraising round. This acquisition is the latest in ... Read more ›
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As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes global industries, Europe’s engineering and innovation sectors are falling behind. Despite world-class talent, the sectors are now less defined by genius and expertise, and more tainted by a failure to translate research into approachable, real-world solutions. A late 2024 study revealed that European startups continue to struggle due to the ... Read more ›
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Marleybones, the UK’s premium dog food brand behind Pantry Fresh meals, closed its most recent £2.5 million funding round with TAW Ventures, the VC firm founded by Jane Lauder of the Estée Lauder family. The deal includes follow-on support from existing backers JamJar Investments, Active Partners, and Animal Health Angels. “Much like the Marleybones team, ... Read more ›
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Europe is scrambling to close a cybersecurity talent gap that threatens not just business resilience but sovereignty itself. In 2024, the EU was facing a shortage of approximately 299,000 cybersecurity professionals, indicating a 9% rise from 2023. This gap is expected to increase as most organizations will seek cybersecurity staff that are more compliant with ... Read more ›
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