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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 03/20/2026 04:58 EDT

Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack

Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest direct impact on their revenue, and you will hear a surprising amount of hesitation. The answer, increasingly, is the one piece of infrastructure that still gets treated as an afterthought: […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/20/2026 04:32 EDT

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Capital has raised €50 million at first close for a new fund, Montis VC, targeting European startups at the intersection […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 16:12 EDT

Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge

Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is a quiet irony in the fact that the person who built […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 15:58 EDT

DoorDash launches Tasks

Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the lens for a few seconds, and earns a few dollars. That footage, mundane, specific, reproducible at scale, is exactly what AI and robotics […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 15:44 EDT

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ago, Microsoft was generating images for Bing and Copilot almost entirely with OpenAI’s models. On Thursday, the company’s in-house team announced MAI-Image-2, a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 13:33 EDT

AI analytics agents need guardrails, not more model size

Picture a VP of finance at a large retailer. She asks the company’s new AI analytics agent a simple question: “What was our revenue last quarter?” The answer comes back in seconds. Confident. Clean. Wrong. That exact scenario happens more frequently than many organizations would care to admit. AtScale, which enables organizations to deploy governed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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TNW Deals @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 10:28 EDT

Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be

There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what exactly your inbox knows about you. The answer, it turns out, is everything. And the companies running the most popular free email services in the world are not keeping that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 10:00 EDT

Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data

The TACEO Network, already live inside World ID’s biometric verification system for more than 18 million users, lets organisations share digital infrastructure without sharing sensitive data. When Sam Altman’s World needs to verify that a new user’s iris hasn’t already been registered, it faces a peculiar problem. The computation has to happen on encrypted data, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 08:25 EDT

Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing robotaxi deals at a pace that can make any single announcement feel routine. But this partnership with Rivian is structurally different from the rest […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 05:58 EDT

Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap

The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. The cost asymmetry that defines modern drone warfare is by now well documented. In April 2024, Iran launched roughly 300 drones and missiles at Israel. Defenders intercepted […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Alina Maria Stan @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 05:26 EDT

eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for years. The market for greenhouse automation has accumulated a graveyard of credible-sounding startups. The engineering problem is genuinely hard: harvesting tomatoes or cucumbers requires handling irregular, delicate, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 05:07 EDT

Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes that determine what a hospital gets paid. Someone has to navigate the legacy software, pull the right records, select the right codes, and enter them correctly. In […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Allison Steffens Herrera @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 01:00 EDT

Reson8 raises €5M pre-seed funding to scale Europe’s first customisable speech AI

Amsterdam-based Reson8 has raised €5M in pre-seed funding to challenge US-centric speech platforms by building a high-precision, industry-specific speech recognition platform tailored for European languages. Reson8, a hyper-customised speech AI startup that ensures real-life, accurate, industry-specific language recognition, has raised pre-seed funding to scale its infrastructure and expand its speech models across more than 20 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/19/2026 01:00 EDT

Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates

Recruiters spend hours a day calling, leaving voicemails, and asking the same questions. Ringtime automates the whole thing, and has already found a second home in real estate. There is a well-worn frustration in blue-collar recruitment. A warehouse operative applies on Monday, hears nothing by Tuesday, and has accepted a job somewhere else by Wednesday. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/18/2026 14:05 EDT

Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 2025. Facebook has a creator problem that three billion monthly users cannot solve. The platform is enormous, but the creators who drive the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/18/2026 11:48 EDT

GlobalComix raises $13M, acquires INKR, and appoints new CEO to build the infrastructure for global comics distribution

The New York digital comics platform is combining its 300,000-title library with INKR’s AI localisation engine, and bringing in new leadership to execute the expansion. The problem with getting manga into the hands of readers outside Japan is not demand. Manga is the fastest-growing category in American book publishing; global interest has been building for […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/18/2026 10:02 EDT

Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin Lautier says he got the idea for Homaio on the Eurostar. He was reading a Financial Times article about European Union Allowances, the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/18/2026 09:02 EDT

Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale

The San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with Mayfield backing and a pitch that treats ad creative as a continuous learning loop, not a quarterly deliverable. Every B2B marketing team knows the problem. A campaign launches, the creative is fresh, the targeting feels right, and then, slowly, it starts dying. Audiences tune out. Click rates […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Ana-Maria Stanciuc @ The Next Web · 03/18/2026 08:47 EDT

German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic

An extension to the company’s Series A brings total funding to €23 million and clears the path for the first human trial of KUP101, a dual TLR agonist targeting solid tumours and drug-resistant infections. Most immunotherapy research in oncology has concentrated on the adaptive immune system, the learned, antibody-generating machinery that checkpoint inhibitors like pembrolizumab […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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Cristian Dina @ The Next Web · 03/18/2026 05:40 EDT

Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical trial. Clinical trials are, by almost any measure, one of the most information-intensive processes in modern medicine, and one of the least efficiently […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more

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