European tech has a hiring problem that nobody wants to talk about. While founders obsess over landing senior engineers and AI specialists, they are quietly abandoning the pipeline that produces them. The numbers are stark. According to Ravio’s 2025 Tech Job Market Report, entry-level positions in European tech have seen a 73% decrease in hiring ... Read more ›
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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Davide Dattoli, Founder and Executive Chairman of Talent Garden, one of Europe’s leading digital innovation platforms, offering a network of coworking campuses, a digital skills academy, and event spaces designed for tech professionals, startups, and companies. Launched in 2011 as a coworking experiment in Italy, ... Read more ›
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For decades, industrial planning software has operated under the same model: rigid tools, closed modules and expensive customisation. Adapting these systems to the operational reality of each company typically requires long projects, significant investment and deep technical dependency. In practice, many organisations end up reshaping their internal processes to fit the limitations of the software, ... Read more ›
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Aizy, a Breda-based AI-powered performance marketing platform for small and mid-sized businesses, has secured €2 million in additional funding to expand within the Netherlands and international markets. The round was founder Stefan Nuijten, alongside existing investors Michiel Mol, Joost van der Klooster, and Gijs Nagel. This follow-on investment comes just months after the company raised ... Read more ›
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happyhotel, an Offenburg-based HotelTech startup offering revenue management software for the hotel industry, today announced the closing of its €6.5 million Series A funding round to develop AI agents for hotels. The round was led by venture capital fund Reimann Investors. Existing investors also participated again, including Start-up BW Innovation Fund (managed by MBG Baden-Württemberg), ... Read more ›
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We are excited to announce that Mathieu Nebra, Startup Advisor, Board Member, Co-founder of OpenClassrooms and Founder of Scale Me Up, will join the speaker line-up at the EU-Startups Summit 2026 on May 7-8 in sunny Malta. Entrepreneur in education and digital innovation, Mathieu Nebra co-founded OpenClassrooms in 2013, which has grown into a leading ... Read more ›
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Zug-based Unicity Labs, a protocol development company building the infrastructure for autonomous agentic internet, has successfully raised €2.5 million ($3 million) in Seed funding. The round was led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal, a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures. “Satoshi’s whitepaper was titled ‘Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash.’ Seventeen years later, we ... Read more ›
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Paris-based venture studio OSS Ventures has announced the first closing of €40 million for its new investment vehicle, targeting a total fund size of €75 million to provide follow-on financing to startups created within its studio, helping them scale their industrial software solutions across Europe and the United States. Leading the round are Decathlon Pulse ... Read more ›
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FYLD, an AI-powered frontline intelligence platform for the global infrastructure sector out of London, announced a €34 million ($41 million) Series B round to scale its platform delivering operational certainty for distributed, high-risk fieldwork in energy, construction, water and more. The round was led by Energy Impact Partners LP with participation from growth equity specialist ... Read more ›
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HeyCharge, a Munich-based EV charging technology company backed by BMW i Ventures, Statkraft Ventures, and Y Combinator, has been awarded a €2.5 million grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. The grant will fund HeyCharge’s SecureCharge FLEX project, accelerating the development, certification, and large-scale piloting of the company’s patented EV charging platform across multiple ... Read more ›
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Quantonation Ventures, a Paris-based venture firm for quantum and physics-based technologies, has closed its second flagship fund above target at €220 million. With this close, Quantonation reportedly becomes the largest dedicated quantum investment firm globally by AUM. All major investors from Quantonation I have returned for the second fund. Returning limited partners include Vertex Holdings; ... Read more ›
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Hybridity, a Stockholm-based AI RegTech startup, raises €2 million (SEK 22 million) funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its AI platform Hy5, which automates complex EU regulations. Its new investors include Henrik Ekelund (BTS Group), Hans Otterling, and Jörgen Bladh (formerly Northzone). New investors also include the family office Fonos with the Irinarchos family, and ... Read more ›
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Following up on our country deep-dive series, we now turn to the United Kingdom, one of Europe’s most established and internationally connected startup ecosystems. With London at its core and growing momentum in hubs such as Cambridge and Newcastle, the UK continues to generate venture-backed companies across AI, fintech, creative technology, and enterprise infrastructure. In ... Read more ›
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Mondra, a London-based AI-powered supply chain intelligence platform, and inoqo, a Vienna-based sustainability intelligence platform, have today announced a strategic merger. This merger is intended to create a single, unified global entity focusing on accelerating the decarbonisation and resilience of the global food system. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected ... Read more ›
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Axmed, a Basel-based HealthTech company, today announced it has been awarded €5 million ($6 million) in non-dilutive grant funding from the Gates Foundation to expand access to high-quality, affordable medicines across low- and middle-income countries through its B2B procurement and integrated logistics platform. The grant builds on the Foundation’s prior €4.2 million ($5 million). With ... Read more ›
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SurrealDB, a UK company developing a multi-model, AI-native database, has secured an additional €19 million ($23 million) in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total investment to-date (including Seed) to €37 million ($44 million). Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital join existing investors FirstMark and Georgian in this Series A extension, bringing the series total to ... Read more ›
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NANDO (formerly Re Learn), an Italian startup developing AI-driven solutions for waste monitoring, announces the closing of a €3.3 million capital increase to strengthen its leadership in two key areas: optimising municipal waste collection and reducing food waste. The company will expand its AI technologies and enhance its data collection and analytics systems across the ... Read more ›
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SatVu, a London-based thermal intelligence company that reveals operational activity and infrastructure performance from space, has closed a €34 million (£30 million) funding round bringing its total equity funding to €68 million (£60 million), as it accelerates from single-satellite demonstration to execution of a multi-satellite constellation. The round completes with a strategic investment from the ... Read more ›
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London-based Toyo, a startup building AI agents designed to run day-to-day business operations autonomously, has raised a €3.6 million ($4.3 million) Seed to support product development and the expansion of its secure infrastructure, as the company looks to make advanced AI agent workflows accessible to non-technical founders. The round was raised from Frontline Ventures, iNovia ... Read more ›
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Emerald Technology Ventures, a Swiss venture capital firm, has entered into a strategic partnership with DIC Corporation, a Japanese chemical manufacturer, establishing a €52 million ($62 million) investment platform focused on emerging technologies across sensing, wearables, robotics, and automation. Emerald will act as DIC’s strategic venture partner, supporting the sourcing, evaluation, investment, and growth of ... Read more ›
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