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Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For years, the criticism of European venture capital has been structural: too few firms willing to write large cheques, and too little operational experience […]
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The Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, announced at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, commits 11 companies to share threat intelligence and coordinate defences against AI-driven fraud at scale. When Google’s vice president of trust and safety stood up at the United Nations Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on Sunday to announce […]
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The startup, which plants millions of decoy assets across cloud environments to catch intruders in the act, closed its Series A led by FirstMark as enterprise security teams warm to deception as a primary detection strategy. The logic of cyber deception is almost disarmingly simple. You leave something valuable-looking in a place where it has […]
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The Berlin startup, now valued at €640M, counts Revolut, N26 and Santander’s Openbank among its clients after processing more than 100 million investment orders last year. Twelve months after its last fundraise, Upvest has done it again, and at a price that suggests Europe’s appetite for investment infrastructure is still accelerating. The Berlin-based fintech announced […]
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Compliance is the part of financial services that nobody likes to talk about, and nobody can afford to get wrong. For investment managers, the obligation to know your client, verify their business, and monitor them continuously has historically meant armies of analysts working through documents, running database checks, and filing reports that no one reads […]
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Corporate training has a staging problem. Companies spend billions on learning management systems that employees log into once, skip half the modules, and forget about until HR sends a reminder. Blify thinks the fix is simpler than a new platform: put the training where the work already is. The Paris-based startup announced this week that […]
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The Paris-based VC is targeting 15 B2B companies with revenues above €10M in clean manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, green construction, and digital health, with carry tied to impact performance for the first time. Europe has no shortage of early-stage climate tech funding. What it has historically lacked is the growth capital to take companies that have […]
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The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailable at any given time. Ships are queued in dry dock. Maintenance cycles […]
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Founded by two French serial entrepreneurs who have spent decades in Romania, the platform aims to be a trust-by-design alternative to X and Facebook, with a public launch set for May 2026. A new social media platform that embeds real-time fact-checking directly into the user experience has raised €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Fil Rouge […]
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A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in roughly an hour. Within weeks it had become one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, an AI […]
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