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AI is taking the work around the event. The room is what’s left
Cvent’s own events team broke its job down task by task and concluded that AI can now support about 40 percent of it. In the same…
Ben Costantini
Informa just bought the rooms. Here’s how startups get in
Every week another AI agent promises to book your meetings, score your leads and write your follow-ups. So why did Informa just agree to pay £2.24…
Ben Costantini
Creative tech in Europe runs on grants. San Sebastián’s finalists prove it
Ten startups pitched at the San Sebastián Film Festival on 24 September. I went through every one of them afterward and couldn’t find a single disclosed…
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Music startups and their buyers go to different conferences
Music Innovation Consulting (MIC) keeps an agenda of 96 music and tech events for 2026. Fifteen carry its music-tech label, and eight of those are in-person…
Ben Costantini
Pick the LP first, then the 2027 conference
A communications director at a German VC firm sent me a two-line question recently. Her investor relations team wants conferences in 2027 with exposure to LPs,…
Ben Costantini
The empty startup area: why tradeshows fail at startup sales
Picture this. A strategy director at a major exhibition calls with six weeks to go before the show. The brand new startup area has sold exactly…
Ben CostantiniSpotlight
Atlas Bio
Uses AI foundation models to predict drug trial outcomes before patients are enrolled, aiming to cut drug development's 70% Phase II failure rate without animal testing.
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Atlas Bio raises $12.5M to simulate drug trials before Phase II
The Basel company trains on 2 million human tissue readouts, and a biotech is already running one drug workflow without animal testing. Creandum led the $10 million seed.
Machenta raises $40M seed to teach robots from one demonstration
A London lab of eleven people raised $40 million before it has anything to sell. Machenta's model is pretrained only in simulation and learns a new physical task from a…
Nevis raises $70M Series B to put AI agents inside wealth management
EQT Ventures led a $70 million Series B into Nevis, a London company whose AI agents clear the admin behind American financial advice. Charles Schwab came along for the distribution.
adsilico raises £10M Series A to test devices on virtual patients
A University of Leeds spinout has raised £10 million to run heart implants through AI-built virtual patients before any trial recruits. PXN Ventures led; headcount goes from 14 to 34.
QuantrolOx raises €12M Series A to automate quantum computer tuning
An Oxford spinout headquartered in Espoo has raised €12 million to automate qubit tuning, the slow step between a quantum chip arriving and a quantum chip computing. IW Capital led.
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas Bio Switzerland | Pre-seed | First Momentum Ventures, LEA Partners | – | €2.2M ($2.5M) |
| Atlas Bio Switzerland | Seed | Creandum | – | €9.0M ($10M) |
| Cortas Denmark | Pre-seed | PSV Tech | – | €1.5M |
| Querio United Kingdom | Seed | BMW i Ventures | – | €4.5M ($5M) |
| Lette Ireland | Seed | Peak Capital | – | €5.9M ($6.5M) |
| Agora Labs Italy | P101 SGR | – | €4.3M |
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EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026
Frontier research towards breakthrough technologies is the remit here, funded by the European Innovation Council for participants in the EU. Projects are mostly consortium-based…
MediaTech Hub Accelerator 2026
<p>Equity-free accelerator for early-stage media and technology startups, run by MediaTech Hub Potsdam at Studio Babelsberg, Germany. The nine-month programme covers two tracks –…
ROBOTICS AWARD 2027 (Hannover Messe)
<p>HANNOVER MESSE’s award for robot-based automation and logistics solutions, open to startups, established companies and research institutions from Germany and abroad. Three nominees receive…
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