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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…
Ben CostantiniThe Selected podcast
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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
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Ravical raises $17M seed for AI that runs across whole accounting firms
Ravical, the Belgian AI platform for accounting and tax firms co-founded by Silverfin's Joris Van Der Gucht, raised a $17 million seed led by MMC Ventures, with Lakestar, Pitchdrive and…
Samplix raises €25M first close led by WLan to scale Xdrop
Danish antibody discovery startup Samplix closes €25M first tranche led by WLan, the vehicle of ex-Evotec CEO Werner Lanthaler, with a €30M target to scale Xdrop.
Fronted raises €1.7M seed to take AI payroll to 70 countries
A 30-person Norwegian startup that bundles recruitment, employer of record and payroll raised NOK 18 million to grow from 20 to 70 countries and aim for profit in 2027.
Artiso raises over €3M pre-seed to build fashion’s operating system
Three former Mango executives rebuilt the AI tools they once used inside a Barcelona fashion group and are now selling them to the industry. Criteria Venture Tech led the pre-seed…
Cortas raises €1.47M pre-seed to manage buildings and build the tools
Two ex-Thylander investors raised €1.47M to do both jobs: manage Danish property and write the software that runs it. PSV Tech led, with EIFO, JRNY Capital and the founders of…
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KineDB Unclassified · Unclassified | Pre-seed | Superhero Capital | Unclassified | €850K |
| FLTRD Unclassified · Netherlands | – | Unclassified | €500K | |
| i23 Unclassified · United Kingdom | Seed | Four Cities Capital | Unclassified | €5.9M (£4.9M) |
| VUSE XR Unclassified · Germany | Pre-seed | IACD | Unclassified | €1.2M |
| Ravical Unclassified · Belgium | Seed | MMC Ventures | Unclassified | €15.3M ($17M) |
| MuRay Unclassified · Germany | First Momentum Ventures, Caelora | Unclassified | €3.5M |
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<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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Y Combinator’s three-month programme is based in San Francisco and takes European founders alongside those from elsewhere. The standard deal is USD 500,000: USD…
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