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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 Costantini
AI replaced 3D printing in composites pitches
In 2019, 3D printing was the loudest thing in composites. Across that year’s JEC Composites Startup Booster applications it ran at 24.7 mentions per 10,000 words…
Ben CostantiniThe Selected podcast
Tips & advice
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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Unravel Health raises £2.5M pre-seed for at-home hormone testing
London's Unravel Health has closed a £2.5M pre-seed co-led by Conduit EIS Impact Fund and Wrightwood. Its Glasgow-born Micro Lab reads four hormones from saliva at home, with first devices…
Goodweek raises $12M to become the AI manager for SMBs
Eight funds and Bpifrance back Strasbourg-born Goodweek with $12 million to give SMBs one governed place to run Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Mistral. The AI control layer is becoming its…
Microbiotica raises £36M Series C for precision microbiome medicines
British Business Bank leads a £36M first close for Cambridge's Microbiotica, with Tencent back in, to test an eight-strain gut capsule in Phase 2 ulcerative colitis trials.
Wavo raises €10M to free the cash SMEs bury in stock
Wavo buys its clients' stock and sells it back as they sell, no debt and no interest. Eurazeo just led a €10M equity round to double the Lyon fintech's capacity…
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 events in Europe. Only…
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linkener Unclassified · Spain | Klima Energy Transition Fund (Alantra) | Unclassified | €7.5M | |
| CoComply Unclassified · United Kingdom | NPIF II – Mercia Equity Finance | Unclassified | €2.3M | |
| Vessla Unclassified · Sweden | Pre-seed | Seedcamp | Unclassified | €3.0M |
| Neonomics Unclassified · Norway | – | Unclassified | €3.6M | |
| unravel health Consumer tech · United Kingdom | Pre-seed | Conduit EIS Impact Fund, Wrightwood | Consumer tech | €3.0M |
| Microbiotica Unclassified · United Kingdom | Series C | British Business Bank | Unclassified | €42.7M |
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JEC Composites Startup Booster 2027
The JEC Composites Startup Booster is a pitch contest for startups, entrepreneurs and academic spin-offs working in composites and advanced materials, covering raw materials,…
JEC Composites Innovation Awards 2027
Advanced materials and composites work is judged here, with a trophy and a showcase at JEC World in Paris for the winners. Notably it…
4YFN Awards 2027
4YFN, the startup event GSMA runs beside MWC Barcelona, awards prizes across five categories: Health Tech, Fintech, Climate Tech, Connectivity and Digital Horizons. Four…
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