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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 launch, Cvent published a Forrester study in which 70 percent of 459 marketing and…
Ben Costantini
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 billion for a company whose product is a hall, a badge and a few…
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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 venture round. The biggest cheque on the day was the festival’s own: €30,000 for…
Ben CostantiniWhat if Europe had its own DARPA? André Loesekrug-Pietri, co-founder of JEDI, explains how a privately funded agency runs moonshots on rare-earth refining, laser communication and antibiotics, who pays for them, and why he thinks Europe keeps funding projects instead of winners.
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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 one of the eight, Music Frontiers in Hamburg, belongs to…
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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, other GPs and good sponsors. Is there a list? Not a good one. So…
Ben Costantini
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 one booth. The show runs on a multi-year cycle, so a failed launch means…
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Madrid's Talky closed a €1.5M pre-seed with HelloWorld, Silence VC and Motive Force for AI that learns each large company's unwritten accounting rules and posts entries straight to the ERP.
Stéphane Paillard
London's Ares Intelligence raised €2.6M from Creandum and Lakestar, two backers of its founders' last company, to scale an AI interviewer that tells leadership where AI pays off.
Stéphane Paillard
Copenhagen's KineDB has raised €850,000 pre-seed led by Superhero Capital for one database engine that runs on offline devices and cloud servers, starting with underground mining.
Stéphane PaillardFreiburg-based VUSE XR has raised €1.2M in pre-seed funding led by business angel network IACD to scale its AI-assisted mixed reality training platform for industry.
Stéphane Paillard
Just over half of MuRay's €7.1M comes from public funders. The Hamburg startup aims its muon beam at 3D-printed rocket engines, with a first imaging service due in 2027.
Stéphane Paillard| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ares IntelligenceUnited Kingdom | Seed | Creandum, Lakestar | Unclassified | €2.6M |
FractileUnited Kingdom | Series C | — | Defence AI | €691.9M (£577M) |
Bleu RoboticsFrance | Pre-seed | Contrarian Ventures, OVNI Capital (co-led) | Unclassified | €5M |
Pixel SystemsSweden | Seed | Unconventional Ventures | Unclassified | €2.7M ($3.1M) |
BraidNetherlands | Series A | Octopus Ventures | Unclassified | €34.1M ($38M) |
Talky LabsSpain | Pre-seed | — | Unclassified | €1.5M |
€55.1B across 1,798 rounds tracked · Sesamers round tracker · Methodology
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 125,000 for 7% of the company plus a further USD 375,000 on an uncapped SAFE. Relocation…
Before its flagship accelerator, Startup Wise Guys runs the Founders Club for people who have neither a team nor an MVP yet. Three months online covers co-founder matching and early SaaS company-building, with a pathway into the main accelerator at…
The European Innovation Council runs this instrument for single deep-tech companies based in the EU or a country associated with Horizon Europe. Successful applicants can receive up to EUR 2.5M as a grant and up to EUR 15M in equity…
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