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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
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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Querio raises $5M seed to put metrics back in the data team’s hands
London's Querio launched with $5 million and BMW i Ventures as lead investor. Its metric definitions live in the customer's own Git repo, so humans and AI agents read the…
Agora Labs raises €4.3M for hospital data research network
Fifty hospitals, one network, and no record leaves the building. P101 leads a €4.3 million round in the Rome company betting that Europe's privacy rules are the product.
Lette raises $6.5M seed to run UK rentals with AI agents
The Dublin company puts AI agents on top of Yardi and MRI to close leases and clear maintenance tickets. Peak led the $6.5 million seed, and 30,000 homes already run…
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…
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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Upcoming events
Driving IT 2026
Driving IT is a software engineering and tech conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 30 October 2026.Kyiv AI Day 2026
Kyiv AI Day is an AI conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 31 October 2026.Nullcon Berlin 2026
Nullcon Berlin is a cybersecurity conference in Berlin, Germany, running 2-6 November 2026.Investor corner
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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…
Y Combinator Winter 2027
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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