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IFA 2026: the twenty startups who pitched, and the one who won
A company that prints implantable human tissue won a pitch competition at a consumer electronics fair. Cellbricks Therapeutics took the IFA Pitch Battle 2026 on the…
Ben Costantini
Composites Are About High Performance. So Are Events.
A startup event strategy needs the same discipline. Spend enough time around (deep-tech) startups and you start noticing a familiar pattern. The same founders appear at…
The most digital companies in the world are opening coffee shops
The AI industry runs on GPUs, APIs and Discord servers. So why is an AI insurance startup valued at $4 billion signing a lease for a…
Ben CostantiniThe Selected podcast
Tips & advice
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 Costantini
Why events are lying about their metrics
This week I read about a hackathon claiming 6,000 attendees over a single weekend. The venues hosting it can’t accommodate more than 1,000 people. Nobody in…
Ben Costantini
The hidden costs of events: Why founders get the math wrong
Most startup founders treat events like they’re going travelling: count the days, block the calendar, done. But event tickets don’t come cheap, and the actual affair…
Ben CostantiniSpotlight
EUCLYD
AI Infrastructure for Abundant Intelligence
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Fortaegis raises $50M Series A to bake security into silicon
Fortaegis has raised a $50M Series A led by Serendipity Capital, with TEL Venture Capital and TNO joining, to put quantum-safe security inside the chip itself from 2027.
Chift raises €10.5M Series A to connect Europe’s financial software
BlackFin leads a €10.5M Series A in Brussels-based Chift, whose single API already connects 150+ software companies and 50,000 SMEs to Europe's fragmented financial systems.
Tandem Health raises $100M Series B led by the EU’s €5bn scaleup fund
The EU's €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund makes its first healthtech bet: $100M into Stockholm's Tandem Health, the AI medical assistant already used by 10,000 care organisations across 14 European markets.
Furo raises $4M to put software in charge of industrial batteries
Munich's Furo, formerly Lumera Energy, lands $4M led by New York's TQ Ventures to run commercial battery storage with AI – 800 businesses across 6,000 sites already use it.
Arlequin AI raises €28M Series A to scale Europe’s answer to Palantir
Paris-based Arlequin AI raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures to scale topological neural networks – Europe's homegrown answer to Palantir, now with 30 clients in…
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EUCLYD AI · Netherlands | Series A | Samsung (corporate – held as text), Somerset Capital Partners, Scaleup Europe Fund (managed by EQT), Innovation Industries – four co-leads | AI | €200M |
| Greencovery Food Waste · Netherlands | Seed | ROM InWest | Food Waste | €1M |
| Ferm Labs Fermentation · Switzerland | Series A | CDP Venture Capital | Fermentation | €3M |
| Open Cosmos Space tech · United Kingdom | Lightrock, ETF Partners (company release says led by European investors; SatNews reports the pair led) | Space tech | €300M | |
| Fortaegis Cybersecurity · Netherlands | Series A | Serendipity Capital | Cybersecurity | €43.3M |
| Chift Embedded Finance · Belgium | Series A | BlackFin Capital Partners | Embedded Finance | €10.5M |
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Sirha Innovation Awards 2027
Sirha’s award recognises foodservice and hospitality innovation, judged at the show in Lyon. Laureates receive the award itself, a listing among the winners and…
EIC Transition Open 2026
Aimed at deep-tech teams in the EU, Transition Open funds the step between a validated research result and a market-ready product. Only entities that…
BioFIT — Start-up Slams 2026
Start-up Slams gives life sciences founders a five-minute pitch at BioFIT in Marseille, judged by public bodies, industry and investors. It suits early-stage or…
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