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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…
Ben Costantini
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…
Ben Costantini
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…
Ben CostantiniBattery-electric nine-seat Microliner aircraft for regional point-to-point flights
European startups announced 13 equity rounds between 24 Oct and 30 Oct 2026, raising €164.8M. That is 79% less money than the previous seven days from 46% fewer rounds, and…
Stéphane PaillardSix event-tied startup competitions in Europe have a deadline for 2027 events, and the first closes on November 10. VivaTech, Web Summit and Slush haven't published a date yet.
Stéphane Paillard
Veriff co-founder Janer Gorohhov's Tallinn startup Roleo takes €2.9M to put an AI agent on the candidate's side, paid for by employers who want passive talent.
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Milan startup CyberKord raised €2.7M pre-seed led by 360 Capital, with Plus Partners, Addendum Capital and Vento, to automate IT and security fixes tested on a digital twin.
Stéphane Paillard
Trondheim's Vitroscope closed a $5M seed co-led by Cerberus Ventures and YZR Capital, plus a $2M Norwegian grant, to roll out its living-tissue lab platform.
Stéphane Paillard| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VÆRIDIONGermany | Series A | SHIFT Invest, Invest-NL (co-leads) | Electric Aviation | €30M |
1nhalerUnited Kingdom | — | Archangels | Unclassified | €2.7M (£2.2M) |
VitroscopeUnclassified | Seed | Cerberus Ventures, YZR Capital (co-leads) | Unclassified | €4.5M ($5M) |
GranterPortugal | — | 3XP Global (via its Impact Innovation Fund, under the Venture Capital Programme of the Capitalisation and Resilience Fund FdCR managed by Banco Português de Fomento) | Unclassified | €1.6M |
UnitoqLatvia | Pre-seed | — | Unclassified | €160K |
CyberKordItaly | Pre-seed | 360 Capital | Unclassified | €2.7M |
€55.3B across 1,812 rounds tracked · Sesamers round tracker · Methodology
Global Industrie’s startup competition in Lyon looks for mature, deployable industrial solutions across performance, digitalisation, decarbonisation and the energy transition, which rules out concept-stage work. Winners are given a free exhibition booth at the show plus coaching. No cash changes…
Occitanie’s regional call funds public research and higher-education bodies maturing early deep-tech results towards application. It covers half of eligible project costs up to a ceiling of EUR 100,000, and the money is a grant with no equity attached. Applicants…
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