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October 3, 2023

Sifted Summit

October 4–5 – UK
Following its remarkable debut in 2022, the Sifted Summit has firmly established itself as a premier event that excels in delivering forward-thinking discussions, fostering meaningful connections, and presenting a carefully curated agenda that stands out from the crowd. Building on its success, this year’s summit promises to offer even more of the captivating content you adore, bringing together 3,000 of Europe’s most exceptional startups for an unforgettable two-day experience in London.

How to Web 2023

October 4-5 – Romania
How to Web gathers top global investors, the hottest startups in Eastern Europe, and best practices for growth, building products, and driving innovation under one roof. At How to Web, you can understand and champion the power of resilience and thriving in times of uncertainty. Discover how some of the most transformative products, businesses, or communities have been built through very challenging times.

WOW Summit Dubai 2023

October 8-9 – UAE
Experience the pinnacle of luxury, innovation, and exclusivity at WOW Summit Dubai 2023, one of the most anticipated Web3 events of the year.  With a limited number of tickets available and a meticulous selection process, this summit brings together distinguished industry leaders, government officials, VCs, NFT artists, entrepreneurs, and multinational corporations. Attendees can expect an immersive experience like no other, with opportunities to network, collaborate, and explore the latest advancements in the digital world. The event also boasts an incredible art and NFT area, offering a platform for attendees to meet talented artists and creators, discover cutting-edge NFT art, and engage in negotiations for unique pieces and exclusive deals.

Allied for Startups Annual Summit 2023

October 10 – Belgium
The Allied for Startups Annual Summit brings together representatives from over 25 startup associations across the world. Every year, they deliberate on the most critical policy issues, discuss new trends and cast our votes to determine the focus areas for the year ahead. For the first time, the Summit will open its doors to the public, bringing together entrepreneurs, startup communities, policymakers and industry experts to debate digital trends, entrepreneurship, and legislation. They aim to create a space to strengthen the ties between startup associations, policymakers, and experts that will foster a collaborative environment and drive startup innovation.

COMEX Bahrain 2023

October 9–11 – Bahrain
This year, the COMEX Global Technology Show is launching COMEX Bahrain offering direct access to prominent government officials, policy makers, entrepreneurs and business representatives while revealing new prospects and prosperous investment opportunities in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Lead Today. Shape Tomorrow. 2023

October 11-12 – Austria
Lead Today. Shape Tomorrow. is where startups, investors & tech opinion leaders come together in an inclusive setting to create meaningful connections and contribute to an equal-opportunity ecosystem.

World Summit AI 2023

October 11–12 – Netherlands
Fearless, forward thinking and innovative, WSAI is one of the world’s leading events in AI and Tech and hosts some of the brightest AI brains, leading industry speakers and influencers from business, science and technology over two days, all in one place! And with higher AI adoption rates expected in 2024 across major industry sectors, WSAI will be a great place to learn, share and debate globally critical AI challenges and fine tune your business when it comes to regulation, safety and ethics, trust, privacy, and scalability.

NODEEP Summit 2023

October 11-12 – Finland
NORDEEP Summit brings under one roof what every deep tech startup needs: funding, experts, talent and clients. NORDEEP Summit is about quality networking, meaningful business relationships and real returns on investment. Humanity is facing big problems and we need to improve both scaling and commercialization of research to solve them. NORDEEP Summit facilitates these efforts globally by supporting and connecting deep tech ecosystems.

Beyond The Music

October 11-14 – Manchester
Beyond The Music is an event introducing the worlds first music change-making conference and festival unifying the global music industry to deliver an international strategy for music.

Biohacker Summit 2023

October 15-16 – Amsterdam
This year’s Biohacker Summit will feature 40+ keynotes, a hands-on exhibition with 60+ brands, a thermogenic spa with ice baths and saunas, engaging workshops, an upgraded dinner, and other incredible side events in the company of top health, productivity, technology and wellbeing experts.

Expand North Star 2023

October 15-18 – Dubai
Across four days Expand North Star will present some of the world’s best startups from over 100 countries, welcome 1,000 VCs to raise funds and scout for their portfolio, and deliver unprecedented content program debating the big stories of 2023 including a flash storm of generative AI startups, and 70+ unicorn founders on stage give their opinions.

SaaStock 2023

October 16–19 – Ireland
SaaStock 2023 is the world’s most impactful conference for SaaS founders on the journey to $10M+ ARR and beyond. We’re different to any other conference because year after year, we bring together the highest concentration of SaaS decision makers in Europe, with 68% of all attendees in leadership roles. In Dublin this October, 6000+ SaaS founders will spark conversations, build relationships and accelerate opportunities.

European Blockchain Convention 2023

October 25–26 – Spain
Ready to be part of the most influential blockchain event in Europe? With 5,000+ attendees and 300+ speakers, EBC is back bigger and better than ever! Join them in Barcelona for a 2-day extravaganza and meet the whole Blockchain ecosystem in one go. Experience an unforgettable event featuring 3 stages, a buzzing exhibition area, startup competitions, parties, and so much more.

Valencia Digital Summit 2023

October 26–27 – Spain
Valencia Digital Summit (VDS) is a global 360 high-impact platform that showcases disruptive solutions from the best innovative talent and creates business opportunities by fostering connections between key players, hence boosting the tech and innovation ecosystem. Curated throughout the year by Startup Valencia, VDS has become the annual meeting point that entrepreneurs, innovators, startups, corporations, investors, and policymakers cannot miss.

FutureTravel Summit

October 27 – Spain
This exclusive gathering of over 400 industry decision-makers, leaders, and influencers from across the globe is your chance to connect with travel innovators, service providers, startups, investors, and corporates, and be part of the dynamic discussions shaping the future of the travel industry.

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London-based AI laboratory Ineffable Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed on 27 April 2026. The financing is the largest seed round ever raised by a European company and one of the largest first-money-in rounds in the global history of artificial intelligence. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Participating investors included Nvidia, DST Global, Index Ventures, Google, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, the British government’s recently established vehicle for backing strategic AI capacity on home soil. A bet on a different path to general intelligence Ineffable Intelligence was founded in 2025 by David Silver, the former Vice President of Reinforcement Learning at Google DeepMind and the principal architect of AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaStar. He is joined by three further DeepMind alumni: Wojciech Czarnecki, Lasse Espeholt and Junhyuk Oh. All four have spent the past decade at the frontier of reinforcement learning research, the discipline behind some of the most consequential demonstrations of machine learning over the past ten years. The company describes its objective as building a “superlearner” — an AI system capable of acquiring knowledge directly from its own experience rather than from human-generated text or imagery. “Our mission is to make first contact with superintelligence,” Silver said in a statement accompanying the launch. “We are creating a superlearner that discovers all knowledge from its own experience, from elementary motor skills through to profound intellectual breakthroughs.” The framing is a deliberate departure from the dominant industry trajectory. Most leading AI laboratories, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind itself, have built large language models trained primarily on the corpus of the internet, then refined that training with human feedback. Ineffable’s wager is that the marginal returns on scaling text-based pretraining are diminishing and that the next leap in capability will come from agents that learn endlessly from the consequences of their own actions, in much the same way AlphaZero learnt the game of Go without studying any human matches. Why $1.1 billion at seed The size of the round is unusual even by the inflated standards of the 2026 AI capital cycle. Two factors appear to explain it. First, frontier reinforcement learning at the scale Ineffable describes is computationally extraordinarily expensive: the company will need to operate vast simulation environments and train very large models against them, an undertaking that consumes capital at a rate closer to physical R&D than to traditional software. Second, the round signals a strategic move by Europe’s investor and policy ecosystems to retain the most ambitious AI researchers on the continent. The presence of the UK Sovereign AI Fund alongside Sequoia, Lightspeed and Nvidia is the clearest expression of that intent. The British government has publicly framed the investment as a bet on breakthrough AI that “can discover new knowledge”, positioning the country as a willing co-investor in domestic frontier laboratories. For Ineffable, the implication is access not only to capital but to compute, regulatory engagement and the still-resilient academic talent base around UCL, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial. Founder pledge of historic scale Alongside the funding announcement, Silver disclosed that he is committing 100 per cent of any personal proceeds from his Ineffable equity to charity via the Founders Pledge network — described by the organisation as the largest pledge in its history. At the round’s $5.1 billion valuation, that commitment could ultimately exceed several billion dollars if the company succeeds. It is a meaningful gesture in a sector where the reputational stakes around concentrated AI wealth are escalating, and one likely to be referenced in subsequent founder-led commitments. Implications for the European AI landscape Ineffable’s emergence reshapes the European AI map in three concrete ways. It establishes London as the home of the continent’s largest-ever seed-stage company, complicating Paris’s recent narrative of frontier-AI primacy after Mistral’s earlier rounds. It validates a thesis — that reinforcement learning, not transformer scaling, is the next frontier — that has lately been losing capital share to language-model incumbents. And it confirms that the UK government is now willing to act as a balance-sheet co-investor in domestic AI laboratories, a posture much closer to the French model than to the predominantly grant-based regimes elsewhere in Europe. The execution risk is non-trivial. Reinforcement learning at frontier scale has historically required years of careful environment design before producing competitive systems, and Ineffable’s “first contact” framing sets a high bar against which it will be judged. But for now, with a billion dollars on the balance sheet, four of the discipline’s most accomplished researchers in the founding team and a sovereign co-investor at its back, Ineffable Intelligence is the most heavily resourced new entrant in the European AI cycle. Sesamers covers European fundraising rounds across deeptech, fintech and AI. Source: tech.eu.

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