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LIVE: Europe’s fastest-growing startups in 2025 🌟
This year’s cohort generated €6.3bn in revenue in the last financial year, proving Europe’s startup ecosystem is building companies that could define Europe’s future.
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LATEST: AI agents are moving faster than Europe can regulate.
Rapid technological advances are stoking anxiety across the continent AI agents are moving faster than Europe can regulate.
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NEW: Revolut faces questions over ‘deeply concerning’ data breach.
A group of hackers is reportedly threatening to release stolen customer data.
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What’s driving Scottish deeptech?: ‘There’s a huge change happening’.
Backed by world-class research and support networks such as Techscaler, a new generation of Scottish founders are building global deeptech companies right at home.
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Should tech events ban Meta’s smart glasses?
The popular specs — which critics call "pervert glasses" — have divided a normally pro-tech crowd.
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LATEST: UK fund managers battling to run £1bn Scale-up Fund, reports say.
M&G Investments and Schroders are said to be among those in contention.
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NEW: Starling's AI gamble sparks staff concerns.
Current and former employees say morale has dipped since founder Anne Boden's departure, with an exodus of compliance staff to Monzo.
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Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal for Hugging Face, reports say.
The acquisition would mark significant uptick on Hugging Face's previous $4.5bn valuation, recorded in 2023.
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Revolut launches AI research unit to build models in-house.
The fintech giant has developed a foundational model with Nvidia.
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LATEST: 9 spinouts that landed Tier-1 seed cheques in 2026.
The Technical University of Munich accounts for half the cohort.
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NEW: 12 AI safety startups to watch, according to VCs.
These startups are helping organisations trust the AI models and agents they are putting in production.
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VCs pick out 19 startups to watch making AI more efficient.
The AI boom means compute resources are struggling to keep up with demand. These startups are working to reduce the cost and energy requirements of models.
See the whole list now.
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NEW: The 10 robotics startups that raised the biggest rounds in H1 2026.
Robotics startups in Europe raised more in H1 2026 than the previous two years combined.
Check out the big hitters now.
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Serbian insurtech scaleup Ominimo became the country's first unicorn last month after its Series B round. The company now valued at $1.6bn valuation has helped put Serbia on the map for international investors. So, which startups should you be watching?
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LATEST: Lunar founders raise €8.2m to launch AI-native audit startup Repodo.
The founders of Danish neobank Lunar have raised an €8.2m pre-seed from Hedosophia and Seed Capital to launch their next venture: audit startup Repodo.
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ICYMI: 15 alumni from European unicorns now building in stealth.
The flywheel at Europe's tech unicorns is well and truly spinning, with multiple operators spinning out to launch their own thing.
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Startups are clamping down on internal AI slop: ‘You’re losing so much’.
AI writing policies could become commonplace in startups, as people tire of slop.
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LATEST: Revolut to allow CEO to borrow up to $250m against his shares, reports say.
Revolut has approached investors for approval on upping the amount cofounder and CEO Nik Storonsky can borrow against his stake in the fintech five times over.
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We spoke to Italian AI unicorn Domyn's CEO, Uljan Sharka, to discuss small language models, what Europe can gain from the EU's Europa frontier model consortium and what founders can learn from Revolut’s Nik Storonsky.
Watch the latest episode now.
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NEW: How badly does Europe need its own frontier AI models?
UK officials have been reviewing the risks of losing access to Anthropic’s Fable and other models.
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EXCLUSIVE: AI infrastructure startup Velatir raises €5m to accelerate AI adoption across Europe.
Danish AI infrastructure startup Velatir has raised €5m in seed funding in a round co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures.
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