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‘Are we the baddies?’: How tech bros became screen villains

The tech-people-suck genre is in full swing — I asked industry leaders how they feel about it

Ex-DeepMind scientist seeks $1bn for ‘superhuman intelligence’ startup

The new company Ineffable Intelligence's raise is reportedly being led by Sequoia Capital

Europe is not a museum. It’s a launchpad.

Ranked: Europe’s most active public funds

Public investors were behind 30% of European startup deals in 2025

Quantonation closes new €220m fund as interest in quantum surges

Launched in 2018, the French investor is one of a handful of firms globally which are dedicated to quantum technologies

Ask Zoe: Should I join a fast-rising startup, or launch my own?

The questions 'founders-in-waiting' should ask before taking what could be an exceptional role, vs going it alone

Cleo CEO Barney Hussey-Yeo wants to build a £100bn company — and save Western democracy

The AI fintech founder believes Europe’s inability to scale tech companies at home could threaten democracy

UK government-backed photonics chip startup targets $100m+ Series B

Optalysys is exploring licensing its chip designs to leading industry players

AI-powered worksite safety startup Fyld raises £32m Series B

The BCG spinout is plotting a major US expansion for 2026

Mistral seals first acquisition deal with cloud startup Koyeb

Koyeb’s three cofounders and 13 employees are expected to join Mistral’s engineering team next month

How UK startups can best access innovation funding: ‘The rulebook is relentlessly changing’

As funding rules shift, UK startups that stay informed are best positioned to unlock innovation funding

Frontline Ventures backs ‘OpenClaw for founders’ in $4.3m raise

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, iNovia Capital and Tiny Supercomputer joined the round

AI is about to hit a wall — and it’s not because of compute

AI is moving into production faster than companies are building the systems to keep it reliable. It's a big risk for enterprises

Insiders report ‘very anti-US vibe’ at Europe’s top defence conference

VC attendees say the Munich Security Conference ‘felt like Slush’

Are world models Europe’s chance to win in AI?

Europe has lagged big US language model developers, but some believe it has a chance to get ahead with world models

Getir founders sue investor Mubadala for $700m

The lawsuit comes a week after Getir was sold to Uber

Why the smartest startups treat their finance stack as a growth function

Finance teams are often treated as cost centres — but that mindset can hold fast-growing companies back

European tech sovereignty creates fintech opportunities

Young startups may offer a clearer path to independence than older industry players

Legora set to triple valuation to $6bn with latest funding, reports say

The raise comes weeks after Anthropic unveiled a new AI legal tool that rattled public markets

Drone startup Stark 'reaches unicorn valuation' following German armed forces deal

The contract is worth €2.4bn, according to a source close to the company

The climate VCs due a fundraise in 2026

Not all LPs have cooled off the climate tech sector

Who’s dominating Europe’s €24bn startup debt market?

Meet the investors behind 400+ debt deals in 2025

Europe’s active secondary investors

Europe’s scaleups are doing more secondaries, but who are the top investors?

Nvidia-backed Nscale secures $1.4bn chip loan

Nscale is currently working on data centre projects in five countries