The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin…
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Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale
The San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with Mayfield backing and a pitch that treats ad creative as a continuous learning loop, not a quarterly deliverable. Every B2B marketing team knows the…
German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic
An extension to the company’s Series A brings total funding to €23 million and clears the path for the first human trial of KUP101, a dual TLR agonist targeting solid tumours and…
Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials
The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical…
Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool…
Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn
For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on…
Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic
Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil and…
Ofiniti raises $6.8M to push its maritime fuel software into global shipping hubs
The Oslo-based DNV spinout processed over 25,000 bunker operations in 2025 and claims roughly 40% of Singapore’s digital bunkering market. Verb Ventures leads a growth round that brings total funding to $9…
AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes
The 2026 AWS Pioneers cohort spans healthcare, climate, and conflict zones, and lands alongside a stark warning that Europe risks losing its best innovators if the regulatory environment doesn’t change. Amazon Web…
Former scaleup operators launch Operator Circle VC to back Europe’s next decacorn
Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For…