Bending Spoons prices IPO at up to $1.62 billion, targeting $19 billion Nasdaq valuation

A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom

Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting it

Poland bought a stake in ElevenLabs to grow its next AI champion

Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.

London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first

Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing

Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together

Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab

Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels

This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.

How Arpit Agrawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets

NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway

AppDirect buys PartnerStack to complete its ‘everything store’ for B2B software distribution

Rethinking Hospitality Operations Through AI Integration While Preserving the Human Experience at Scale

Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn

Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes

Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global

DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready

AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027

Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech

Photoncycle raises €15M Series A to address Europe’s seasonal energy storage gap

Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal-based biological crop protection

SheBuilds on Lovable’s 2026 call to create

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Tekpon acquires TNW (The Next Web) brand from The Financial Times

Ending graciously

Opinion: Ukraine is becoming a global defence tech powerhouse

Europe’s AI boom is leaving femtech behind

Big business can still innovate — by adding startup leaders to the C-suite

Founders’ takes: How AI is rewriting the playbook for investing