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Europe’s 50 most active equity investors in H1 2026

7 spots to meet founders and VCs in Paris

The bars, cafes, campuses and communities where the who’s who of French tech gathers regularly

Yann LeCun joins new VC firm backed by 244 LPs

This comes less than a month after the ‘AI godfather’ launched and quit Extelligence Invest

Exclusive: Legaltech Wordsmith raises $14m Series B extension from Index, FT Ventures

The Scottish startup raised $70m in June

Sweaty, insane, cracked: Decoding the language of founder praise

A field guide to the increasingly absurd language founders and investors use to praise one another

Nik Storonsky in talks over new share deal for $500bn Revolut valuation

The fintech giant’s cofounder currently has a 29% stake in the company

‘We need the bravery to change the process’: How AI is impacting physical environments

Deeptech leaders explain why AI’s biggest opportunity has shifted from software wrappers to the physical world

Fintech startup Moss crowned Europe’s newest unicorn with €30m Series C

The AI finance startup plans to build out its agentic capabilities with the funding

After a decade of turning down VCs, Oxylabs hits $3.6bn valuation: 'Right timing, right partner'

The Lithuanian data infrastructure company took its first outside money from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation. CEO Vytautas Savickas and CFO Jurgis Rudgalvis explain why

The 144 new funds this year and what they reveal about Europe's investment market

Europe's fund managers are raising again. Just not the ones you'd expect.

A16z backs HappyRobot at $1.2bn valuation

The startup helps enterprises build, deploy and manage AI agents across complex workflows

EU’s €5bn tech superfund officially open for business

The Scaleup Europe Fund, run by EQT, will be making its first investments in the coming weeks

Exclusive: Nscale to provide compute to Oxford, UCL and Imperial AI researchers

Nscale is working on data centres in five countries, including the UK

Bending Spoons strikes $2.25bn Airtable deal in first acquisition since IPO

Italian rollup giant expanding beyond consumer apps with another major enterprise software acquisition

Nik Storonsky faces lawsuit over €350m superyacht

Broker claims Revolut’s founder skirted paying commission

How to build secure and user-friendly AI: ‘If data sits in a silo, it only sees part of the picture’

The secret to successful AI isn't choosing the perfect model, but safe and organised company data

12 investors who recently became founders

A growing number of investors are walking away from the cap table to launch their own startups

Exclusive: Zurich-based Exclaim Robotics comes out of stealth, raises $4.95m

Veteran roboticist Helen Oleynikova will lead startup, which will develop repair robots for hyperscale data centres

Exclusive: Plural backs $43m round for next-generation battery startup Ore Energy

Dutch startup says its long-duration tech can help meet AI data centres’ power needs

European robotics startups raised more in six months than past two years combined

Neura Robotics's €1.2bn raise gives continent biggest ever half for robotics funding

James Dacombe’s Olix raises at $3.3bn valuation

The 25-year-old’s company has tripled its valuation to $3.3bn since it raised $220m in February this year

13 technical founders across Europe to watch, according to VCs

Featuring one builder who started their business from a sailboat

Index Ventures doubles down on AI with fresh $2bn fundraise

Fresh capital takes VC's assets to $3.5bn as it expands bets across seed and growth-stage startups

Europe starts enforcing AI Act rules

Companies found in breach could face fines of up to 3% of their annual global turnover