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Exclusive: The Family cofounder Oussama Ammar ordered to pay £6.5m in damages

A ruling by a UK court found Ammar liable for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty

Women-focused VC Sistafund pauses investments after losing managing partner, reports say

The Paris-based VC launched in 2022 to back female founders and gender-diverse teams

The defence tech startups fundraising right now, according to VCs

From demining to geospatial data, here are a handful of startups VCs say are in the market

Revolut is drawing up plans for a rewards credit card. Can it take on giants like American Express?

Experts say the financial superapp has some early advantages over incumbents

10 quantum computing startups to watch, according to VCs

Funding for quantum startups is on the rise again — these are the startups VCs are looking at

Revolut dragged into Rippling’s legal battle with Deel

The HR startups are at odds over allegations of spying in Rippling’s Dublin office

Bill Gates’s policy team leaves Europe: what does it mean for climate tech?

“There was a huge entanglement between Breakthrough and EU politicians”

OpenAI and SoftBank mull UK investment for Trump’s Stargate AI project, reports say

European governments have been clamouring for AI investment in recent months

Strava acquires rival fitness app Runna: 'This isn't an efficiency play'

The acquisition should fix a pain point for Strava, which has more than 120m users globally

European tech’s most influential lobbyists

Here are some of the movers and shakers helping startups shape policy

The clause that could save your startup in a cofounder split

One in four VC-backed startups see a founder leave within four years, here’s how to prevent equity retention hurting your startup

Wayve plays advantage as tariffs threaten self-driving vehicles market

Tariffs pose a lower threat to Wayve’s pipeline than most autonomous vehicle startups

Lyft scoops up taxi app FreeNow in €175m cash deal to enter Europe

The companies will operate together across 11 countries in the US, Canada and Europe

Hybrid growth in SaaS is great for customers, tough on finance

Figma warns Lovable to stop using the term ‘Dev Mode’ in trademark row

In a letter shared online, the US tech company said it needed to protect its ‘intellectual property’

No guts, no glory: The microbiome startups working with pets

Gut microbiomes may reveal insights into pet — and human — health

Battery startup Nyobolt raises $30m after warning it could run out of cash

IQ Capital and LocalGlobe’s sister growth fund Latitude led the round for the Cambridge-based startup

AI agents score big in a Q1 with fewer deals and bigger rounds

Healthtech closes gap with climate tech; Ireland soars; median deal size up 36%

Exclusive: General Catalyst leads £4.4m seed round into AI agents startup Portia AI

Ex-Stripe exec and Google product lead team up for new agentic AI venture

EIF head Marjut Falkstedt: 'We will not finance weapons and ammunition'

The head of Europe's biggest LP on rearming Europe, scaling capital and shaking up the EIF

Bunq hits profitability for second year running, presses ahead with US expansion

The Dutch neobank will reinvest profits to finance international expansion

Hugging Face acquires French humanoid robot startup Pollen Robotics

The French-American industry leader will sell humanoid robot Reachy 2

Synthesia plots AI agent play as it hits $100m ARR

The UK-based AI video startup raised a $180m round in January this year

Car insurtech Marshmallow secures $90m in bid to become the ‘one-stop financial shop for migrants’

The fintech for migrants has almost doubled its valuation to $2bn with its latest funding round