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Exclusive: EQT’s €5bn Scaleup Fund in talks to lead Mistral round

If the deal goes through, it could mark the €5bn superfund's first investment

From pilot to production: How scaling companies are making AI work

Experts unpack how companies can deploy AI without destroying margins or losing team trust

Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round

The startup teaches robots how to work in factories and homes

‘We want to make bookkeeping less painful’: How Visma and its AI portfolio are reshaping accounting

Visma is using its accounting portfolio to make manual bookkeeping a thing of the past

European rounds are getting bigger, but fewer companies are closing them

Every median value for every round has increased for each of the past three comparable years, but dealcount's down for many rounds.

Europe’s most valuable board members, according to founders

Founders name the most useful person on their board

Europe’s leading tech hubs by deal activity in H1 2026

Capital and specialisation are driving new (and smaller) European tech hubs

EQT-backed Syntetica raises $30m backed by Lululemon

Syntetica is currently working with brands including Victoria’s Secret and Etam

From Tesla to building humanoids: Uma cofounder on why Europe is ‘the best market in the world’

Uma launched nine months ago to build ‘frontier capabilities’ for humanoid robots in industrial and domestic environments

Robotics startup Monumental raises $32m backed by Khosla Ventures

Amsterdam-based cofounders previously sold startup to Palantir

Yann LeCun launched a new VC fund — then quit. What happened?

Extelligence Invest planned to invest in early-stage startups across Europe, Asia and North America

Exclusive: Aramco in talks to back Humanoid at unicorn valuation

Humanoid is working on two robots: one for industrial use cases, and one for people to have in their homes

Europe’s ‘real’ founder factories: Klarna and Improbable

Working at a growth-stage startup — rather than a unicorn or Big Tech firm — is the strongest predictor of a founder's future success, according to a new study of over 50k startups

It’s time to start paying all your staff like your sales team

Why everyone should get revenue-based bonuses

The incubator launching Scotland’s next generation of tech: ‘We need to pull the bigger players into the Scottish market’

The Venture Builder Incubator programme, in partnership with Techscaler, is working to turn Scotland’s world-class university research into scalable commercial businesses

Can Neko's unflattering avatars actually change behaviour?

My latest Neko Health scan says I'm two years younger than my actual age; my avatar makes me think otherwise

Neko raises $700m Series C: ‘We now have 100k members and are profitable at clinic level’

Sifted sits down with CEO Hjalmar Nilsonne at its new clinic in Stockholm

European biotech mapped: 90 startups reshaping medicine

From drug discovery to gene editing, these startups are transforming the future of medicine

The ex-Palantir and Dropbox duo helping the likes of ElevenLabs, Notion and Wiz ship AI-generated code faster

Meticulous has raised $15m from Chemistry, Menlo Ventures and a host of angels from Poolside, Dropbox, Vercel and OpenAI

Why late-stage secondary offerings are transforming private market access

Peter Sarlin’s NestAI wants to help Europe reduce reliance on foreign models for defence

The startup is launching AI models for defence it says will help Europe own and control its own tech, reducing reliance on foreign providers

This founder sold his startup to Klarna for €110m. Now he's raised €12m to build again

Munich-based Skalar is developing AI to modernise tax and accounting from scratch

Exclusive: Defence tech Project Q lands €15m Series A 11 months after last raise

Expeditions led the round, which also included German defence specialist Hensoldt and VC Heliad

‘When we see an opportunity, we’ll go for it’: Harvey’s VP of EMEA on M&A, hiring, and pushing beyond law

The US unicorn has launched in new European markets this year with plans to double its headcount in the region by the end of 2026