The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-driven compatibility. There is a version of the future, Bumble’s version, at least, where you never swipe on a dating app again. Instead, you […]
The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a fungal pathogen that travels in soil and water and leaves no cure in […]
The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap, between what an AI coding assistant can produce in minutes and what […]
The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major enterprise AI deployment eventually runs into: the gap between a convincing demo and a working system in production. […]
The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a losing strategy. The Milan-based cybersecurity firm has now raised €12 million in […]
NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partnership aimed at deploying more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered compute capacity by the […]
A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there, but the EU’s landmark AI Act will now contain an […]
The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the target was €120 million. The final figure has come in higher. The Paris-based venture capital firm has closed its DTS3 […]
The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based startup building space-based greenhouse gas monitoring technology, has closed a €5 million seed round to fund […]
