Danish biotech Cellugy wants to replace microplastics in cosmetics

Danish biotech Cellugy has raised €8.1mn in EU funding to accelerate production of a biodegradable material designed to replace microplastics in cosmetics. The grant, awarded under the EU’s LIFE P [...]

Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation

The Stockholm-born company has gone from zero to $5.55 billion in under two years, and it is not slowing down. There is a standard piece of mythology in the legal profession: that lawyers are resistan [...]

Plato closes $14.5M to bring AI automation to wholesale trade

Plato, a Berlin-based startup, has raised $14.5 million in seed funding to bring generative AI into wholesale distribution, a massive industry that rarely makes tech headlines but quietly moves a sign [...]

Midas raises $50M Series A to solve tokenised finance’s liquidity problem

The Berlin-based RWA tokenisation platform, which has powered $1.7B+ in asset issuance and won EU regulatory approval to serve retail investors, is using the round to launch Midas Staked Liquidity, a [...]

Mistral AI buys cloud startup Koyeb

When European tech observers talk about AI ambition, the narrative often splits neatly in two: models and infrastructure. On one side are the clever bits of code that can write, reason, and generate t [...]

The Multi-Hop Challenge: Understanding Indirect Blockchain Exposure in Compliance

Public blockchains operate as permissionless networks where anyone can send digital assets to any address at any time. This open architecture creates a fundamental technical challenge for compliance t [...]

Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD

In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland [...]

How a space telescope found the ‘strongest evidence yet’ of life beyond our solar system

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they have detected the “strongest evidence yet” that life exists outside our solar system.   Scientists at the University of Cambridge found [...]

TNW Moves Its Flagship Conference to London

The Next Web (TNW) is making a bold move: its flagship conference is relocating to London, placing TNW’s main annual event at the centre of one of the world’s most powerful technology and investme [...]