Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes t [...]

Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap

The Munich startup’s airborne Sentinel system has been tested in Ukraine and alongside US and UK forces, now it’s planning a 2,000-square-metre production facility and quadrupling its headcount. T [...]

Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing r [...]

Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be

There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what exactly your inbox knows about you. The answer, it turns out, [...]

Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data

The TACEO Network, already live inside World ID’s biometric verification system for more than 18 million users, lets organisations share digital infrastructure without sharing sensitive data. When S [...]

The Axie Infinity co-founder who survived a $620M North Korean hack is now building AI drone detection for Europe’s defence

Stendr, a Norwegian counter-drone startup led by Aleksander Leonard Larsen, who co-founded blockchain gaming unicorn Sky Mavis, has raised a $5.4M oversubscribed pre-seed from RainFall, ACME, SkyFall, [...]

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M

The French open-source orchestration platform has grown enterprise revenue 25x in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global leads the round; total funding reaches $36M. Kestr [...]

How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M

The wool sneaker brand that briefly hit a $4 billion valuation in 2021 has agreed to sell all its assets and IP to American Exchange Group. The company is dissolving. Shares jumped 36% after-hours bec [...]

ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure

The New York and Israel-based startup, founded by a former Run:ai engineer and professional triathlete, has grown 350%+ year-on-year and counts Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, and Salesforce among its customers [...]