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IFA 2026: the twenty startups who pitched, and the one who won
A company that prints implantable human tissue won a pitch competition at a consumer electronics fair. Cellbricks Therapeutics took the IFA Pitch Battle 2026 on the…
Ben Costantini
Composites Are About High Performance. So Are Events.
A startup event strategy needs the same discipline. Spend enough time around (deep-tech) startups and you start noticing a familiar pattern. The same founders appear at…
The most digital companies in the world are opening coffee shops
The AI industry runs on GPUs, APIs and Discord servers. So why is an AI insurance startup valued at $4 billion signing a lease for a…
Ben CostantiniThe Selected podcast
Tips & advice
The empty startup area: why tradeshows fail at startup sales
Picture this. A strategy director at a major exhibition calls with six weeks to go before the show. The brand new startup area has sold exactly…
Ben Costantini
Why events are lying about their metrics
This week I read about a hackathon claiming 6,000 attendees over a single weekend. The venues hosting it can’t accommodate more than 1,000 people. Nobody in…
Ben Costantini
The hidden costs of events: Why founders get the math wrong
Most startup founders treat events like they’re going travelling: count the days, block the calendar, done. But event tickets don’t come cheap, and the actual affair…
Ben CostantiniSpotlight
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Penelope Health raises $100M for real-time payer policy intelligence
A one-year-old founded out of London now holds a $100 million commitment led by Thoreau to turn the coverage rules of American health insurers into structured data for both sides…
syte raises €9M Series A to map what Europe can build
Germany's cooperative banks just led a €9M Series A into syte, the Münster platform that maps 62 million land parcels and turns weeks of planning checks into minutes.
Treble raises $18M to teach physical AI how the world sounds
Treble's wave-based sound simulation already tests Amazon and Logitech hardware. An $18M Series A extension led by Paladin Capital Group now points it at physical AI.
TUSK IC raises €15M Series A for satellite chips made in Antwerp
Antwerp's KU Leuven spin-out landed €15M from a German, Dutch and Flemish syndicate to mass-produce Ka-band beamformer chips in CMOS – the silicon that sets what a satellite terminal costs.
Fever raises $250M to take live experiences beyond 55 countries
Madrid-founded Fever lands a record $250M led by EQT, the largest round live entertainment tech has seen, at a valuation Music Business Worldwide puts near $5.2bn.
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sprive Fintech · United Kingdom | Series A | Ascension | Fintech | €9.2M |
| Unit1 Studio Unclassified · United Kingdom | Balderton Capital | Unclassified | €23.3M | |
| Penelope Health Health · United Kingdom | Thoreau | Health | €87M | |
| Big Picture Bio Biotech · United Kingdom | Pre-seed | Kadmos Capital, Exceptional Ventures | Biotech | €1.8M |
| Aday Systems SaaS · Sweden | Pre-seed | Almi Invest | SaaS | €220K |
| Phosphoenix Health · Netherlands | Bridge | ROM InWest | Health | €1.3M |
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Ultra Long Duration Energy Storage Project Development Studies (Relaunch) 2026
Innovate UK and UKRI relaunched this grant competition to fund project development studies for ultra long duration electrochemical energy storage – technology built to…
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