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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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Nomos raises €20M to power Europe’s white-label energy brands
Index Ventures leads a €20M round into Berlin's Nomos, the licensed supplier behind white-label electricity plans for heat pump and solar brands. Bolt, UiPath and Nord Security founders joined.
iGii raises £22.7M Series B to grow carbon, not mine it
Stirling's iGii raised a £22.7M Series B led by the Scottish National Investment Bank, with Scottish Enterprise, PXN Ventures and Archangels, to take its grown-not-mined carbon into industrial supply.
Jack & Jill raises $40M Series A for its AI hiring agents
Ten months after a $20M seed, Jack & Jill lands a $40M Series A led by Air Street Capital. Its voice agents have arranged 25,000 interviews – and the US…
Hackuity raises $19M to tame the AI-driven vulnerability flood
Forgepoint Capital International leads a $19M round into Lyon's Hackuity, with Bpifrance and Seventure returning – a bet that AI-found vulnerabilities need triage at machine speed.
Veridion raises $20M Series A to map every business in real time
Bucharest-born Veridion has raised a $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures. All five existing backers returned to scale its live map of 642 million companies.
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laki Power Climate · Iceland | Series A | NATO Innovation Fund | Climate | €6M |
| Health Force AI · Austria | Seed | LUMO Labs | AI | €4.2M |
| Ryft Fintech · United Kingdom | Series B | Gresham House Ventures | Fintech | €23.3M |
| Logibot Robotics · Belgium | Seed | BeamBerlin (corporate startup studio – held as text) | Robotics | €1.4M |
| syte AI · Germany | Series A | amberra | AI | €9M |
| Treble AI · Iceland | Series A | Paladin Capital Group | AI | €15.7M |
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Oslo Innovation Week — 100 Pitches 2026
During Oslo Innovation Week, 100 Pitches puts founders on stage in front of investors in the Norwegian capital. It is a pitch competition rather…
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