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Informa just bought the rooms. Here’s how startups get in
Every week another AI agent promises to book your meetings, score your leads and write your follow-ups. So why did Informa just agree to pay £2.24…
Ben Costantini
Creative tech in Europe runs on grants. San Sebastián’s finalists prove it
Ten startups pitched at the San Sebastián Film Festival on 24 September. I went through every one of them afterward and couldn’t find a single disclosed…
Ben Costantini
AI replaced 3D printing in composites pitches
In 2019, 3D printing was the loudest thing in composites. Across that year’s JEC Composites Startup Booster applications it ran at 24.7 mentions per 10,000 words…
Ben CostantiniThe Selected podcast
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Music startups and their buyers go to different conferences
Music Innovation Consulting (MIC) keeps an agenda of 96 music and tech events for 2026. Fifteen carry its music-tech label, and eight of those are in-person…
Ben Costantini
Pick the LP first, then the 2027 conference
A communications director at a German VC firm sent me a two-line question recently. Her investor relations team wants conferences in 2027 with exposure to LPs,…
Ben Costantini
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 CostantiniSpotlight
Coherence Quantum
Coherence Quantum develops cryogenic signalling and control technologies to help scale solid-state quantum computers.
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Nouscom raises €120M Series D to intercept cancer before it starts
M Ventures and Revelation Partners co-lead a €120M Series D for Basel's Nouscom, funding one global registration trial of NOUS-209, its vaccine to stop cancer in Lynch syndrome carriers.
Linkener raises €7.5M to digitise business energy management
Alantra's Klima fund leads a €7.5M round in Valencia's Linkener, a 2011-founded energy management platform with 2,000 customers and 1.7 TWh under management – and acquisitions on the plan.
CoComply raises £1.9M to govern the hidden contractor workforce
Mercia's NPIF II leads a £1.9M round into CoComply, the Alderley Park platform that finds workers hidden in supplier contracts and classifies them before IR35 does it the hard way.
Vessla raises $3.3M pre-seed for AI agents in property management
Seedcamp leads a $3.3M pre-seed into Vessla, the Stockholm startup founded in 2026 that puts AI agents to work across the fragmented systems running Nordic property portfolios.
Unravel Health raises £2.5M pre-seed for at-home hormone testing
London's Unravel Health has closed a £2.5M pre-seed co-led by Conduit EIS Impact Fund and Wrightwood. Its Glasgow-born Micro Lab reads four hormones from saliva at home, with first devices…
Latest funding
| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coherence Quantum Unclassified · Finland | Seed | Lifeline Ventures | Unclassified | €2.8M |
| Plinto Unclassified · Denmark | Pre-seed | People Ventures, Emblem (co-leads) | Unclassified | €2.9M |
| Huppa Unclassified · Netherlands | Pre-seed | – | Unclassified | €1M |
| XRlabs Unclassified · United Kingdom | Seed | Playground Global | Unclassified | €7.3M |
| Nouscom Unclassified · Switzerland | Series D+ | M Ventures, Revelation Partners (co-leads) | Unclassified | €120M |
| Linkener Unclassified · Spain | Klima Energy Transition Fund (Alantra) | Unclassified | €7.5M |
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4YFN Awards 2027
4YFN, the startup event GSMA runs beside MWC Barcelona, awards prizes across five categories: Health Tech, Fintech, Climate Tech, Connectivity and Digital Horizons. Four…
EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026
Frontier research towards breakthrough technologies is the remit here, funded by the European Innovation Council for participants in the EU. Projects are mostly consortium-based…
MediaTech Hub Accelerator 2026
<p>Equity-free accelerator for early-stage media and technology startups, run by MediaTech Hub Potsdam at Studio Babelsberg, Germany. The nine-month programme covers two tracks –…
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