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16-19 Nov 2026 · Rennes
European Cyber Week 2026
France's national cybersecurity week in Rennes, for defence, industry and research professionals plus cyber…
16-19 Nov 2026 · Duesseldorf
MEDICA 2026
The world's largest medical-technology tradeshow, where hospital buyers, distributors and medtech startups meet 5,000+…
16-20 Nov 2026 · Berlin
ML Conference Berlin 2026
A practitioner conference on machine learning, MLOps and generative AI, for data scientists, ML…
16-19 Nov 2026 · Genoa
BEST – Blue Economy Summit & Trade Show 2026
A new biennial blue-economy summit and trade show in Genoa for shipping, ports, marine…
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EIT Urban Mobility Financial Support to Startups (2026)
Non-dilutive EIT funding for early-stage mobility startups tackling urban transport challenges.
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Techstars London 2027
Approximately USD 120,000 for 6% equity over thirteen weeks in London, ending in a demo day.
Deadline · 8 days
ClimAccelerator Romania 2026-2027 (Impact Hub Bucharest)
Online accelerator selecting 15 Romanian/European climate and deep-tech startups for Impact Hub Bucharest's edition of the EIT Climate-KIC ClimAccelerator network.
Deadline · 11 days
EIC STEP Scale Up 2026
Direct equity investment from the European Innovation Council in EU scale-ups working on strategic technologies.
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AI is taking the work around the event. The room is what’s left
Cvent’s own events team broke its job down task by task and concluded that AI can now support about 40 percent of it. In the same launch, Cvent published a Forrester study in which 70 percent of 459 marketing and…
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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 billion for a company whose product is a hall, a badge and a few…
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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 venture round. The biggest cheque on the day was the festival’s own: €30,000 for…
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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 events in Europe. Only one of the eight, Music Frontiers in Hamburg, belongs to…
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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, other GPs and good sponsors. Is there a list? Not a good one. So…
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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 one booth. The show runs on a multi-year cycle, so a failed launch means…
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Week 46 funding recap: €1,652.4M raised, led by London and Munich
Europe's startups announced 19 equity rounds worth €1,652.4M between 7 and 13 November, 260% more money than the previous seven days.
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SPARETECH raises $20M Series B from Blume Equity and Insight Partners for spare parts AI
German spare parts AI company SPARETECH raised a $20M Series B co-led by Blume Equity and Insight Partners, with North America next.
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Oyster Therapeutics raises $60M Series A for an oral tau degrader
Eli Lilly joins a $60 million round led by 4BIO Capital in London's Oyster Therapeutics, which is developing oral tau degraders designed to reach the brain.
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sennder raises €228M in equity and debt for road freight
Berlin's sennder pairs €73M of equity from Scania and Poste Italiane with €155M of credit from Coface, the EIB and Deutsche Bank, with profitability reached.
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PORT raises €14.5M to put delivery robots on its courier hubs
London's PORT runs 3,500 courier e-bikes from 24 micro-hubs. Its €14.5M round, led by the EBRD and Balnord, pays for the AI driver and the robots meant to follow them.
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| Company | Round | Lead | Sector | Amount |
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NebulyItaly | Series A | Planven | Unclassified | €19M ($21M) |
Agile RobotsGermany | Series D+ | SoftBank | Unclassified | €452.4M ($500M) |
UforceUnited Kingdom | Series A | Valor Equity Partners, UK National Wealth Fund | Autonomous Systems | €633.4M ($700M) |
GamaFrance | Seed | — | Unclassified | €15M |
AnorakUnited Kingdom | Pre-seed | Play Ventures, Backed VC | Unclassified | €4.5M ($5M) |
Tendrils ComputeUnited Kingdom | — | Benchmark | Unclassified | €27.1M ($30M) |
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Techstars London 2027
Techstars runs a thirteen-week accelerator in London on its standard terms: roughly USD 120,000 made up of USD 20,000 for 6% equity plus a USD 100,000 convertible note. Founders relocate for the programme, which finishes with a demo day. Six…
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ClimAccelerator Romania 2026-2027 (Impact Hub Bucharest)
ClimAccelerator Romania 2026-2027 is Impact Hub Bucharest’s local edition of the EIT Climate-KIC ClimAccelerator network, selecting 15 seed-stage startups with a market-validated prototype or functional technology across two tracks: Climate (8 places, covering areas such as urban mobility, renewable energy…
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