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Composites Are About High Performance. So Are Events.
Opinion YW Yannick Willemin 12 min

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 event after event: a…

Yannick Willemin · 20 Aug 2026
The most digital companies in the world are opening coffee shops
5 min

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 24/7 café in Shoreditch?…

Ben Costantini · 11 Aug 2026
The empty startup area: why tradeshows fail at startup sales
5 min

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…

Ben Costantini · 10 Aug 2026
10 things founders can do during the summer event break
Report 5 min

10 things founders can do during the summer event break

The event calendar goes quiet in July and August. Deadlines don’t. This article assumes you’re an early stage founder, pre-seed or seed at most, without a marketing team. You are…

Ben Costantini · 22 Jul 2026
How Re.Snack Turns Trade Shows Into Revenue
Interview Stéphane Paillard 5 min

How Re.Snack Turns Trade Shows Into Revenue

The founders behind NUAGE, the sugar-free cotton candy rated Nutri-Score A, share their playbook for event strategy, budget, and pipeline ROI. If you’ve walked the aisles of a French food…

Stéphane Paillard · 16 Jul 2026
4 min

ATMOS Space Cargo Raises €25.7M Series A to Build Europe’s Sovereign Return-from-Orbit Capability

ATMOS Space Cargo, the Franco-German orbital logistics startup, has closed a €25.7 million Series A round to scale production of its PHOENIX re-entry vehicles and establish Europe’s first routine orbital…

Stéphane Paillard · 22 Apr 2026
4 min

Convelio Secures Series C to Automate Fine Art Logistics Globally

Paris- and London-based Convelio has closed a Series C funding round to accelerate the automation of global fine art logistics and expand its storage footprint into the United States. The…

Stéphane Paillard · 14 Apr 2026
3 min

Kelluu Raises €15M Series A to Scale Autonomous Airship Intelligence Platform

Finnish deeptech company Kelluu has secured €15 million in a Series A round led by the NATO Innovation Fund, marking the fund’s first investment in a Finnish startup. The round…

Stéphane Paillard · 14 Apr 2026
Pixel Photonics raises €13.5 million to bring quantum photon detectors from lab to market
4 min

Pixel Photonics raises €13.5 million to bring quantum photon detectors from lab to market

Europe’s quantum technology sector is attracting increasing attention from both private investors and public institutions, as governments across the continent position photonics and quantum computing as strategic priorities in the…

Stéphane Paillard · 13 Apr 2026
Golden Owl raises €1.4 million to advance AI-powered OSINT and anticipatory intelligence
3 min

Golden Owl raises €1.4 million to advance AI-powered OSINT and anticipatory intelligence

As geopolitical instability, hybrid threats, and the proliferation of disinformation reshape the global risk landscape, the demand for sophisticated intelligence tools that can cut through information overload is intensifying across…

Stéphane Paillard · 9 Apr 2026
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