Good news from around Europe
Invest Europe: Venture capital reaches second-highest level on record Invest Europe has published its latest report, Transaction Value: Private Capital Analysis, examining private capital investment across Europe in 2025. The report shows that venture capital recorded its second-highest transaction value on record, growth capital recovered after three consecutive years of
Exclusive: Yann LeCun’s newly-launched fund shuts as exclusivity relationships emerge Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/yann-lecun-new-vc-firm
How tourist investors fell out of love with European tech’s once-hottest sector Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-tourist-investors-retreat
‘Physical AI is Europe’s last chance to be useful to the world’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/physical-ai-machina
The sovereign capital, global chipmakers and serial investors behind Europe’s new unicorns Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sovereign-capital-global-chipmakers-and-the-serial-investors-behind-europes-new-unicorns
Over $500m in fresh funding, risks of “French state influence” and a 100x valuation: What Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/pasqal-sec-filings
US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a
Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash “Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way,” the company said in a blog post. “We’ve heard the feedback that this feature missed the
Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’ Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is “all in” on the unconventional social media platform. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/blueskys-interim-ceo-toni-schneider-drops-the-interim/