Month: February 2025

More than half of founders experienced burnout last year Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/founders-mental-health-2025/

What Germanys new government means for defence startups: I see a silver lining Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/german-government-means-defence-tech/

Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the generative AI models Gemini is Google’s long-promised, next-gen generative AI model family. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/26/what-is-google-gemini-ai/

Apple iPhone 16e review: An A18 chip and Apple Intelligence for $599 Apple delivered its latest budget handset, the $599 iPhone 16e, without pomp. There was no big event in person, nor was there one online. No journalists scrambled through hoards of colleagues to snap photos of the phone. Instead,

Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery Being somewhat later than Europe in adopting the idea of parcel delivery, much of Asia built its delivery infrastructure around e-commerce, effectively “Uberizing” how deliveries worked down to the last mile. Think DoorDash but for parcels, not

Lonestar and Phison’s data center infrastructure is headed to the moon Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that’s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison’s Pascari storage — solid state drives

Commercetools, a pioneer in ‘headless commerce’, lays off dozens of staff Commercetools — a “headless commerce” platform that provides APIs to companies building online storefronts — saw a major boost in its business just a few years ago, raising money at a whopping $1.9 billion valuation as the world went

Carbon credits platform Arbonics partners with Treebula to launch in Sweden Arbonics, a carbon removal developer in Europe, has launched in Sweden through a strategic partnership with Treebula, the country’s largest digital forestry marketplace. This collaboration provides Swedish forest owners access to a new revenue stream from forest protection through carbon

Spacetech Magdrive secures $10.5M for sustainable space exploration Oxfordshire-based spacetech Magdrive has raised $10.5M seed funding round led by pan-European VC Redalpine for space propulsion systems. Founders Fund, who led Magdrive’s first funding round, and Balerion, Alumni Ventures, Outsized Ventures, 7percent, and Entrepreneur First also contributed to the round.  Magdrive

Verretex raises €159k to transform damaged glass fibres into high-performance textiles Cleantech startup Verretex has raised  €159,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick for its tech that turns damaged glass fibres into high-performance textiles.  Due to rising costs, supply chain pressures, and sustainability regulations, industries like aerospace, automotive, and wind energy