Good news from around Europe
Sustainable tourism: our projects change your holidays! Promoting sustainable tourism is one of the four missions of the Interreg Euro-MED Programme. Today, we focus on the achievements of three projects launched just one year ago! On the agenda: adapting tourist cities to heat waves, promoting Mediterranean industrial heritage and data
From code to scale: How Google’s Startup School is helping founders build with AI [Sponsored] When venture funding tightens, founders get scrappy. In 2025, agility no longer just means lean teams and fast pivots; it means being AI-native. Control over your own software, and increasingly your AI infrastructure, is fast
Bold EU strategy aims to remove startup bottlenecks and boost Europe’s innovation lifecycle Today, the European Commission adopted the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy. The strategy aligns with the broader ‘Choose Europe’ initiative, launched by President von der Leyen. It drives forward calls for reforms by Mario Draghi, Enrico Letta,
Ankar raises £3M Seed to protect intellectual property with AI-powered platform London-based startup Ankar has raised a £3 million seed round led by Index Ventures to scale its AI-driven platform that allows customers to discover, protect, and monetise Intellectual Property. The round also attracted participation from Daphni, Motier Ventures, Booom,
Starling’s profits dented by regulatory issues Starling Bank has reported a 26 per cent fall in profits to £223m in the year ending March 2025, after its finances were hit by two legacy regulatory issues. Starling, one of the UK’s most prominent challenger banks which has around 4.6m customers and
From jumbled box to build-ready set: How Sort A Brick is reinventing LEGO reuse Aside from the pain of stepping on a Lego barefoot in the middle of the night, few things are worse in Legoland than nearly finishing a build only to realise a piece is missing. Fortunately, Lithuanian
London-based Applied Computing raises €10.7 million to bring AI to the energy industry British AI company Applied Computing, focused on foundation models built specifically for the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Industries, announces today a €10.7 million Seed funding round. The round was led by Stride.VC with Repeat.vc. The raise is
European Commission announces new strategy ‘Choose Europe to Start and Scale’ to retain and grow startups How do you make Europe the best place in the world to start and grow a business? That’s precisely what the European Commission today looked to answer as they unveiled a new strategy for
Paris-based kyron.bio secures €5.5 million to tackle drug efficiency and safety French BioTech company kyron.bio announced today a €5.5 million Seed funding round to tackle the issues of varying efficacy and dangerous side effects in current drug development, using control of sugar molecules – also known as glycans. The funding
Lisbon-based Bloq.it raises €28 million in one of Portugal’s biggest Series B rounds Bloq.it, a Portuguese smart locker company providing end-to-end services for out-of-home delivery and e-commerce businesses, has closed a €28 million Series B round to expand the team and launch in new European markets. According to the company