Good news from around Europe
Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan Rainmaker wants to use flares to seed clouds — the airline pilots’ union says it won’t be safe. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/pilot-union-urges-faa-to-reject-rainmakers-drone-cloud-seeding-plan/
Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise The $300B deal is a reminder that despite Oracle’s legacy status, it shouldn’t be overlooked when it comes to AI infrastructure. But key questions around power and how OpenAI will pay for this remain. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/why-the-oracle-openai-deal-caught-wall-street-by-surprise/
Google is a ‘bad actor’ says People CEO, accusing the company of stealing content People CEO Neil Vogel says Google’s AI crawler can’t be blocked because it would block the web crawler too. This lets the search giant steal its content for AI. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/google-is-a-bad-actor-says-people-ceo-accusing-the-company-of-stealing-content/
From Lovable to ElevenLabs: Antler study charts Europe’s fastest-ever unicorn boom A new report by Antler, published today reveals a new generation of ‘rocketship’ unicorns — tech companies, like Lovable, Mistral and ElevenLabs, that were founded since 2020 and have already achieved billion-dollar valuations — have disproved the myth that
“European startups are asked to run a marathon with their shoelaces tied” For many European startups, the US is seen as the ultimate market to scale into. Since we often frame competitiveness in terms of Europe versus the US, I wanted to hear the perspective on the 28th Regime from
Beyond the hype cycle: Why retention and community will decide the winners in vibe coding Vibe coding is a relatively new term people are using to describe building software through natural language prompts instead of traditional programming. The term first entered commercial consciousness in a X post by OpenAI co-founder
Opper AI acquires FinetuneDB for AI model tuning Opper AI, a UK-based startup focused on production-grade reliability for generative AI systems, has acquired FinetuneDB, a platform known for its streamlined approach to dataset curation and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). While financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed,
Europe’s 10 biggest healthtech deals in H1 2025 Healthtech continued to demonstrate its strength in Europe in the first half of 2025, attracting €4 billion in funding, around 12 per cent of the €33.7 billion raised across all European tech sectors. Although healthtech accounted for just 237 deals out of
Finnish scale-up ONEiO raises €8 million to make manual IT integrations obsolete with IntegrationOps Helsinki’s ONEiO, an automation-first platform innovating enterprise IT integrations, has raised €8 million in a growth round to support the development of IntegrationOps as a Service alongside key hires and expansion across the U.K. and DACH
Lithuanian startup MELP secures €1.25M investment to expand employee benefits platform in the UK MELP, a Lithuanian company behind the employee well-being platform, has secured a new €1.25 million investment from Coinvest Capital and business angels. MELP will use funding to expand in the UK market and enhance its platform.