Good news from around Europe
VDS 2025 to unite 8 unicorn founders, top scaleups and €300B+ in investor assets in Valencia (Sponsored) On October 22 and 23, the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia will host VDS 2025, the international meeting point for startups, investors, corporates, and policymakers. Now in its 8th edition, the
Dublin-based DevAlly raises €2 million to help companies comply with Europe’s new accessibility law Dublin-based DevAlly, a startup helping companies comply with Europe’s new accessibility regulations, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding led by Belgian fund Miles Ahead Capital, with participation from NDRC, Enterprise Ireland, and several European angel
What the rest of Europe can learn from France about defence startups No country in Europe has done more to make itself the home for defence startups than France. Over the past two years, Paris has been rewriting the rules of the game, reforming everything from immigration legislation to venture
Discord reported a data leak: up to 70,000 users may have been affected Discord reported that approximately 70,000 users may have been affected by a personal data leak. This was reported to The Verge by company representative Nu Wexler. The incident did not occur at Discord itself, but at Zendesk,
Ukraine and Estonia will create an AI sandbox and AI accelerator. The countries are launching joint projects on digitalization. During the Tallinn Digital Summit, Estonian Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs Liisa-Ly Pakosta and Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation Vitaly Balashov signed a memorandum of partnership. The document provides for
Czech startup Boost.space raises €3M to expand into the U.S. and enhance its AI-driven data platform Boost.space, a Czech startup developing a comprehensive corporate data centralization platform, has raised €3 million funding to expand into the U.S. and enhance its AI-driven data platform. The round was led by Jet Investment,
€20 million for defense technology development: Ukraine and Norway launch Brave-Norway program Ukraine and Norway have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in the field of defense innovation, which provides for the launch of a joint program called Brave-Norway with a preliminary budget of €20 million. This was announced by First
UK startups are ‘underwriting American R&D’ says Reeves entrepreneurship advisor Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/alex-depledge-sifted-summit/
French fintech Qonto confirms secondary share sale plans Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/french-fintech-qonto-confirms-secondary-share-sale-plans/
‘We’re hiring in Europe’: Luciana Lixandru confirms plans to expand the Sequoia team Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sequoia-hiring-europe/