Good news from around Europe
VDS 2025: Valencia strengthens its position as one of Europe’s leading hubs for innovation (Sponsored) The eighth edition of VDS brought the global tech community together in the City of Arts and Sciences, turning Valencia into the focal point of European innovation. Over two days, the event gathered more than
The glass ceiling, the trust vacuum, and gender distribution. How are Ukrainian women changing the defense tech industry? Leading Ukrainian businesses and innovators gathered in Kyiv on October 24–25 for the RESTART technology conference. AIN summarizes the results of the discussion on the role of women in defense technology and provides
Elon Musk’s SpaceX to receive $2 billion from the Pentagon for satellite development Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will receive $2 billion from the Pentagon to develop satellites that will track missiles and aircraft as part of the Golden Dome project, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing its own sources. The
US unicorn Redpanda acquires Polish query engine Oxla to enhance real-time AI data processing Oxla, a Polish distributed query engine, acquired by US unicorn Redpanda, one of the fastest-growing data infrastructure companies powering the AI revolution. That deal also marked an exit of Warsaw Equity Group and 4growth VC from
Bulgarian spacetech EnduroSat raises $104M to accelerate satellite production and constellation deployment EnduroSat, a Bulgarian satellite technologies and services company, has closed a $104 million funding round. The round was backed by Riot Ventures, Google Ventures, Lux Capital, European Innovation Council Fund, and Shrug Capital. About EnduroSat EnduroSat was founded
Too risky, too expensive, too slow: Five myths about European deeptech debunked Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/five-myths-about-european-deeptech-debunked-brnd/
How TS Anil turned Monzo around Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ts-anil-monzo-analysis/
Italian LPs poised to invest more in VC Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/italian-lp-invest-vc/
What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about AOL’s acquirer Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta As users “dislike” posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/