Day: January 9, 2026

Cyberette is building forensic-grade AI for a post-truth internet As manipulated media becomes cheaper, faster, and harder to detect, the cost is increasingly borne by victims — not platforms. Julia Jakimenko is the founder and CEO of Cyberette.ai, a Dutch startup founded in 2024 that builds AI software to detect, analyse,

Clinical voice AI startup Tucuvi raises $20M A Spanish AI voice startup, which says its tech makes minor clinical decisions while on a phone call with patients, has raised $20m in a Series A funding round. Tucuvi was founded by Maria Gonzalez, its CEO, whose mother passed away after a reported

AI unicorn Quantexa reports revenue boost, as losses halve A UK AI financial crime fighting unicorn has reported a near 50 per cent uplift in revenues, helped by customer wins, while losses halved, according to its latest annual financial figures. The financial figures for Quantexa also reveal new details regarding Quantexa’s

BrightHeart bags €11M to expand FDA-cleared AI ultrasound platform across the US and Europe Medtech BrightHeart, a developer of solutions for prenatal ultrasound, today announced it has raised €11 million Series A financing round.  The round was co-led by Odyssée Venture and GO Capital, with participation from the Mussallem CHD

Lookiero Outfittery Group closes a €17M round to boost growth and reinforce its AI strategy Lookiero Outfittery Group, a European online personal shopping company, has closed a €17 million funding round with participation from new investors including Ekarpen Private Equity and the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), alongside existing

From Statista to ECDB – Friedrich Schwandt on the Data Gold Rush The digital data landscape has transformed dramatically over the past two decades, becoming a cornerstone for decision-making in business, journalism, and research. Companies that collect, analyse, and present data effectively are now at the forefront of innovation, shaping

London’s Engitix secures €21 million extension to advance ECM-targeted cancer and fibrosis therapies Engitix, a British BioTech company targeting the extracellular matrix (ECM) to develop transformative therapies for cancer and fibrosis, today announced the closing of a €21 million ($25 million) Series A extension financing. The financing was provided by

10 Austrian startups to keep an eye on in 2026 and beyond Once again, it is that time of the year when we begin our annual series highlighting some of the most promising startups from across Europe. Each edition takes a country-by-country look at the teams and technologies shaping the

French BioTech Spore.Bio secures multi-million-euro Google.org funding and launches AI-native research unit Paris-based Spore.Bio, a BioTech startup developing AI-based microbiology testing technology, today announced that it has secured multi-million-euro funding from the Google.Org Fund for AI in Science. Additionally, it has also launched Spore.Labs, an AI-native research division focused on

Cologne’s United Manufacturing Hub raises €5 million to fix the data layer holding global manufacturing back Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub (UMH), an open-source industrial data management platform for modern factories, today announced a €5 million funding round to accelerate its mission to build the foundational data layer for global manufacturing.