Good news from around Europe
Atheni secures £350K to help teams use AI more effectively Atheni, an AI adoption company, has raised £350,000 to further develop its platform designed to help organisations use AI more effectively across their workforce. The company is backed by angel investors, including Alex Chesterman OBE and is supported by Innovate
Kopa.ai raises €2M to build AI agents for end-to-end e-commerce operations Kopa.ai, an agentic AI platform for e-commerce teams, has raised €2 million in seed funding in a round co-led by XTX Ventures and Practica Capital, with participation from Inovia Capital and angel investor Etan Ilfeld. The company is building
Orbital Industries secures $50M to scale data centre infrastructure systems Orbital Industries, a London-based company developing industrial hardware and infrastructure using AI-driven engineering and materials discovery systems, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Plural, with participation from existing investors including NVentures, Radical Ventures, Compound,
Monzo Mobile to reward “staying, not switching” Monzo, the UK digital bank, today unveiled details about its move into offering mobile phone contracts, with Monzo Mobile pitching itself as rewarding “staying, not switching” customers. Built on the Virgin O2 network, Monzo Mobile will launch this summer and is offering mobile
London topples Paris to regain European tech top spot London has reclaimed its position as Europe’s top tech ecosystem, knocking Paris off the top spot, driven by record AI investment, according to new data. The Dealroom Global Tech Ecosystem Index data also shows that Europe is home to more of the world’s highest-performing
Carissa Véliz on the dangers of predictive AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/carissa-veliz-podcast
Mistral strikes deals with BMW and Airbus in ‘industrial AI’ push Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-industrial-ai-push
Inside Mistral’s billion-dollar bet on building Europe’s AI cloud Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/inside-mistral-billion-dollar-bet-europe-ai-cloud
Fixing the BaaS bottleneck: How Papaya is redesigning fintech infrastructure Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fixing-the-baas-bottleneck-brnd
My startup sent me to a deserted island with no running water Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sana-deserted-island