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From scouting to scaling: How innovation managers drive corporate transformation No company can afford to innovate in isolation. The speed at which new technologies and business models emerge often outpaces the traditional R&D cycle of large organisations. To bridge this gap, a growing number of corporates have created a dedicated
Spanish HealthTech Pragmatech raises €650k to roll out its CE-marked AI antibiotic prescribing software Pragmatech, a Spanish HealthTech startup focused on AI solutions in pharmacology, microbiology, and infectious diseases, has raised €650k in funding to boost the commercial deployment of iAST®, its antibiotic prescribing software that obtained CE marking in
The war in Ukraine, gold prices, AI, and domestic robots. Financial Times columnists predict what 2026 will be like The Financial Times has published its annual selection of predictions for 2026. Among the key expectations are a slowdown in investment in artificial intelligence, work on a peace agreement between Ukraine
Finnish healthtech MultivisionDx raises €1M pre-seed to advance AI-based cancer diagnostics MultivisionDx, a Finnish startup developing AI tools for personalized cancer diagnostics, has raised a €1 million pre-seed round to continue developing its spatial biology diagnostics platform for cancer treatment decision support. The round was led by Antler, with participation
Morphosis Capital Fund II backs Echo Elderly Care to build a national elderly care platform in Romania Echo Elderly Care, a Romanian platform designed to develop a national network of high-quality elderly care services in Romania, has raised funding from Morphosis Capital Fund II. The funding will support the launch
China’s ByteDance plans to spend $14 billion on NVIDIA AI chips in 2026 Chinese technology company ByteDance, which owns TikTok and Douyin, plans to spend around 100 billion yuan ($14 billion) on purchasing artificial intelligence chips from NVIDIA in 2026. This was reported by the Chinese publication South China Morning
The 10 fastest-growing European startup teams in 2025 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/10-fastest-growing-european-startup-teams-2025
Europe’s founders and VCs share their New Year resolutions for 2026 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/new-year-resolutions-2026-founders-and-vcs
‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential AI founders are increasingly using their “dropout” status as a credential during YC pitches. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/31/college-dropout-has-become-the-most-coveted-startup-founder-credential/
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026 The exact impact AI will have on the enterprise labor market is unclear but investors predict trends will start to emerge in 2026. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/31/investors-predict-ai-is-coming-for-labor-in-2026/