Category: Startups

Former MI5 officer lands €2.3 million for AI agent security startup Overmind London-based Overmind, a startup building the supervision layer for AI agents, today announced a €2.3 million (£2 million) Seed round to grow their technical teams, accelerate product development and scale go-to-market operations within legal, healthcare and FinTech –

Berlin’s Andercore secures €33.5 million to scale industrial trade platform across Europe Germany’s Andercore, an AI-driven trade platform for industrial supply, has raised €33.5 million ($40 million) in equity and debt to expand its geographic footprint and deepen its category coverage, while supporting the long-term development of its AI platform

Longevity secrets of the tech elite: mackerel, meditation and ‘fibremaxxing’ before 9am Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/longevity-secrets-of-the-tech-elite

Sequoia, General Catalyst, Mistral and OpenAI back new European AI accelerator to compete against Y Combinator Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/f-ai-station-f-ai-accelerator

Pigment CEO Eléonore Crespo: ‘I’d rather learn about AI than watch a movie’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/interview-pigment-ceo-eleonore-crespo

Mining startup Hades raises €15m as demand for critical minerals heats up: ‘Europe is incredibly vulnerable’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/hades-15-million-fundraise-critical-minerals

11 Turkish startups to watch, according to VCs Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/turkish-investor-survey-2026

Apple’s Siri revamp reportedly delayed… again While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly over time, reportedly postponing some features until the May iOS update, or even until the release of iOS

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team The team’s leader has been given a new role as OpenAI’s chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/openai-disbands-mission-alignment-team-which-focused-on-safe-and-trustworthy-ai-development/

AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/ai-inference-startup-modal-labs-in-talks-to-raise-at-2-5b-valuation-sources-say/