Good news from around Europe
Swiss startup AI Infrastructure Capital AG launches with €16 million to tackle AI compute bottleneck AI Infrastructure Capital AG, a newly founded Swiss company that buys servers, runs them at sites with renewable power and rents the capacity out on long-term contracts, is launching with a recently closed funding round
London-based Intropy raises €9.5 million to build the AI-native operating system for the spare parts industry Intropy, a London-based AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other critical decisions for spare parts businesses, has raised €9.5 million ($11 million) in Seed financing. The round was led by Felix Capital, with participation
Mark Zuckerberg predicts that in five years billions of people will have personal AI agents Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that over the next five years billions of people will have their own personal AI agents. TechCrunch reports on this. According to him, these assistants will operate 24/7 to achieve
VCs are taking on operator roles. Why? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/vcs-operator-roles-podcast
EU opens applications for €10bn AI gigafactory scheme Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eu-opens-applications-for-e10bn-ai-gigafactory-scheme
AI startup Corgi to open 24/7 cafe in London Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/corgi-cafe-london-24-7
Adyen is coming for agentic payments. Can startups keep up? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/adyen-agentic-payments
Why European VCs are quietly cheering the chip rout Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/european-vcs-chip-rout
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/ai-hedge-fund-situational-awareness-may-have-sold-its-public-portfolio-but-it-still-has-its-anthropic-shares/
Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’ Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/apple-stockpiles-inventory-as-it-braces-for-significant-supply-constraints/