Good news from around Europe
Five startups spearhead coalition to put small air quality sensors at the heart of EU clean air policy Today sees the launch of Clean Tech for Clean Air (CT4CA), a coalition launched in Brussels to support the role of small sensors in Europe’s clean air framework under the revised EU Air
British Business Bank backs EQT Life Sciences with €25M commitment EQT Life Sciences’ EQT Health Economics 3 Fund (EQT HE3), a multi-stage life sciences and medtech-dedicated fund has received €25 million from the British Business Bank. EQT Life Sciences backs companies focused on the development of therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics
SAP acquires Prior Labs just 18 months after launch in €1B+ deal SAP has acquired the German-founded frontier AI company Prior Labs for over €1 billion. The transaction, which comes just 18 months after Prior Labs was founded, establishes it as one of Europe’s pre-eminent AI research labs. Prior Labs
EU orders Google to open Android to Gemini rivals. What requirements did the regulator set? The European Union has required Google to give third-party AI assistants broader access to Android features and to share search data with competing services. This reports Engadget. Regulators made the decision over concerns that Google
Europe’s VCs are increasingly taking on jobs at their startups Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/europe-vc-jobs-startups-trend
From chatbots to ‘digital teammates’: The shift towards multiplayer AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/from-chatbots-to-digital-teammates-brnd
The sectors with the most momentum heading into H2 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sectors-most-momentum-heading-into-h2-2026
Mollie doubles down on Europe with €350m expansion plan: ‘Superapp is a convoluted word’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mollie-350m-europe-expansion
The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’ If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who’s actually reading any of it? Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/the-zoom-hack-that-says-dont-record-me/
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/databricks-hits-188b-valuation-extending-its-run-as-ais-favorite-second-act/