Good news from around Europe
The call centre enters the voice AI era In March, Tech.eu reported on the story of “Rachel,” an AI voice agent created by AI engineer Matt Cortland to call more than 3,000 pubs across Ireland and ask a simple question: how much does a pint of Guinness cost? Using voice
REPS raises $23.6M to turn roads into power plants by harvesting energy from traffic Tyrol energy generation startup REPS today announced a $23.6 million equity financing round to scale its Road Energy Production System, a patented “road power plant” that converts vehicle traffic into electrical energy. Its core product is
Alice & Bob expands Series B with investment from NVIDIA’s venture arm French fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob has raised investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, that expands its €100 million Series B round. The investment supports Alice & Bob’s development of an architecture towards fault-tolerant
Smart ring maker Oura files for IPO in New York Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/smart-ring-maker-oura-files-for-ipo-in-new-york
European legaltech mapped: 60+ startups evolving how legal work gets done Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/legal-tech-mapped
100+ companies the €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund could back Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/scale-up-fund-companies
The top investors behind Sifted’s Southern Europe 2026 leaderboard Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-top-investors-behind-sifteds-southern-europe-2026-leaderboard
The EU is rapidly rewriting the AI Act. What’s changed? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eu-ai-act-latest-changes-explained
Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’ You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/google-goes-for-the-glitter-with-disco-ball-icons-are-yall-sure-you-still-want-this/
Blue Origin cleared to fly New Glenn mega-rocket after April mishap Jeff Bezos’ rocket company confirmed an engine failure led to the loss of an AST SpaceMobile satellite last month, but offered little detail. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/blue-origin-cleared-to-fly-new-glenn-mega-rocket-after-april-mishap/