Good news from around Europe
Britain’s Skyfly raises €8.91 million to bring its two-seat Axe eVTOL to market and develop Longbow for defence Skyfly Technologies, a British developer of electric and hybrid-electric vertical take-off aircraft, has closed an €8.91 million ($10 million) Seed round. The round was led by HICO Investment Group, a specialist growth
Eindhoven-based Photon Bridge raises €10 million to build optical engines for AI and telecom Photon Bridge (formerly Photon IP), an Eindhoven-based startup building optical engines for AI and telecom, has raised €10 million to tackle an emerging bottleneck in AI infrastructure: producing the millions of lasers needed to connect increasingly
Fuse Energy bets on NVIDIA GPUs as it expands from energy supply into AI infrastructure Fuse Energy, a British energy company, has opened reservations for Fuse Compute, its first commercial AI product, offering access to NVIDIA GPUs in UK data centres powered by Fuse – marking a new step into
FreightTech unicorn sennder targets €1 billion in annual revenue as C.H. Robinson integration completes sennder, a German digital road freight forwarder, today announced that it will hit €1 billion in annual revenue for this year, as well as completing the integration of C.H. Robinson’s European operations. The delivery scale-up has
Exclusive: Former H Company CTO seeks $30m for new startup Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/former-h-company-cto-seeks-30m-for-new-startup/
Can Europe and Canada build a tech alliance to rival the US? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eu-canada-mark-carney-tech-alliance-sovereignty/
Pigment raises $250m Series E led by Scaleup Europe Fund Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/pigment-series-e-nvidia-scaleup-europe-fund/
Should you get a personal AI assistant? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/personal-ai-assistants/
Legora raises fresh $550m at $8.8bn valuation Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/legora-funding-round-series-e-legal-tech/
Airbnb limits chores for guests, sparking backlash from hosts Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/21/airbnb-limits-chores-for-guests-sparking-backlash-from-hosts/