Good news from around Europe
Axiology joins Europe’s push to bring central bank money to digital capital markets Earlier this month, Pontes went live, enabling transactions in Europe’s emerging digital capital markets to be settled in central bank money for the first time. The Eurosystem service bridges platforms that use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to
Belgian construction tech Spotable raises €4M for international expansion Ghent-based construction tech company Spotable has raised €4 million in seed funding to further develop its platform and accelerate its expansion across Europe and the United States. The round was arranged by investment broker The Harbour, with investors including Jonas Dhaenens
Berlin’s Apheris and Ginkgo bring pharma giants together to train AI on 10,000 antibodies Ginkgo Datapoints and Berlin-based Apheris today announced that the Antibody Developability Consortium has kicked off with its founding members. The Consortium is a new industry collaboration designed to help pharmaceutical and biotech companies predict manufacturability and
Cotierra raises $3M to scale decentralised biochar across tropical agriculture Zurich-based climate technology company Cotierra has raised $3 million to take its technology from successful field deployments to repeatable commercial scale. The company has raised $4.75 million since its founding. Across tropical agricultural value chains, large volumes of agricultural residues
You have to still ‘keep taste and judgement’: How companies are actually putting agentic AI to work Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-companies-are-putting-agentic-ai-to-work-brnd/
Ineffable, Recursive, Fractile call on UK to limit non-competes Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ineffable-recursive-fractile-non-competes/
As FlatPay soars, the rest of Nordic fintech searches for its next act Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nordic-fintech-week-dispatch/
Inside the ‘secondaries arms race’: How employee liquidity is becoming fundamental to private businesses Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-employee-liquidity-is-becoming-fundamental-brnd/
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s xAI had already acquired the domain name “dot.com,” which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/the-internet-is-convinced-elon-musks-xai-trolled-openais-dots-launch/
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch For the sake of national security, it’s a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it’s penning lengthy poetry. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/america-gov-gets-really-weird-when-you-ask-it-about-minecraft-but-its-not-a-glitch/