Good news from around Europe
UK thermal intelligence startup SatVu secures €34 million to scale multi-satellite constellation SatVu, a London-based thermal intelligence company that reveals operational activity and infrastructure performance from space, has closed a €34 million (£30 million) funding round bringing its total equity funding to €68 million (£60 million), as it accelerates from
British startup Toyo raises €3.6 million to develop secure AI agents for non-technical founders London-based Toyo, a startup building AI agents designed to run day-to-day business operations autonomously, has raised a €3.6 million ($4.3 million) Seed to support product development and the expansion of its secure infrastructure, as the company
AI-powered worksite safety startup Fyld raises £32m Series B Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fyld-ai-funding-round-bcg-partech
Mistral seals first acquisition deal with cloud startup Koyeb Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-first-acquisition-koyeb
How UK startups can best access innovation funding: ‘The rulebook is relentlessly changing’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/startups-access-innovation-funding-brnd
Frontline Ventures backs ‘OpenClaw for founders’ in $4.3m raise Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/openclaw-toyo-frontline-raise-cloudflare
AI is about to hit a wall — and it’s not because of compute Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/salma-bakouk-sifflet-oped
Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator spyware against a prominent journalist in Angola. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/intellexas-predator-spyware-used-to-hack-iphone-of-journalist-in-angola-research-says/
Jack Altman joins Benchmark as GP Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/jack-altman-joins-benchmark-as-gp/
Ford turns to F1 and bounties to build a $30,000 electric truck A combination of 3D-printed Lego-like parts, Formula 1 thinking, and a bounty program will help the company hit that target. The team, led by Tesla veteran Alan Clarke, is obsessed with efficiency. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/ford-turns-to-f1-and-bounties-to-build-a-30000-electric-truck/