Good news from around Europe
London’s Allica Bank targets 10% UK SMB market share by 2028 after €131 million raise Allica Bank, a British digital bank for SMBs that provides a proprietary full stack technology, has announced a €131 million ($155 million) Series D capital raise as it targets 10% market penetration in the UK
General Catalyst backs AI property rollup Dwelly in £69m funding round Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/dwelly-general-catalyst-funding-round-rollup-property
Revolut eyes $100bn valuation with fresh share sale Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-share-sale-2025
Sweden’s AI strategy won’t keep its best founders at home Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/swedens-ai-strategy-wont-keep-its-best-founders-at-home
Forget pitch decks — you need pitch cakes! Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/forget-pitch-decks-you-need-pitch-cakes
Allica Bank becomes Europe’s newest unicorn with $155m Series D Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/allica-bank-unicorn-news
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-this-isnt-our-first-saaspocalypse/
Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/gushwork-bets-on-ai-search-for-customer-leads-and-early-results-are-emerging/
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-acquires-vercept-ai-startup-agents-computer-use-founders-investors/
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends “The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company’s earnings. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/nvidia-earnings-record-capex-spend-ai/