Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal-based biological crop protection

Copenhagen-area AgTech startup Mycoverse has secured €2.4 million in pre-seed equity financing to advance a biological crop protection platform that uses fungi to replace or reduce chemical pesticid [...]

Europe’s not-so-dry January: Unicorns and a new tech identity

Every January, millions take on Dry January, a ritual of restraint and resetting after the holiday season. If that’s the benchmark for kicking off the year with moderation, Europe’s startup ecosys [...]

Op-Ed: SaaS is not dead. You are just being sold the funeral

The “AI has killed software” narrative has a handful of very loud beneficiaries and a lot of quiet evidence against it. The companies that will survive the next five years are the ones that refuse [...]

Mutable Tactics raises €1.8 million in a pre-seed fund to develop drone automation with AI

Mutable Tactics, a UK-based defense-tech startup, just raised €1.8 million in a pre-seed fund round to develop an AI software that enables drone team collaboration for autonomous operation and decis [...]

Plato closes $14.5M to bring AI automation to wholesale trade

Plato, a Berlin-based startup, has raised $14.5 million in seed funding to bring generative AI into wholesale distribution, a massive industry that rarely makes tech headlines but quietly moves a sign [...]

The Morning After: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying his AI company, xAI

Like some sort of corporate Russian doll, SpaceX has announced its acquisition of xAI. The merger will “form the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth,” accord [...]

SpaceX and xAI: A merger of ambition, optics, and unanswered questions

If you look at the press releases and breathless commentary around the recent acquisition of xAI by SpaceX, you might think we’re witnessing a tectonic shift in technological destiny.  A $1.25 tril [...]

From satellite ops to nordic launchpad

Bjørn Ottar Elseth, an aerospace engineer and strategic advisor, has dedicated his career to connecting technology, leadership, and collaboration in ways that support meaningful industrial progress. [...]

ElevenLabs and Google Cloud expand AI partnership with NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support

ElevenLabs, the London-based voice-AI specialist, has deepened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to tap into expanded cloud infrastructure and the latest accelerated computing from NVIDIA, i [...]