Dominate AI search in 2026

Discovery has already changed, even if many teams have not fully felt the consequences yet. Buyers no longer open ten tabs, skim through blog posts, and slowly form an opinion over weeks. Instead, the [...]

European Coinspaid partners with The Residency to empower early-stage startups with blockchain payment infrastructure

Coinspaid, Europe’s one of the largest blockchain payment infrastructure, has announced a strategic partnership with The Residency, a global community for early-stage founders and innovators. The co [...]

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (30 March – 5 April)

A week bookended by Mistral’s $830 million debt raise and a €1.1 million workpod pre-seed is a useful reminder of how wide the band of European ambition now runs. The dominant theme is not a singl [...]

Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030

The Belgian embedded insurance orchestration platform, which backs Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, and Monzo, has tripled revenue over four years and now covers 15 million people across 32+ countries. Total [...]

Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs and replacing its CTO

In October 2025, Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared on the 20VC podcast and said something that now reads rather differently. Technology creation, he argued, is ‘not output-bo [...]

Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is [...]

Surfshark warns personal devices are a 'wide-open door' as UK Prime Minister falls for impersonation scam

Following the news that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham was targeted by a Trump aide impersonator, cybersecurity experts warn that billion-dollar perimeters are useless against modern social engineerin [...]

Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo

The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the m [...]

Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy

A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical [...]