Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe

The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building [...]

British startup Outpost raises €15M to make international selling as simple as domestic commerce

Founded in 2024, Outpost acts as the legally liable entity for cross-border payments, tax, and compliance, so merchants don’t have to. Ribbit led the Series A. Selling across borders has always been [...]

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 [...]

AI synthetic audiences are already here and poised to upend the consulting industry

There is a war brewing between AI and consulting. Akin to an armies slow march towards the castle, a new technology is coming to dethrone the expert guessers of Mckinsey, Nielsen, Gartner, Publicis an [...]

Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub

In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA’s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs [...]

Revolut’s IPO is two years away and it’ll be in the US

The CEO of Europe’s most valuable startup gave his clearest IPO timeline yet in a Bloomberg interview, narrowing his December ‘two to three years’ estimate to ‘two years.’ It came as Revolut [...]

Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands

In short: Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and [...]

Spotify is selling physical books now, and it makes more sense than you think

In short: Spotify has launched physical book sales in the US and UK through a partnership with Bookshop.org, letting users buy print copies via affiliate links on audiobook pages within the app. The f [...]

Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as Spiegel bets AI can do the work of a bigger workforce

Snap is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its full-time workforce, as CEO Evan Spiegel cites AI-driven efficiency gains and pursues more than $500 million in annualised cost savings. The layoffs f [...]