VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automat [...]

The Hot Crazy Matrix explains why investors get tech deals wrong

Private equity deals hit an all-time high in 2021, peaking at a total value of more than $1tn, with an average deal size exceeding $1bn for the first time. Founders were media darlings, valuations soa [...]

Kore.ai launches Artemis AI agent platform, expands challenge to Microsoft and Salesforce

Kore.ai on Wednesday launched what amounts to a ground-up reinvention of its core technology: the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform, a system designed to let enterprises build, govern, and optimiz [...]

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents

Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts [...]

Theorem wants to stop AI-written bugs before they ship — and just raised $6M to do it

As artificial intelligence reshapes software development, a small startup is betting that the industry's next big bottleneck won't be writing code — it will be trusting it.Theorem, a San F [...]

Netherlands a rare bright spot as EU struggles to make and keep unicorns

The US continues to hog the global herd of unicorns, dwarfing the EU in both the number and total valuation of billion-dollar startups. However, the Netherlands provides a minor bright spot, according [...]

The underdog AI startups on a16z's top 50 list

The VC firm's first-ever AI Application Spending Report reveals illuminating trends about which kinds of AI tools are winning the AI race. [...]

TNW Conference 2025 is reborn — with a new startup mission

TNW Conference will be born again this summer. Over 18 years of unforgettable events, countless future tech stars have used our stage as a springboard to success. We’ve driven vast investments, show [...]

Here’s What You Should Know About Launching an AI Startup

AI startups say the promise of turning dazzling models into useful products is harder than anyone expected. Three founders discuss what it takes. [...]