2025-01-28

Spanish tech star TravelPerk has raised a whopping $200mn and sealed the acquisition of expenses platform Yokoy. The investment values TravelPerk at $2.7bn — almost double last year’s $1.4bn valuation. The business travel giant said the funds would fuel further product development and expansion into the US. European VC firm Atomico led the Series E investment. Alongside the cash injection, TravelPerk announced the purchase of Yokoy, a Swiss startup that’s become a market leader in expense management. TravelPerk will now integrate Yokoy into one aut [...]
2025-09-04
A consortium of Swiss research institutes has introduced Apertus, a family of language models designed as a transparent, privacy-focused alternative to commercial systems like ChatGPT.<br /> The [...]
2025-07-24
Swiss startup Jua has launched an AI weather model it says outperforms leading systems from tech giants — potentially making it the most accurate forecaster in the world. Jua claims its model — du [...]
2025-04-24
Pentagon-backed Jericho Security raises $15 million to combat deepfake fraud that has already cost North American businesses $200 million in 2025, using AI to detect increasingly convincing voice and [...]
2025-09-17
Here's how to watch 200m final live streams online, starring Letsile Tebogo, Noah Lyles, Kenny Bednarek, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Shericka Jackson at Tokyo 2025. [...]
2025-10-23
May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives [...]
2025-05-16
Swiss tech startup Metafuels has unveiled plans to open its first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in the Port of Rotterdam. Metafuels’ CEO Saurabh Kapoor told TNW that Turbe [...]
2025-07-02
French software firm LumApps is set to merge with Swiss counterpart Beekeeper in a deal that will create a new business valued at over $1bn. LumApps, which calls itself an “intranet super app,” of [...]