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Implementation of the Data Act: Workshop on guidelines on selected definitions
Brussels is holding an online workshop on January 26, 2026, to gather feedback on the Data Act. The workshop will focus on guidelines for selected definitions within the act....

LeapX: A new AI bootcamp helping Europe’s early-stage founders go from idea to customers in just five weeks (Sponsored)
LeapX launches a five-week AI bootcamp to help European founders transform ideas into investor-ready startups. The program, running in Estonia and the Canary Islands, will select 12 founders from a cohort of 30 for an in-person sprint.

Paris-based Equitable Earth secures €12.6 million to become the global standard for nature-based carbon projects
Equitable Earth, a Paris-based provider of nature-based carbon project certification, secured €12. 6 million in Series A funding....

Cyberette is building forensic-grade AI for a post-truth internet
Dutch startup Cyberette. ai launches AI software to detect and analyze manipulated digital content, targeting fraud and investigations....

Clinical voice AI startup Tucuvi raises $20M
Spanish AI voice startup Tucuvi secured $20M in Series A funding to expand its AI Care Management platform. The platform, used by over 60 European health systems, automates patient interactions and clinical workflows.

AI unicorn Quantexa reports revenue boost, as losses halve
UK-based AI firm Quantexa saw revenues jump nearly 50% to £126 million due to customer gains, while pre-tax losses halved to £25 million. The financial crime fighting unicorn, valued at $2....

Lookiero Outfittery Group closes a €17M round to boost growth and reinforce its AI strategy
Lookiero Outfittery Group secured €17 million to boost growth and reinforce its AI strategy across 12 European markets. Spain's SETT contributed €7....

Horizon Europe info days - Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
Brussels is hosting online info days from January 29-30, 2026, focusing on key digital technologies. The event will cover AI, robotics, advanced computing, and Big Data.

Warning! Two Chrome extensions were spying on ChatGPT conversations and history
Two popular Chrome extensions for ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Claude, secretly spied on over 900,000 users' conversations. One of the malicious extensions was even highlighted by Google in the Chrome Web Store.

10 Austrian startups to keep an eye on in 2026 and beyond
Chatlyn, an AI communication hub for the hospitality sector, has raised €8 million. The Vienna-based startup's platform centralizes guest communication, supporting translation in over 35 languages for 1,000+ properties.

December 2025's top 10 European tech deals you need to know about
French CRM platform Brevo secured a €500M funding round, achieving unicorn status. The all-in-one customer engagement platform offers tools for email, SMS, and marketing automation.

Legaltech Alice raises €1M to bring trustworthy AI workflows to legal casework
Belgian legal AI platform Alice secured €1 million in pre-seed funding to enhance its end-to-end legal casework solution. The platform addresses concerns about AI accuracy and reliability in legal practice and aims to expand into the Netherlands and France.

French BioTech Spore.Bio secures multi-million-euro Google.org funding and launches AI-native research unit
French biotech startup Spore. Bio secured multi-million-euro funding from Google....

Cologne’s United Manufacturing Hub raises €5 million to fix the data layer holding global manufacturing back
Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) secured €5 million to build the foundational data layer for global manufacturing. UMH's open-source platform aims to unify industrial data, enabling real-time data hubs and AI applications for factories across Europe.

United Manufacturing Hub bags €5M to power a shared data backbone for factories
United Manufacturing Hub secured €5 million in funding to build a shared data backbone for factories, targeting industrial data challenges. Their platform unifies industrial data into a real-time hub, connecting machines and IT systems for improved analytics and AI applications.

CertHub raises €6.2M to tackle medtech’s compliance bottleneck
CertHub secures €6. 2 million to automate MedTech compliance using AI, tackling regulatory bottlenecks for manufacturers....

E-commerce operating startup Swap raises $100M
Swap, an e-commerce operating startup, secured a $100M Series C funding round to expand globally. The London-based company, which integrates AI, aims to enhance its payment capabilities and enter new European and North American markets.

Biographica raises £7M to expand AI crop design globally
London-based Biographica secured £7 million to expand its AI-driven crop design platform. Their AI identifies genetic targets up to 12 times faster, reducing development timelines and R&D costs.

Bunq reapplies for US banking licence
Bunq, the Dutch challenger bank, reapplies for a US banking license to target tech-savvy customers in US metropolitan areas. The neobank, with over 20 million European users, aims to offer services like building credit scores for expats.

Vienna’s Vitrealab closes €9.4 million Series A to develop light engines for AR glasses
Vienna-based Vitrealab secured €9. 4 million to accelerate development of its Quantum Light Chip for AR displays....
