The magazine of the European tech scene

Independent since 2024

EuropaNow

Section

Startups

Startup coverage on Europa Now: rounds, pivots and the European companies growing up in public.

Startups

Finnish satellite firm ICEYE teams up with Japanese insurer Sompo to speed flood damage assessment

ICEYE's radar-based Earth observation technology will help Sompo Japan Insurance respond faster to flood claims by delivering rapid intelligence on disaster extent and severity.

Startups

Stockholm Creator Marketing Startup Fluencify Closes $4.3M Pre-Seed to Automate Brand Campaigns

Fluencify, a Stockholm-based platform automating creator marketing campaigns with AI agents, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. The company plans to expand into the US and scale its creator network to 13,000+ active creators.
The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Oana Jinga, co-founder and Chief Commercial & Product Officer at Dexory

Startups

From Google to Warehouse Robotics: Oana Jinga on Dexory's €300M Journey

The co-founder and Chief Commercial & Product Officer of Dexory discusses scaling European robotics, the ethics of AI in logistics, and why the industry needs more diverse talent.

Startups

Handwave scales palm-biometric payments across Europe with expanded Visa partnership

The Riga-based fintech has deepened its collaboration with Visa to roll out palm-recognition payment technology, starting with pilot deployments in the Baltic region this year.
Cursor went from $100 million in annualized revenue to $2 billion in just 13 months—a twentyfold surge that outpaced the early growth of Slack and Zoom and ranks among the fastest revenue expansions ever reported by a software company.

Startups

Cursor's Twentyfold Revenue Leap: Extraordinary Growth Masked by Accounting Ambiguity

The AI coding editor's reported revenue surged from $100 million to $2 billion in 13 months, outpacing Slack and Zoom's early trajectories, but the headline masks critical unknowns about margins, sustainability and the true composition of those figures.
Blue Proton Initiative: four 17-year-olds are building AI-powered livestock monitoring with Arduino

Startups

Four Italian teenagers build AI livestock monitoring on Arduino—and aren't waiting to finish school

In Forlì, four 17-year-olds are developing a real-time cattle monitoring system using computer vision and Arduino hardware, proving that the tools to tackle genuine problems are available now.
SoftBank is putting $200 million into the excavator-automation startup Gravis Robotics, whose headline productivity figure was stated two different ways on announcement day, with no published method behind either version

Startups

SoftBank's $200M Gravis Robotics bet hinges on a productivity claim that keeps shifting shape

The Swiss excavator-automation startup announced a Series A investment from SoftBank on 17 August, but the core productivity metric it uses to justify the funding has appeared in multiple formulations with no published methodology to support any of them.
A Chat With Chris Kincade, Founder Of Starling Memory Works, On Why Your AI Doesn’t Know Your Business

Startups

Building AI That Actually Understands Your Company: Chris Kincade on Starling Memory Works

The founder of Starling Memory Works explains why most AI tools have it backwards—and how giving organisations sovereign control over their own knowledge changes everything.