Wayflyer raises $250M, eBay to buy Depop, and the Belarusian founders powering Poland

TThis week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €707 million and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Alongside the week’s top fundin…

Can Berlin become Europe’s most builder-friendly tech city in 24 months?

When I tell people I live in Berlin at startup events abroad, I often receive a bad reaction, especially from investors. Many people associate Berlin with its heyday of Rocket Internet and see it as …

From AI strength to diversified growth: The French tech ecosystem
From AI strength to diversified growth: The French tech ecosystem

In 2025, European tech investment totalled €72 billion,marking the second-strongest year of the past three and demonstrating continuedmarket resilience despite a modest 3.2% decline from the 2024 peak…

Lithuania leads Baltic startup resurgence with record €238M funding and surge in exits

As global venture markets continue to rebalance, the Baltics are emerging as one of Europe’s more resilient early-stage ecosystems – and in 2025, Lithuania has taken the regional lead. According to …

Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisible
Award-Winning NASA Camera Revolutionizes How We See the Invisible

Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to study how air moves around planes, rockets, and other kinds of aerospace vehicles. Air is invisible, but our understanding of how it flows is crucial for building better, safer aircraft. For 80 years, researchers used a technique […]

I Am Artemis: Katie Oriti
I Am Artemis: Katie Oriti

Listen to this audio excerpt from Katie Oriti, Orion European Service Module Integration Office manager: Growing up in rural America, Katie Oriti could only dream of working for NASA. Not because she wasn’t inspired by the dark, star-filled skies of her hometown Shelby, Ohio, but because it felt out of reach. “I think NASA was […]

From repression to relocation: How Belarusian founders are powering Poland’s next tech boom

Late last year, I predicted that those looking for Europe’s next major tech hub should have Poland firmly on their radar for 2026. One of the reasons lies just across its eastern border. Over 500,000 …

NASA Advances High-Altitude Traffic Management
NASA Advances High-Altitude Traffic Management

High-altitude flight is getting increasing attention from sectors ranging from telecommunications to emergency response. To make that airspace more accessible, NASA is developing an air traffic management system covering those altitudes and supplementing its work with real-time data from a research balloon in Earth’s stratosphere.  Aircraft at high altitudes – 50,000 feet or higher, or roughly 10,000 to 20,000 feet above most commercial traffic – offer new […]

Nscale secures $1.4B, Eutelsat expands with €975M, and Germany’s scale-driven ecosystem

This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €3.4 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Alongside the week’s top funding…

From industrial depth to strategic growth: the German tech ecosystem
From industrial depth to strategic growth: the German tech ecosystem

In 2025, European tech companies raised approximately €72billion in total funding. Germany secured €11.5 billion across 539 deals,accounting for around 16 per cent of the total capital invested and ra…