Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal
Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing robotaxi deals at a pace that can make any single annou…

Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform
Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

Meta’s Creator Fast Track programme guarantees three months of pay for established creators willing to build a following on Facebook, after the company paid out a record $3 billion to creators in 2025. Facebook has a creator problem that three billion …

Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail
Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

The Paris startup opened the EU’s emissions trading market to private investors in 2024. Now it has the backing to expand into energy, electrification, and other markets shaping the industrial transition. Valentin Lautier says he got the idea for Homai…

Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale
Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale

The San Francisco startup emerges from stealth with Mayfield backing and a pitch that treats ad creative as a continuous learning loop, not a quarterly deliverable. Every B2B marketing team knows the problem. A campaign launches, the creative is fresh,…

German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic
German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic

An extension to the company’s Series A brings total funding to €23 million and clears the path for the first human trial of KUP101, a dual TLR agonist targeting solid tumours and drug-resistant infections. Most immunotherapy research in oncology has co…

Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials
Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical trial. Clinical trials are, by almost any measu…

Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic
Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic

Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil and groundwater as it degrades. The hygiene industry…

Ofiniti raises $6.8M to push its maritime fuel software into global shipping hubs
Ofiniti raises $6.8M to push its maritime fuel software into global shipping hubs

The Oslo-based DNV spinout processed over 25,000 bunker operations in 2025 and claims roughly 40% of Singapore’s digital bunkering market. Verb Ventures leads a growth round that brings total funding to $9 million. The paperwork of global shipping is n…

AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes
AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes

The 2026 AWS Pioneers cohort spans healthcare, climate, and conflict zones, and lands alongside a stark warning that Europe risks losing its best innovators if the regulatory environment doesn’t change. Amazon Web Services announced today the second an…

Former scaleup operators launch Operator Circle VC to back Europe’s next decacorn
Former scaleup operators launch Operator Circle VC to back Europe’s next decacorn

Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For years, the criticism of European venture capital has been …