Revolut’s co-founder and first employee steps down as CTO ahead of the company’s march toward a $200 billion IPO
Revolut’s co-founder and first employee steps down as CTO ahead of the company’s march toward a $200 billion IPO

Vlad Yatsenko was Revolut’s first employee. He joined before CEO Nik Storonsky had even launched the company. Storonsky later gave him the title of co-founder, not because he had co-founded the business in the conventional sense, but because, as Storon…

Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do
Ex-DeepMind duo raise $20 million to close the gap between what sales teams know and what they actually do

The pitch deck for every AI sales tool tells the same story: more signals, better insights, smarter forecasting. What they leave out is that most of those insights end up ignored. Reps drown in dashboards. CRM records go stale. The deal that should hav…

France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip
France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip

Most quantum-computing startups ask the world to build them an entirely new industry: exotic materials, bespoke fabrication, supply chains that do not yet exist. Quobly is making a quieter bet. The Grenoble company thinks the path to a useful quantum m…

Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building
Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building

The London and Budapest startup runs its modernisation AI entirely on-premise, aimed at the banks and insurers whose core systems still run on COBOL and Oracle Forms. The most important software in a bank is often the software nobody fully understands …

RogueDB introduces a simplified database platform designed to reduce infrastructure work for startups and IT teams
RogueDB introduces a simplified database platform designed to reduce infrastructure work for startups and IT teams

In early-stage companies, time often becomes the most constrained resource. Founders and engineering teams must move quickly to build products, reach customers, and refine their offerings. Yet a significant portion of that time can be spent on infrastr…

AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed
AI is crushing startup valuations for companies that raised before ChatGPT existed

The AI boom has created a two-speed startup economy. Companies building on generative AI are raising at historically unprecedented valuations, while startups that last raised capital before ChatGPT launched in November 2022 are watching their worth col…

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI
Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Parloa, the Berlin-founded AI agent management platform, has announced a wave of strategic partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, OpenAI, Five9, and Epic as it deploys the $350 million it raised in its January 2026 Series D round. The company, which builds …

Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta
Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta

The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive. Aizy has spent its first ye…

Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B for AI-designed data-centre hardware
Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B for AI-designed data-centre hardware

The London-and-San-Francisco startup, formerly Orbital Materials, has closed $50M led by Plural for PFAS-free cooling fluid and modular high-density compute infrastructure. Orbital Industries, the London-and-San-Francisco AI-materials startup formerly …

France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure
France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure

A new report on the French tech ecosystem by Alexandre Dewez, a partner at venture firm 20VC, paints a picture of a startup scene that is growing more dependent on a handful of AI companies while the rest of the market stalls. French startups raised €6…