When edtech company Preply became a unicorn earlier this year, employees in its Kyiv office celebrated with cake — because that’s what you do, even…
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Mistral AI buys Koyeb in first acquisition to back its cloud ambitions |
Mistral AI, the French company last valued at $13.8 billion, has made its first acquisition. The OpenAI competitor has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based…
Stripe alumni raise €30M Series A for Duna, backed by Stripe and Adyen execs |
Anthropic and OpenAI may be rivals, but their presidents Daniela Amodei and Gregory Brockman have one thing in common: they are both Stripe alumni. With…
Meet the new European unicorns of 2026 |
January was such a long month that it has already brought us five fresh European unicorns: from Belgium to Ukraine, several tech startups raised funding…
What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo's sweeping layoffs |
Vimeo was hit by a massive round of layoffs this past week, according to a report by Business Insider. Staffers posting on various social media…
Who's behind AMI Labs, Yann LeCun's ‘world model’ startup |
Yann LeCun’s new venture, AMI Labs, has drawn intense attention since the AI scientist left Meta to found it. This week, the startup finally confirmed…
Almost 80 European deep tech university spinouts reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025 |
Universities and research labs have long been Europe’s deep tech treasure trove. Now, academic spinouts have consolidated into a solid startup funnel worth $398 billion…
How reality crushed Ÿnsect, the French startup that had raised over $600M for insect farming |
French startup Ÿnsect shot into the spotlight when “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. touted its merits on the “Late Show” during Super Bowl weekend…
How a Spanish virus brought Google to Málaga |
After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer…