Stegra bags €1.4B rescue funding package, OpenAI to move to first permanent London office, and your guide to next week’s Tech.eu Summit London

This week, we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €1.9 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.Alongside the week’s top funding r…

Germany’s Akbank AG successfully completes first phase of core banking migration to Mambu in partnership with Innovance [Sponsored]

Akbank AG, the German subsidiary of Turkey’s leading bank Akbank TAS, has successfully completed Phase 1 of its core banking transformation, to the leading SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu. The trans…

Inside the numbers: Ten industries leading Europe’s tech investment in 2025
Inside the numbers: Ten industries leading Europe’s tech investment in 2025

European tech investment reached €72 billion in 2025, makingit the second-strongest year of the past three, despite a slight decline from2024. Deal activity remained stable, with more than 3,740 trans…

Ukrainian startups get UK market gateway as TechBridge accelerator returns for 2026

The UK–Ukraine TechBridge has officially launched a new phase of its Investment Accelerator project for 2026, offering Ukrainian technology startups a structured pathway to expand into the UK market a…

NASA Receives 7 Nominations for the 30th Annual Webby Awards
NASA Receives 7 Nominations for the 30th Annual Webby Awards

Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work to the widest extent practicable. From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, the agency has effectively moved into social media and other online communications. NASA’s broad reach across digital platforms has been recognized by the […]

Europe’s biggest seed rounds of Q1 2026: Top tech startups to watch
Europe’s biggest seed rounds of Q1 2026: Top tech startups to watch

The Tech.eu Q1 2026 Report reveals that European techcompanies raised €20.2 billion across 855 deals during the first quarter of 2026.Approximately 6.9 per cent of these companies successfullyclosed s…

Remote metre reading by 2027: Retrofit beats replacement [Sponsored]

Across Europe, millions of heat and hot-water metres accurately measure consumption every day. Many have been in the field for a decade or more, performing their metrological function with high reliab…

Aura Aero secures €340M, Europe’s first AI-native M&A deal, and Baltic hacker house
Aura Aero secures €340M, Europe’s first AI-native M&A deal, and Baltic hacker house

This week, we tracked more than 40 tech funding deals worth over €720 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Alongside the week’s top funding …

Inside Lithuania’s effort to build founders from the classroom

Across Europe, education systems areunder pressure to keep pace with rapid technological change. Countries areexperimenting with new approaches, with Estonia introducing artificialintelligence into cl…

From defence-driven innovation to a resilient ecosystem: the Ukrainian tech ecosystem
From defence-driven innovation to a resilient ecosystem: the Ukrainian tech ecosystem

Ukraine’s tech ecosystem in 2025 appears top-heavy anddriven by a single outlier, rather than broad-based capital inflows.Total funding reached €945 million, largely driven by asingle deal, Grammarly’…