For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on a separate, slow…
The Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, announced at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, commits 11 companies to share threat intelligence and coordinate defences against AI-driven fraud at scale. When Google’s vice president of trust and…
The Berlin startup, now valued at €640M, counts Revolut, N26 and Santander’s Openbank among its clients after processing more than 100 million investment orders last year. Twelve months after its last fundraise, Upvest has done it again, and at a price…
The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailabl…
Founded by two French serial entrepreneurs who have spent decades in Romania, the platform aims to be a trust-by-design alternative to X and Facebook, with a public launch set for May 2026. A new social media platform that embeds real-time fact-checkin…
Founded by two French serial entrepreneurs who have spent decades in Romania, the platform aims to be a trust-by-design alternative to X and Facebook, with a public launch set for May 2026. A new social media platform that embeds real-time fact-checkin…
The all-in-one SaaS platform for independent restaurants, processing 1.5 million orders a month across nine CEE markets, is now targeting Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Choice, the Prague-founded restaurant management pla…
The all-in-one SaaS platform for independent restaurants, processing 1.5 million orders a month across nine CEE markets, is now targeting Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Choice, the Prague-founded restaurant management pla…
From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London…
We have all heard about model context protocol (MCP) in the context of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will dive into what MCP is and why it is becoming more important by the day. When APIs are already available then why do we need MCP? Al…