TechEx North America 2026 comes to San Jose for your annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing
TechEx North America 2026 comes to San Jose for your annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing

TechEx North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, bringing together seven co-located enterprise technology events under one roof to tackle the real questions enterprise leaders are asking right now. Thi…

Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship
Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship

The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-driven compatibility. There is a version of the future, B…

Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas
Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a…

Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era
Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  betwee…

Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries
Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries

The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major ente…

Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts
Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a los…

NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius
NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

  NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partn…

Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech
Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, de…

EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes
EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Par…

Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M
Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the target was €120 million. The final figure has come in hi…