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#Dutch #DefenceTech startup @DestinusDefence has been appointed consortium lead and prime contractor to establish Europe’s first sovereign exo-atmospheric upper-layer #missile defence programme 🇪🇺🛡 eu-startups.com/2026/07/dutch-…

On 25-26 November, the first edition of the MeOut Summit will take place in Budapest, aiming to strengthen Europe’s innovation ecosystem and boost the continent’s global #competitiveness. 🇪🇺 🚀 Built by MeOut Group and the team behind EU-Startups, and in collaboration with the Global Startup Awards, the summit taps into years of experience in curating top-tier event content. Over two days, the event will bring together more than 1,000 #entrepreneurs, #startup enthusiasts, #corporates, #angelinvestors, #VCs, and media for a programme of insightful talks and high-quality networking. Read more about the event here: eu-startups.com/2026/07/meout-…

#Prague-based VC #Aspire11 has deployed the first €100 million of its €515 million fund of pension capital into a portfolio including #Revolut, #Databricks, #VASTDATA, #Vinted, #ElevenLabs and #Baseten 🇨🇿 🌟 eu-startups.com/2026/07/revolu…

Dutch Clean Tech, a Heerhugowaard-based company that develops, finances, builds, and operates #water #treatment and drinking water projects around the world, has raised €15 million in #funding. 🇳🇱 🚰 🤝 eu-startups.com/2026/07/dutch-…

#European scale-ups are hiring 6.7 AI builders for every governance role - and most governance job ads do not even mention the #EUAIAct, as per new research from @Axipro8 🤖 🇪🇺 eu-startups.com/2026/07/europe…

Five out of every six farms on Earth cover less than two hectares. Yet together, they produce around 35% of the world’s food while working just 12% of its farmland. 🌍 🥗 In this article, May June Kyaw Win, founder and Chairwoman of #LightcraftMyanmar, explores how #AI and #digitaltransformation can unlock productivity, resilience, and market access for MSMEs and smallholder farmers - and why this segment is increasingly attracting attention from founders and innovators. eu-startups.com/2026/07/how-ai…

Prolo, a London-based AI-powered #procurement platform for #SME #construction firms, has secured €4.9 million in #Seed funding to fuel go-to-market #sales and #marketing efforts and accelerate new tech and product rollouts. 🇬🇧 🏗️🤖 eu-startups.com/2026/07/london…

NextGO Epi, a Berlin-based #DeepTech #startup developing #Gallium #Oxide #epitaxial wafers for next-generation power #semiconductor devices, has secured a €2 million pre-Seed #funding round. 🇩🇪 🧪⚡ eu-startups.com/2026/07/europe…

Nopan, an Amsterdam-based performance platform for #account and #wallet #payments, has raised a new #funding round. The Dutch startup has raised a total of €7.2 million to date. 🇳🇱 💳📱 eu-startups.com/2026/07/netfli…

How will AI reshape the creator economy? 🤔 🤖 This is the question Francisco Polo, CEO and co-founder of @movements_mov explores in his latest article. Francisco argues that #AI will do more than make today’s creators more productive: it will enable an entirely #newgeneration of people to become creators and build businesses around their audiences. In doing so, the #creatoreconomy may be entering its most significant phase yet. Read the full article here: eu-startups.com/2026/07/the-ne…

#Barcelona-based @CriteriaCaixa, the holding company that manages the business assets of @caixabank, announced a reboot of its startup investment business with €300 million 🇪🇸 🚀 eu-startups.com/2026/07/e300-m…

#Visibuilt, a Danish #BioTech company developing biobased alternatives to carbon-intensive #construction binders, has raised €3.34 million in #Seed to move from lab pilots towards market validation and industry tests 🇩🇰 🧱 eu-startups.com/2026/07/myceli…

#ConTech startup #SodexInnovations, a #Vorarlberg-based innovator of automated surveying and documentation of #construction sites, has successfully closed a funding round of €4 million 🇦🇹 🦺 eu-startups.com/2026/07/austri…

With the @WMO reporting that June 2026 was the hottest June on record in Western Europe and the second warmest globally, Europe’s energy transition is becoming more urgent than ever. 🌍⚡ Against this backdrop, #ClimateTech startups are developing solutions across #energy, #manufacturing, #transport, and the #builtenvironment. In our latest article, we highlight 10 European ClimateTech startups turning decarbonisation into big business. eu-startups.com/2026/07/10-eur…

#British early-stage investment firm @sfccapitaluk has received an additional €11 million from the @BritishBBank under the #RegionalAngels Programme, extending the Bank’s total commitment to €41 million 🇬🇧 👼 eu-startups.com/2026/07/sfc-ca…

#Bilbao-based VC firm @AcurioVentures has closed Acurio Secondaries I FCR, a fund with a size of approximately €115 million that invests exclusively in fund-level secondary transactions involving European #VC funds 🇪🇸 🚀 eu-startups.com/2026/07/spains…