The Next Web

The 2026 AWS Pioneers cohort spans healthcare, climate, and conflict zones, and lands alongside a stark warning that Europe risks losing its best innovators if the regulatory environment doesn’t change. Amazon Web Services announced today the second annual cohort of its Pioneers Project: twelve […]

Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For years, the criticism of European venture capital has been structural: too few firms willing to write […]

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 safety stood up at the United Nations Global […]

The startup, which plants millions of decoy assets across cloud environments to catch intruders in the act, closed its Series A led by FirstMark as enterprise security teams warm to deception as a primary detection strategy. The logic of cyber deception is almost disarmingly simple. You leave […]

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 that suggests Europe’s appetite for […]

Compliance is the part of financial services that nobody likes to talk about, and nobody can afford to get wrong. For investment managers, the obligation to know your client, verify their business, and monitor them continuously has historically meant armies of analysts working through documents, […]

Corporate training has a staging problem. Companies spend billions on learning management systems that employees log into once, skip half the modules, and forget about until HR sends a reminder. Blify thinks the fix is simpler than a new platform: put the training where the work already is. The […]

The Paris-based VC is targeting 15 B2B companies with revenues above €10M in clean manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, green construction, and digital health, with carry tied to impact performance for the first time. Europe has no shortage of early-stage climate tech funding. What it has […]

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 unavailable at any given time. Ships are queued in […]

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-checking directly into the user experience has raised […]