150sec focuses on thought-provoking stories around Europe’s emerging startup scenes. We uncover, challenge and connect ideas from entrepreneurs, technology and society. Our mission is to build a ...

London-based AI startup Polaron announced on February 3 it has raised $8 million USD in funding to build the “intelligence layer for materials science.” Impact-focused VC Racine2 led the round, with ...

Mistral AI, a French AI company headquartered in Paris that develops high-performance large language models (LLMs), has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more ...

Do you remember the “Enterprise Cloud Rush” around 2015? We treated the hyperscaler cloud like an infinite dumpster for our data. Every sensor in the hospital, every vibration reading from a five-axis ...

A January 2026 study found that artificial intelligence (AI) systems emitted as much carbon in 2025 as the whole of New York City, and estimates that AI-related greenhouse gasses now equal over 8% of ...

The coronavirus pandemic has heightened worries about the activities and intentions of foreign investors in some countries, prompting a number of nations to tighten their screening mechanisms in ...

Cybersecurity is changing. The limited release of Claude Mythos sent the security community into a tail spin, with concerns that frontier AI could be used to discover and exploit enterprise ...

Prezent Vivo has introduced a new credits system designed to give life sciences organizations a simpler way to access its expert communication services. The AI-powered platform has introduced a shared ...

Early-stage VC fund Pitbull Ventures announced this week the close of its $5M Fund I. Pitbull Ventures is a venture capital fund that backs pre-seed vertical SaaS startups with early traction. The ...

150sec focuses on thought-provoking stories around Europe’s emerging startup scenes. We uncover, challenge and connect ideas from entrepreneurs, technology and society. Our mission is to build a ...

The last in our Amsterdam social entrepreneur profiles series features Plastic Whale founder and ‘captain’ Marius Smit. Around 8 million tonnes of plastic waste pollute our oceans every year, ...

The coronavirus pandemic cast a dark shadow over the global economic landscape and locked millions of people in quarantine and out of business. It caused massive disruptions and losses. It wreaked ...