Startup

This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Hanno Renner, co-founder and CEO of Personio, a leading European all-in-one HR software platform built for small and medium-sized enterprises.…

Now that you’ve primed your company to be sold and hired the right professionals (brokers, lawyers, advisors, accountants), all you have to do is to put your business on the…

Remember when we said the prize package for this year’s EU-Startups Summit Pitch Competition was worth more than €622k? Well, we slightly underestimated things. Since then, we have added new…

Sailing into entrepreneurial waters is something that many dream of. After all, being your own boss, dedicating your time to working on projects that mean something to you, and building…

Founded three years ago by Winfried Vogt and Christina Paap, the Innovation Award was created with a clear objective: to give innovative founders access to what often makes the decisive…

“Join our family!” sounds heartwarming until you realize your new “siblings” expect 80-hour weeks and zero boundaries. It’s a pitch that smells of community but often masks control. The startup…

Following our series of country articles, today we turn our focus north to Finland, exploring the forces shaping its startup ecosystem and the companies driving innovation across deeptech, energy, health,…

On May 7-8, Malta will once again transform into the heart of European innovation as it hosts the 2026 edition of the EU-Startups Summit. Bringing together around 2,500 founders, startup…

Artificial intelligence is increasingly moving beyond single-task tools towards systems that can operate with a higher degree of autonomy. One of the most significant developments in this evolution is agentic…

Following our series of country articles, today we turn our focus to Estonia’s growing innovation landscape, exploring the forces shaping its startup ecosystem and the momentum behind a new generation…