Europe

BlackPeak Capital, a Bulgarian private equity firm, today announced the first close of BlackPeak Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund II SCSp (BPSEEF II) at €125 million to invest in fast-growing companies…

Protesters slammed AI after breaking into a Microsoft data centre site in Amsterdam on Friday (November 6), hanging anti-AI banners and spray-painting graffiti. The incident occurred during a demonstration against…

Of the 12 companies listed by French AI unicorn Mistral as available Connectors (ready-made integrations connecting AI to external applications), not one hails from Europe; raising questions about the continent’s…

Impress, a Spanish digital orthodontics network, has signed a €40 million venture debt loan with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to scale up investments in its AI platform across its…

NVIDIA has had a busy week on this side of the pond. From announcing new investments in British and French startups to launching collaborations in Sweden, supporting AI research and…

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Clastix, a Naples-based infrastructure software company helping enterprises run Kubernetes more efficiently at scale, has raised €2.9 million in a Seed round. This marks the company’s first external funding round.…

Arcos, a Munich-based startup that builds and operates civil security infrastructure, has closed a €5.5 million Seed funding round. The company launched publicly today.  The round was led by High-Tech…

European gas is around €80/MWh while U.S. Henry Hub is around $2.8/MMBtu, with the European market being squeezed by lost Middle East LNG and low storage heading into winter. https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-gas-prices-seen-higher-as-hormuz-disruption-squeezes-lng-supplies-commerzbank-says-302e1a6d…

1H26 distribution per stapled security (DPS) up 1.4% year-on-year Source: Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust 1H26 results 1H26 gross revenue and net property income declined 2.2%  and 2.3% year-on-year, respectively.  Gross…