Growth
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Oceanloop takes aquaculture towards industrial scale
Oceanloop has secured up to €38.5m to expand software-controlled land-based aquaculture, beginning with a 250-tonne Giant Grouper farm near Kiel.
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Sabotage probe tests defence tech resilience
A suspected arson attack at a building used by Estonia’s Milrem Robotics has put physical resilience alongside production capacity in Europe’s expanding defence technology industry.
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Exclaimer rebuilds the economics of MSP software
Exclaimer has rebuilt its MSP programme around consumption billing, centralised administration, PSA integration, and self-service as software suppliers adapt their commercial models to recurring managed services.
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The $100m bet on heterogeneous AI
London-based Callosum has raised $100m to build software that routes AI work across different models and processor architectures according to cost, latency, energy use, and performance.
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Zagreb robotaxis enter Uber’s mainstream app
Uber users in Zagreb can now be matched with Pony.ai autonomous vehicles operated by Verne, putting an existing Croatian robotaxi deployment into a mainstream European ride-hailing marketplace.
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Cyber insurance moves closer to defence
Munich Re is buying At-Bay for $575m, bringing insurance, continuous security monitoring, threat data, and claims closer together as cyber underwriting becomes a more active risk-management business.
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Stripe moves upstream into AI routing
Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, giving the payments company a position in the infrastructure that selects AI models, routes token consumption, and determines part of the operating cost of AI applications.
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UK tech pushes non-compete reform up agenda
UK technology companies are pushing ministers towards non-compete reform again.
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Quantexa weighs London against US IPO
Quantexa is weighing London against America for its future IPO.
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Nebex targets procurement gap in French space
Nebex is tying overseas space spending to French startup contracts.
