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Opinion: Stop calling Isar Aerospace Europe’s SpaceX

Space

Europe

Opinion: Stop calling Isar Aerospace Europe’s SpaceX

Isar will be Europe's 'space saviour' when it starts getting real about reusable rockets.

Mike Butcher
Mike Butcher

Sep 8, 2026

Germany’s Ground A raises €9.1m pre-seed to scale its low-energy counter-drone laser

Germany

AI

Defence

Hardware

Germany’s Ground A raises €9.1m pre-seed to scale its low-energy counter-drone laser

The German defence-tech startup’s system uses drastically less energy, is designed to be manufactured at scale, and will be offered to Ukraine.

Mike Butcher
Mike Butcher

Sep 8, 2026

Column: AI is killing the Pre-seed playbook

Opinion

VC

Europe

Column: AI is killing the Pre-seed playbook

Early funding round sizes have tripled, early valuations have pushed beyond $10m, and the economics for early-stage funds are getting harder to justify. Now, a new generation of investors is moving fast to invest well before the pre-seed round, and sometimes before there is even a company, argues Nolan Gray.

Guest Author
Guest Author

Sep 8, 2026

Claret Capital closes Fund IV at €575m to back European growth companies

Debt funding

VC

Europe

Claret Capital closes Fund IV at €575m to back European growth companies

The growth debt investor has closed its fourth fund as it looks to put more capital behind European companies and expand its presence across the continent

Amelia Isaacs
Amelia Isaacs

Sep 7, 2026

Nvidia has a pre-alpha for AI model routing, but this startup says it’s already launched one

MENA

AI

Nvidia has a pre-alpha for AI model routing, but this startup says it’s already launched one

Nvidia has been pushing model routing as a key piece of the emerging agentic AI stack. But aixplain, a US-headquartered startup now taking its technology into Saudi and Syria, says it can point to a model-routing product dating back to 2022.

Mike Butcher
Mike Butcher

Aug 31, 2026

OPINION: The EU AI Act isn’t a buzz-kill, it’s a stress test for bad AI

Europe

AI

Policy

OPINION: The EU AI Act isn’t a buzz-kill, it’s a stress test for bad AI

As the EU AI Act rolls out, some critics say it will impact Europe’s competitiveness. Paul Jenkinson argues that it will instead separate the wheat from the chaff.

Guest Author
Guest Author

Aug 27, 2026

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