Bits & Pretzels 2026: What to Expect from This Year’s Edition? [Sponsored]
Bits & Pretzels 2026: What to Expect from This Year’s Edition? [Sponsored]

Returning to Munich from September 28 to 30, 2026, during the city’s iconic Oktoberfest celebrations, Bits & Pretzels will once again bring together Europe’s startup ecosystem, this time under the…

August 2026’s top 10 European tech deals you need to know about
August 2026’s top 10 European tech deals you need to know about

European tech investment slowed considerably in August, withcompanies raising €3.2 billion across 165 funding rounds. This was a markeddecline from July, when €8.6 billion was invested across 267 deal…

NASA Hosts Virtual Artemis Webinar for Blind, Low-Vision Community
NASA Hosts Virtual Artemis Webinar for Blind, Low-Vision Community

NASA will host a virtual webinar at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, titled “The RS-25 Engine and the Future of Artemis Missions: An Accessible Webinar for the Blind and Low-Vision Community.” This webinar is open to the public, however it is tailored specifically for a blind and low-vision audience. The webinar will last about two hours and include […]

Wonderful raises $550M, Mykhailo Fedorov’s new defencetech investment fund, and Londoners can now hail AVs (with safety drivers)

This week, we tracked more than 50 tech funding deals worth over €4.6 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.If email is more your thing, you …

The Netherlands’ top-funded tech companies in H1 2026
The Netherlands’ top-funded tech companies in H1 2026

Dutch tech companies raised approximately €1.9 billion in H1 2026, with funding concentrated among the largest deals. The three largestrounds alone accounted for approximately 44 per cent of the total…

NASA Welcomes Türkiye as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory  
NASA Welcomes Türkiye as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory  

During a ceremony hosted by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman at the agency’s headquarters in Washington on Monday, the Republic of Türkiye signed the Artemis Accords, joining the growing international coalition of like-minded nations dedicated to peaceful, transparent space exploration. “It is my privilege to welcome the Republic of Türkiye as the 71st signatory of the […]

NVIDIA to buy Hugging Face, Einride launches VC firm, and fixing COPD diagnosis

This week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €475 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.If email is more your thing, you c…

Sweden’s top-funded tech companies in H1 2026
Sweden’s top-funded tech companies in H1 2026

Swedish technology companies raised approximately €2.8billion in H1 2026, with a significant share of capital concentrated in a smallnumber of large transactions.Stegra recorded the largest financing …

NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercial partners better understand the science of lunar landings, specifically the hazards that may occur when a lander’s engine […]

NASA Ames’ Contributions to Roman’s Mission
NASA Ames’ Contributions to Roman’s Mission

Set to launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will empower astronomers to explore vast regions of the cosmos and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, dark matter, planets outside our solar system, and the formation and growth of galaxies over cosmic time. Key contributions to Roman’s mission […]