Klearly raises €12M from PayPal Ventures to fix restaurant payments chao
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Restaurants, bars, and clubs face a persistent challenge: legacy systems that stutter during peak service hours, disrupting operations…
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Rosberg Ventures Closes $100M Fund III To Support Nico Rosberg’s Long-Term VC Vision
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Nico Rosberg announced that Rosberg Ventures has closed its $100 million Fund III, calling it “oversubscribed, with unprecedented demand, and capped for performance.” Founded after his 2016 Formula 1 retirement, Rosberg Ventures transitioned Rosberg from …
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Canadian ice master makes Olympic history with the Games' 1st indoor temporary speedskating rink
go - Olympic officials have brought on ice master Mark Messer to prepare the speed skating rink for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games
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Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’ Cloudflare’s CEO has threatened to pull the company out of Italy, and to withdraw free services it intends to provide to the Winter Olympic games…
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FluoSphera zips CHF 1.15M seed for 3D human organ models that cut drug failures
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Developing new medicines is a long and costly process, taking 10 to 15 years and billions of dollars.…
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Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy's communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking 14.2 million-euro fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued tha…
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Kia’s EV2 is its smallest and most affordable EV for Europe
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - Kia unveiled the EV2, a small and affordably priced electric vehicle built for the European market. The EV2 made its debut at the Brussels Auto Show, where executives touted it as its "most compact" EV to date. Of course, it was another in a long line of …
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Healthcare Voice Tech Startup Tucuvi Raises $20M To Improve Care
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Tucuvi, a Spanish voice technology startup for healthcare, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Designed to support and execute clinical decisions during patient phone calls its solution offers a new approach to managing healthcare workflow…
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French MedTech FineHeart Raises €83 Million Funding
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - FineHeart, a Bordeaux- and Tours-based clinical-stage medical device company focused on cardiovascular technologies, has completed the first closing of its Series C financing round, raising €35 million. Investors in the round include Groupe Pasteur Mutual…
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Legaltech Alice Raises €1M To Enhance Reliable Legal Workflows
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Belgium-based Alice, an AI platform for lawyers and legal teams, has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to develop its end-to-end legal casework solution. The round was led by NewSchool and Seeder Fund, with participation from a group of Belgian angel …
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ViCentra lands $13M, pushing Kaleido insulin pump funding to $98M
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - For people living with diabetes, managing insulin therapy is a demanding part of daily life. Traditional insulin pumps…
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Amgen acquires Oxford-based Dark Blue in deal worth up to €718 million to advance leukemia programme
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Dark Blue Therapeutics, a British discovery and development BioTech company innovating the next generation of precision oncology medicines, has been acquired by US-based global BioTech company Amgen, in a transaction valued at up to €718 million ($840 mil…
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Meta has delayed the international rollout of its display glasses
Steve Dent / engadget - Meta is pausing release of its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses to the UK, France, Italy and Canada due to "unprecedented demand and limited inventory," the company said on Monday at CES 2026. There's no new date for the expansion that was originally set for…
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Back to Top / Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 17549 / 14 stories in 2 months
Austrian BENTELER acquires Germany’s ioki to create Europe’s first full-service autonomous mobility provider
ain - According to the companies, the acquisition creates Europe’s first full-service provider for autonomous mobility, combining vehicles, software, and operations under one roof.
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Accenture Plans to Buy UK Palantir Rival Faculty in Consultancy’s AI Push
Mark Bergen / bloomberg - Accenture Plc agreed to buy Faculty, a British artificial intelligence startup that’s worked closely with the government, as part of the consultancy’s effort to recast itself as a leader in the technology.
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France Targets Australia-Style Social Media Ban For Children Next Year
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: France intends to follow Australia and ban social media platforms for children from the start of the 2026 academic year. A draft bill preventing under-15s from using social media will be submitted for…
Editor: As a parent, to be fully honest, I'm heartened by these moves - people and governments asserting themselves is not a bad thing. That being said - there's performative eassertion for the sake of hearing one's voice heard, and then there's assertion in favour of all the entrenched players...
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Britain’s Octopus Energy To Spin Off AI Arm Kraken At $8.65 Billion Valuation
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - British renewable-energy startup Octopus Energy is spinning off its utility management platform, Kraken Technologies, with a valuation of $8.65 billion. The move follows Kraken’s first standalone $1 billion equity raise, led by D1 Capital Partners and joi…
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Italy tells Meta to suspend its policy that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp
Ram Iyer / techcrunch - Italy has ordered Meta to suspend its policy that bans companies from using WhatsApp's business tools to offer their own AI chatbots on the popular chat app.
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U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers
Steven Lee Myers / nytimes - The Trump administration, citing “foreign censorship,” imposed travel bans on experts involved in monitoring major tech platforms.
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iOS 26.3 Will Play Nicer With Third-Party Headphones And Smartwatches, But Only In Europe
bgr - iOS 26.3 is going to improve the integration between the iPhone and third-party headphones and smartwatches, but only in Europe for now.
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