Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that acquires and restructures digital businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion in its US initial public offering, Reuters reported on Monday. The company plans to market 58 million shares at…
Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia and the Caucasus, marking the fund-of-funds manager’s first publicly disclosed investment in the region’s startup ecosyste…
Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A at a valuation of at least $500 million. The company expects to close the round in the third quarter. CEO and…
Poland produced one of the world’s most valuable AI companies almost by accident. Now it is spending public money to make sure the next one stays closer to home. Vinci, the venture arm of Poland’s state development bank BGK, has taken an $11mn stake in…
Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displace. In a TechCrunch interview, the former presidential candidate and UBI advocate laid out a…
London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with fringe events running across the city through Friday. The festival drew more than 30,000 people from over 130 countries, …
Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programme, called Claude Corps, will pay early-career workers $85,000 plus benefits for a year-long placement where they help nonp…
Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posting. Group chats support up to 50 people in the current release. The comp…
The top 1% of US companies by AI adoption spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI tools and compute. The median firm spends $11.38. That 680x gap, drawn from the Ramp AI Index, is the clearest picture yet of how unevenly AI spending is distributed ac…
Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals, is opening offices in Madrid, Milan, and Paris during Q3 2026, alongside a dedicated engineering hub in London. Hiring across all four locations has begun, with the company targeting a combined E…