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The Scene on Europa Now: European startups, product studios and the cities where the continent's tech culture actually happens.

Designing a Flexible Digital Archive for Chems.Studio’s Creative Practice

Studios

Building a Timeless Digital Archive: How Chems.Studio's Website Balances Growth with Coherence

A New York creative studio needed more than a portfolio—it needed a system that could absorb years of diverse work into a single visual language without losing its character. The solution: designing an archive that prioritizes the work itself.

The Department Is Open: Building the PX PUSH Website

Studios

How a Design Studio Built a Website That Looks Like It's Running on 1988 Hardware

PX PUSH, a subscription design studio serving the decentralisation movement, wanted its website to match how it operates: transparent and fast-moving. The team achieved this by wrapping the entire experience in a simulated CRT monitor and filling it with references to 1980s corporate culture.

Between Print and Digital: The Making of MERSI’s Website

Studios

How FLOT NOIR Transformed a Generic Template Into MERSI's Signature Digital Home

The Paris architecture studio needed more than a website redesign—it needed to reclaim its digital identity. FLOT NOIR rebuilt their Webflow presence from the ground up, blending editorial restraint with custom interactions to create something that finally matched the precision of their work.

Why Georgia Is Becoming Eurasia's Startup Hub

Startups

Georgia's Quiet Rise: How Tbilisi Became Central Asia's Unexpected Startup Magnet

With an 78% year-over-year growth rate and backing from major venture firms like 500 Global, Georgia is emerging as a regional hub for founders who build companies before they launch startups.

How Do You Make University Ecosystem That Makes 3 Unicorns in a Year?

Startups

Stockholm's Deep Tech Blueprint: How Universities Can Unlock Founder Potential

Viktor Olsson from KTH Innovation is bringing Sweden's university playbook to Croatia's Nuqleus Liftoff conference, revealing how a founder-first approach and intellectual property rights have helped Stockholm produce three AI unicorns in a single year.

Everyone is celebrating AI coding tools for writing five times more code — almost nobody is asking what happens to the pipelines that were built to test it, and a Helsinki startup just raised $4.7M on that exact blind spot

Startups

The CI/CD Crisis Nobody's Talking About: How a Helsinki Startup Spotted AI's Hidden Bottleneck

As AI coding tools promise to multiply developer output, the testing and deployment infrastructure built for human-paced work is cracking under the strain. Avrea, a Finnish startup, just raised $4.7 million betting that fixing this invisible problem will define the next generation of engineering.

Amsterdam’s Healthplus.ai raises €2.3M to help hospitals predict post-surgery infection risk

Startups

Healthplus.ai Secures €2.3M to Expand AI Platform for Surgical Risk Management

The Amsterdam-based healthtech startup has closed a funding round led by Elevating Capital to scale its infection-prediction system across Europe and North America.

AI Tool of the Week: Berlin-based Babbel unveils AI-powered voice assistant that helps learners overcome speaking anxiety

Startups

Babbel Speak: Berlin Startup Tackles Language Learners' Speaking Anxiety with AI Voice Coach

The language-learning platform has launched an AI-powered voice assistant designed to help users move beyond grammar drills and actually speak with confidence in real-world scenarios.