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PowerUp 2026: Qonto’s call for Italian startups is open (and closes on 18 October)

Startups

Qonto's PowerUp Programme Opens Fifth Edition for Italian Startups

The fintech platform's annual initiative for early-stage founders returns with mentorship, investor access and a Pitch Night in Milan on 5 November. Applications close on 18 October 2026.

Startups

Finnish satellite firm ICEYE teams up with Japanese insurer Sompo to speed flood damage assessment

ICEYE's radar-based Earth observation technology will help Sompo Japan Insurance respond faster to flood claims by delivering rapid intelligence on disaster extent and severity.

Startups

Stockholm Creator Marketing Startup Fluencify Closes $4.3M Pre-Seed to Automate Brand Campaigns

Fluencify, a Stockholm-based platform automating creator marketing campaigns with AI agents, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. The company plans to expand into the US and scale its creator network to 13,000+ active creators.

Studios

Arduino Core on Zephyr reaches 1.0.0 with VENTUNO Q support and camera capabilities

Arduino has released version 1.0.0 of ArduinoCore-Zephyr, marking a major milestone with new hardware support, an upgraded Zephyr base, and extensive stability improvements.
The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Oana Jinga, co-founder and Chief Commercial & Product Officer at Dexory

Startups

From Google to Warehouse Robotics: Oana Jinga on Dexory's €300M Journey

The co-founder and Chief Commercial & Product Officer of Dexory discusses scaling European robotics, the ethics of AI in logistics, and why the industry needs more diverse talent.

Startups

Handwave scales palm-biometric payments across Europe with expanded Visa partnership

The Riga-based fintech has deepened its collaboration with Visa to roll out palm-recognition payment technology, starting with pilot deployments in the Baltic region this year.
Cursor went from $100 million in annualized revenue to $2 billion in just 13 months—a twentyfold surge that outpaced the early growth of Slack and Zoom and ranks among the fastest revenue expansions ever reported by a software company.

Startups

Cursor's Twentyfold Revenue Leap: Extraordinary Growth Masked by Accounting Ambiguity

The AI coding editor's reported revenue surged from $100 million to $2 billion in 13 months, outpacing Slack and Zoom's early trajectories, but the headline masks critical unknowns about margins, sustainability and the true composition of those figures.
Blue Proton Initiative: four 17-year-olds are building AI-powered livestock monitoring with Arduino

Startups

Four Italian teenagers build AI livestock monitoring on Arduino—and aren't waiting to finish school

In Forlì, four 17-year-olds are developing a real-time cattle monitoring system using computer vision and Arduino hardware, proving that the tools to tackle genuine problems are available now.