Marco Bianchi 
Astute, a Belgrade‑based startup founded in 2025 by Vida Stanić and Abhishek Manikandan, secured €1.03 million in a pre‑seed round led by Flyer One Ventures. The funding will be used to launch its AI‑powered platform that automates creator partnerships for B2B marketers, addressing the fragmented process of finding and managing newsletter, podcast and social media influencers.
BioCircular Fiber, a Spanish startup, has started operating the country’s first industrial hemp fiber plant in Sevilla, producing locally sourced, traceable hemp fiber for textiles, construction, and animal bedding, aiming to replace imported fiber with sustainable domestic supply.
Dutch digital marketing agency Fingerspitz, part of Handpicked, secured four top prizes at the European Paid Media Awards in the UK, notably the Paid Media Campaign of the Year for its client Ledkoning and awards in Finance, automation and AI usage.
Serbian founders Stefan Fejes and Veljko Tornjanski raised a $12 million seed round for their AI video‑creation startup Preview. The round was led by Sequoia and also included The General Partnership and private investor Badrul Farooqi. The platform lets teams generate cinematic videos with AI, offering a collaborative timeline and infinite canvas for assets.
The article profiles Multiverse Computing, a young Spanish artificial‑intelligence startup that aims to become a leading AI player in Europe, highlighting its ambitions, technology focus and potential impact on the European AI ecosystem.
Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI system, announced that it will add an invisible watermark to all AI‑generated text from its upcoming Claude models for the European market, meeting a specific requirement of the EU AI Act that mandates model makers to provide traceability of AI‑generated content.
Grodi is an AgriTech startup that creates proprietary autonomous robots, artificial vision systems and advanced data analysis tools to monitor the health and yield of crops. The solution is adapted to Mediterranean greenhouse environments, detects risks early, generates geolocated maps and helps reduce losses, optimise resources and improve agricultural profitability.
eB2 MindCare has introduced an AI‑driven platform that continuously tracks emotional wellbeing without invasive methods, converting passive data into behavioural biomarkers and predictive alerts to help healthcare providers anticipate risks and make better clinical decisions.
DokterOnline, a Dutch e‑health platform, used visitor‑behavior data to create five behavioral segments and adjusted a few homepage elements (hero, featured treatments, recommended articles) for each segment. The modest changes boosted overall visitor engagement by over 15% and increased the click‑through rate of personalized content by about 83%, demonstrating that small, data‑driven personalization can significantly improve user experience without large technical investments.
Dutch fintech bunq was denied a US national bank charter by the OCC, delaying its plans to expand banking services in the United States.