M2R Agrofarm is a Spanish biotech startup that has created its own processes and technology to scale up the industrial breeding and transformation of mealworms, generating protein-rich flours, oils, chitosan and frass for a range of applications including human food, animal feed, agriculture, cosmetics and pharmacy.
Polish startup Silkland launched its Ultra96 HDMI cable, offering twice the bandwidth of standard Ultra High Speed HDMI cables and enabling uncompressed 4K at 240 Hz, and has opened pre‑orders for the product.
Żabka expands its printing service by installing Zeccer printing kiosks in almost 1,400 stores, allowing customers to print labels, documents and other items instantly without traveling to a specialist point.
After four years of in‑person training, Romania’s largest entrepreneurial centre, Stup, created by Banca Transilvania, launched an online learning programme called “Stup vine la tine” to give its 48,000 members free live courses accessible anywhere, starting with a session on viral social‑media hooks on 22 September.
The Dutch adserver PEXI is adding several AI-powered innovations to its platform, such as dynamic creative optimization, a proprietary MCP server that lets AI agents communicate directly with the adserver, and a Previewer tool that centralises feedback and offers predictive suggestions based on past campaign data.
Swedish startup Ordo Labs, focused on simplifying bureaucracy for pharmaceutical labs, was accepted into the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator after refining its pitch with support from a KTH team. The founders received positive feedback on the improvements needed.
Polish startup GPN-Star has unveiled a powerful AI‑driven platform that works like a “genetic ChatGPT” to pinpoint DNA variants influencing organism traits and disease susceptibility. Independent testing by UC Berkeley showed the tool beats existing genomic approaches and can be trained with far lower resource demands than the largest genome‑focused models.
Universal Robots, the Danish leader in collaborative industrial robots, unveiled its new Gen 7 platform at the IMTS exhibition. The platform integrates advanced physical AI capabilities to simplify deployment of automation solutions across factories.
Zopa, the UK digital bank, rolled out its AI-powered voice assistant to all current‑account customers, enabling voice‑driven payments, transfers and financial planning, marking the bank’s entry into conversational banking.
HumanX, a European AI conference platform created by the team behind Money20/20, Shoptalk and HLTH, will hold its 2026 event in Amsterdam, gathering over 2,500 AI leaders to discuss implementation, regulation and business strategy under the new EU AI Act. The conference emphasizes practical, non‑sponsored sessions and structured networking, and offers a discount code for EU‑Startups readers.