Lyko now offers a 30‑minute delivery service for cosmetics and even sex toys via Wolt, turning beauty products into fast‑food‑style orders. The partnership was discussed with Lyko founder Rickard Lyko and Wolt’s Linda Fors, covering integration, margins, climate impact and the impulse‑driven buying behaviour.
Spektre, an Amsterdam‑based startup, analysed 2,092 domains where garden‑furniture retailer Kees Smit advertised and found that high‑quality website placements can convert up to 40 times better than low‑quality ones, highlighting massive inefficiencies in programmatic advertising. The company will use the findings to create a new KPI for media quality and offer the dataset to advertisers and agencies.
German AI translation startup DeepL, valued at $2 billion, announced a partnership with US legal‑tech company Harvey to translate legal documents for lawyers worldwide. The deal gives DeepL a significant share of Harvey’s translation workload and underscores DeepL’s push into heavily regulated sectors such as legal, finance and life sciences.
Astrolight and ATMOS Space Cargo are developing a routine, commercial laser communication system that will enable data transfer from a spacecraft returning from orbit to a satellite, aiming for the first transmission in 2027.
Christian Tour partnered with netSIM to provide travelers from Romania with instant eSIM data packages for use abroad, eliminating the need for physical SIM cards and reducing roaming costs.
Yubico reported higher sales and a significant profit increase in Q2, marking a milestone collaboration with OpenAI.
London‑based data centre builder Nscale will supply $1 million of compute resources to AI research groups at Oxford, UCL and Imperial, underscoring growing demand for sovereign compute capacity in European research institutions
Spanish startup Kreios Space announced a partnership with Norwegian‑Lithuanian satellite maker Kongsberg NanoAvionics to launch the first satellite capable of flying closer to Earth than any before, using a VLEO platform and testing its ABEP propulsion technology.
A Dutch pilot lets e‑car drivers earn about 10% of their charging cost by using smart‑charging apps to shift charging to quieter periods on the grid, aiming to reduce peak load and improve grid utilization
Goparity, an impact‑investment platform, has completed the integration of Bolsa Social into its marketplace, concentrating all new activity on goparity.com. In the first three months after the integration the platform has mobilised over €300,000, bringing together more than 72,000 registered users and positioning itself as one of the most significant impact‑investment ecosystems in Southern Europe.