Planet Farms partnered with Swiss Life Asset Managers in a joint venture that brings up to €125 million of capital to develop new indoor farms in Europe, marking a shift of vertical farming toward an infrastructure asset class rather than a pure startup model.
Ploughshare’s Technology and Growth (TAG) Alliance grew to 19 members, adding major organisations such as Babcock, Frazer‑Nash Consultancy and UKRI, and anticipates three new defence‑technology spin‑outs by year‑end, aiming to bring UK defence IP to wider markets.
Dutch startup Guzco teamed up with payment platform Mollie to offer an AI‑driven, automated dispute‑resolution service for e‑commerce merchants, allowing them to automatically gather carrier data and other evidence and respond to chargeback claims without manual effort.
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