Refurbed, the Vienna‑based refurbished electronics marketplace, announced that co‑founder Kilian Kaminski will be a keynote speaker at the EU‑Startups Summit 2027 in Malta, where he will discuss sustainable entrepreneurship and circular business models.
American Steven Prast, who spent many years as a senior executive under Elon Musk at SpaceX and Tesla, has taken on the role of operational chief at Swedish battery startup Holyvolt.
After 25 years in the tech industry, former Google Meet scaling leader and former Zoom CEO Smita Hashim, based in Silicon Valley, joins Swedish venture capital firm Disruptive Ventures as an investor, focusing on deep‑tech and engineering talent and planning to help Swedish startups across the Atlantic.
Romanian fintech Finqware, founded in 2018, is expanding its Open Banking platform across Central and Eastern Europe, opening new hiring pipelines in Romania, Hungary and Croatia and extending its banking connectivity to several additional countries.
Linehub, a European performance‑marketing network comprising brands such as Daisycon, Affiliprint and Sovendus, announced the hiring of Bart Zoetmulder as Group Director Sales. In his new role he will strengthen the commercial organisation, improve collaboration across the group’s labels and drive new‑business growth as the company targets €100 million in revenue within the next two to four years. The move reflects Linehub’s ambition to expand internationally and reduce reliance on large tech platforms.
Reshift Digital, a Dutch digital publishing group, announced that its four founders handed over day‑to‑day leadership to a new management team. Kevin van Oosteren and Remco de Graaf were appointed managing directors, with van Oosteren focusing on commerce and performance and de Graaf on innovation, AI and community. The outgoing founders will move to advisory and strategic roles.
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Billo, a Swedish digital mailbox startup competing with Kivra, announced a leadership change with Tobias Winberg appointed as the new CEO.
Starling Bank, the UK‑based challenger bank, rolled out an artificial‑intelligence platform to automate parts of its workflow. While the move aims to improve efficiency, employees have voiced worries that the technology could replace human roles and affect service quality.
Readly announced that its chief executive Johan Adalberth will depart after a year in the role and that the company will not appoint a successor. At the same time, Readly is reducing its staff by about 33%.