In this week’s episode of EuroTech, we break down the biggest moves shaping Europe’s tech landscape — from fintech milestones to deep-tech breakthroughs and massive industrial investments.

We cover:

• Delivery Hero’s investor pressure and what it signals for Europe’s maturing tech markets
• Atomico’s 2025 State of European Tech Report — the rise of AI startups and Europe’s trillion-euro ambition
• SAP’s EU AI Cloud and the race for sovereign AI infrastructure
• ESA’s €22.1B space budget and what it means for Europe’s geopolitical footing
• Picnic, Stellantis, CATL, Skeleton Technologies — a wave of industrial-scale innovation
• Revolut’s stunning $75B valuation, redefining what European fintech scale looks like

And in our deep dive:

 "Europe in the Global AI Chip Race" — where Nvidia, Google, Huawei, and AMD fit in, Europe’s underappreciated strengths in the semiconductor value chain, and the five scenarios where Europe could leapfrog into tech leadership by 2035.

From energy storage breakthroughs to semiconductor strategy, from space to fintech, this week reveals a Europe that’s not just catching up — but actively shaping the next decade of global tech.

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Robotics funding, AI-defense alliances, EU regulation shifts, a major social media exit — and a special deep dive into General Intuition, Europe’s most ambitious frontier-AI lab.

In this week’s EuroTech episode, we break down the five biggest stories shaping Europe’s tech and investment landscape:

• Flexion raises $50M to build the AI “brain” for humanoid robots — and how it compares to another rising star, General Intuition
• Finland’s NestAI emerges from stealth with a €100M raise and strategic partnership with Nokia
• EU regulators spark controversy by proposing delays to the AI Act and loosening data privacy rules
• SIX Group outlines a pan-European SME stock market and recalibrates after Worldline’s collapse
• BeReal acquired for €500M as Voodoo expands from gaming to social networks
• UK announces new AI Growth Zones and research investments to position itself as Europe’s AI hub

Plus: a 5-minute deep dive into General Intuition, the Geneva–New York AI lab using video games to train spatially intelligent agents — and why investors believe it could become “the OpenAI of world models.”

Whether you're a founder, investor, policymaker or just curious about the future of European tech, this episode connects the dots between innovation, strategy, and geopolitics across the continent.

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In this week’s Euro Tech roundup, we unpack the biggest developments shaping European innovation — from fintech mega-rounds to AI breakthroughs, policy shifts, and major cross-border M&A.

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This episode explains how Visa and Mastercard came to dominate global card payments — and why Europe is now building alternatives. We cover the origins of the duopoly, how the bank–network relationship fuels it, and why new fintech tools still often rely on card rails.

We then dive into Europe’s strategy to regain control: instant payments, open banking, SEPA Instant, and the European Payments Initiative’s new digital wallet, Wero. The episode closes with a look at what a post-duopoly Europe could look like by 2030 and what it means for regulators, banks, fintech founders, and investors.

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A deep dive into Europe’s space transformation—from the Airbus–Thales–Leonardo mega-merger to New Space disruptors like EnduroSat, and the public flywheel powering Galileo, Copernicus, and IRIS². We map the competitive terrain (launch, constellations, downstream data), then explore three plausible futures where Europe wins: a unified champion, niche dominance in “responsible space,” and long-term human-spaceflight autonomy.

You’ll hear about:

• What the planned space mega-prime means for speed, cost, and export competitiveness
• How modular sats, SAR, RF sensing, and micro-launchers change time-to-orbit economics
• Why public programs create durable pipelines—and where private capital can ride along
• The KPIs and milestones to watch over the next 18–36 months

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In this episode, we cover the EU’s rethink of AI regulation, a semiconductor supply thaw with China, Klarna’s pay-by-bank move in Germany, the UK’s “Quantum Decade,” and Germany’s record-setting battery storage project. 

What we cover:

• How potential timing tweaks to the AI Act could affect startup roadmaps and compliance budgets
• Why the Nexperia chip deal matters for auto, industrials, and supply risk
• What Variable Recurring Payments signal for card rails and open banking adoption
• Where UK quantum funding is headed—and who benefits
• How utility-scale storage reshapes Europe’s energy-security story

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This week’s wrap is packed with headline-making stories shaping Europe’s innovation landscape — from deep tech to fintech, AI, and beyond.

We cover:

• 💡 Nvidia’s $1B bet on Nokia — how AI and telecom are converging
• 💰 Bending Spoons’ $710M funding and AOL acquisition — Italy’s rise as a tech powerhouse
• ⚖️ Legora’s $150M round — Sweden’s legal AI startup scaling fast
• 🏨 Mews acquires DataChat — bringing conversational AI into hospitality
• 💼 Sequoia’s new European funds — nearly $1B fueling early-stage innovation
• 👨‍💻 An 18-year-old founder from Cyprus — the next-gen entrepreneur building global apps from his bedroom

This 10-minute episode connects the dots across industries, showing how Europe’s tech momentum is accelerating — from AI and open banking to space, quantum, and clean energy.

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What happens when a Milan-based company starts buying some of the world’s most famous, but fading tech brands, and actually brings them back to life?

In this episode, we dive deep into the story of Bending Spoons, the Italian firm behind the revival of apps like Evernote, Meetup, WeTransfer, and even AOL. You’ll learn how they’ve built a multi-billion-dollar empire by combining sharp financial discipline with bold engineering and product reinvention.

We’ll explore:

• The unique “acquire and revitalise” business model powering their success
• How cost efficiency and shared tech platforms help turn losses into profits
• The controversial (and effective) playbook behind their major turnarounds
• Their growing ambitions — from AI-driven innovation to a potential IPO

Whether you’re a tech founder, investor, or just curious about how European start-ups are redefining global tech, this episode offers a front-row seat to one of the most fascinating success stories in modern business.

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In this episode, we will talk about a big merger in the space industry, a green electronics marketplace getting new funding, an AI startup facing layoffs, a Norwegian startup changing how we build software, and one of the largest seed funding rounds ever for a European AI company. 

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