IN THE LOOP
-
Advertising: US retail giant WALMART acquires French adtech VIBE for €1.2 billion to step up its challenge to AMAZON
Advertising: Walmart’s push to build a media empire The world’s largest retailer is no longer content just selling products —…
Read More » -
Defense: German startup STARK, backed by Peter Thiel, raises €500 million
Defense: the rearmament race is increasingly playing out in venture capital boardrooms The German startup Stark, which specializes in attack…
Read More » -
French geolocation startup WHEERE raises €8.5 million to take its indoor positioning technology into orbit
GPS has become one of the most critical infrastructures in the global economy. Every day, billions of smartphones, vehicles, aircraft,…
Read More » -
Harvest now, decrypt later: why Washington is accelerating its post-quantum transition
Trump signed two Executive Orders yesterday marking a new phase in America’s technology strategy The first sets an ambitious industrial…
Read More » -
French observability startup TSUGA raises €30 million as AI agents push monitoring costs to breaking point
AI is often presented as a cost-cutting technology Task automation, streamlined operations, productivity gains — the dominant narrative is one…
Read More » -
Corporate cars enter the circular economy: FLEASE raises €13 million to challenge traditional long-term leasing
Corporate cars enter the circular economy: Flease’s bet against traditional long-term leasing The long-term rental market was built on a…
Read More » -
COMAND AI raises €32 million: European defense is no longer aiming for sovereignty, but for supremacy
Comand AI keeps accelerating Eighteen months after a first funding round of €8.5 million and a €3 million pre-seed, the…
Read More » -
SEEDCAMP raises €279 million: why Europe’s next tech wave won’t look like the last one
Since its founding in 2007, Seedcamp has been there in the earliest hours of some of Europe’s biggest tech success…
Read More » -
AT VIVATECH, four visions of the future clashed
If there was one thing entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers at VivaTech 2026 seemed to share this year, it was a…
Read More » -
Europe wants to take back control of its satellite space
The European Union has never talked so much about space sovereignty, and its proposal to reserve part of the satellite…
Read More »