Rubicon Partners, a fund known for building deeptech and IT companies, is entering the defence market – it has become a shareholder in Polish Innovation Labs (PIL), a manufacturer and distributor of small-calibre ammunition. Remigiusz Talarek’s Elephant Rock Family Foundation…
Record amounts of venture capital funding are flowing into AI startups, but leading global investors are beginning to publicly warn of disconnected valuations. There is growing concern that the early-stage AI sector is becoming overheated, with fear of falling behind…
The UK venture capital market experienced a noticeable slowdown in the first seven months of 2025. Analyst data shows a decline in deal volume of around 14% and a reduction in total deal value of 11% year-on-year. This cooling off…
For decades, Europe’s technological landscape was based on a simple divide: innovative, capital-rich centres in the West and talented but mostly cheaper hinterlands in the East. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was mainly seen through the prism of cost arbitrage,…
The year 2025 on the European technology scene is a time of apparent contradictions. On the one hand, data points to historically low levels of Venture Capital fundraising, with just €5.2 billion raised in the first half of the year,…
A quiet revolution has been playing out in the landscape of Poland’s technology economy for several years. Devoid of the global publicity that accompanies the biggest tech hubs, the transformation of the HealthTech sector is fundamentally changing the face of…