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Pathfounders is a fresh, new tech media brand offering informed reporting, analysis, and opinion on the top tech startups and VC firms across Europe, and their bridges to Silicon Valley.
We’ll also look at the wider, under-reported, international tech startup ecosystem, from the Middle East, to Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Pathfounders will use its network to tell you what the mood and gossip are in London, Paris, Stockholm, Barcelona, and Berlin. From Ireland to Istanbul; from Oslo to Malta, to MENA.
Pathfounders will profile and interrogate the new wave of startups, products, and services, many of them based on generative AI.
Edited by Mike Butcher, it will also feature contributions from a network of European and global journalists, analysts, and guest writers. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Search ArticlesPathfounders Newsletter: The Monzo no-sale; Eleven Labs hits $22bn; to sovereign or not to sovereign
Coming up: • Top Stories on Pathfounders this week • A review of the top stories in European Tech • We’re launching LUSH: A Pathfounders Founder/Investor winter-sun retreat • Other stories this week that were worth noting • Join our Pathfounders Network Top Stories On Pathfounders This week: A review of the top stories in European Tech 1.
Exclusive: Planning a big fund-raise, AskGVT emerges from stealth with AI consumer app that 'sees' gestures in video
London-based GVTLabs is emerging from stealth with a consumer platform to make video searchable. But instead of searching frame by frame, as existing products do, its AI-driven platform can search by actions, movement and physical context. It will launch first as a consumer product, but its underlying technology has implications for the development of Physical AI. Its founder, Nick Halstead, is literally one of the ‘original gangsters’ of the Web 2.0 era.
DIG Ventures raises $120m to back the “engine room” of AI infrastructure
When Ross Mason founded MuleSoft in 2006, there were just two real options for venture capital: Index Ventures and Balderton Capital. So he packed his bags, moved from Malta to San Francisco, raised money there, and 12 years later his company was acquired by Salesforce for $6.5bn. Later the same year, Mason founded DIG Ventures to start backing pre-seed and seed-stage technical startups and to bring some of what he’d learned back to Europe.
Pathfounders Newsletter: All the news this week; plus, "LUSH", the new Pathfounders retreat
Before we get into what’s happened this week, here’s something fun for you: We’re launching LUSH: A Pathfounders Founder/Investor winter-sun retreat, right after Slush (but you don’t have to go to Slush to attend!) Tenerife | 20th-23rd November 2026 Escape to Tenerife. Reconnect. Recharge. Grow your network. ‘LUSH’ is the new Pathfounders, by application only, retreat for founders, investors and ecosystem players designed specifically to generate those conversations.
We’re launching LUSH: A Pathfounders Founder/Investor winter-sun retreat, right after Slush
The absolute best conversations in the startup ecosystem are usually informal. Yes, often randomly at a conference, but often over dinner, and shared experiences like a walk, a hike, or a boat ride. ‘LUSH’ is the new Pathfounders, by application only, retreat for founders, investors and ecosystem players designed specifically to generate those conversations. And, coincidentally, it’s timed right after Slush, in a warm climate, enabling you to de-frost and wind down from a hectic week.
Is Morphotonics the next ASML? Its €40M+ B-round will scale tech for AR glasses and data centres
Dutch deeptech startup Morphotonics has raised more than €40 million in a Series B+ funding round, and the news suggests a bit more than just another mid-stage scale-up. Morphotonics makes the manufacturing technology behind fiendishly complex waveguides, one of the hardest components to produce in AR glasses and optical devices, but which are also crucial to the future of making datacentres run both faster and more efficiently.
Guest Column: Europe’s fragmented capital problems won't be solved by wailing about Hugging Face's exit
Europe often sees a promising technology company acquired by a buyer from another country (usually the US). We most recently saw this with the acquisition by Nvidia of Hugging Face. Cure a wailing and gashing of teeth about what has been lost! But this periodical angst tends to avoid the root causes of the event. A successful cross-border acquisition can reward founders and employees, return capital to investors, and give a new generation the confidence to build again.
UK's Unit1 raises $20m to make ABBA Voyage-style avatar concerts
Digital avatar concerts like ‘ABBA Voyage’ could become commonplace in cities and with more legacy artists, after London startup Unit1 Studio said it could reproduce Voyage-like shows in almost any venue. Unit1 has also now raised $20 million in an equity+financing Seed round to build more of them, but fans will have to wait.
Pathfounders Newsletter: Europe’s biggest stories this week
Top Stories This week: Burbidge is back: UK veteran VC launches NFG After co-founding one of the UK's first early-stage VCs (Passion Capital) and a period working as an angel, executive and government advisor, Eileen Burbidge is back as a Solo GP and plans to mix it up with the new wave of AI-powered early-stage founders. We conducted an exclusive in-depth interview with her for this week’s podcast.
Burbidge is back, as UK veteran VC launches £20m NFG fund
Eileen Burbidge, one of the best-known figures in UK venture capital, is back with NFG, a new early-stage, Solo GP, fund targeting around £20m to make the first institutional cheques into startups. Burbidge has already held a first close for NFG, backed by UK venture firm Thema and a Singapore-based family office, and has begun signing term sheets and writing cheques. The fund is targeting £20m ($26.7m), although she says it could ultimately reach around £30m ($40.2m).