‘The true barrier to entry is scale’: Inside the new frontier of European fintech’s AI arms race

How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture Capital

Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for quality, hiring exceptional talent and automating processes to scale efficiently, argues Nacho De Marco, who draws on his experience bootstrapping BairesDev, to emphasize financial…

Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew Scarcer

All told, fintech startups raised $10.6 billion globally in the third quarter of 2026, down 28.4% from $14.9 billion in Q2 2026 and 21.4% from $13.5 billion in Q3 2025.

Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend.

Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027

Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin.

Revolut app down in widespread outage

Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet

Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.

Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches new startup Metis Reasoning

As France reels from days of violence, founders brace for more uncertainty

Governments need startups. So why is it so hard to sell to them?

The investors with the biggest jumps in the Sifted AI 100