Dutch FinTech company POM has acquired Danish sector peer FarPay to establish a new European standard for automated invoicing and payments. The move combines POM’s receivables management with FarPay’s end-to-end automation capabilities. Both companies were founded in 2014 and will operate as indepen
XBOW has appointed Jonaki Egenolf as CMO and Dean Breda as General Counsel to strengthen its executive team. The company’s autonomous agents recently reached the top of the HackerOne global leaderboard, outperforming human hackers across thousands of targets.
A new class of investors is buying up stagnant VC-backed startups at bargain prices, making them profitable, and holding them forever. The strategy challenges traditional venture capital’s growth-at-all-costs model by prioritizing sustainable cash flow over billion-dollar exits.
AI music startup Suno has invested $32 million in compute power since January 2024 while spending just $2,000 on training data. Meanwhile, Nvidia responds to Google’s chip advances as the AI infrastructure market gets increasingly competitive.
Singapore-based Amperesand has raised $80 million in Series A funding to develop its Medium Voltage Solid-State Transformer platform for AI data centers. The company plans to deploy 30MW of commercial systems in 2026, expanding operations in both the US and Singapore.
Corporate innovation labs have a dismal track record – only 47% meet strategic goals and just 24% hit financial targets. But Ingenico’s lab has thrived for 12 years by solving real business problems rather than chasing buzzwords. Here’s what makes their approach different.
Software company Pytilia has tripled its Belfast headquarters space to accommodate rapid growth. The five-year-old firm generates 90% of revenue from global clients including HP and BT while focusing heavily on early-career talent development.
The UK government has recruited tech leaders from Balderton Capital, DeepMind and Monzo to help build the country’s sovereign AI capabilities. The initiative includes £500m in funding and new AI growth zones across the country, with partnerships already established with major AI companies.
The $5 trillion hedge fund industry is discovering a massive untapped market: wealthy individuals. According to Goldman Sachs, private wealth platforms hold $50.7 trillion in assets but have less than $500 billion in hedge funds. Closing just 10% of that gap would double current hedge fund assets fr
Joe Liemandt, who dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy Software into a $120 million enterprise, says MBA programs don’t teach a “fraction” of what entrepreneurship does. He argues the analytical mindset of MBAs prevents the creative problem-solving needed to change reality.
