Following up on our country deep-dive series, we now turn to Poland, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s largest and most established startup ecosystems. With major hubs in Warsaw and Kraków, Poland combines a strong technical talent base with growing venture activity across AI, healthtech, cybersecurity, agritech, defence, and digital platforms. Poland’s ecosystem benefits from The post Poland’s new tech wave: 10 of the most promising startups to watch in 2026 appeared first on EU-Startups.

Encord, the data infrastructure company for physical AI, today announced a €50 million ($60 million) Series C in order to accelerate product development, expand into new markets, and scale its AI-native data infrastructure platform as physical AI systems move from pilot programmes into full production. The round was led by Wellington Management, bringing the company’s The post London-based Encord raises €50 million to support next phase of physical AI deployment appeared first on EU-Startups.

In the last year, we’ve seen huge strides in AI development and adoption. Whilst staggering valuations take the headlines, I’m interested in the coming data drought, opportunities in healthcare, and space tech. These are the industries where we expect the most impact to be achieved. New AI data sources: a huge market opportunity Gaining access The post AI in 2026: The data drought, healthcare opportunities, and space tech appeared first on EU-Startups.

St. Gallen-based storage marketplace storabble has acquired the key assets of Düsseldorf-based mobile storage provider on-storage.  The transaction represents storabble’s first acquisition and includes on-storage’s technology platform, logistics management systems, and brand assets. Financial terms were not disclosed. “Our goal has always been to create the one place people go when they need storage, whether The post Swiss “Shark Tank” winner storabble acquires Germany’s on-storage to consolidate Europe’s fragmented storage market appeared first on EU-Startups.

Sparqle, an Amsterdam-based startup building an emission-free logistics infrastructure for modern e-commerce, has raised €1.5 million, including financing from the European Union, for European expansion.  The company is active in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France and is working to expand into multiple European cities. “Our mission is to create a logistics ecosystem that combines sustainability The post Amsterdam’s Sparqle secures €1.5 million with EU backing to scale emission-free delivery across Europe appeared first on EU-Startups.

Munich-based Ark Climate, a software company that offers an end to end solution for municipal climate action, has raised €2.1 million in a pre-Seed round to grow their team, expand their presence in the German market and develop advanced emission data and AI models. The round was led by the Climate Tech VC Satgana, joined The post German municipalities could cut 100 million tonnes of CO2e – Ark Climate raises €2.1 million to support local action appeared first on EU-Startups.