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How layoff survivors at European scale-ups are quietly burning out behind record growth numbers

Anghami CEO’s side project World Monitor now has 2 million users tracking conflicts in real time

I mapped who profits when a country’s internet gets shut down , it’s never who you think

Speedy grocery startup Flink raises $100m at $900m valuation

Elon Musk says his tweets are personal thoughts. A $44 billion trial tests who pays when markets disagree.

Photoncycle raises €15m to scale its ‘summer sun to winter power’ energy solution

Self-driving startup Oxa raises $103m round backed by Nvidia and BP

Iran war underscores the ‘urgency’ for Europe to build its defence capabilities, VCs say

Chips startup Vertical Compute raises €37m to tackle AI’s memory overload

Why European founders should move to the US: ‘You have to experience it to understand it’