YEP Accelerator opens Silicon Valley program to help Ukrainian startups scale into the US

Today YEP Accelerator announced that it is opening a new office in California and launching an international track for growth-stage Ukrainian startups looking to enter the US market. The new track is…

Ten Years In, VivaTech Is Just Getting Started [Sponsored]

When VivaTech first opened its doors in 2016, it gathered 45,000 visitors. This June, the 10th edition is expected to welcome more than 180,000 attendees from 171 countries, a 300% increase that refle…

Energy tech: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025
Energy tech: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025

In 2025, European energy tech companies raised €7.5 billion,with funding concentrated in large infrastructure-focused rounds spanning EVcharging, battery storage, grid flexibility, home energy systems…

NASA Langley Engineer Attends FAA Training
NASA Langley Engineer Attends FAA Training

At a busy airport, every aircraft in the area shares just a handful of radio frequencies. Spectrum and time are constrained and if multiple people speak at once, both messages can get lost. Communications like “clearance delivery,” which require long transmissions and readbacks, are challenging in high-traffic areas, particularly when weather or other factors require […]

April 2026’s top 10 European tech deals you need to know about
April 2026’s top 10 European tech deals you need to know about

European tech activity in April 2026 remained broadly stablecompared to March, although overall funding volumes declined more noticeably.The ecosystem recorded 290 funding deals and €5.1 billionraised…

NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview
NASA’s SpaceX 34th Commercial Resupply Mission Overview

NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.  Loaded with about 6,500 pounds of supplies, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Following its arrival to the orbital complex, Dragon will dock autonomously to the forward port of […]

Eleven Labs expands Series D to $550M+, DeepL to axe 250 staff, and key trends and investments in April
Eleven Labs expands Series D to $550M+, DeepL to axe 250 staff, and key trends and investments in April

This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.4 billion and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.This week, we tracked more than 65…

NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon
NASA Fuel Cell Tests Pave Way for Energy Storage on Moon

With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A tangle of tubes and wires spiral away from the system, where nearly 270 sensors and 1,000 […]

Industry Moon Lander Training Cabin Lands at NASA for Artemis
Industry Moon Lander Training Cabin Lands at NASA for Artemis

A full-scale mock-up of a crew cabin for a future industry lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program now is operational for training and testing. The agency and its industry partners will use Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 2 crew cabin for mission simulations as the agency prepares to dock with landers in Earth orbit in […]

NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Marks 200 Days Inside Habitat
NASA’s Simulated Mars Mission Marks 200 Days Inside Habitat

The four crew members of NASA’s Mars simulation recently marked 200 days into their 378-day Red Planet mission on May 7. Currently, the crew is in a simulated two‑week loss‑of‑signal period that mimics a Mars-Earth communications blackout when Mars moves behind the Sun. During this blackout, the crew works without contact with mission control, using […]