Startups
The companies building what comes next.
Startups
Venture capital funds laboratory breakthroughs easily but struggles when hardware must be produced at scale. The real barrier for deep tech is the factory floor.
Henrik Solberg · 16 September 2026 · 7 min
Startups
Capital discipline has returned to northern software companies. Instead of pitching investors, more founders are writing invoices on day one.
Clara Bergman · 15 September 2026 · 6 min
Startups
Venture rounds have stopped rewarding speculative headcount and unverified software pipelines. The teams raising capital in 2026 focus on gross margins, retention, and quiet execution.
Andrew Singer · 14 September 2026 · 6 min
Startups
Founders describe longer diligence, harder questions about gross margin, and a renewed interest in whether the customer has a budget line. Investors describe the same thing and call it normal.
Andrew Singer · 11 September 2026 · 7 min
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Technical founders lose their first large deal to security review, insurance requirements and data processing terms far more often than to a competitor.
Clara Bergman · 9 September 2026 · 6 min
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Deal counts are down from the peak and the companies being funded look different: longer sales cycles, real gross margin, and founders who have run a business before.
Andrew Singer · 6 September 2026 · 7 min
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Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius have produced a dense, unusually export-oriented technology sector built on public digital infrastructure and on necessity.
Emily Byrski · 23 August 2026 · 7 min
Startups
Capital and political will arrived faster than the purchasing systems that would let a small company actually sell to a ministry.
AJ Dellinger · 9 August 2026 · 7 min
Startups
Capital flowing into European dual use and defence startups has quadrupled in three years. The sector's public communication has barely changed.
Clara Bergman · 27 June 2026 · 7 min
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Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki produced more seed stage health tech rounds in the first half of 2026 than any other regional cluster in the EU.
Sanna Koskinen · 13 June 2026 · 5 min