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Scaling for sovereignty: How EU policy is reshaping Europe's deeptech playbook
Tech.eu reports that Europe's deeptech startups are being asked to do more than build successful businesses as EU policy focuses on strategic autonomy, supply-chain security, and the green transition. Backed by initiatives such as the European Innovation Council, a new generation of companies is emerging at the intersection of innovation and geopolitics. The article profiles examples including CorPower Ocean, EnduroSat, Kraftblock, and Modvion across wave energy, satellites, thermal storage, and wind turbine towers.

Diana Hu Is YC's Newest Managing Partner
Y Combinator has promoted Diana Hu to Managing Partner, one of the most senior roles at the startup accelerator. Hu spent four years as a group partner focused on AI, robotics, and hard tech, advising nearly 230 startups now worth a combined $7 billion. She reached the role as an engineer first, after co-founding an augmented reality company that Niantic acquired in 2018.
Deliverance AI exits stealth to power sovereign enterprise AI
Deliverance AI, a UK-founded provider of enterprise AI infrastructure, has exited stealth mode reporting £6 million in annual recurring revenue, more than 30 employees, and six enterprise customers signed within three months of incorporation. Led by founder and CEO Mick McNeil, the London-based company builds what it calls an Agentic Operating System, software that lets governments and regulated firms run AI agents inside their own private, on-premises, or air-gapped environments. The central selling point is data sovereignty: because the company is UK and EU headquartered, it argues its customers sit outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act.

How Bigger ACVs Are Bringing Direct Sales Back To Vertical AI
Successful vertical AI startups are increasingly using channels like private equity networks and industry conferences to drive distribution, recognizing that larger deal sizes require a fundamentally different go-to-market playbook than traditional vertical SaaS. Guest author Medha Agarwal, a general partner at Defy.vc, explains just what that means.

How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies
A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker. At this year's event, NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing how that commitment is producing real momentum across the nation's infrastructure, startups [...]

Announcing the newest cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East, North Africa & Turkey
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible. In high-growth, technically ambitious markets like the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENA-T), we fulfill this mission by supporting AI-First startups building the next generation of information-driven services on a global scale. In a region known for its resilience, we want to help founders flourish in any conditions. The newest cohort of 15 companies in the Google for Startups Accelerator: MENA-T program starts on June 1. They follow on the success of our sixth group, which concluded in Novem

CME Group and Silicon Data to launch AI compute futures market
Silicon Data, the startup that provides market intelligence for artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, will provide the price indexes for a new futures market that will allow investors to hedge their bets on the semiconductor industry. CME Group's new "compute futures market" will give investors the opportunity to bet on the price of renting cloud-based computing [...] The post CME Group and Silicon Data to launch AI compute futures market appeared first on SiliconANGLE.