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E 769 — Talent Without Recycling: The European Scale-Up Question, Part 4

E 767 — Unicorn Atlas #1: Helsing — Europe's $18 Billion Defence AI Bet

Germany's New Startup Strategy Is Really a Scaleup Strategy

Europe's Startup Recovery Never Came: H1 2026 Rotation

The Defence Capital Supercycle: €1.7B in a Month

DACH News May 2026: $3.67B Funding & Helsing's $1.2B

DACH News April 2026: VC Leaves SaaS for Deep Tech

Q1 2026 Review: Germany's Startup Selection Event

DACH News March 2026: Robotics, Defence & Bavaria

Ventech's Stephan Wirries on AI Agents vs SaaS

DACH Startups Jan–Feb 2026: A Strategic Capital Review

EU Scale and the Structural Reform of European Seed Funding

ADA AI's Oliver Dlugosch: AI Employees by Design

ADA AI's Oliver Dlugosch on AI in the Back Office

Metaco's Adrien Treccani: When Management Bottlenecks

DACH Deep-Dive Dec 2025: Regulation & AI Credibility

DACH 2026 Outlook: AI Mega-Rounds & Defense Dual-Use

Startuprad.io Is Back on Signal: A Quick Publishing Update

German Startups 2025: When AI Becomes Infrastructure

European Tech Sovereignty: The 2025 DACH Theme

October 2025 DACH Deep-Dive: AI, VC & Fintech

Europe's AI Supercluster: DeepL, Black Forest Labs & n8n

Xaver Lehmann (e-bot7) on Burnout After a $60M Exit

Flow-State Rituals for Founders: Deep Work & Focus

Steven Puri (Sukha): Deep Work That Ships

DACH News Sept 2025: Deep Tech, VC Surge & Fintech

DACH News Sept 2025: $2.3B AI Unicorn & N26 Crisis

Jennifer Grün (AWS) on Agentic AI for SaaS

Jennifer Grün (AWS) on AI Monetization Strategy

DACH News Sept 2025: Deep Tech, Fintech M&A & Green

DACH News: Berlin AI Unicorn, N26 & Hydrogen Bet

AWS's Dennis Traub on Productionizing AI

AWS's Dennis Traub on GenAI Without Breaking GDPR

Why Startup Exec Hires Fail — the €250K Mistake

Voltfang's €15M for Second-Life EV Batteries

Moss CEO Ante Spittler on SME Finance Automation

Emotional Branding: The Startup Superpower

Helsing Tops German Startups as the EU Commits €10B

Ehud Dror on Startup Storytelling That Wins Pitches

DACH News May 2025: The Month's Biggest Raises

Negotiate Like the FBI: Matthias Bullmahn for Founders

Andy Goldstein: Europe's VC Needs a Mindset Reboot

Christian Conrad on Trust-Based Leadership

Christian Conrad: Culture Is ROI (Part 1)

DACH News April 2025: €1.3B Raised, a Fintech Crashes

Imre Marton Remenyi on Preventing Founder Burnout

DACH Unicorn Tracker Spring 2025: Billion-Euro Startups

Stablecoins Surge $226B: March 2025 DACH News

DACH News Feb 2025: Finn's €1B & Cherry's €500M Fund

DACH News Jan 2025: An Acquisition Wave

Dec 2024 News: Black Forest Labs & Upvest's Fintech Round

Bitpanda Eyes a Frankfurt IPO: Nov 2024 DACH News

GSA News Oct 2024: Two Unicorns & Lilium's Bankruptcy

Sept 2024 News: Intel Halts €30B Fab, Magic AI's $320M

Summer 2024 News: Helsing's €4.9B Defense-AI Valuation

Kadena's Annelise Osborne on On-Chain Finance

GSA News June 2024: Amazon's €10B & Check24's €100M

GSA News May 2024: $7.5B in New VC Funds

MiCA Explained: Alireza Siadat on EU Crypto Rules

GSA News April 2024: Novo Nordisk's €1.025B Deal

GSA News March 2024: Northvolt's €4.5B Gigafactory

GSA News Feb 2024: Microsoft's €3.3B Data-Center Bet

GSA News Feb 2024: BioNTech's Court Win & Monta's €80M

GSA News Jan 2024: 2,500 New Startups & Big Raises

German Startup Valuations: A 2023 Deep-Dive Recap

A Festive Year-End Message from Startuprad.io Host Joe Menninger

GSA News Dec 2023: Capital Beats Insolvencies

GSA News Nov 2023: Aleph Alpha's $500M Raise

Cashlink's Michael Duttlinger on Tokenized Securities

GSA News Oct 2023: Katalin Karikó's Nobel (Ep. 400)

GSA News Sept 2023: Berlin's First Defense-Tech Unicorn

Bitpanda Passes 1M German Customers: Summer 2023 News

GSA News June 2023: 1Komma5°'s Record Unicorn Sprint

Klink's Philip Jonitz on Mainstream Crypto Adoption

GSA News May 2023: Germany in Recession, Startups Rise

GSA News April 2023: Capital Returns with €600M+

GSA News March 2023: Raisin Regains Unicorn Status

GSA News Feb 2023: A Neobroker Rate War & Windeln.de

GSA News Jan 2023: DeepL's Unicorn Status

The FTX Collapse Explained: Antonio Fatás (INSEAD)

GSA News Dec 2022: Enpal's €800M & Sennder's $2B

FTX Ripples Into Europe: Nov 2022 GSA News

GSA News Oct 2022: Gorillas–Getir Talks & Grover

GSA News Sept 2022: Layoffs Offset by New Funding

CBDCs & Fintech Opportunities in Europe (Part 1)

GSA News Summer 2022: Wefox's €400M & B2B Neobanking

GSA News June 2022: Downturn Bites, Unicorns Cut Staff

FQX's Benedikt Schuppli on On-Chain Corporate Debt

GSA News May 2022: Taxfix & Onefootball Turn Unicorn

Exaloan's Luca Fignani on Loan-as-a-Service for SMEs

GSA News April 2022: DACH Keeps Minting Unicorns

GSA News March 2022: Europe's 100 Most Influential Women

Wolfgang Männel on Reading Crypto Cycles

Philipp Sandner on the Digital Euro & Stablecoins

GSA News Feb 2022: ESL Gaming's $1B Exit & FinTecSystems

Finoa's Henrik Gebbing on Institutional Crypto Custody

Inside Atomico's State of European Tech 2021

German News Jan 2022: Germany Counts 25 Unicorns

German News Dec 2021: Mambu's $266M & Volocopter

German News Nov 2021: Tier's Funding & N26's US Exit

German News Oct 2021: N26 Reclaims Fintech Crown

GSA Unicorn Tracker Oct 2021: Billion-Euro Moves

German News Sept 2021: Unicorn Tracker Catch-Up

German Startup News Summer 2021: The July–September Wrap-Up

This Month in German Startups - June 2021

Bonus: This Month in German Startups – Unicorn Stampede