The daily brief on companies, capital and policy moving into the UK and Europe.
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Covers: Market entry, UK
Eleanor edits Market Entry Wire and writes on the companies choosing the UK as their first overseas market. She previously spent eight years covering venture and scale-ups for European tech titles, and before that reported on trade for a regional business daily in Manchester. She is most interested in the unglamorous decisions behind a launch: the first hire, the first office, the first customer.
Birmingham Tech Week returns on 19–23 October with an AI-focused programme bringing investors, researchers and businesses together across the West Midlands.
07 Oct
The Copenhagen legal research company will use its Series A to enter more markets, recruit staff and make its legal data available to other technology builders.
05 Oct
The US supplies about a third of UK diesel imports, leaving businesses exposed to further fuel-cost increases as diesel reaches 199.18p a litre.
28 Sept
Brussels says electrification could cut annual fossil fuel imports by €260bn by 2040, but uneven incentives are reshaping Europe's electric car market.
27 Sept
Estonia’s armed forces and venture investor Archangel will connect defence needs with founders and capital, with scope for companies to develop and test technology.
24 Sept
The startup is testing non-invasive machine controls in Ukraine as it works towards a platform that needs less training and can serve multiple markets.
24 Sept
The French software company will give up to 5,000 Commission developers a single portal for cloud services, alongside a procurement route into other EU institutions.
21 Sept