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Here comes your weekly dose of European startup stories & opportunities. And as we're currently thinking about ways to further improve EU-Startups, I'd be curious to hear about your thoughts:

?? Readership Survey:?Please help us to further improve EU-Startups and our editiorial output?by filling out our?EU-Startups readership survey?(takes 3 minutes max). Among all participants we'll raffle away 3 tickets for next year's EU-Startups Summit!

?? Rocket Up:?Boost your expansion with the EU-funded Rocket Up programme! The EU-funded Rocket Up programme offers a 15-week programme designed to support female founders with customized mentoring, training, and networking opportunities, for startups in mobility, food or manufacturing tech.?Apply now to join the programme!

?? Startups to Watch:?A few days ago, we introduced you to?10 fast-growing German startups?to keep an eye on, and earlier this week we presented you?10 exceptionally promising French startups?to watch in 2023 and beyond.

?? Design Terminal Mentoring Programme:?Join one of Hungary’s top accelerator programmes led by Design Terminal. The Mentoring Program gives startups the chance to develop with international experts, get personalized training, access to a network and even a scholarship.?Apply until May 21!

?? Creator Economy:?Our contributor Amanda recently introduced you to?10 European creator economy startups?to watch in 2023, and today our new colleague Antonio published and interesting overview highlighting?10 of Europe’s leading Youtube content creators.

?? AI and AI Regulation:?Our guest contributor Robin Rohm just published an interesting piece about the EU AI Act, and about?how AI regulation could affect your startup.?And OpenAI CEO?Sam Altman just testified?during Senate hearing on AI oversight. By the way, this newsletter is not written by AI. Promised! :)

?? Embedded Finance:?Software companies looking to?integrate financial services into their own tech stacks via an API, sould make sure to?check out?Airwallex, which gives ambitious companies the tools they need to add financial services to their propositions. Learn more and/or book a demo.

?? Fresh Funds:?EWOR?just raised €3.2 million with the goal to become Europe’s answer to Y-Combinator,?Seedcamp?closed a new €166 million VC fund,?Finnish early-stage investor?Lifeline Ventures?announced a €150 million fund, and?Irish investment house?Elkstone?closed a new €100 million fund to become Ireland’s largest early-stage investor.

?? LinkedIn Poll:?We recently asked the business angels among our 77k LinkedIn followers how much they usually invest per round.?Here?are the results. We also asked our followers?how 2023 is going for them?business wise so far. 39% said "not so great".

?? Sky is not the Limit:?EIB has just?backed Wingcopter with €40 million?to boost its impact-led electric delivery drone service, and the SpaceTech startup?EnduroSat secured over €9 million?to better harness data from satellites.

? Accelerating without an accelerator??Our contributor Gemma Ghelardi just published an interesting post about "Why you shouldn’t join an accelerator programme".

?? Welcome to the Team:?This week, we welcomed two new colleagues at EU-Startups! Antonio Escarzaga is our new Head of Content, responsible for evergreen content, sponsored posts, news, and managing our Europe-wide contributor network; and Stefano de Marzo is joining us remotely as Head of News, and will be publishing most of our news content going forward. Welcome on board!

That's all we had to share with you this week. Have a nice weekend!

Best regards,

Thomas