Author: Utsav

Construction platform Spotable raises €4 million to digitise the building supply chain worldwide Ghent scaleup Spotable started out eighteen months ago with software for small roofing companies. Today it sells its technology to contractors, distributors and international building material manufacturers, and raises €4 million in seed funding to continue its growth in Europe and the United States. A roofer loses eight hours per project on average to manual measuring and quoting. Many quotes are still made in Excel, and producing one means a tradesman has to visit every new site in person, with no guarantee he’ll land the job. “Software…

Inside SigTuple’s AI-Powered Approach to Medical Diagnosis The Problem With Traditional Medical Microscopy For decades, microscopy has remained a fundamental part of diagnosing diseases from blood, urine, and other biological samples. Yet the process of examining samples under a microscope is still highly manual. A laboratory professional must prepare the sample, locate relevant regions, examine cells, classify abnormalities, and interpret what they see. As diagnostic volumes increase, this creates challenges around turnaround time, consistency, workload, and access to specialist expertise.SigTuple was founded in Bengaluru in 2015 with the goal of addressing this bottleneck by automating microscopic analysis. The company points…

Equal AI Wants to Put an AI Assistant Between You and Every Call Spam calls have become an unavoidable part of using a phone, but the problem extends beyond obvious scams and telemarketing. Delivery agents, financial service providers, recruiters, sales teams, and unfamiliar numbers can all interrupt the day, forcing people to answer calls simply to discover whether they matter. Equal AI is approaching the problem by allowing its AI assistant to answer calls on a user’s behalf. Instead of simply identifying the caller, Equal can communicate with them, understand their intent, and tell the user who called, why they…

French Legal Tech Startup Legapass is Solving the Digital Mortality Crisis The Digital Afterlife Has Become a Legal Problem Death used to leave behind physical assets that could be inventoried, valued, and transferred through established legal processes. Today, a person’s estate can also contain cryptocurrency, online accounts, investment platforms, digital documents, passwords, intellectual property, and access credentials. Finding and transferring these assets can become considerably harder when family members or notaries do not know they exist. Legapass is tackling this problem by creating technology designed to help individuals organise their physical and digital wealth while helping professionals identify assets that…

Top 10 AI Compliance Tools to Watch Why AI Compliance Has Become a Core Business Function The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is creating new requirements for organizations responsible for security, risk, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Companies now need to understand where AI is being used, what risks individual systems create, which regulations apply, and how evidence of compliance is maintained. At the same time, established frameworks such as SOC 2 remain important for demonstrating controls around security, availability, confidentiality, and related trust criteria. AI compliance platforms are increasingly bringing these activities into centralized workflows, combining regulatory intelligence, risk assessments,…

HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN Is the World’s First Tri-Fold Smartphone Now HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN: Full Specs and Features HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN takes the foldable smartphone concept a step further by introducing a three-part folding design that transforms one device into three different screen configurations. Huawei describes it as the world’s first commercial tri-fold smartphone, and its defining feature is a large flexible OLED display that folds through two hinges. In single-screen mode, the device provides a 6.4-inch display for conventional smartphone use. Opening one section expands the screen to 7.9 inches, creating more room for…

Belgium-Based Spott Bags $21 Million Series A to Transform Recruitment With AI Leuven, Belgium, 22 September, 2026: Spott, the AI-native applicant tracking system (ATS) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform for recruitment agencies, has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortino. The funding will support international expansion, enterprise functionality and new proactive, agentic AI capabilities. Spott aims to make relationships and decision-making almost the entire role of a recruiter. It estimates that human judgement currently accounts for only 20% of the job, with administration and sourcing consuming…

Code, Data, and Blood: How London-Based Thriva is Debugging Human Health Healthcare Is Moving From Reactive Treatment to Continuous Health Monitoring Healthcare has traditionally focused on identifying problems after symptoms appear. Thriva is part of a growing movement attempting to shift that model toward earlier awareness, regular monitoring, and informed lifestyle decisions. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company provides personalised at-home blood tests designed to help people understand what is happening inside their bodies. Its platform measures health indicators linked to areas such as nutrition, hormones, cholesterol, metabolism, inflammation, and long-term health. Thriva’s approach is built around…

PANTA Launches AI Layer to Transform Index Investing London-Based PANTA brings AI to index investing London, Monday 21 September 2026 – PANTA today announced an advanced AI layer, enabling financial institutions to build, test and iterate indices at unprecedented speed. Much of the $22 trillion index industry still relies on disconnected manual processes and legacy technology, making index design a cumbersome task. PANTA’s latest AI release transforms this: conversational AI features allow users to describe what they want in plain English and get a working index methodology in minutes, while AI-generated commentaries offer insights into how an index performed during…

What is Skydo? The Zero-FX Cross-Border B2B Payment Platform Disrupting Traditional Banking Skydo Is Building a Simpler Way for Indian Businesses to Receive International Payments For Indian freelancers, exporters, agencies, and online sellers, receiving international payments can involve more than simply getting paid. Foreign exchange markups, intermediary bank fees, documentation charges, and settlement delays can quietly reduce the value of every invoice. Bengaluru-based Skydo is addressing this problem with a cross-border payments platform designed to make international business payments more transparent and predictable. Founded in 2022 by Srivatsan Sridhar and Movin Jain, Skydo operates under the Reserve Bank of India’s…