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DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready


Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect on January 17, 2025, was supposed to mark the beginning of a new era in digital risk management across the EU. Instead, it has exposed just how far most firms […]



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BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally


The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind BBLeap is disarmingly simple: most agricultural sprayers treat an entire field as a single unit, applying the same dose of pesticide, herbicide, or […]



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Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams


The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intelligence startup that helps sales teams identify and prioritise the accounts most likely to buy based on behavioural and CRM […]



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Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health


The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity […]



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Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack


Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest direct impact on their revenue, and you will hear a surprising amount of hesitation. The answer, increasingly, is the one piece of infrastructure that still gets treated as an afterthought: […]



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