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German AI foodtech startup Foodforecast raises €8 Million to cut ultra-fresh food waste

Cologne-based Foodforecast, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve how food with short shelf lives is forecast and produced, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round as it scales across Europe. The round was co-led by SHIFT Invest and the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), with participation from existing backers Future Food […]

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Rainbow Weather raises $5.5M to refine real-time weather forecasting


Warsaw, Poland 26 January 2026 – Rainbow Weather has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to push weather forecasting further into the short-term, high-precision territory it believes the industry still underserves. The Warsaw-based climate tech startup focuses on hyperlocal, minute-by-minute forecasts, zeroing in on what happens in the next few hours rather than days out. The round was backed by a syndicate of investors, including Yuri Gurski, founder of Flo Health, one of Europe’s best-known consumer tech unicorns. Rainbow Weather’s core product is a mobile app that delivers four-hour precipitation forecasts calculated from the exact moment a user checks the…

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Past the tipping point: Why the climate transition is now in our hands


Jacqueline van den Ende, CEO of Carbon Equity, believes we have already passed the climate transition tipping point: “Last year, 90% of all new electricity production worldwide came from renewable sources, i.e. generated via solar, wind, or water. Meanwhile, China is actually ahead of its climate goals compared to other countries,” she said. This isn’t a sign to let up; if anything, van den Ende believes we need more investment into climate tech solutions that will help accelerate the transition and make clean energy accessible across the globe. Yet, European climate tech funding sunk to a five-year low in Q1…

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Swiss startup says its AI weather forecaster beats Microsoft, Google

Swiss startup Jua has launched an AI weather model it says outperforms leading systems from tech giants — potentially making it the most accurate forecaster in the world. Jua claims its model — dubbed EPT-2 — is faster and more accurate than both Microsoft’s Aurora and Google DeepMind’s Graphcast. In separate, peer-reviewed studies, both of those […]

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