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{Tech: Europe} - The Sandbox V1
We are relaunching The Sandbox, BFL's Series B & a €125m opportunity.
Bela from {Tech: Europe}
December 09, 2025
{Tech: Europe} - Europe’s Builder Community
🇪🇺🚀 The Sandbox V1 - Apply Now!
Europe needs new companies with global ambition. But we are lacking the environment to build them. That’s why we launched The Sandbox in Berlin. For the past 3 months we have run a trial version of our program. Now we are reopening for the first real cohort.
3 month
full lock in
for solo builders or teams
Starting 1st of February
Applications are open now: https://forms.techeurope.io/sandbox/application
If you want to build a company with global ambition and want to be surrounded by like-minded builders, apply now! Find more information here.
🇪🇺 What’s going on in Europe
After releasing their newest model, which scored just behind Nano Banana on LMArena, Black Forest Labs raised a $300m Series B led by Salesforce and AMP. This brings the Schwarzwald-based startup to a $3.25b valuation.
SPRIND, the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, launched a €125m, non-dilutive challenge for teams to build the next frontier AI lab in Europe. Join the waitlist here.
Paris based Gradium raised a $70m Seed round, led by First Mark and Eurazeo to build the backbone of natural voice agents.
Former DeepMind researchers are building Cursive - a new infrastructure stack for generative AI.
🧪 Missions Worth Joining
We permanently feature the most interesting tech roles in our ecosystem on our Job Board.
📅 Upcoming Builder Events
🇩🇪 Berlin
🇫🇷 Paris
🇬🇧 London
🇩🇪 Munich
See more upcoming events in our calendar.
📬 Want To Show Up Here?
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