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- {Tech: Europe} - Engineers for Voice & GPU Cloud + €500m in Unicorn Funding
{Tech: Europe} - Engineers for Voice & GPU Cloud + €500m in Unicorn Funding
Capital is flowing again. Plus: 3 infrastructure rocket ships and a fast-growing applied AI team.
Jan from {Tech: Europe}
January 20, 2026
{Tech: Europe} - Europe’s Builder Community
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🧠 Winter is for builders
There is nothing else to do outside, so you might as well ship. Plus, the market is signaling "go" as well (more on that below).
So start that project you tinkered with over the holidays. If you want to hack with others, we have a series of events coming up, which we’ll announce over the next weeks.
Until then, let’s look at who is already capitalizing on this momentum.
We are forming a list of people who are eager to start building. If you want to get matched, sign up here.
🚀 Early Stage Teams to join
Know a builder who is wasting their talent at a corporate? Forward this to them.
Arbio is looking for an Agent Engineer to build the next-generation agentic infrastructure to property management. You’ll design and ship AI systems that reason, act, and learn in production - owning orchestration, memory, and secure multi-agent workflows. This is true 0->1 work with huge impact at scale. Check out the job posting.
Lyceum is looking for an ML Research Engineer to build the intelligence behind their GPU cloud. Magnus, Max and the team are developing models that predict exactly how AI workloads behave to maximize efficiency. If you want to help solve the global compute shortage, check if there's a fit and apply here.
Alpic is looking for Software Engineers to build the infrastructure that lets AI agents actually do things. The team is creating the hosting layer for the Agentic Web, specifically for MCPs. Apply here.
Gradium is looking for Software Engineers to build the next generation of voice foundation models. The team (ex-Google, Meta, BCG) just raised a $70M Seed to solve real-time voice at scale. If you are obsessed with low latency and audio intelligence, check if there's a fit and apply here.
Hiring? Fill out this form to get featured. Know a great team? Fill out this form to put them into the spotlight.
📢 Applied AI Conference
Since there is a lack of conferences in Europe that are both hands on and high signal, we have decided to bring Europe’s best builders together for a day.
We want to give the very best European founders and technical leaders a stage to share knowledge, best practices and insights about what it means to actually ship AI into production.
Early-bird tickets are now available. Use the discount code TECHEUROPE for 25% off! It only works ten times though, so be quick
All information on https://conference.techeurope.io/.
If you are interested in partnering up for the conference, fill out this form and we’ll get in touch!
If you want to get more than 3 tickets for your team, reach out to [email protected].
🇪🇺 Funding/Launch Signals
2026 is off to a fast start. Last week, three massive rounds proved that capital is not the constraint for European builders. The signal is clear, so let’s build.
Parloa raised their $350m Series D, led by General Catalyst, at a $3b valuation.
Aikido became Ghent’s new unicorn with their $60m Series B.
Osapiens announced their $100m Series C unicorn round led by Decarbonization Partners (BlackRock & Temasek)
