I've always considered myself self-sufficient when it comes to pressure from shareholders and teams alike at work. Having experienced family fall-outs, living on streets, going to prison, bad reputation, loneliness in its truest sense, I couldn’t see anything worse than that. As such I never thought I'd need a "shrink" to tell me how to not get pissed at a bunch of Gen-x hires unnecessarily complaining about a dysfunctioning coffee machine at the office. Then I met Shahab Sayardoust, his bald head, Patagonia jacket, in a small office located in Stockholm and my perspective completely changed.

As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Martin Kassing, CEO of Upvest about empowering banks and wealth managers to offer any investment product and experience.

European Union finance ministers met recently to discuss a joint inter-governmental defence fund. The fund will be used by the bloc to purchase its own defence equipment – equipment made available to the E.U.’s member-states in return for a fee.

As part of our quick founder questions series – or QFQs – we spoke to Tess Reed, Founder, All Dressed Up about all natural, delicious dressings, working with a shoestring budget and creating a new kitchen staple superhero.

In this deep dive into Biscay’s under-the-radar startup ecosystem, author Juan Tomás Hermani is the CEO of Satlantis shares why his company moved its headquarters from Florida to Bilbao — and hasn’t looked back. From generous public funding to green hydrogen infrastructure, Biscay is quietly becoming one of Europe’s most compelling hubs for climate tech and innovation.