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Two decades in aviation IT, a jobs app in Pakistan, a move to Europe and six current ventures. Muhammad Farooq Rathod now splits his time between Lisbon and the San Francisco Bay Area, and takes on a handful of founders each quarter as a mentor.
The Paris-founded unicorn has redesigned its experience analytics tool to monitor chatbots and AI agents alongside human visitors, as it bets that brands will soon need to optimise for both.
Monzo has named Diana Layfield, who spent nine years at Google and ran Standard Chartered in Africa, as Group CEO. TS Anil, who led the bank for over five years, moves to an advisory role as listing talk grows.
N26 has named veteran German banker Marc Hess as chief financial officer from 15 October, filling the last open seat on its management board as the Berlin bank reports its first full year of profit.
Revolut outlines plans to invest $13 billion to pursue 100 million customers globally, with roughly 30 new markets targeted by 2030 and new banking licences in regions such as Mexico, Colombia, India and South Africa.
Qonto has launched Qonto Insights, a free monthly data platform built from anonymised transaction activity across its 750,000 SME customers in four markets, covering cash buffers, late payments, AI spend and cross-border trade.
Mistral launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 ('ML4'), a 1-trillion-parameter natively multimodal open-weight model trained on its own European GPU infrastructure, with weights to be released by end of month.
A 100-day review by Stegra's new owners found building costs higher than expected, prompting a capital call and the exit of founding CEO Henrik Henriksson for former Saab boss Hakan Buskhe.
The London neocloud has raised $3.36bn in convertible notes led by Third Point, with Nvidia adding $1bn, as it heads toward an IPO that could value it near $35bn.
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