The @Siftedeu AI 100 spotlights Europe’s most promising AI startups in 2026.
🎉 Congratulations to @NEA portfolio companies, spektr, which aims to transform compliance and on-boarding with AI, and @Valarian, which empowers enterprises, governments, and defense organizations with full data ownership, digital sovereignty, and operational control for being honored. 👏🏽
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🚨 LAST CALL -- SUBMIT BY 11:59PT TONIGHT! 🚨
📢 Calling future Fellows!
👉🏽 Who you are: A university undergrad in the venture/entrepreneurship world, or with a background in engineering, product, or design
👉🏽 What makes you, you: An independent thinker and team player — curious, engaged, ready to dive in
👉🏽 What you'll get:
✅ Hands-on experience in the business of VC
✅ Direct collaboration with investment professionals
✅ The chance to build your own investment thesis
✅ Deeper ties to your campus entrepreneurial ecosystem
✅ Cool swag (yes, really)
Applications close October 16, 2026 — don't wait ⏳
✍🏽 Apply now: neafellowship.com
📺 Spotted on @theinformation TV: @samaya_AI founder & CEO @maithra_raghu was featured to discuss her company’s AI agents for finance that aim to transform global financial market information into investment conviction
👉🏽 Check it out at the 28:55 mark. theinformation.com/titv
🗣️ Coming up this morning at 10am!
NEA's @aaronej will take the stage at @TechCrunch Disrupt to discuss 'Rewriting SaaS: Why AI Breaks the Old Business Model' alongside @cgao (@SapphireVC) and @BarrMoses_MC (@montecarlo_ai): techcrunch.com/2026/10/15/te…
#Disrupt2026 #TechCrunchDisrupt
🚨 DEADLINE APPROACHING 🚨
📢 Calling future Fellows!
👉🏽 Who you are: A university undergrad in the venture/entrepreneurship world, or with a background in engineering, product, or design
👉🏽 What makes you, you: An independent thinker and team player — curious, engaged, ready to dive in
👉🏽 What you'll get:
✅ Hands-on experience in the business of VC
✅ Direct collaboration with investment professionals
✅ The chance to build your own investment thesis
✅ Deeper ties to your campus entrepreneurial ecosystem
✅ Cool swag (yes, really)
Applications close October 16, 2026 — don't wait ⏳
✍🏽 Apply now: neafellowship.com
🎉 Congratulations @namespacelabs—$42M Series B raised to speed up developer infrastructure.
We’re thrilled to continue partnering with @20thr and the Namespace team! 👏🏼
We've raised $42M in Series B funding led by @scalevp, with participation from @NEA, @20vcFund, and others, bringing our total funding to $65M.
Namespace is already powering software development for SpaceXAI, Ramp, ElevenLabs, Factory, ClassPass, Wispr Flow, Bilt, Framer, Zed, Verkada, fal, Buildkite, Vanta, Sierra, Warp, DuckDB, Effect, Mapbox, and more than 1,000 of the world's most ambitious companies.
Learn more about how we got here.
📺 ICYMI: NEA Partner, @lucktm was recently featured on @BloombergTV to discuss the relationship between technology at the AI frontier versus the reality of adoption by consumers and enterprises.
Watch more here: bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
➡️ @Spiko_finance just announced a $90M in Series B funding. Now NEA's @PhilipChopin & Hunter Worland are detailing our lead investment and why we're thrilled partner with @pahyppolite & @AntMichon to make yield universal.
💸 Businesses pay fees to hold cash that loses value, and legacy bank plumbing keeps yield out of reach.
⚡ Spiko tokenizes sovereign money-market funds: onboarding in hours, real-time yield, programmable cash.
🚀 $2.7B AUM, 10,000+ customers, the largest tokenized cash fund globally.
Read the full blog here: nea.com/blog/spiko-and-the-f…
🗣️ Attention: Engineers, researchers, founders--We’re thrilled to partner with @P_1_AI for their upcoming event: Engineering the Physical World with AI
Join @NEA and the P-1 team in SF on Wed. 10/14!
NEA’s @lilatretikov will be featured to discuss how AI is reshaping the way physical systems are designed and built.
👉🏽 More info / request a spot here: luma.com/9zly4itk
🎉 Congratulations, @Spiko_finance--$90M Series B raised to make yield universal.
“We looked at dozens of companies solving pieces of this problem. We believe Spiko is the only one that’s solved the regulatory piece and the product piece at the same time. Paul-Adrien and Antoine are building the default home for cash. Money market funds are where trust is earned, and the same model extends naturally to new markets and new products.” - @PhilipChopin
📰 More details here: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
📢This Wednesday 10/7: NEA’s @aaronej will be at @claudeai Founder House for SF Tech Week moderating the panel: Securing the cyber frontier, with @artemis_sec @Xbow & @outtake_ai.
🎟️ Details & Registration here (use code JACOBSON15): luma.com/claude-founder-hous…
🚀 Launch news! Introducing Sessions by @synthesiaIO--Avatar meetings to help scale your time.
Check out the details form CEO @vriparbelli below.
Congratulations! 👏🏽
#1 customer question since 2017:
“When can I send an avatar to a meeting for me?”
Today, we’re launching @synthesiaIO Sessions - live Avatar conversations that help scale your time, so you can:
- Train 1,000 sales reps in a day
- Do 1:1’s with 2,000 employees at once
- Interview 3,000 customers a week
Try it free 👇
📢 We’re thrilled to welcome @eugeniatrakal as an Associate on our Technology Investing Team at NEA!
Fun Fact: Eugenia was part of our Fellowship program in 2022 and is the first Fellow to be hired on full time at the firm. 🙌🏽
Thrilled to join the team @NEA, investing in generational companies from seed to pre-IPO.
Sophomore year of college, the NEA Fellowship introduced me to venture — I not only met my greatest friends and mentors, but was also lucky to get an early glimpse of NEA's commitment to independent thinking, high integrity, and insatiable curiosity.
Forever grateful to the @DormRoomFund mafia — the friends and believers who have been there every step of the way, @matthew_yekell the most inspirational roommate (and founder!), and to my mentors at Vista for giving me an invaluable launchpad.
If you're building something ambitious, I'd love to hear from you! [email protected]
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P.S. For college students, NEA Fellowship applications are open, and we're excited to meet you. For Fellowship alumni, reunions in SF and NYC are coming soon.
🎉 Congratulations, @theworldlabs and @AMD!
World Labs will join AMD to accelerate the future of AI research and compute.
NEA first invested in World Labs at the Series B in 2024. It has been an honor to partner with @drfeifei and the World Labs team as their research and technical achievements advanced the company’s vision of becoming the foundational model company for spatial intelligence.
Additional details here ➡️ linkedin.com/posts/world-lab…?
🎉 Congratulations to NEA portfolio company, Workera, which has been acquired by @pearson .
Workera is a pioneer in AI-native enterprise assessment and skills verification. This acquisition will strengthen Pearson’s ability to meet the growing demand for workforce transformation in the AI area.
📰: prnewswire.com/news-releases…
👀 ICYMI: @lucktm was recently joined by portfolio companies @datarockstar and @merge_api at the 2026 HSBC Data & AI Innovation Day in New York.
C-level executives gathered to discuss (and disagree on!) AI hot topics like agent use and governance, software generation, token spend and budgeting, and leveraging AI to digest agent data.
🎉 Congratulations, Basalt Health--$20M Series A raised to speed post-acute admissions.
“Basalt is tackling a massive healthcare challenge with a rare combination of clinical impact, operational value, and rapid adoption. The company’s AI-powered platform is becoming essential infrastructure for care teams, and we’re thrilled to continue our partnership with Ben Hackett and the Basalt team to transform how patients move into post-acute care.” -Blake Wu, NEA
📰 Exclusive coverage via @BrockEWTurner / @axios: axios.com/pro/health-tech-de…
📢 Calling future Fellows!
👉🏽 Who you are: A university undergrad in the venture/entrepreneurship world, or with a background in engineering, product, or design
👉🏽 What makes you, you: An independent thinker and team player — curious, engaged, ready to dive in
👉🏽 What you'll get:
✅ Hands-on experience in the business of VC
✅ Direct collaboration with investment professionals
✅ The chance to build your own investment thesis
✅ Deeper ties to your campus entrepreneurial ecosystem
✅ Cool swag (yes, really)
Applications close October 16, 2026 — don't wait ⏳
✍🏽 Apply now: neafellowship.com
📢 Exciting news from @VAST_Data:
Meet the models coming to your datacenter. Introducing VAST DataEnclave.
Details below.
P.S. We LOVE the cross-portfolio collab in this video. We see you @FactoryAI & @twelvelabs 👀
