Campaign to help stadiums install solar panels launched
Southampton's Utilita Bowl in focus - Utilita and BASIS announce collaboration to fast-track solar adoption across the UK's sporting venues (Image: Utilita)
An energy-saving expert has started a campaign to help stadiums get solar panels.
Southampton company Utilita plans to fast-track solar PV installation in sports venues.
The "Are You Sporting Solar?" campaign aims to identify and tackle barriers preventing clubs from adopting solar energy.
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In association with the British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS), the initiative began by surveying sports organisations to identify issues hindering adoption.
Ella Moorey, group sustainability lead at Utilita, said: "Sport has the power to inspire change, and by embracing solar energy, stadiums and venues can lead the way in demonstrating environmental responsibility.
"At Utilita, we believe that enabling the adoption of solar PV across the sporting landscape is not just an opportunity - it's a necessity."
David Mann, chief executive of Hampshire's Utilita Bowl, said: "This campaign will be a game-changer in helping sporting organisations fast-track their way to accessing sustainable energy and enabling clubs to redirect those savings into making other sustainable adaptations."
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25 EURO STARTUPS TO WATCH By Yazhou Sun, Mark Bergen and Amy Thomson June 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM EDT
These are the innovative European companies breaking new ground in tech this year. By Yazhou Sun, Mark Bergen and Amy Thomson Illustrations by Ori Toor June 9, 2025 at 01:00 AM EDT Share this article Bloomberg and Founders Forum have combined forces this year to highlight the European companies and founders aiming to have an impact on a global scale. We tapped influential names in European tech — hailing from venture capital, university foundries and the C-suite of some of the biggest startups — to help us create a list of nominees. We want to put a spotlight on the inventors and the builders, making bold bets when many companies are hunkering down, trying to make sense of a new world order. US tariffs and increasing hostility toward Europe's regulatory regime have shaken markets and investor confidence. Still, venture capital deals are on track to gain for the first time since 2021, according to first-quarter data from Pitchbook. Our list highlights both household names and companies that are just emerging, breaking ground in fields including generative AI, space, autonomous vehicles and video games. Bloomberg's editorial team chose the top 25 with an eye on companies that could fundamentally change their industries and the way we move through the world. Amber Therapeutics Country UK Founders Aidan Crawley, Tim Denison, Stefan De Wachter and Charles Knowles Year Founded 2021 Business Nerve Center This medical technology group, founded in 2021, makes devices to help treat nervous system diseases. The UK-based company relies on so-called neuromodulation therapy. Its Picostim system acts directly on nerves to sense and alter the body's responses. Its first breakthrough has been in treating mixed urinary incontinence in women — a complex condition that doesn't have a singular treatment — using electrodes implanted near a key pelvic nerve. The Oxford University spinoff raised $100 million last year as it works toward US Food and Drug Administration approval of its device. Cradle Country Netherlands/Switzerland Founders Stef van Grieken, Eli Bixby, Elise de Reus, Harmen van Rossum and Jelle Prins Year Founded 2021 Business Cell Factories The ability to engineer specialized proteins is important for developing new vaccines and other medical treatments, sustainable materials and lab-grown foods. But it's historically been expensive and error-prone. Cradle has built a platform that enables scientists to use generative AI to create proteins with desired functions beyond those that exist in nature — faster and more cost effectively. The company was founded in 2021 and counts Johnson & Johnson and Novo Nordisk as customers. In November the startup raised $73 million in a round led by IVP, to expand its wet lab and scale up the platform to target more therapeutic and diagnostic companies. DeepL Country Germany Founders Jaroslaw Kutylowski Year Founded 2017 Business Machine Translation Last valued at $2 billion, this German AI translation startup keeps pace with far-better-resourced rivals such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. The Cologne-based company is squarely focused on machine translation, with an efficient model tailor-made for the purpose, and claims to be more accurate than its rivals. It sells a paid version of its service to tens of thousands of businesses, including law firms and consulting companies. In November it launched a voice-to-text service, which automatically translates conversations in about 30 languages — in person or online — in real time. Users of DeepL's mobile app can put their device in the middle of the table and it will display subtitles in two languages. Such subtitles can also appear on video calls. Dream Games Country Turkey Founders Soner Aydemir Ikbal Namli, Hakan Sağlam, Eren Şengül and Serdar Yilmaz Year Founded 2019 Business Bigger Than Candy Crush As Istanbul emerges as a top global hub for mobile gaming, Dream Games has become local royalty. The studio, formed in 2019, designed Royal Match, the tile-matching mobile app that has overtaken Candy Crush to become the world's top puzzle game by revenue. CEO Soner Aydemir previously worked for Peak, a Turkish games developer acquired by Zynga. In May, Dream Games announced an investment that will make private equity firm CVC Capital Partners its sole equity partner. The $2.5 billion debt and equity deal values the company at $5 billion. Einride Country Sweden Founders Robert Falck, Filip Lilja and Linnéa Kornehed Falck Year Founded 2016 Business Keeps on Truckin' The company's futuristic white electric trucks are among the first autonomous freight carriers to be approved for use on public roads. Einride uses AI to chart the most efficient route for its trucks, which can drive around the clock, overseen by a remote (human) operator. The trucks even load and unload autonomously. inride made its first autonomous delivery — moving goods for GE Appliances from a factory to a warehouse in Tennessee — in 2023. Last year the company announced agreements with Dubai-based DP World to electrify its fleet for shipping between terminals at Jebel Ali Port, and it also has deals with PepsiCo, Lidl and Mars. ElevenLabs Country UK/US Founders Piotr Dabkowski and Mati Staniszewski Year Founded 2022 Business Who Said That? Anyone who's ever sat through a badly dubbed movie — a population that includes pretty much every European — understands the business case for ElevenLabs. It uses AI voice cloning to produce highly realistic audio — with emotion, depth and convincing accents — in dozens of languages. 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The French company offers specialized, temperature-controlled storage for groceries and medicines, and its customers include Gap, Uniqlo and Carrefour. It raised $335 million in 2022, giving it a $2 billion valuation in a round led by Goldman Sachs. Helsing Country Germany Founders Torsten Reil, Niklas Köhler and Gundbert Scherf Year Founded 2021 Business AI Defense Europe's most valuable defense-tech startup began by building artificial intelligence software for drones and fighter jets. Now it's making weapons of its own, developing an attack drone, called HX-2, that can carry ammunition and navigate autonomously. In February the company announced plans to deliver 6,000 of these AI-enabled drones to Ukraine. With close ties to the German military, the Munich-based company is well positioned to benefit from a European defense spending spree as the US reduces military aid. 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Lovable Country Sweden Founders Anton Osika and Fabian Hedin Year Founded 2023 Business Vibe Coding Remember when coding academies were all the rage? How quaint. Thanks to companies like Lovable, we now know that basic coding is one of the things that AI excels at. Lovable is near the head of the pack when it comes to vibe coding, which helps users with no programming experience build apps and websites. Its platform operates on a chat-based interface that lets you give commands in plain English. While AI isn't going to replace enterprise-grade software overnight, it's already disrupting the startup scene. Lovable co-founder Anton Osika says half of his users are entrepreneurs building their own companies. In February, Lovable raised $15 million in a round with backing from Meta board member Charlie Songhurst. Mistral AI Country France Founders Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix Year Founded 2023 Business Europe's AI Answer It's the only European company that can credibly claim to be in the conversation with the US and Chinese heavyweights when it comes to large language models. Mistral's open-source models have a less-is-more approach: They use fewer parameters than ones made by OpenAI and Anthropic in a bid to be faster and more energy efficient. Last year Mistral raised €600 million at a €5.8 billion valuation, establishing it as one of Europe's most valuable startups and the continent's best hope for an AI champion. However, that pales in comparison to the sums that US rivals have brought in, and Mistral has begun adding closed-source models, tailored for businesses, in a bid to get more commercial traction. Monumental Country The Netherlands Founders Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser Year Founded 2021 Business Another Brick in the Wall While 3D-printed houses are all the rage, the Dutch startup Monumental wants to revolutionize the building industry brick by brick. It has designed brick-laying robots that are small and agile enough to fit anywhere a human can. That means they don't rely on greenfield developments and can build affordable, scalable construction projects in cities, where new buildings are needed most. After starting with a 15-meter facade for an office and warehouse in 2023, its robots have worked on several projects, including social housing. Monumental raised $25 million last year to roll out more AI-powered robots across Europe and train them to use more varied construction materials. Neko Health Country Sweden Founders Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek Year Founded 2018 Business Body Scanners At Neko, co-founded by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, body-scanning technology is at the forefront of a movement seeking to revolutionize medicine by shifting the focus from treatment to monitoring and early interventions. Its array of sensors uses AI-powered analysis to check for skin conditions, cardiovascular troubles and other issues in less than an hour. For now, the scans are available at clinics in Stockholm and London and cost up to £299 ($397)a pop. Some experts worry that scanning healthy people could lead to overdiagnosis or unnecessary treatments. While Neko's effectiveness hasn't been confirmed by peer-reviewed studies yet, its spa-like approach to health care has led to long waiting lists and a $1.8 billion valuation. 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Quantum Systems Country Germany Founders Florian Seibel, Michael Kriegel, Tobias Kloss and Armin Busse Year Founded 2015 Business All-Seeing Drones Investors are clamoring for defense deals in Europe as the war in Ukraine drags on. Quantum Systems makes drones for surveillance and reconnaissance in the battlefield. Based in Munich and backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, the startup has been a regular supplier of equipment to Ukraine. In May it became the latest European unicorn, raising €160 million from venture capital firms, German defense firm Hensoldt and others. Thiel also invested again. Synthesia Country UK Founders Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Lourdes Agapito and Matthias Niessner Year Founded 2016 Business Video Avatars That actor in the compliance video you just watched might actually be an avatar, if Synthesia had anything to do with it. The London startup can create lifelike clips from text prompts in more than 140 languages. 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