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Databricks joins STATION F to accelerate AI adoption for European founders
AI apps and agents on their enterprise data with speed, governance and security.
The urgency for European founders to build strong AI capabilities has never been greater. According to PitchBook data, AI dominated European VC investment in 2025, accounting for nearly 40 % of all European VC deal value by Q3 2025 – a trend further accelerating in 2026. This is why Databricks is partnering with STATION F to help European leaders build AI applications to scale their business faster with Lakebase, Databricks’ serverless Postgres database built for AI agents, and Genie, Databricks’ AI agent that lets any employee chat with their data and get trusted answers instantly.
As part of this new partnership, Databricks will open a dedicated office at STATION F, actively contributing to the innovative community through a range of initiatives.
Databricks, a data and AI company, has announced a new partnership with STATION F, a start-up campus, to help European tech leaders harness the full power of data and AI.
Through this partnership, founders, engineers and data and AI teams will gain additional insights, skills and tools to scale
“ Today’ s founders have a unique opportunity to scale at unprecedented speeds with AI. Many of our customers have already proven what’ s possible when building AI applications at scale whether it’ s for more personalised customer experiences, streamlining data-driven decision-making and so much more,” said Nico Gaviola, VP Emerging Enterprise and Digital Natives, Databricks.
NextGen Nano announces plans for £ 300 million global agrivoltaics development programme
NextGen Nano, a UK company developing transparent organic solar and display technologies, has announced plans for a pilot agrivoltaics initiative in West Africa using its PolyPower transparent organic solar film technology.
The pilot project is intended to demonstrate how PolyPower can combine food and energy production within greenhouse and tunnel structures, enabling climate-controlled agriculture while generating renewable electricity in off-grid and energyconstrained environments.
A key objective of the initiative is to explore whether agrivoltaic greenhouse systems can enable reliable cultivation of nutrientdense crops such as amaranth, African nightshade, cowpea leaves, spider plant, moringa and kale, while also supporting cooling, refrigeration and wider community energy needs where electricity supply remains limited, expensive, unreliable or dependent on diesel-powered generators.
By enabling more reliable cultivation of these crops, the pilot will also assess whether agrivoltaic greenhouse systems can help improve dietary diversity and reduce nutrition-related health burdens, particularly among children. These leafy vegetables are valued for their contribution to vitamin A and iron intake. The World Health Organization identifies vitamin
A deficiency as the world’ s leading preventable cause of childhood blindness and a contributor to increased mortality from common infections, while iron deficiency is the most common nutritional cause of anaemia and can impair children’ s physical and cognitive development.
The project will also evaluate potential applications in medical cold-chain infrastructure, including the storage of vaccines, medicines and other temperature-sensitive supplies in clinics, health posts and community facilities.
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