Where it’s being built.
Silicon Canals covers the global innovation ecosystem city by city. Each city below has a dedicated landing page that surfaces the latest reporting on the people, companies, and institutions building there.
Amsterdam
1,810 articles
Latest: A mosasaur called Tylosaurus grew to more than 13 metres in the Late Cretaceous seas, roughly twice the length of a great white shark, with a second set of teeth on the roof of its mouth that drove prey one-way down its throat
Bangalore
10 articles
Latest: MoEngage buys Aampe to bet enterprise marketing's future belongs to per-customer AI agents, not segments
Barcelona
9 articles
Latest: Barcelona-based Glovo launches Q-Commerce to ‘deliver anything’ in 30 minutes or less
Berlin
64 articles
Latest: Cambodia stripped Chen Zhi of citizenship in January 2026 and handed the 'Neak Oknha' royal advisor to Beijing — not Brooklyn
Dublin
10 articles
Latest: Stripe's payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish brothers from Limerick who, before they turned 25, had convinced Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to back them, and the company's annual payment volume now exceeds the entire GDP of Ireland by more than three times
Helsinki
4 articles
Latest: On an August evening in 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to a Usenet newsgroup apologising that his hobby operating system was 'just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu' — and the kernel he was building now runs roughly 90 percent of the world's cloud servers and every Android phone
Lagos
8 articles
Latest: On an August evening in 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to a Usenet newsgroup apologising that his hobby operating system was 'just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu' — and the kernel he was building now runs roughly 90 percent of the world's cloud servers and every Android phone
Lisbon
3 articles
Latest: In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson sat at two side-by-side PDP-10s in a Cambridge office and sent a message from one to the other across ARPANET, picking the @ symbol off his Model 33 Teletype because it was the only punctuation that couldn't appear in a user's name
London
266 articles
Latest: In 1928, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to a stack of staphylococcus plates, noticed a blue-green mould had cleared a halo through the bacteria, and gave the leaking compound a name that would change medicine: penicillin
Madrid
5 articles
Latest: Stripe's payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish brothers from Limerick who, before they turned 25, had convinced Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to back them, and the company's annual payment volume now exceeds the entire GDP of Ireland by more than three times
Munich
24 articles
Latest: In 1928, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to a stack of staphylococcus plates, noticed a blue-green mould had cleared a halo through the bacteria, and gave the leaking compound a name that would change medicine: penicillin
New York
11 articles
Latest: In 1944, an IBM machine called the Harvard Mark I clattered through a calculation for the Manhattan Project at three additions per second, fed by paper tape and operated by a young Navy lieutenant named Grace Hopper who took the graveyard shift more often than anyone and slept beside it on a cot, waking the moment the relays went quiet because a silent machine meant something had gone wrong
Oslo
3 articles
Latest: Norway's sovereign wealth fund owns roughly 1.5% of every listed company on Earth, and the team that decides how it votes on 9,000 annual shareholder resolutions is smaller than the staff of a single Oslo restaurant
Paris
42 articles
Latest: In 1928, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to a stack of staphylococcus plates, noticed a blue-green mould had cleared a halo through the bacteria, and gave the leaking compound a name that would change medicine: penicillin
Rotterdam
45 articles
Latest: After raising Seed funding, Rotterdam’s Blockrise becomes a Bitcoin-only platform
San Francisco
8 articles
Latest: MoEngage buys Aampe to bet enterprise marketing's future belongs to per-customer AI agents, not segments
Seoul
3 articles
Latest: BlackRock and Wellington just backed a 1977 Japanese taxi operator's robotaxi pivot — and the demographic math behind the deal explains why Waymo needs Go more than Go needs Waymo
Singapore
23 articles
Latest: In 1944, an IBM machine called the Harvard Mark I clattered through a calculation for the Manhattan Project at three additions per second, fed by paper tape and operated by a young Navy lieutenant named Grace Hopper who took the graveyard shift more often than anyone and slept beside it on a cot, waking the moment the relays went quiet because a silent machine meant something had gone wrong
Stockholm
29 articles
Latest: Stripe's payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish brothers from Limerick who, before they turned 25, had convinced Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to back them, and the company's annual payment volume now exceeds the entire GDP of Ireland by more than three times
Sydney
7 articles
Latest: In 1928, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to a stack of staphylococcus plates, noticed a blue-green mould had cleared a halo through the bacteria, and gave the leaking compound a name that would change medicine: penicillin
São Paulo
5 articles
Latest: A single bolt of lightning that crossed Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi in April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres end to end, once the longest single flash ever recorded and roughly the distance from New York City to Columbus
Tel Aviv
6 articles
Latest: OpenAI just hired a Transformer co-author and a former Trump AI official in the same quarter — and the pairing is really an IPO prospectus written in personnel form
Tokyo
9 articles
Latest: A mosasaur called Tylosaurus grew to more than 13 metres in the Late Cretaceous seas, roughly twice the length of a great white shark, with a second set of teeth on the roof of its mouth that drove prey one-way down its throat
Vienna
6 articles
Latest: In 1957, a stray dog named Laika was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit about a week after being plucked off the streets of Moscow, and Soviet engineers admitted decades later that she died of overheating within hours because the thermal control system failed and there had never been a plan to bring her home
Zurich
10 articles
Latest: Stripe's payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish brothers from Limerick who, before they turned 25, had convinced Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to back them, and the company's annual payment volume now exceeds the entire GDP of Ireland by more than three times
