The wire ·
The wire — 17 August 2026
Three consecutive quiet filings — 15, 16, and 17 August — confirm the Assumption break extends into the week's first working day. The anticipated post-holiday restart did not reach the news feeds by press time: EU-Startups, tech.eu, Maddyness, Sifted, and ArcticStartup all stood dark from 14 August, with no qualifying Seed or Series A announcement indexed on 17 August across France or the rest of Europe. August press desks are slow to recover from a four-day combined holiday-weekend; the pattern repeats year on year.
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