Small Tech Founders Call for Fair H-1B Policy

  ACTivists for Change: Members join forces in a letter to the White House, urging balanced, startup-friendly reforms   While national conversations about the H-1B program often focus on large companies, our members live a different reality. These teams are lean, product-driven, and often hire for highly specialized roles where [...]

Behind What’s Shaping the Future of EU Digital Regulation

  Innovation, Simplification, and Competitiveness As the European Commission’s new Digital Omnibus proposals land in Brussels, promising to ‘simplify’ AI, data, and digital rules, critics warn of a potential rollback. In parallel, work on the 28th regime and the European Innovation Act is framed as a way to reduce red [...]

By |2025-12-18T16:09:22-05:00December 18th, 2025|Blog, European Union, Policy, Tech Regulation|

The 1-2-3s of Age Verification Compliance in the United States

  Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent developers. And, as we have seen in other efforts to use age verification methods, the very [...]

Conversations Shaping the Future of Innovation Across Europe

  Europe is at a pivotal moment for innovation, and we’ve been on the ground across the continent to make sure small-tech voices are included in the decisions being made in Brussels. Every conversation, from policy hackathons to founder workshops, pointed to the same reality: Europe’s digital future depends on [...]

Empowering Europe’s Innovators Through the 28th Regime and the European Innovation Act

  EU ACTivists for Change: Members join forces to make the Single Market work for startups Across Europe, startups, scaleups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are building world-class products, but their growth path is still more complicated than it should be. EU startups face 27 different systems for incorporation, [...]

By |2025-12-02T15:44:56-05:00December 2nd, 2025|App Economy, Blog, Competition, European Union, Letters, Policy, Tech Regulation, Trends|
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