In this episode, Helene Huby, co-founder and CEO of The Exploration Company shares her journey in space exploration and entrepreneurship; the vision for space exploration; the transition from Airbus to entrepreneurship; nurturing innovation in large corporations vs. startups; her involvement in Uranium Ventures and the Microbiome Foundation; and the importance of social impact in business. ... Read more ›
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Factorial, the all-in-one business and HR management platform for SMBs globally, today announces the closing of an €74.5 million Go-To-Market investment from General Catalyst, a leading US-based venture capital firm. This financing comes after Factorial closed a heavily oversubscribed $120 million Series C led by Atomico in October 2022, making Factorial a unicorn. Factorial, as ... Read more ›
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Renewaball, the company behind the world’s first circular tennis and padel balls, announced that it has successfully secured an investment of over €3 million. This funding round was led by Rubio Impact Ventures and will empower Renewaball to accelerate its mission of substantially reducing the environmental impact of tennis and padel balls across Europe. This ... Read more ›
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Veremark, a global background screening company, has secured €2.8 million in a pre-Series B round led by Samaipata and Stage 2 Capital and including participation from ACF Investors and Vulpes Investment. The investment will be used to support Veremark’s continued client acquisition and further develop its screening technology. The need for more compliant hiring has ... Read more ›
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The German data analytics and AI startup Scavenger AI announced it secured a pre-seed financing in Q1 2024. A total of € 1.1 million was raised under the lead of HTGF together with Calm/Storm Ventures, Femventix, and the B4i Fund to enable companies to perform complex data analyses in just a few seconds. Founded in ... Read more ›
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On-device fraud is the number one topic that should keep you up at night if you run a digital business. A burgeoning threat which has grown significantly in the last 12 months in the digital landscape, ODF is driven by several key factors which we’ll look into below before delving into some of the best ... Read more ›
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Proxima Fusion, the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), has raised €20 million in seed funding to propel the Munich-based startup towards building the first generation of fusion power plants based on quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarators with high-temperature superconductors. Proxima Fusion’s vision is to lead Europe into a new era of ... Read more ›
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TaxDown, a startup disrupting the tax sector in Spain and Latin America, has sealed a new €5 million round of investment. Funds such as Base10, with investments in several unicorns in the USA and Latin America, have strengthened their presence in the shareholding structure, as has JME Ventures. The firm has once again garnered the ... Read more ›
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Gilion, a Swedish growth and funding platform, announced the closure of a €10 million equity funding round, bringing the total equity raised to €40 million. This significant investment comes on the heels of a year ending with a strong growth increase, a 4x year-over-year revenue increase and an 8x increase of companies on the platform, ... Read more ›
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Pactio, a next-generation digital infrastructure for private markets, has successfully raised €12.9 million in a Series A round led by EQT Ventures. High-profile private equity industry insiders and tech angels also participated in the oversubscribed round, including former Stripe Europe CEO Matt Henderson and Volt founder Tom Greenwood. These new investors join prominent early backers, ... Read more ›
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HysetCo, a pioneer in hydrogen mobility solutions, announced the closing of a financing round of nearly €200 million to accelerate the decarbonization of urban transport. Hy24 is the leading investor on this funding round including also RAISE Impact and Eiffel Investment Group. Hy24 now becomes the majority shareholder in HysetCo and joins existing shareholders Air ... Read more ›
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On May 9-10, we’ll be hosting the 10th anniversary of our annual EU-Startups Summit in sunny Malta! This event will feature a plethora of exciting speakers, panel discussions, networking activities, pitch competitions, and much more. The EU-Startups Summit aims to gather over 2,000 founders, startup enthusiasts, and investors for two days filled with networking, inspiration, ... Read more ›
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Avenir, a UK-based wealth management solutions provider, has secured €487k in pre-seed funding within three months after completing the ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance accelerator program. Backed by leading investors including SFC Capital, Techstars, and prominent angel investors with experience leading financial institutions such as FNZ, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, Avenir’s funding ... Read more ›
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Marleybones, a fresh dog food brand known for its unique pantry fresh® solution, announced new €1 million seed funding led by JamJar Investments, the venture capital firm set up by the founders of Innocent Drinks, and further supported by Active Partners, the consumer investor behind Soho House, Rapha and KatKin. Marleybones’ mission to redefine dog ... Read more ›
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Weenat, a French agtech that provides farmers with mobile and connected solutions, has recently secured €8.5 million in investment from ECBF, a European German-based bioeconomy impact fund, Pymwymic, a Dutch-based impact investor, LIBERSET, a transatlantic investment company, and IDIA Capital Investissement, a Series B investor that reaffirms its confidence in Weenat. These funds are strongly ... Read more ›
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Torg, a Berlin-based market network, has secured an oversubscribed €2.7 million seed round to transform food and beverage sourcing with its AI-powered platform, empowering buyers to find suppliers and source products in foodservice and private label categories more efficiently. The round was led by Connect Ventures and joined by existing investor FoodLabs and new investors ... Read more ›
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Basemark, a leading provider of automotive AR software that enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop AR applications for their cars, has successfully raised €22 million in series B funding. The round was a combination of equity, grants, and loans, and was led by ETF Partners, with funding also coming from Finnish Industry Investment (Tesi), ... Read more ›
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Nymiz, a Spanish cybersecurity company, has secured an investment of €2.8 million in a round led by Swanlaab Venture Factory. This strategic financing extends Nymiz’s horizon to lead innovation in the anonymization and pseudonymization of unstructured data, a need increasingly critical to leverage the full potential of data in generative AI applications. Alongside Swanlaab, the ... Read more ›
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On May 9-10, we’ll host the 10th anniversary of our annual EU-Startups Summit in sunny Malta! This event will feature many exciting speakers, panel discussions, networking activities, pitch competitions, and so much more. The EU-Startups Summit aims to gather over 2,000 founders, startup enthusiasts, and investors for two days filled with networking, inspiration, and learning. ... Read more ›
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zolar, one of Germany’s leading digital platforms for residential solar, raised €100 million funding together with BNP Paribas, a global financial institution. This partnership marks the launch of zolar’s financing solution for residential solar consumers, “zolar Easypay”. With this solution, the climate-tech is expanding its product offering for German households. zolar Easypay is a groundbreaking, ... Read more ›
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