Let’s axe some acronyms, Whitehall red tape and connect Government policy with real Tech business outcomes. Before our new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, began commuting to “Number 10” on Monday, Tech bosses, policy leads and government officials were celebrating and catastrophising – in fairly equal measure – over plans to axe the Department for ... Read more ›
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kausable, a German DeepTech AI startup, has raised €12 million in a Seed funding round to develop reasoning-first frontier AI that adapts on its own efficiently to changing context without further retraining. The round was led UVC Partners and Entourage, with follow-on from the German investors HTGF and Mätch VC. kausable is also backed by ... Read more ›
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In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Lena Hackelöer, founder & CEO at Brite Payments, to explore the company’s growth, the future of European payments, and the challenges facing FinTech founders. Lena shares how Brite has evolved from a Swedish startup founded in 2019 into a leading pay-by-bank provider operating across 27 European markets. ... Read more ›
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Aampere, a Munich-based e-mobility startup, has raised €4.2 million to expand its fully digital resale platform for used electric cars across Europe. The round was led by Estonian VC Trind Ventures, with Vend Marketplaces ASA, the Nordic family of marketplaces behind FINN.no, Blocket and Bilbasen, joining as a minority investor. Consumer investor G-FUND has also ... Read more ›
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Books are one of the quickest ways to compress years of startup experience into a few focused hours of reading. For founders, they can be especially useful because they offer a mix of strategy, customer insight, leadership lessons, and the kind of hard-earned reality checks that are easy to miss when you’re deep in building. ... Read more ›
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Nernst Electric, an Irish startup developing on-site oxygen generation for fish farms, has raised a €1.7 million ($2 million) Seed investment from Hatch Blue’s Blue Revolution Fund. Hatch Blue is a Cork-based investment firm specialising in aquaculture. Nernst first joined the Hatch Blue portfolio in July 2025, receiving pre-Seed funding from Hatch Accelerator Fund II ... Read more ›
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telli, a Berlin-based startup building AI that runs customer-facing operations for B2C companies, today announced a €13.1 million ($15 million) Seed round, bringing its total funding to more than €16.1 million ($18.5 million). The round was led by redalpine, with participation from strategic investors, Mutschler and key angels, alongside existing backers Cherry Ventures and Y ... Read more ›
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Choosing a startup name is difficult. It needs to be memorable, available as a domain and sufficiently distinctive to survive an investor’s overflowing inbox – so its no surprise to see references to famous fiction such as Dune, Start Wars and even The Matrix. The obvious and most famous example is Palantir, named after the ... Read more ›
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Seville’s Catalyxx, a bio-based chemicals company transforming bioethanol into alternatives to fossil-derived industrial chemicals, has selected Sines, Portugal, as the location for its €120 million commercial-scale production facility. The development is being financed through a combination of private investment and public funding. Catalyxx was recently awarded €20 million by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking, ... Read more ›
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Immitra Bio, a Zürich-based genetic medicine platform bringing scalability and commercial viability to gene editing therapies, has announced the completion of an upsized €2.58 million (CHF 2.4 million) pre-Seed financing round. Venture capital and private investors contributed €2.42 million (CHF 2.25 million), while an additional €161.8k (CHF 150k) was obtained through non-dilutive funding sources. The ... Read more ›
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There is an old saying that the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is today. European energy has its own version of that story. The first real opportunity came roughly a decade ago, when the cost of solar power and batteries began to fall sharply and clean-energy ... Read more ›
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Brenus Pharma, a Lyon-based clinical-stage BioTech startup aiming to prevent cancer recurrence, has announced an €11 million ($12.6M) extension to its Series A round. This brings the company’s total capital raised since inception to €38 million. The round was supported by strong follow-on participation from existing investors, including Angelor, UI Investissement (managing FRAI), Crédit Agricole ... Read more ›
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The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has signed a 4-year €22 million InvestEU-backed loan with Verda (formerly DataCrunch), a Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company. This financing comes months after the company raised €102.5 million ($117 million) in funding to develop its AI cloud infrastructure and international expansion. Ruben Bryon, founder and CEO of Verda Cloud, said, “AI ... Read more ›
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Modo Energy, a London-based AI-powered benchmarking and valuation platform for energy storage and renewable assets, has secured a €14.9 million ($17 million) growth funding package from CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing the total amount of funding raised by the company to €45.5 million ($52 million). CIBC Innovation Banking is the lead backer in the new capital, ... Read more ›
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Humanoid, an AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today announced a €133 million ($152 million) Series A financing at a €1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) post-money valuation – cementing its position as Europe’s newest unicorn. This funding brings the total amount raised to date to €236 million ($270 million). The round was led by ... Read more ›
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Since AI became mainstream, comparisons between Europe’s innovation hubs and Silicon Valley have become ever-present. In 2026, the EU was still debating domestic cloud capacity, Big Tech dependence, and the energy demands of new data centres. As investors, we keep hearing the same question from European founders: should they build from Europe, move closer to ... Read more ›
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Omio, Berlin’s multimodal travel booking platform, has announced a €8.7 million ($10 million) strategic investment in order to accelerate its expansion in Japan and strengthen its presence across Southeast Asia – a growing travel destination. The investment came from Granite-Integral; a joint venture between Granite Asia and Integral Corporation, managing €87 million ($100 million) in ... Read more ›
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deltaVision, a Munich-based manufacturer of fluidic systems for launchers, satellites, lunar landers and orbital servicing vehicles, has raised €10.2 million in its first funding round to expand production to keep pace with growing demand. The company secured this funding from both private industrial family offices and venture capital investors. KT Ventures and Valemount Capital led ... Read more ›
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As generative AI moves from experimentation into production, a new gap is opening inside fast-growing tech teams. Building AI is now the easy part. Proving it is secure, compliant, and trustworthy from day one is where startups stall. Traditional compliance was not designed for AI: it is slow, manual, and disconnected from how modern cloud ... Read more ›
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Circular Materials, a Cadoneghe-based scale-up focused on recovering critical and strategic raw materials from industrial wastewater, has secured €11.8 million in Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) financing from a group of European institutional and strategic investors. The investors include CDP Venture Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund, EIT RawMaterials, 360 Capital, Corbites, and Lumar ... Read more ›
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