Prolo, a London-based AI-powered procurement platform designed to support SME construction firms, has secured €4.9 million (£4.2 million) in Seed funding to fuel go-to-market sales and marketing efforts and accelerate new tech and product rollouts. The oversubscribed round was led by Triple Point Ventures and joined by a consortium of leading VC firms, including Anamcara ... Read more ›
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NextGO Epi, a Berlin-based DeepTech startup developing Gallium Oxide epitaxial wafers for next-generation power semiconductor devices, has secured a €2 million pre-Seed funding round. The round was led by Vireo Ventures, with participation from Ultratech Capital Partners, IBB Ventures, and angel investor Boris Habets. The company claims to be Europe’s only producer of Gallium Oxide ... Read more ›
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Nopan, an Amsterdam-based performance platform for account and wallet payments, has raised a new funding round led by Newion, with follow-on investment from Crane and Seedcamp and supported by a group of angel investors with experience in merchant payments and FinTech. The Dutch startup has raised a total of €7.2 million to date. The company ... Read more ›
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CriteriaCaixa, the Barcelona-based holding company that manages the business assets of ‘la Caixa’ Banking Foundation, today announces a reboot of its startup investment business to facilitate the growth of science and technology-based high-potential emerging companies. Through its two funds, Criteria Bio Ventures and Criteria Venture Tech, it plans to invest €300 million ($343 million) in ... Read more ›
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Everyone is talking about how AI will help creators produce more content. I think that is only half the story. The bigger shift is that AI will not just make today’s creators more productive. It will give rise to an entirely new generation of creators. Over the past decade, the creator economy has enabled writers, ... Read more ›
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Visibuilt, a Danish BioTech company developing biobased alternatives to conventional carbon-intensive construction binders, has secured €3.34 million in Seed funding to move from lab pilots towards market validation and industry tests. The round was co-led by EIFO and Unconventional Ventures followed by Proptechfonden and backed again by earlier investor EMDFonden. “Closing this Seed round is ... Read more ›
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ConTech startup Sodex Innovations, a Vorarlberg-based innovator of automated surveying and documentation of construction sites, infrastructure projects, and mines, has successfully closed a funding round of €4 million to accelerate the company’s next stage of development. The round was led by Capmont Technology, with participation from Bloomhaus, Look AI Ventures, and German business angel group ... Read more ›
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With the World Meteorological Organization reporting that June 2026 was the hottest June recorded for western Europe and the second warmest globally, the pressure is mounting to accelerate the transition to cleaner, more resilient energy systems. The debate has also reached policymakers, with reports that the European Commission’s upcoming Electrification Action Plan, expected to be ... Read more ›
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British early-stage investment firm SFC Capital has received an additional €11 million (£10 million) from the British Business Bank under the Regional Angels Programme, extending the Bank’s total commitment to €41 million (£35 million). The Regional Angels Programme is designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early-stage equity finance. Following previous commitments of €29 ... Read more ›
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Bilbao-based VC firm Acurio Ventures today announced the closing of Acurio Secondaries I FCR, a European fund with a size of approximately €115 million that invests exclusively in fund-level secondary transactions involving European VC funds. Through its direct investment strategy, Acurio Ventures has invested in approximately 120 European companies. The direct portfolio includes established scaleups such ... Read more ›
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En Carta Diagnostics, a Paris-based DeepTech startup developing a new generation of molecular diagnostics for use at home, has announced the first closing of €5 million in financing. This closing includes €3 million in equity led by Blue Forest Ventures with participation from Ring Capital and existing investors CentraleSupélec Venture, 50 Partners Health, and a ... Read more ›
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Swiss watchmaking startups Efteor and Télôs Watch have been acquired by private equity operator Vam Investments alongside established companies Le Composant and Henri Robert – marking the official launch of Groupe Chaumont. Groupe Chaumont is a new industrial platform headquartered in Neuchâtel and focused on producing movements, cases, tools, and components for high-end Swiss watches. ... Read more ›
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Aria, a Paris-based FinTech scale-up offering an embedded invoice financing platform that helps businesses get paid on time, has raised a €7 million Series A extension round and launched a €240 million debt facility to scale its financing capacity to tackle Europe’s late payments crisis. The equity round was led by 115K, the venture capital ... Read more ›
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When I joined N26 as CTO, my first real job had nothing to do with building an app. I was asked to help get a banking licence and build up a core banking system from scratch. I had never worked in finance and had never sat across from a regulator. For months the work felt ... Read more ›
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UK startup funding recorded its strongest opening half since 2022, as investors placed increasingly large bets on AI, computing infrastructure and science-led companies. New findings shared with EU-Startups show that capital is returning at scale, although the recovery is being shaped by fewer deals and a small group of unusually large rounds. Analysis from HSBC ... Read more ›
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Kraken Technology Group, a London-based maritime defence company, has raised €152.9 million ($175 million) in a Series B funding round at a valuation of nearly €874.1 million ($1 billion). The round was led by Digital Transformation Capital Partners (DTCP) and supported by other British and European backers, including the British Business Bank, NATO Innovation Fund ... Read more ›
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Oxylabs, a Vilnius-based data infrastructure platform, has secured €113.6 million ($130 million) in funding from Warburg Pincus, valuing the company at €3.1 billion ($3.6 billion). This marks Oxylabs’ first external investment since its founding in 2015 and makes it the second bootstrapped unicorn to emerge from the Tesonet accelerator, a Lithuanian venture builder led by ... Read more ›
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Following NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte launching a multinational project on defence critical raw materials at the NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum, British advanced materials startup Uplit360 has been awarded a multi-year framework agreement with the Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (DOD). Under the arrangement, Uplift360 aims to strengthen Europe’s sovereign supply of advanced materials by ... Read more ›
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AI has become the single most important decision-shaping layer in the startup world. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are now the default routes through which prospective clients size up your products and applicants consider your job postings. Your potential investors are firing off prompts rather than spend time scrolling through several pages of Google search results. ... Read more ›
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