Securing angel investment is a crucial milestone for most early stage startups. Yet too often in the excitement, passion and drive of telling their company stories, a crucial factor is overlooked – the perspective of the audience (namely the angel investor). Understanding the psychology of investors is essential in a world where global venture funding has ... Read more ›
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Merx, a London-based startup building the “world’s first” AI-powered conversational platform to connect brands with consumers via WhatsApp, has today announced a €1.1 million pre-Seed funding round. The round was led by VentureFriends, the European early-stage VC firm, with participation from Ascension, the London-based early-stage VC firm. Pietro Cammerini, Co-founder of Merx, comments, “We believe ... Read more ›
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Bristol-based sensor technology startup, Zero Point Motion has successfully closed a €4.7 million pre-Series A funding round to transform positioning and navigation in Defense, AgriTech, autonomous vehicles, consumer electronics and industrial logistics. They are backed by investors SCVC (the official funding arm of Science Creates), Foresight Group and Verve Ventures, with seed round investor u-blox ... Read more ›
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Bristol-based sensor technology startup, Zero Point Motion has successfully closed a €4.7 million pre-Series A funding round to transform positioning and navigation in Defense, AgriTech, autonomous vehicles, consumer electronics and industrial logistics. They are backed by investors SCVC (the official funding arm of Science Creates), Foresight Group and Verve Ventures, with seed round investor u-blox ... Read more ›
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Tallinn-based Blackwall, an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company, today announced that it has raised a €45 million Series B round, rebranding from their previous name BotGuard. Led by Dawn Capital, with participation from existing investors MMC, Blackwall’s Series B funding will be used to double headcount and accelerate growth as the company expands further ... Read more ›
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Turin-based Vento, a private early stage venture capital fund, announced today the launch of its second fund – committing €75 million over the next five years to find the “boldest” Italian startup founders globally. The fund is the flagship investment vehicle from the organisers of Italian Tech Week, a global event designed to support the ... Read more ›
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Berlin-based TastyUrban, an asset-light digital-first restaurant franchise, has raised €6.5 million in funding to roll out additional brands, with an international expansion planned. The lead investor was IBB Ventures, with participation from Fulcrum, Monte Carlo Capital and existing investors Earlybird-X and Cardumen Capital. “We are not only solving a real issue for restauranteurs by optimising ... Read more ›
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The VentureBridge: Startups & Corporates Connect event in Barcelona successfully brought together EU-backed startups, corporate venturing leaders, and VCs, creating a dynamic environment for collaboration and growth. Key Highlights from the Event A major highlight of the event was the keynote by Orla Browne, Head of Insights at Dealroom.co, who presented the Impact of EU-backed ... Read more ›
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Madrid-based flowww, a software for optimising the daily operations of aesthetic medicine, healthcare and beauty businesses, has closed a €4 million funding round to scale its international expansion. This first investment round for the company was led by Swanlaab Venture Factory and Bonsai Partners, with participation from Sabadell Venture Capital. According to Natalia Villora, CEO ... Read more ›
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The latest episode of the EU-Startups Podcast is here! This week, host Marcin Lewandowski is joined by Nicole Büttner, Founder & CEO of Merantix Momentum, Founding Partner at Merantix Capital, and a World Economic Forum Digital Leader for Europe. Nicole is an entrepreneur, economist, and tech optimist who believes in the transformative power of AI ... Read more ›
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Manno-based Jaipur Robotics SA, an innovator in AI solutions for waste management and waste-to-energy processes, has announced the successful closing of a €725k pre-Seed funding round. The lead investor in this funding round is TiVentures SA, a Swiss-based early-stage venture capital fund, alongside other investors. “The successful closure of this funding round lays the foundation ... Read more ›
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Paris-based MSInsight, a startup innovating precision medicine solutions in oncology, has closed a €1.6 million Seed funding round to accelerate the development and regulatory approval of MSIcare, its AI-powered diagnostic software designed to enhance the accuracy of detecting microsatellite instability (MSI) cancers. The investment was led by Calyseed, with participation from Plateau de Saclay Business ... Read more ›
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Hamburg-based elea – an AI platform built to supercharge how healthcare professionals provide life-saving diagnoses and care – is today announcing it has raised €4 million in a Seed round to scale and expand into new departments, beginning with pathology. Participating in the funding round was Fly Ventures and Giant Ventures, alongside a milestone partnership ... Read more ›
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eBrands, a Helsinki-based export platform enabling international growth for consumer brands, has raised €7.5 million in its latest equity funding round, bringing its total funding raised to €50 million. The funding round was led primarily by Veikko Laine family office, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company, and operative shareholders. “At eBrands, we remove barriers to global ... Read more ›
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London-based Mimo, a FinTech platform simplifying global payments, cash flow, and financial management for SMBs and accountants, has raised €7.7 million of new investment to build out its B2B payments solution and expand its headcount. The funding round was led by Project A with previous investors Northzone and Seedcamp returning to participate. Mimo has also ... Read more ›
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Berlin-based e-bike and moped subscription company Dance, today announced the successful closing of a €12 million funding round in equity and debt to expand its fleet and transform the urban transportation. New equity investors include Berlin-based sustainable lifestyle investor Elemental, Uli Schöberl and Piotr Brzezinski. The asset-backed debt facility is provided by Paris-based Smart Lender ... Read more ›
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DeepTech startup Thorizon, an Amsterdam-based innovator in molten salt reactor technology, has secured €20 million to accelerate the development of its advanced small modular reactor, Thorizon One. This includes €16 million as the first tranche of its Series A round, led by the Dutch National Promotional Institution, Invest-NL, backed by an InvestEU guarantee from the ... Read more ›
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Cologne-based VYTAL Global GmbH, a leading provider of smart reusable packaging solutions, has successfully raised €14.2 million in growth funding to accelerate its international growth. The recent investment was led by Inven Capital, a growth capital fund specialising in scaling climate tech companies globally, alongside NRW.Venture, the venture capital fund of NRW.BANK. Both are joining ... Read more ›
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From early-stage founders to seasoned entrepreneurs, delivering a compelling pitch is a key step toward securing funding and scaling a business. That’s why we’re excited to welcome back Beth Susanne, a globally recognised pitch coach who has helped over 4,000 startups refine their messaging and collectively raise $10 billion in funding. Since launching her pitching ... Read more ›
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Dublin-based energy and infrastructure company KelTech IoE has landed a €21 million five-year contract with Hosted America, a U.S. fibre network operator, to bring next-generation connectivity to one million homes in underserved communities across the U.S. The deal will see KelTech’s ‘Label on a Cable’ (LOC) solution deployed in a large-scale fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout. Founder ... Read more ›
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