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Silicon Canals Editorial Team @ Silicon Canals 1 place · 06/12/2026 09:32 EDT

Most people don’t realise the loneliest stretch of adulthood often arrives in the early 50s, when the children have left, the parents are still here but smaller, and nobody in the house is being raised anymore

The empty-nest narrative ends too soon. The lonelier stretch comes after — in the early 50s, when nobody in the house is being raised anymore and the cognitive patterns of the next thirty years are quietly being set. Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/14/2025 06:34 EDT

Stockholm-based Strawberry raises €5.1M to build a browser that lets AI handle repetitive tasks

Stockholm-based Strawberry has raised funding to develop a browser that integrates AI agents to automate tasks and support users’ workflows. Stockholm-based Strawberry, the agentic browser with built-in, personalised AI companions, has raised $6M (nearly €5.19M) in a funding round. The Swedish company is developing a browser that allows users to focus on key tasks by ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/14/2025 06:15 EDT

Female co-founded EVerZom gets €10M to develop exosome treatments for Crohn’s and liver diseases

After winning a grant, this French biotechnology company, pioneering exosome-based therapies for regenerative medicine applications, closed €10M in a new fundraising round.   Strasbourg, France-based EVerZom, a biotechnology company specialised in exosome-based therapies for regenerative medicine applications, raised €10M in funding. The round was backed by Capital Grand Est, the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, Sorbonne ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/14/2025 04:29 EDT

Germany’s Arbio locks in €31.1M to tackle issues in vacation rental management

Germany’s Arbio, which is pioneering a new approach to the multi-billion-euro holiday rental market, has secured funding from various investors. Berlin-based Arbio, an AI-first property management system for alternative accommodations, has secured $36M (approximately €31.1M) in a Series A funding led by Eurazeo. Based out of Paris, Eurazeo is a private equity and venture capital ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 10/14/2025 04:04 EDT

Stockholm-based Stegra opens new funding round to build the world’s first green-steel plant: Know more

Stegra, a Swedish company focused on decarbonising heavy industries, opens a new financing round to support its green-steel project in Boden. Stockholm-based Stegra, a company accelerating the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries, has opened a new financing round to advance the construction of the world’s first large-scale green-steel plant in Boden, Sweden. The company, reportedly, plans ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/14/2025 02:56 EDT

Swedish cleantech startup Helios Innovations rides a wave of growth with backing from BackingMinds

Swedish VC firm BackingMinds has invested in Helios Innovations to revolutionise industrial water purification. Halmstad, Sweden-based Helios Innovations, a cleantech company specialising in industrial water purification, has secured SEK 14.2M (approximately €1.28M) from Swedish venture capital firm BackingMinds. Founded in 2016 by Sara Wimmercranz and Susanne Najafi, BackingMinds is a venture capital company that identifies ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/13/2025 09:10 EDT

Groningen’s €200M AI Factory now fully funded with €71M EU backing: Know more

AI Factory in Groningen gets green signal after EU’s investment! The initiative aims to secure the Netherlands’ digital independence and strengthen its position as a European leader in AI.  AI Factory in Groningen is now official! The European Union, through EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), is investing over €71M for the construction of the Dutch ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/13/2025 07:48 EDT

Sweden’s Liquid Wind secures €3.6M to advance its eMethanol plant in Örnsköldsvik

Gothenburg-based eFuel facility developer Liquid Wind receives funding to lower the use of fossil fuels in sectors such as shipping and aviation. Gothenburg-based Liquid Wind, an eFuel facility developer with a vision to reduce the world’s dependency on fossil fuel, has received €3.6M in funding for the pre-engineering of its full-scale eMethanol plant in Örnsköldsvik, ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/13/2025 06:27 EDT

Dutch govt takes control of Chinese-owned Netherlands-based Nexperia: Here’s why

The Dutch government invokes the Goods Availability Act to take control of Chinese-owned Nexperia, citing governance flaws and national security risks. The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs announced that it has invoked the Goods Availability Act (Wet beschikbaarheid goederen) due to significant governance issues at the semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia. Based out of Nijmegen, Nexperia specialises ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/13/2025 05:51 EDT

Swiss-based Ecorobotix raises €129.3M for its AI-powered agriculture technology: Know more

Switzerland-based Ecorobotix raises €129.3M Series C and D rounds to advance its AI-based Plant-by-Plant agriculture technology, operating in over 20 countries. Switzerland-based Ecorobotix, a company developing AI-powered Ultra-High Precision (UHP) spraying technology for agriculture, has raised a total of $150M (nearly €129.37M) through its Series C and Series D funding rounds. The Series C round ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 10/13/2025 04:37 EDT

Experian-backed Resistant AI secures €21.5M to fight AI-driven financial crime

Around couple of months after raising funding, the Prague-based AI firm raised Series B funding to expand fraud prevention tech and fight AI-driven financial crime.  Prague-based Resistant AI, a provider of native AI models for financial crime and fraud prevention, has secured $25M (approximately €21.5M) in a Series B funding round. The round was led ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/13/2025 02:53 EDT

Belgian fabless semiconductor company Magics secures €4M: Know more

Magics, a Belgian semiconductor company, develops chips that operate in high-radiation environments for sectors such as space, nuclear, and critical infrastructure. Antwerp-based Magics, a fabless semiconductor company, has completed the second closing of its capital round, securing an additional €4M and bringing the total raised to €9.7M. Magics develops semiconductor technologies designed to operate in ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals 1 place · 10/11/2025 04:20 EDT

In other news this week: NanoPhoria Bioscience raises €83.5M, Trogenix secures €80M, 011h lands €20M in funding and more

This week has been packed with activities across the startup world. We’ve compiled a short news roundup of what we missed, the key deals, funding news, and partnerships that stood out. This week has been too busy across the startup scenes. Everywhere you look, companies are raising fresh capital, forming strategic partnerships, and making acquisition ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 10/10/2025 11:30 EDT

AI Tool of the Week: Amsterdam unicorn DataSnipper’s DocuMine makes TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 list 

DataSnipper announced that its AI product has been named to TIME’s List of the Best Inventions of 2025 in the Artificial Intelligence category. Amsterdam-based unicorn DataSnipper, an automation platform for audit and finance teams, announced DocuMine, an AI-driven document validation tool, around one year ago. Recently, the Dutch company’s AI product was recognised on TIME’s ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals 1 place · 10/10/2025 09:54 EDT

Dutch-based CTNET acquires ViaData: Know more

Heerenveen, the Netherlands-based Managed service provider CTNET, announced the acquisition of Heerenveen-based IT services provider ViaData. Heerenveen, the Netherlands-based CTNET, a Managed Service Provider, announced the acquisition of homegrown IT services provider ViaData. Theo Welling, owner of CTNET, says, “We’re acquiring a functioning company. Out of respect for ViaData’s employees and customers, we’re taking the ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/10/2025 07:57 EDT

Dutch EdTech sector grows ‘explosively’ to nearly $2B in five years, but scaling stalls amid funding crunch

The Dutch EdTech sector is on a strong growth trajectory, but these particular barriers are holding it back, reveals a new report from the Dutch EdTech Foundation (Stichting Dutch EdTech). The Dutch edtech sector has seen record growth (4x) in five years to nearly $2B. However, no new scale-ups since 2022.  According to the recently ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals 2 place · 10/10/2025 07:38 EDT

Two South Holland startups secure investment from UNIIQ; meet them here

Two startups from South Holland, Oppr.ai and StemX Bio, have secured funding from the UNIIQ fund to advance their technologies and move toward market launch. Two startups from South Holland, Oppr.ai from The Hague and Leiden-based StemX Bio, have each secured an investment of €350K from the UNIIQ proof-of-concept fund. The investment will enable both ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/10/2025 04:36 EDT

Norwegian maritime energy company Corvus Energy lands €51.7M to power zero-emission ships

Norway’s Corvus Energy raises growth funding from a group of international investors to support ongoing operations and projects in the maritime sector. Bergen-based Corvus Energy, a Norwegian supplier of energy-storage systems (ESS) for the maritime industry, has received a $60M (nearly €51.78M) growth capital investment.  The funding comes from a group of blue-chip international investors. ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/10/2025 03:20 EDT

Barcelona-based Nanoligent raises €12M to fight cancer with precision nanodrugs

Barcelona-based VC fund manager Inverady has backed a homegrown biotech firm in a new funding round, along with existing investors. Here’s what they are up to! Barcelona-based Nanoligent, a biotechnology company specialised in the development of targeted nanodrugs for cancer treatment, has secured €12M in a new funding round. The round was led by Inveready, ... Read more Read more

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals 1 place · 10/10/2025 02:53 EDT

NP-Hard, not impossible: Amsterdam VC launches €25M Fund II to back the ‘crazy ones’ building tomorrow’s foundational infrastructure

Amsterdam-based NP-Hard Ventures, a founder-led early-stage VC, has launched Fund II to continue supporting European technical founders. Amsterdam-based NP-Hard Ventures, a founder-led early-stage VC firm, has announced Fund II, a €25M vehicle focused on supporting European founders building core technology infrastructure. The firm has already closed 60 per cent of the fund, with participation from ... Read more Read more

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/09/2025 10:30 EDT

What’s in a name: How uRoutine’s name started as a placeholder but ended up defining its mission

In this edition of “What’s in a name”, we at Silicon Canals spoke to Ed Johnson, co-founder and CEO of uRoutine to discover how a temporary name has made its way into the company’s permanent mission.  Social media is flawed, and it hinders productivity. Individuals constantly consume bite-sized content, moment after moment, often unaware of ... Read more Read more

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