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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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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/02/2025 05:44 EDT

UK’s Trig (formerly Pavlov) secures €5.1M from 20VC, Marc Benioff, others to scale its AI account management platform

London-based Trig (formerly Pavlov), an AI agent platform purpose-built for account management, has secured $6M (approximately €5.1M) in an oversubscribed seed round. The round was led by 20VC, with participation from Frontline Ventures, Marc Benioff, AJ Tennant, Mayur Gupta, and other pioneering industry leaders. The latest funding round brings total capital raised to $8M, following ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/02/2025 05:20 EDT

Dutch-based OpusFlow secures €3.8M to expand services for solar and EV installers across Europe

OpusFlow, a Dutch platform for renewable energy installers, has raised growth funding to expand its platform and grow its operations across Europe. Deventer-based OpusFlow, a Dutch platform for renewable energy installers, has raised €3.8M in growth capital led by Move Energy, Rise PropTech, and existing investor Peak.  The funds will support OpusFlow’s operations in existing ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/02/2025 03:37 EDT

Dutch biotech Leyden Labs nets €30M, just months after €20M EIB funding

Leiden-based Leyden Laboratories, a clinical-stage biotech company, has secured €30M in new equity financing from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund and Invest-NL. The European Innovation Council Fund from the European Commission is a deep tech investor across all technologies. The EIC Fund aims to fill a critical financing gap and to support companies in ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/02/2025 03:19 EDT

Dutch-based Cooll raises €4.5M and appoints new CEO: Know more

Cooll raises funds to support the rollout of its thermally driven heat pump technology. The company has also appointed a new CEO starting January 2026. Hengelo-based Cooll, a Dutch heating solutions company, has secured €4.5M in funding to support the market introduction of its thermally driven heat pump technology. The funding follows the company’s completion ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/02/2025 03:00 EDT

Amsterdam-based Dashmote raises €5.1M to scale its AI sales assistant 

Amsterdam-based Dashmote, an AI technology startup, announced that it has secured $6M (approximately €5.1M) in a Series A1 funding round co-led by Blossom Street Ventures and Rabobank. To date, the company has raised $14M (approximately €11.9M) across all funding rounds. The Dutch company will use the funds to accelerate the development of DashSalesAI, its first ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 09:48 EDT

Dublin biotech Aerska launches with €17.8M Seed round to tackle Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s 

Dublin-based Aerska, a biotechnology company specialising in the treatment of neurological diseases, announced its launch along with $21M (approximately €17.8M) in seed funding. The funding round was co-led by Age1, Backed VC and Speedinvest, with participation from Blueyard, Lingotto (Exor), Norrsken VC, Kerna, PsyMed and Ada Ventures. The company is developing systemically administered RNA interference ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 09:10 EDT

Norrsken’s Impact/100 2025 is out, and only these 3 Dutch startups made the list

Stockholm-based Norrsken has released its 2025 Impact/100 list, highlighting 100 companies identified as potential impact unicorns. Stockholm-based Norrsken, a non-profit foundation focused on solving the world’s greatest challenges, has unveiled the 2025 edition of its annual Impact/100 list, a ranking that highlights 100 companies identified as potential impact unicorns. The companies are tackling global challenges ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 08:48 EDT

Amsterdam’s GBM Works completes second close of Seed round at €6.2M with Invest-NL backing

Amsterdam-based GBM Works, a company developing Vibrojet, a silent installation technique for offshore wind monopiles, announced the second close of its seed funding round at €6.2M. The round was backed by new investor Invest-NL in addition to existing investors such as the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund and Rotterdamse Havendraken. Out of the total, Invest-NL ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 06:47 EDT

Amsterdam’s Optics11 Life raises funds to unlock the power of mechanobiology

Amsterdam’s Optics11 Life raises fresh funding to expand its mechanobiology tools and global operations. Amsterdam-based Optics11 Life, a company developing a suite of mechanobiology tools, has announced a new funding round.  The investment was led by new investor ECFG, and existing investors Forward.one and Value Creation Capital (VCC). ECFG joins through its Ventures III fund, providing ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 05:40 EDT

UK’s Nscale closes  $433M Pre-Series C SAFE days after record-breaking $1.1B Series B

UK-based Nscale, an AI infrastructure provider, announced that it has secured $433M (approximately €370M) in a Pre-Series C SAFE funding round. The funding round was backed by key investors such as Blue Owl Managed Funds, Dell, NVIDIA and Nokia, along with other existing Series B and new investors. The Pre-Series C SAFE funding comes a ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 05:03 EDT

Amsterdam’s FORWARD.one launches €200M Fund III to fuel Europe’s industrial tech startups

Amsterdam-based FORWARD.one, a venture capital firm specialising in industrial technology, has announced the launch of its third fund, Fund III. The fund is targeting commitments of €200M, with a hard cap of €250M. The majority of the fund’s target has already been secured from a strong base of returning and new investors. Fund III: Investing ... Read more Read more ›

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Guest Contributor @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 04:15 EDT

New industrial innovation: Why Europe needs more than SaaS

Europe’s future won’t be decided in the App Store – but on the factory floor. For more than a decade, the lion’s share of European venture capital has flowed into software – above all into SaaS models. And for good reason: they’re predictable, scalable, and easy to roll out internationally. But while the cloud is ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals 3 place · 10/01/2025 04:07 EDT

IKEA-backed NORNORM raises €50M as it sits pretty on profitability across core markets

Copenhagen-based NORNORM, a circular workplace furniture solutions provider, has announced that it has secured €50M in a new funding round. Existing investors, including Verdane, Inter IKEA, Philian AB and Banco Santander, have participated in the round. The Danish company plans to use the funding to enhance its circular model by utilising technology and AI to ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 10/01/2025 03:00 EDT

Spotify’s founder Daniel Ek steps down as CEO; co-Presidents take over leadership

Spotify shared an update on its leadership and a message from its CEO with employees, reflecting on the company’s growth and future plans. Stockholm-based Spotify, a global audio streaming platform, announced that founder and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek will move to the position of Executive Chairman effective January 1, 2026. The company has also ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 09/30/2025 10:20 EDT

Amsterdam unicorn Mews acquires London’s Flexkeeping to boost hotel productivity and efficiency

Amsterdam-based Mews, the operating system for hospitality, announced the acquisition of London-based Flexkeeping, a platform that focuses on automating housekeeping and improving hotel operations. This acquisition adds tools for housekeeping and team collaboration to the Mews system, enabling hoteliers to manage the guest experience from check-in to check-out in one place. By integrating housekeeping automation ... Read more Read more ›

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

Münster-based clockin raises €10M from Amsterdam’s Newion, others to digitise Europe’s deskless workforce

​​Münster, Germany-based clockin, a company specialised in making digitalisation and AI accessible for deskless workforces, has secured €10M in growth capital. The round was led by Newion (Amsterdam) and NRW.Venture (Düsseldorf). Existing investors Scalehouse Capital (Osnabrück) and D11Z. Ventures (Heilbronn) also participated.   Newion is Europe’s early-stage investor in business software. The firm supports founders from ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 09/30/2025 08:38 EDT

Amsterdam’s Polars raises €18M in Series A led by Accel to advance data processing at scale

Amsterdam-based Polars, a Rust-based DataFrame library for data scientists and engineers, has secured €18M in growth funding, led by Accel, with participation from BCV, which followed up on its Seed investment. Since its seed round, where the company raised €3.6M in 2023, the platform has grown from 250,000 to over 23 million monthly users. The ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 09/30/2025 07:51 EDT

Meet the 9 most innovative companies from Amsterdam, according to the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK)

Innovation continues to shape the future, and Dutch startups are once again demonstrating that bold ideas can drive meaningful impact in the real world.  Highlighting this spirit of ingenuity is the KvK Innovation Top 100, an initiative dedicated to showcasing the creativity and capability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Netherlands. The 100 ... Read more Read more ›

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Vigneshwar Ravichandran @ Silicon Canals · 09/30/2025 06:47 EDT

Amsterdam’s Paerel and Icecat acquire INKEF’s stake in The Hague-based SME stock exchange NPEX

The Hague-based NPEX, a stock exchange platform for small and medium-sized businesses, announced that Paerel Investment and Icecat Capital have purchased about 20 per cent of INKEF Capital’s shares in the company. Paerel Investment is an Amsterdam-based investment company with a personal approach, social commitment and focus on impact. Toon van Dooijeweerd of Paerel Investment ... Read more Read more ›

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Vishal Singh @ Silicon Canals · 09/30/2025 04:33 EDT

Amsterdam’s GreenShift raises €2.35M to shift cloud computing into green gear

Amsterdam’s GreenShift, a cloud computing company, has secured funding to support its platform and growth. Investors express support for the team and the company’s focus on efficiency and performance. Amsterdam-based GreenShift, an AI technology company focused on sustainable cloud computing, has raised €2.35M in a Convertible Loan Agreement (CLA) round.  The investment was led by ... Read more Read more ›

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