Around 1750 BCE in Ur, a customer named Nanni complained in clay about the bad copper sold to him by the merchant Ea-nasir. It is the oldest known written customer complaint, and several others were found in Ea-nasir's house. The behaviour behind a one-star review, nearly four millennia early. Read more ›
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced on Friday (May 16) that it is launching a new initiative to provide €70B in startup funding by 2027 to close Europe’s investment gap with the United States. This initiative aims to attract private investors to projects, potentially unlocking up to €250B in investment for the European tech sector. ... Read more Read more ›
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Tech moves fast, and staying on top of every development can feel like chasing a light. From fresh funding rounds to stealthy product launches and strategic partnerships, there’s always something happening beneath the headlines. Yet, not every story gets the spotlight it deserves. That’s where we come in with this series, “In other news this ... Read more Read more ›
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Ghent-based Deliverect, a food tech SaaS unicorn, on Thursday, announced the launch of an AI-powered tool — Resolve – to tackle a revenue-draining pain point for multi-location restaurants — Missing and Incorrect (M&I) errors and unjust refund claims. Developed using Google’s Gemini Models and the Vertex AI platform, Resolve uses vision AI technology to improve ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Prosus, a global technology company, announced the completion of Despegar, a Latin American online travel agency’s acquisition at a purchase price of $19.50 per share. The completion comes five months after the initial announcement last year The announcement comes three months after Prosus reached a conditional agreement to acquire Amsterdam-based Just Eat Takeaway, creating ... Read more Read more ›
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Prague-based Rockaway Ventures, a European investment fund within the Rockaway Capital group, announced the closing of its second fund, Rockaway Ventures II, at nearly €55M. The fund targets late-seed and Series A tech startups in traditional industries. Previously investing in e-commerce and travel tech, the fund is now focusing on energy, defence, and dual-use technologies. ... Read more Read more ›
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Dutch-based Voyc on its $2M (nearly €1.78M) seed funding round. Voyc is a platform that uses AI for conversation intelligence and compliance monitoring. The funding round includes a third round of reinvestments from six angel investors, including Anton Musgrave. Musgrave is a Senior Partner at FutureWorld, working as a business strategist, futurist speaker, angel investor, ... Read more Read more ›
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Hy2Care, a spin-off company of the MIRA Institute of the University of Twente, has successfully raised €4.5M in new funding to complete critical preparations for its upcoming clinical trial in the United States. Half of the funding comes from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund investment awarded to Hy2Care in 2022 as part of the ... Read more Read more ›
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Hamed Sadeghian, founder and CEO of Nearfield Instruments, has been crowned as the winner of the third edition of the Leading Entrepreneur in Tech (LET) Award. Organised by Amsterdam-based Techleap.nl, the LET Award (formerly LOEY Award) celebrates entrepreneurs who have built outstanding companies while delivering measurable societal impact through innovation, job creation, and solutions to ... Read more Read more ›
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US-based Salesforce, a cloud-based software company, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire London’s Convergence.ai, a company that builds AI agents for digital environments. Founded by Marvin Purtorab and Andy Toulis, Convergence’s technology allows AI agents to move through changing digital systems and carry out tasks such as handling online workflows and ... Read more Read more ›
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In today’s fast-changing food tech industry, startups that mix efficiency with creativity are gaining investor attention. One such company is SOUS, which is changing how chefs build and grow their online businesses. Based out of Amsterdam, SOUS is a commerce platform that empowers chefs, restaurants, and food entrepreneurs to launch, manage, and scale online businesses ... Read more Read more ›
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Helsinki-based Wave Ventures, a Gen Z-led venture capital firm, has announced a third fund totalling €7M. This new fund is three times larger than its previous one and is the largest Gen Z-led and Gen Z-focused fund in Europe. Wave Ventures focuses on supporting Gen Z founders across the Nordics and Baltics. The fund is ... Read more Read more ›
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Remember how Netflix started as a DVD rental-by-mail service in the shadows of Blockbuster, the giant dominating the movie rental market? Two companies. Two choices. One decided to pivot. The other didn’t. We know how the story turned out. Pivots are more common than we expect. The founders of Shopify aimed to create an online ... Read more Read more ›
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Delft-based Arctic Reflections, a company with a mission to restore Arctic sea ice to counter global warming, announced that it has been selected as one of the projects funded by the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) under Exploring Climate Cooling programme. Alongside the University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, UCL, and Real ... Read more Read more ›
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As AI technology rapidly evolves, enterprises face a critical challenge: keeping up with this change while ensuring the high levels of security and compliance required in their industries. However, most enterprises lack the internal expertise or resources to do both effectively. Here’s where GLBNXT, an Amsterdam-based SaaS startup, comes into play! Launched today after months ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based BASH, a platform for social event pages, has secured €1.3M in funding from angel investors. This funding is part of a super-seed round to support growth ahead of its Series A. The company is supported by a group of entrepreneurs, including Sjuul Berden (United Wardrobe), Leon Ramakers (Mojo) and Geert-Jan Smits (Flinders). Geert-Jan Smits, ... Read more Read more ›
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Hamburg-based Akeno, a tech company that provides real-time automated production planning, has raised €4.5M in seed funding to advance its AI-based software. The round was led by Cusp Capital, with participation from TS Ventures and another.vc. Dr. Maximilian Rowoldt, Investor and General Partner at Cusp Capital, says, “Akeno uses the increasingly available operational technology data ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based MarvelX, a company specialised in building AI agents to manage claims, compliance, and support insurance, has secured $6M (approximately €5.3M) in a seed funding round led by EQT Ventures. EQT Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Luxembourg, with investment advisors in key cities, including Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, New York, Berlin, and ... Read more Read more ›
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Espoo, Finland-based ICEYE, a microsatellite manufacturer and operator, announced that it has signed an agreement with the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland. This agreement involves delivering an initial batch of three ICEYE Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites to the Polish Armed Forces. Additionally, there is an option to purchase three more ... Read more Read more ›
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Spanish-born Xoople, a data and AI company, emerges from stealth to close its latest equity round. The company’s total funding now stands at €115M. Investors include both Spanish and international backers, such as CDTI, a public entity under the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, and AXIS, a VC manager owned by Instituto de ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based GoDutch, a fintech company that provides an advanced account for business users, has secured €1.2M in a pre-seed funding round. Founders of Dutch neobanks such as René Frijters and Mike de Boer (Knab) and Bart Wesselink (former COO and CFO of bunq) provided half of the investment. De Boer adds, “GoDutch is an excellent ... Read more Read more ›
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