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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Paderborn-based Assemblean, a German deeptech startup, has secured €1.8M in a Seed funding round led by b2venture, with participation from Archimedes New Ventures and Teuto Seed Club business angels. The company claims to offer a manufacturing and supply chain automation platform, leveraging a Production-as-a-Service model to tap into the €2.4T contract manufacturing market. Florian Schweitzer, ... Read more Read more ›
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On Tuesday, Paris-based Crown, a company specialising in procurement negotiations with e-auction technology, announced that it has raised €2M in its pre-seed funding round. The round was led by Heartfelt, with participation from Kima Ventures, Backbone Ventures, Another.vc, Apok Invest, ZAS Ventures, Prequel VC and Bpifrance. The round also included contributions from notable business angels ... Read more Read more ›
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On Monday, Copenhagen-based Enduro Genetics, a synthetic biology startup, announced that it has raised €12M in a Series A funding round from Supernova Invest, NOON Ventures, and Sandwater. The new funding takes the total raised by Enduro to €18M including grants from the BioInnovation Institute and the European Innovation Council accelerator grant. The Danish company ... Read more Read more ›
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Belgium-based BiocSol, a UCLouvain spin-off focused on sustainable crop protection solutions, has raised €4.4M in its latest round of funding. The round includes an equity investment from Dutch impact investment cooperative Pymwymic (Put Your Money Where Your Meaning Is Community) and non-dilutive financing from the Walloon Region through the Win4company programme. Pieter Vis, partner at ... Read more Read more ›
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London-based Connected Kerb, an electric vehicle charging company, announced that it has secured £65M (approximately €78M) in funding from the National Wealth Fund and Aviva Investors, a global asset manager. Out of the total, NWF has invested £55M (approximately €66M), while the remaining has been invested by Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of ... Read more Read more ›
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Oslo-based Receipts, a B2B fintech serving financial services, has raised NOK 20M (approximately €1.7M) in a new investment round to accelerate its expansion. DNB Ventures led the funding round, with participation from OBOS, Såkorn 1 Midt, and Antler. With this deal, DNB Ventures will become the largest shareholder aside from the company’s founders. Anders Østensvig, ... Read more Read more ›
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Berlin-based Hallo Theo, a property management company, announced that it has secured €10M in a Seed Round led by Insight Partners. The German company will use the funds to accelerate its growth and expansion, across Germany. “There are more than €29T worth of apartments in Germany, yet the average experience of an owner or tenant ... Read more Read more ›
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New York-based cloud security startup Wiz, announced that it has identified a publicly accessible ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek, granting full control over database operations, including access to internal data. This exposure contains over a million lines of log streams with sensitive information, such as chat histories, secret keys, and backend details. The Wiz Research ... Read more Read more ›
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SURE Mobility, a Dutch company that designs and develops sustainable e-bikes, and Smart Wheelz, a wholesaler of electric vehicles, have announced a merger. The merger will form one of the Netherlands’s largest leisure-related e-vehicle rental organisations. Aim of the merger! Patrick De Wit (founder of SURE Mobility) and Audrey Winters and Stuart Wehnes (Smart Wheelz’ ... Read more Read more ›
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With the technology developing at breakneck speed, it’s nearly impossible to keep up with every breakthrough, funding round, or acquisition. While major headlines dominate our news cycle, many significant developments often slip through the cracks. In our “In Other News This Week” series, we at Silicon Canals give a concise yet comprehensive look at the ... Read more Read more ›
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GoWest is one of Nordic’s premier venture capital forums for startups, scale-ups, and investors in pre-seed to series A stages. The three-day event, which was scheduled between Jan 28 – 30, brought together companies reshaping industries, global investors, and the Nordic innovation ecosystem in a multi-day matchmaking conference. The event is known for its focus ... Read more Read more ›
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The launch of DeepSeek’s R1 model has sent shockwaves through the AI world, sparking debate over its impact on competition, cost structures, and the dominance of tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI. While undeniably impressive, the breakthrough also raises big questions about the economics of AI model development – and whether the industry is ... Read more Read more ›
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ElevenLabs, an AI audio startup, announced on Thursday, January 30, that it has secured $180M (nearly €173.45M) in a Series C funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to $3.3B (nearly €3.18B). We had previously published the reported funding news, and the company has now confirmed the details. While the lead investors and valuation align with ... Read more Read more ›
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On Friday, London-based Fuel Ventures announced that it has led the £4M (approximately €4.7M) funding round of Prosper, a high-net-worth wealth management platform. The VC firm has invested £2M (approximately €2.3M) in the company. Additionally, sixty professional sportspeople from The Players Fund have also invested in Prosper’s round. It includes England cricket captains Ben Stokes ... Read more Read more ›
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Berlin-based Nala Earth, a nature & biodiversity management platform, has raised €3.8M in funding. The round was led by European VC firm IRIS, with support from KOMPAS VC, Pale Blue Dot, and Founderful. The funding will be used to enhance its platform for corporate nature and biodiversity management, expand use cases, scale operations, and accelerate ... Read more Read more ›
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On Friday, Antwerp, Belgium-based ADLC, a drone logistics company, announced that it has raised €2.08M in seed funding led by Galactic Beacon Ventures (GBV). Galactic Beacon Ventures is the dedicated venture capital arm of the Columbia Group. The VC specialises in numerous sectors across the maritime, logistics, energy, and leisure sphere. “We believe the time ... Read more Read more ›
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Villeurbanne-based Laclarée, a French company developing adaptive eyeglasses for presbyopia correction, has secured €3.5M in equity Seed round funding. The investment came from vision-care investor Rimonci Capital, along with existing investors UI-Investissement, High-Tech GründerFonds (HTGF), and business angels. Richel LIU, founder and manager of Rimonci Capital, says, “We are thrilled to support Laclarée in bringing ... Read more Read more ›
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On Thursday, Delft-based Villari, a company providing sensors for crack detection, announced that it has raised €4M from FORWARD.one and InnovationQuarter Capital, with participation from two key individuals for the company. InnovationQuarter is the regional economic development agency for the Province of Zuid-Holland, also known as the greater Rotterdam – The Hague area. FORWARD.one is ... Read more Read more ›
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Earlier this month, Aurore Balsan, wife of Karim Slaoui, co-founder of Cowboy, announced the launch of “The Karim Slaoui Fund,” through a LinkedIn post. The announcement comes more than a year after Karim Slaoui (36) died due to a rare form of cancer. This initiative honours Karim Slaoui’s legacy, who faced significant mobility challenges in ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based VEMS, a company creating an interconnected integrated energy management ecosystem, in collaboration with Biosphere Solar, JansZon BV, and the City of Amsterdam, has secured €655K in funding. The investment came from the MIT R&D subsidy scheme to advance circular energy solutions. “A huge thanks to the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for backing this vision ... Read more Read more ›
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