This week we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €685 million, and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.In addition to this week's top fin...
Austrian heat pump company ecop has been awarded €8.5 million in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator. ecop was selected to receive the full €2.5 million in grant funding, as...
UK-based Biotech 4D Medicine, who develop biomaterial for a range of 3D printed implants and surgical devices, has raised a £3.4m Series A roundThe funding round was led by Oshen Holdings and backed b...
"I was a small town kid from the south of Germany from a working class family,” says Fabian Kamberi, the co-founder of social gaming startup SLAY.“CODE opened my eyes and enabled me to pursue my dream...
Primary Portal, a digital platform that aggregates and digitises equity capital market processes for banks and asset managers, has completed the first stage of its £7.5 million Series A funding round....
UK AI chip company Fractile has today exited stealth and announced $15 million in Seed funding. Founded in 2022 by 28-year-old artificial intelligence PhD, Walter Goodwin, Fractile s building its firs...
Stockholm-based energy startup Greenely has closed its Series A round, raising €8M. Greenely previously deployed its energy management platform in the Swedish energy market. The company's solution int...
Swiss company Amporin Pharmaceuticals has received €157,000 (CHF 150,000) investment from Venture Kick to develop amyloid pore inhibitors to treat deadly degenerative diseases.Over 50 deadly degenera...
When you think of successful Czech startups, dating apps might not be the first thing that springs to mind. However, Cosmic Latte is a Czech technology company that is developing dating apps for the L...
EV battery tech startup Addionics has raised Series B funding round of $39M. The round was co-led by GM Ventures and Deep Insight, with participation from Scania, along with new and returning strategi...
Talinn-based fintech Enty has raised a €700,000 seed round. Enty provides financial and invoice management and contract development and management to SMEs on a subscription basis, ensuring compliance ...
The Sustainability Group, developers of sustainability management and ESG reporting platform FuturePlus, has closed its latest round. Overfunding in this round, The Sustainability Group secured a 5x i...
Portuguese sustainable seafood company Oceano Fresco, has closed a €17 million funding round. Oceano Fresco is a pioneer in the sustainable cultivation of clams on a large scale. It avoids the major n...
Over the past decade, Greece has seen a significant increase in startup activity in diverse sectors, including fintech, tourism tech, agritech, healthtech, and creative industries, all supported by in...
Skippio, an Irish startup that has developed an innovative platform to enhance the fan experience at large-scale venues and events, has secured €540,000 in seed funding.The platform tackles a common i...
Revolut has finally secured its UK banking licence, more than three years after it applied with the regulators.The UK's most valuable fintech said it had received a UK banking licence with restriction...
The Berlin-based startup Meisterwerk App, a central operating platform for craft businesses, has raised €6M in Series A funding. Semapa Next, a venture capital firm that invests in European-based comp...
Jarvis, a pension fintech that empowers employees to plan for their ideal retirement actively, has raised £1.8 million in seed funding in a round co-led by Ascension VC and Cornerstone VC, with partic...
Financial SaaS Payt has announced a minority investment from Partech, through its growth fund. Partech will invest €55 million in Payt. Described as a strategic partnership, the investment will accele...
Berlin fintech startup bunch has announced the successful closing of its $15.5 million Series A. Private markets are experiencing unprecedented growth, however, the industry is still reliant on outdat...
Amorai is creating an AI relationship coach but the startup isn't sharing what it could look like, and an AI expert isn't sure it would work. Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers by Rebecca Szkutak...
Reminder: Today is the deadline for the Meta’s lead privacy regulator in Europe to adopt a final decision on a nearly decade-long complaint against Facebook’s transfers of personal data from the EU to the U.S. that could see...
The U.K.’s floundering National Health Service (NHS) is not in the best of shapes by just about any estimation, the victim of chronic underfunding and understaffing that has led to excruciatingly long waiting times and healthcare...
In a series of votes in the European Parliament this morning MEPs have backed a raft of amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation — including agreeing a set of requirements for so called foundational models which underpin...
Dutch social enterprise Fairphone is best known for its mission to build ethical smartphones via a brand that promises fairer wages for supply chain workers and design choices that encourage consumers to cherish and repair the hardware...
Builder.ai tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. That led to led to a $100 million Series C funding round last year...
Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily for delivery of medicine and other goods to remote areas, has picked up some more financing to expand its business. The...
Most U.S.-based tech investors are likely familiar with smaller-ticket investor marketplaces AngelList and Carta. In Europe, Germany’s Bunch and the U.K.’s Vauban (acquired by by U.S.-based Carta last year) have attempted to do similar...
Clearview AI, the U.S. startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law...
For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time...
Last year we covered how late-stage tech backer Liquidity Group had raised $775 million for its fintech platform from Apollo (private equity) and MUFG (a Japanese bank). Liquidity is part tech platform and part lender, using its...
A legal opinion on a controversial European Union legislative plan set out last May, when the Commission proposed countering child sexual abuse online by applying obligations on platforms to scan for abuse and grooming, suggests the...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially greenlighted the proposed $7.3 billion merger between Viasat and Inmarsat. London-based Inmarsat and its U.S. rival Viasat offer various satellite services including...
Conferences and other in-person events rushing to impose facial recognition on attendees in Europe without doing the necessary due diligence over data protection risks beware: The organizers of the global connectivity industry shindig,...
Netherlands-based Instruqt has a product allowing companies to more easily test how new software would run inside their organization. After bootstrapping its way to growth, it has now raised €15 million in a Series A round led entirely...
The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation...
If you’ve heard of Flixbus, SumUp, StudiVZ, Seatwave, Cafe Press, Zalando, Wooga, HelloFresh, Depop, Delivery Hero and Agreena, then you’ve heard of companies invested in by HV Capital. The German early- and growth-stage VC has been a...
More regulatory woes for Meta: France’s competition watchdog has announced interim measures on the adtech giant — saying it suspects it of abusing a dominant position in the French market for ads on social media and across...
Well that was fast. The U.K.’s competition watchdog has announced an initial review of “AI foundational models”, such as the large language models (LLMs) which underpin OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s New...
French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change. Essentially, Green-Got guarantees that your savings and the money that is sitting in your bank account aren’t going to...
IoT coupled with 5G are the key foundations onto which the smart city will be built. From transport to personalised services, a data-rich environment is taking shape