Friday, February 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
This week we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.1 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top f...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Friday, February 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Healthtech startup Pulsetto has secured a €2 million investment from Lithuanian dual-use technology accelerator and venture capital fund Scalewolf. The startup specialises in vagus nerve stimulation (...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Atria AI, a provider of generative AI solutions tailored for the legal industry, has raised £720,000 in a round led by Fuel Ventures and a network of angel investors. Atria AI specializes in developin...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
ZYMVOL, a biotech company focused on computational enzyme discovery and design has raised €3 million Seed funding led by Faber alongside Elaia Partners (existing Pre-Seed investor), and Übermorgen Ven...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
UK media agency MNC has acquired Grwth, a pioneering consultancy and venture fund in the consumer brand space. The multi-million-pound deal will create a dynamic one-stop shop for challenger brands th...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
German digital health startup Noah Labs has raised €3 million Seed funding for its AI-powered telemonitoring for patients with heart failure. Founded in 2021 by physician Dr Leonhard Riehle, machine ...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
Microbiology testing startup Spore.Bio has raised $23 million Series A, bringing its total funding to date to $31.3 million. Recent years have seen a sharp rise in product recalls and contamination in...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
Revolut will continue with a hybrid working policy, despite staff imminently moving into new London headquarters and in contrast to some well-known companies which are ordering staff back to the offic...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
Digital management RepScan, remover of negative online content (fake news, identity theft, cyberbullying, fake profiles, photos, videos, false reviews, etc.), has closed a Series A funding round of €...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
France’s tech ecosystem continues to expand, with companies raising €10.8 billion in 2024, representing 14.5 per cent of the total funding secured across Europe.The transportation sector led the way, ...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
Scale Energy, Germany’s leading developer of industrial battery storage systems, has raised a €2M Seed funding round.The equity funding is led by Climentum Capital, a European early-stage climate tech...Thursday, February 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
METYCLE, a digital platform for international secondary metal trade, has raised a €14.1M Series A funding round. The round was led by 2150 with investment from existing investors DFF Ventures, Market ...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
It's not every day that you hear about the application of a kind of life-changing tech and wonder why it hasn't always existed. Sensor-powered continuous monitoring has transformed the lives of millio...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
Developer app Serverpod has raised a €2.7M Seed round led by node.vc, with participation from Greens Ventures and PreSeed Ventures.Serverpod is an open-source, scalable app server written in Dart, spe...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
Barcelona-based VC 4Founders Capital has launched its third fund, 4Founders Capital III, having secured €44M, primarily from existing investors.4Founders Capital III will focus on Spanish-linked compa...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
For any startup that wants to set up in Europe, there is huge competition from other territories falling over themselves to offer an easy path to incorporation and markets.The US has always made it si...Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from Tech.eu
Kynda, a Hamburg-based biotech producing sustainable proteins, has raised €3M in Seed funding.The round was led by Enjoy Ventures (through their Invest-Impuls Scale fund), with participation from PHW ...Saturday, May 13, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Friday, May 12, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 11, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Wednesday, May 10, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Tuesday, May 9, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Monday, May 8, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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,...Friday, May 5, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, May 4, 2023 from TechCrunch » Europe
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...Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
Like its predecessors, the latest generation AirPods are glued together, which earns the AirPods Pro a zero repairability ratingThursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
Well that's a tad worrying...India confirms its newest nuclear power plant has suffered cyberattackThursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
What crisis? Profit and revenue surge over 20 percent at Zuckerberg's house, despite a torrid yearThursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
With billions of connected devices, IoT will deliver a new data-rich environment. However, will this new space be safe and secure?Thursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
Profits and year revenues at Apple slide amid slow iPhone sales, but sales from wearables and services roseThursday, October 31, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says that from next month, his platform will ban all political advertisingWednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
Data centre consolidation sees US real estate giant acquire Europe's largest colocation provider, InterxionWednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
5G is going to be an 'aggressive' push for Apple in 2020, with three smartphones due next yearWednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
Advertising watchdog: Amazon used misleading payment page to get users to sign up for its Prime subscription serviceWednesday, October 30, 2019 from TechWeekEurope UK
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