Last week, we tracked more than 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.2 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.Haberin devamını okumak için tıklayı...
A couple of years ago, our VC fund launched a platform where startups could upload their internal data and receive an in-depth analysis – the kind we do during due diligence – but it soon ran into pro...
Climate solutions are significantly underfunded and under-prioritised by both the public and private sectors. Currently, only an estimated 16% of climate finance needs are being met, with early techno...
With the team finally recovered from anything and everything that was the Tech.eu Summit, we're back guns a-blazin'. This week we're talkin':- Sex tech - it's not what people think it is.- Quinky is a...
Portuguese start-up Zypho, whose technology sits underneath a bath or shower and recovers heat from waste water, improving the efficiency of showers by 30-75%, has been acquired by water and energy ma...
This week, our research team tracked 80 tech funding deals worth over €1.2 billion (debt and equity), and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.As always...
It is the beginning of the month, and that means one thing - we have researched our database and prepared for you the numbers on the European tech ecosystem for the previous month!Haberin devamını oku...
Barcelona-based start-up Jolt is ‘revolutionising’ electrode production with its patented catalytic coating technology. It is making the manufacturing of electrodes more cost and energy efficient. A s...
Oslo-based Simplifai is bringing AI to the the insurance industry through what it is claiming is 'a world-first custom-built GPT tool', Simplifai InsuranceGPT. The AI automation solutions provider has...
The European Commission kicked into gear a fresh initiative on Thursday to help 100 unicorns scale up to become Europe's deep tech champions and help achieve the EU's digital and green objectives.In a...
Valencia-based entrepreneurship-for-all startup Jeff has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy according to a report first filed by Jesus Martinez at La Información. The filing arrives after a €45 million ...
London-based neobank Revolut has announced it has surpassed 30 million users which is good news for it but not so good news for those of us desperately trying to invite new friends and family on the p...
London-based early-stage VC FirstPartyCapital(FPC) and global corporate barter company Astus have announced a partnership which sees a new investment portfolio focus on accelerating adtech and martech...
This week Belgian-Spanish startup uWare Robotics has secured €500,000 in seed funding from Semper Amplifi. uWare Robotics is aiming to revolutionise underwater data gathering for marine conservation a...
One of the most challenging aspects of creating a successful startup is marketing. Young companies struggle to gain trust and credibility, shape a unique value proposition, acquire customers and attra...
Swedish fintech Froda has set its sights on the UK market and through a partnership with fellow Swedish fintech firm Treyd, which has been established in the UK for over a year now, it is set to bring...
London-based medtech Lindus Health has announced a new rake of clinical trials which will be managed through its platform. It claims that using its clinical trial management platform it can speed tria...
As climate risk is increasingly threatening the environment, society, and global economy, it is up to both the public and private sectors to undertake serious actions in order to adjust to new environ...
Warsaw/New York-based ff Venture Capital has announced a new €60 million aimed at bridging Central European startups with both the US and Japanese markets. With a first close of €32 million, the Red &...
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