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This week we tracked more than 70 tech funding deals worth over €1.5 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top f...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Student-focused fintech, Habacus, which offers integrated services to students, including sustainable access to student loans, has closed a €5 million investment round.Founded in 2017 by Paolo Cuniber...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
TBC Bank Uzbekistan (TBC UZ), the country’s largest digital bank, raised $37 million equity investment from its majority shareholder TBC Bank Group PLC. This capital brings the total new equity fundin...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Voima Ventures has announced the final closing of its €100 million+ Fund III, an Article 8-compliant deep tech fund. Based in both Helsinki and Stockholm, the fund has already begun deploying capital ...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
When I get contacted by a highly successful serial entrepreneur with a new endeavour coming out of stealth mode, I get interested. Jan Rezab is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience i...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
German home electrification startup 1KOMMA5° has secured €150 million in a Pre-IPO round. This brings the company's funding to over €450 million.1KOMMA5° is the operator of virtual powerplant, Heartbe...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Luxembourg EV-charging startup El-Monde has raised Pre-Seed funding to drive the initial growth of its platform.Established in 2024, El-Monde has developed a platform enabling private EV charger owne...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
One of the most talked about European AI startups, which specialises in developing autonomous AI-powered sales agents, is set to launch up to 20 AI agents next year and is on the hunt for “killer engi...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Solo GP-led Robin Capital announces the successful final close of Robin Fund One.Robin Capital empowers B2B SaaS startups that solve meaningful problems across Europe. With a particular focus on the D...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Tech.eu
Swedish video gaming and tech group Aonic has raised €152 million investment.Aonic is a growing group of multiplatform game studios and adjacent service providers, empowering founders and their teams ...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Tech.eu
German aircraft manufacturer VÆRIDION has raised €14 million funding, bringing its funding to €17.2 million.Founded in 2021 by two former Airbus managers, Ivor van Dartel and Dr Sebastian Seemann, VÆR...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Tech.eu
In today’s rapidly evolving landscape, cutting-edge technologies like AI, personalized learning platforms, and immersive virtual environments are transforming education, making it more accessible, inc...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Tech.eu
Spanish SaaS fintech Kloutit, has raised €540,000 in funding. The company focuses on chargeback management and prevention for businesses.Chargebacks are a financial mechanism that allows consumers to ...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Tech.eu
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Digital twin tech startup EKORE, has closed a €1.3 million Seed funding round. This round represents one of the most significant investments in Italy’s proptech sector and the largest in the digital t...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Tech.eu
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The CEO and co-founder of a new Danish investment app has likened the dynamic between his Y-Combinator-backed Pluto.markets and fellow Danish fintech Lunar to that of German trading app Trade Republic...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Tech.eu
Swedish sports video tech company Spiideo has acquired Signality, an optical tracking and sports data generation company. Spiideo is an AI-powered video and data solution for leagues, broadcasters, fe...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Tech.eu
Remember when startups used to tell us they were the Airbnb of X? Well, at Slush last month, I met BoxBox, the Estonian Airbnb of self-storage. It's turning an old analog business — spare space rental...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Tech.eu
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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