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This week we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €1 billion, and 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.In addition to this week's top financials...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
A top Estonian fintech is reassessing whether London will be its new global headquarters, in light of business tax rises announced in the UK budget.Tallinn-headquartered Tuum, a fintech which provides...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
Energy tech firm Flower has closed its Series A funding with a further €20M, bringing its round to €45M.The company, which offers software and energy storage solutions, will commence pan-European expa...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
Kanpla, a Danish SaaS company advancing the digitisation of the catering industry, has raised an €8M Series A round, led by Dutch venture capital firm HenQ.The new investment will be used to further a...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
“Carry,” “secondaries,” “downrounds”, “LPs,” “bridge rounds” – the world of venture capital can be overwhelming, if not daunting, to new entrants out of university or college.But it seems for nine and...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
Tech.eu Summit London 2025 will connect Europe's technology and startup ecosystem, just like last year. Also Super Early Bird tickets are on sale today for our conference. The highly anticipated Tech....Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
Marketing tech platform Insider has raised $500 million Series E funding led by General Electric, bringing its funding to over $772 billion. The company achieved unicorn status in 2022 with a $121 mil...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Tech.eu
A UK peer-to-peer payments app, backed by property mogul Nick Candy, has scooped £5m in fresh funding and poached a top Klarna executive.VibePay, which combines messaging with open banking-powered pee...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
.I was recently confronted with the challenge of splitting the bill with a group of journo friends at a restaurant. Some of us were paying in euros, and one in pounds, another Bulgarian lev. Oh, and t...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
From pioneering advancements in solar and wind energy to developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies, European tech companies spearhead efforts to create a more sustainable and resilient energy fut...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Small modular reactor startup Blykalla has partnered with the global engineering company ABB to develop advanced nuclear reactor technology, with the aim of providing more clean and reliable baseload ...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Portugal-based Infraspeak has raised an €18M Series B funding round for its facilities management platform. The round was led by Endeit Capital, with the participation of existing investors Indico Cap...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Starling Bank has launched a tool to tackle the problem of bank impersonation scams, in what it says is an industry first.Starling, one of the UK’s most high-profile challenger banks which has attract...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Munich media company Cataneo is being acquired by Brand Engagement Network (BEN), a developer of conversational AI solutions for businesses and consumers, in a $19.5 million cash and stock transacti...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Belgium-based 3D animation software company Swoove Studios has closed a $7.5M (€6.9M) seed funding round led by European angel investors.The round brings the total raised to $11M since its launch in 2...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
Belgian company Paleo has announced a new partnership with Vienna-based foodtech Revo Foods. The project has been funded with a total project volume of €2.2M by the European Union. This funding enable...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Tech.eu
London-based medtech Scalpel AI, has raised $4.8M (£3.8M) in a funding round led by Mercia Ventures, with participation from Tensor Ventures and private investors.The investment will enable Scalpel AI...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Tech.eu
Chancellor Rachel Reeves today delivered the biggest tax-raising budget since 1993, as she increased spending on the NHS and schools.Here are some of the key announcements impacting tech startups and ...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