Stockholm-based Greenvoltis, an AI-native energy techcompany, has closed a new multi-million-dollar funding round, led exclusivelyby DeepMind Capital. Europe’s energy transition is accelerating, bring...
Cambridge-based Xampla, creator of natural materials forcommercial use, has secured $14 million in Series A funding to accelerate its missionto replace single-use plastics with plant-based alternative...
AI healthtech startup ArcaScience has raised $7 million in seed funding to expand in the US and UK, launch patient solutions, and advance safer drug evaluation.The round was led by The Moon Venture,w...
Pan-European fintech venture builder and investor 0TO9 (Zero to Nine) launches out of stealth today with an ambitious goal — to build 1,000 profitable fintechs by 2045. Its secret sauce? It operate...
Anthropic, the AI research startup behind the Claude family of models, has raised $13 billion in a Series F round, bringing its post-money valuation to $183 billion, more than tripling its value from ...
Gastrointestinal diagnostics startup Cyted Health has secured $44 million in Series B funding, led by EQT Life Sciences, with Advent Life Sciences and the British Business Bank (formerly British Patie...
Klarna aims to raise as much as $1.27 billion in its US IPO, as the Swedish fintech today revealed details of its IPO plans, which had previously been paused because of the Trump tariffs. The Swedish ...
Today the EQT Foundation has launched another global fast-grant for rare disease science, designed to accelerate high-risk, high-reward research that rarely makes it through traditional funding filter...
SeqOne, a pioneer in AI-driven genomicanalysis, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Congenica,the UK company spun out of the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The acquisitioncreates the larges...
OYAK ANKER Bank GmbH has taken a historic step in its digitalization journey — one of Germany’s most comprehensive banking transformation projects has been successfully completed under the leadership ...
Zopa, the UK savings and lending digital bank backed by SoftBank, has acquired payments platform Rvvup as it looks to expand its retail finance offering. Rvvup was founded in 2021 by former PayPal-own...
Siena Secondary Fund II, a VC direct secondaries vehicle focused on Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics, has announced a major closing, with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
Munich-basedTangany, a digital asset custodian, has closed a €10 million Series A fundinground. The raise marks a major milestone in the company’s evolution from fast-growing startup to key pillar of ...
Klarna is launching its debit card across the EU, with the UK soon to follow, as the Swedish fintech looks to up the ante against existing banks. Klarna, most well-known for its BNPL products, is look...
Quantum algorithms company Phasecraft has raised $34 million in Series Bfunding to accelerate its breakthrough work and transform quantum computing’s theoretical promise into practical applications.Qu...
Geneva-based Allasso,the fintech that brings data-backed, modern analytics to one intuitiveinterface for financial market professionals, has secured $3 million ininvestment in its latest funding round...
CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), the public establishment responsible for proposing French space policy to the Government and implementing it in Europe, has awarded €31 million in strategic ...
myypaperwork, a platform that simplifies residence and work permits in Europe, has raised €500,000 in a pre-seed funding round. The platform is the brainchild of software startup Fresh Labs FlexCo, w...
Today, a coalition of 33 digital health organisations from across Europe, including industry associations and startups from France, Germany and other EU member states, has published a joint statement ...
AI hiring platform Hubert has raised €2.5 million Seed funding. Built on proprietary technology, Hubert autonomously conducts structured screening interviews, 24/7 at scale, helping organisations stre...
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