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Fashiontech startup MannyAI has raised a €1.5 million funding round, including a €240,000 IUK grant and a €1.26 million Pre-Seed investment led by Dreamcraft Ventures. In global garment production up ...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
Faircraft, the maker of lab-grown leather, has raised €15 million in funding. The startup has developed a lab-grown material derived from animal skin cells that replicates the structure and compositio...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
Microoled, a French manufacturer of high-resolution, low-power OLED microdisplays, has received investment from Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials Inc. Since its creation i...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) will provide the plumbing for "at least half of banking activity in the medium to long term", according to a top executive with Natwest's BaaS offering.Speaking on the Tech...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
The CEO of UK challenger bank Kroo Bank has suggested that it could begin offering investment products, amid a further fall in interest rates and customers becoming less risk-averse.Andrea De Gottardo...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
Lighthouse, a commercial intelligence platform for the travel & hospitality industry, has raised $370M in growth investment led by KKR.The investment will be used to develop the platform, perform ...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
European deeptech companies are driving breakthroughs across industries such as healthcare, energy, mobility, and AI.These companies leverage advanced technologies, such as AI, robotics, quantum compu...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
Amsterdam-based Move Energy’s “Fund I” has landed a €35 million commitment from the European Investment Fund (EIF). Move Energy Fund I provides Series A funding for European hardware and software vent...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
Belgian provider of integrated business software Odoo has raised €500 million in secondary capital, increasing the Belgian Unicorn’s valuation to €5 billion.Since its founding in April 2002, Odoo has...Thursday, November 21, 2024 from Tech.eu
AI integration platform Eden AI has raised €3M in a Seed round led by Galion.exe with participation from 50 Partners and several business angels including Olivier Pomel (Co-Founder of Datadog), Sébas...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
BiocSol, a spinout specialized in sustainable crop protection solutions, has raised a €5.2M Seed round.Agri Investment Fund and VIVES IUF led the round, bringing extensive expertise in agribusiness an...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
KoRo, the snacking brand with over two million customers in Europe, successfully closes an oversubscribed Series C financing round and receives €35 million in fresh capital. Founded in Germany in 2014...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Apideck, a provider of API software, has raised $7.5M in its Series A round.The round was led by Amsterdam-based Airbridge Equity Partners, the round includes PMV, angel investors, and executives from...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) startup TEKEVER has raised €70 million in a funding round led by Baillie Gifford, and the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF).TEKEVER develops and operates UAS that provide custom...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
Celebratix, a Dutch blockchain ticketing startup backed by Solana, has secured €1.1M from the Swedish VC uBIT, and angel investors. The funds will be used to expand internationally. Celebratix offers ...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
A UK money management app for Gen Z-ers which counted two Conservative peers as advisers is closing- and ex-staff claim dozens of staff are owed money. One disgruntled former employee said: “My person...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
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Turkish-founded Kalder has raised $10.5 million in funding, which includes its most recent $7M Seed round.Kalder’s white-label partner rewards platform enables brands to launch partner cashback progra...Wednesday, November 20, 2024 from Tech.eu
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Superscale, a game business analytics startup, has raised $1.2M to support the launch of their new product, SuperPlatform. The round was led by existing investors including Across Private Investments,...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