Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Icelandic drug discovery and development startup Arctic Therapeutics has raised €26.5M in Series A financing from a syndicate of international investors. The syndicate includes the EIC Fund, Iceland’s...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Music AI, who also own music tech startup Moises, has raised $40M in a funding round led by Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between Creative Artists Agency (CAA), NEA, and prominent Brazil...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
The world of entrepreneurship is often hailed as a bastion of innovation and limitless potential. Yet, for female founders across Europe, this promise remains riddled with systemic barriers, particula...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Zencity, a community engagement platform, based in the UK, has acquired engagement software company Commonplace. Their newly combined offering pairs digital engagement with AI, social listening and an...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
'ProcureTech' startup Matchory has secured €6M in a new funding round. Munich-based VC Capmont led this round, which was joined by existing investors Earlybird-X and angel investors from industry. The...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Employee fintech Aslan has raised $5 million Seed funding. The UK company helps employees’ pay go further with Aslan reward cards, offering tax-efficient cashback on all spend, even on holidays.Aslan ...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
IntelliProve, a Belgian software startup, has raised €1.25M in seed funding from Belgian VC/Venture Studio Miles Ahead, Wit-Gele Kruis, imec.istart Fund, and tech entrepreneurs Jeroen De Wit, Louis Jo...Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Tech.eu
Tapline, a German fintech serving SaaS and subscription-based clients, has raised a €20M pre-Series A round comprising both equity and debt. The funding will be used to scale its operations and expand...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
ABB is acquiring Sensorfact — a fast-growing energy management company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established in 2017, Sensorfact offers a scalable SaaS solution that helps small and mediu...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Hey startups, if you've been shilling your pitch deck to traditional VCs and not getting anywhere with warm introductions, you might want to consider corporate VCs (CVCs). The rate of CVC investments ...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Cyprus-based venture capital firm 33East has launched its inaugural fund with a first close of €26M. The fund will invest in pre-seed and seed-stage founders and startups with a connection to Cyprus, ...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Egregious, a pioneering company developing advanced technologies to defend humans from AI misuse, has raised $1 million Pre-Seed in a round led by Fuel Ventures and Oxford Capital. The startup aims to...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Zynap, a Spanish startup leveraging generative AI to fight cybercrime, launched with €5.7M in funding from Kibo Ventures and Kfund.Headquartered in Barcelona with short-term plans for international ex...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Quality testing platform TRIGO has acquired Controreupe, a specialized non-destructive testing company based in Saint-Geneviève-des-Bois, France. Controreupe specializes in penetrant testing and 3D me...Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from Tech.eu
Kraaft, a construction tech platform, has raised a €13 million Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital with participation from Brick & Mortar Ventures, Chalfen Ventures, Stride VC and OSS Ventu...Monday, January 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
German climate fintech Bees & Bears has secured €500M in its latest funding round, with the funding provided by an unlisted bank in the DACH region. These banks are supervised by the European Cent...Monday, January 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
Fundment, a tech platform streamlining administrative processes for financial advisers, has raised £45M in Series C funding led by Highland Europe.The new funding, including participation from ETFS Ca...Monday, January 20, 2025 from Tech.eu
One of the major trends in hardware right now is the drive to reduce energy consumption, especially high-performance low compute chips.Neuronova is a deeptech startup based in Milan that is developing...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