Cleantech Found Energy have raised a $12M Seed Round led by Glenfield Partners. KOMPAS VC also participated in the round.Found Energy’s technology is able to extract carbon-free energy from various al...
Irish SaaS Kota, which provides automation software for companies, has partnered with health insurer Vitality to expand their benefits software so that companies and employees can manage their health ...
Luxury assets investment platform Konvi has acquired Diversified and Fractible, consolidating their market share among a shared customer base. Financial terms of the deal are undisclosed.Konvi, Divers...
While the first quarter of 2024 showed a mixed tone, with robust deal activity indicating a potential increase in deal value compared to 2023, exits demonstrated weakness, and fundraising displayed so...
With €5.7 billion raised in total in 2023, Sweden took fifth place among the best-performing countries, as stated in our Annual report.Two companies dominated in the list of the 10 companies that rais...
London-based Huzzle has raised £1.43M in Pre-Seed funding for careers-focused social networking.Ingmar Klein was at university in Switzerland when he began to envision a solution for his peers, who we...
Ghent-based Bioengineering startup Amphistar has raised €6M from European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Qbic III and Flanders Future Tech Fund (FFTF) to derive surfactants from waste.Surfactants pl...
It's a harsh reality that the world runs on warm introductions, from getting a meeting with a potential investor to finding customers or your next co-founder. But now, a UK startup is making it just t...
Digital health platform Healthkey has raised £1.13M in a round led by Aviva Ventures.Healthkey allows patients to connect to a range of health and wellness services for further advice, testing and pay...
Finnish NPHarvest has raised €2.2M for its nutrient catcher that recycles nutrients from wastewater. Geopolitical instability and increasing prevalence of extreme climate have put the spotlight on foo...
A new defence tech initiative, the Defenсe Builder Accelerator, has launched in Ukraine. It's a four-month intensive training program designed for Ukrainian defence startups to secure the first invest...
Intel Ignite, Intel's global startup accelerator program for early-stage deeptech startups, has announced the 10 startups who make up its seventh cohort, which will convene in Munich.Deeptech is now t...
Danish fintech Flatpay, which provides payment software for SMBs, has raised a €45M Series B round two years after its founding in 2022.Flatpay distinguishes itself from other payment providers by off...
Data tokenization startup TokenEx will merge with payments platform IXOPAY to combine their payment optimisation software products and simplify users' payment journeys.The combined company will be cal...
Despite 80 per cent of women struggling with hormone issues globally, hormonal health education (conditions, symptoms, solutions, mental health implications) remains under-discussed, underreported, an...
Oxford Instruments Nanoscience and Rigetti Computing have successfully completed a project to build and operate one of the first quantum computers in the UK, funded by the UK government’s Quantum Tech...
HealthSage has raised € 3 million Seed investment to enhance and scale its open generative AI platform, which is fully dedicated to healthcare. Beyond reducing the administrative burden for healthcare...
In their latest UK Innovation Update – Q1 2024, HSBC Innovation Banking and Dealroom revealed that fintech is back on top as the UK’s most funded startup sector.In 2023, for the first time, the most f...
CTO2B, a Lithuanian startup offering a SaaS platform for automated DevOps on cloud infrastructure, today announced the close of a €1 million Pre-Seed funding round. Companies spend millions on cloud r...
B2B carbon accounting startup Zevero has partnered with Singapore-based climate tech LEVELUP to expand their tracking of carbon emissions attributed to consumer products. The partnership featured a mu...
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