Mike Butcher

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The Beagle is a new long-range drone with more than one application

When there are damages to energy infrastructure, such as electricity pylons or gas pipelines, expensive helicopters are ...
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Rerun’s open-source AI platform for robots, drones and cars revs up with $17M seed

As Generative AI moves increasingly into the physical world through robotics, vehicles and drones, the need to map cloud...
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VC investment in European startups passed $52B in 2024, continuing long-term growth trend

Venture capital investment in European startups passed $52 billion last year, reflecting the market’s long-term gr...
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Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round

Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ app...
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Could deeptech serve as Europe’s path to autonomy from the US?

Amidst geopolitical tensions and volatile markets, the question of Europe’s ability to weather the storms ahead, e...
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Vento rolls out new €75M fund for Italian founders, no matter where they live

Over the last 15 years or so, as European venture capital shifted into a higher gear, one way to help a nation’s e...
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Junction, an API to link health wearables with labs, raises $18M

Medical devices, wearables — we are all familiar with them. But are they linked in any way to the healthcare system and ...
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Funding to women-founded startups declined 12% in 2024, but that wasn’t far behind the broader market

Venture investment to startups founded by women in Europe declined 12% in 2024, but it was in line with the 11% decrease...
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Cino cracks bill-splitting at the moment of payment, raises seed round

While Venmo or Splitwise are effectively ‘debt collector’ tools, which require one person to pay a full bill and then re...
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No part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGI

“There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s VP of Artificial G...
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Archipelo comes out of stealth with $12M funding to secure human and AI-driven code

When it comes to AI software, you can build something clever, but that’s not always the same as building something...
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Just Move In raises $8M Series A for its home setup service 

Fintech has fragmented into increasingly specialized, cucumber-sliced micro-services, ranging from embedded buy-now-pay-...
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Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery

Being somewhat later than Europe in adopting the idea of parcel delivery, much of Asia built its delivery infrastructure...
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Shop Circle raises $60M to encircle ecommerce with an app suite

The boom in ecommerce post-pandemic meant shops moved online. However, some merchants ended up with dozens of separate a...
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German startup wins accolade for its fusion reactor design

Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old, German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant...
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Sweden’s Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $15M after spectacular growth

Using generative AI to create software has been possibly the largest use case since it first appeared a couple years ago...
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Three years on, Europe looks to Ukraine for the future of defense tech

Today marks three years since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have he...
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Key Cambridge, UK VC launches $126M fund to stem later stage flight

It’s often said that the UK and Europe lack the huge level of growth funding for later-stage startups that the US has fo...
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Valar Atomics comes out of stealth with $19M and a pilot reactor site

Companies developing small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) have raised more than $1.5 billion in the past year, as tech ...
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NATO backs its first cohort of European dual-use startups

With both Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth making loud noises Friday about Europe stepp...
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Plain pulls in $15M to agregate B2B customer services chats into one platform

Internal customer support platforms are moving from platforms like email ticketing systems and chat to channels like Sla...
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AI-driven manufacturing database Keychain raises $5M for European push

Brands are constantly trying to streamline how they source packaging materials and ingredient suppliers for their produc...
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Tech giants and startups join forces to call for simpler EU rules on AI, data

As the AI Summit got underway in Paris on Monday, some 60 European companies — from incumbent industrial giants to AI st...
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Could this startup’s compact nuclear reactors revolutionize cancer detection?

As cancer rates in the West, and globally, tack upwards due to lifestyle and environmental pollution, so does the need f...
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Aiming to accelerate product design with AI, Trace.Space raises a seed round

Modern product engineering requires the production of highly accurate digital simulations, allowing engineers to create ...
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Cherry Ventures raises a new $500M fund for early stage and beyond, but will it be enough?

It’s sometimes said that European VC doesn’t have the firepower to compete with VCs in the U.S., which regularly raise b...
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WeDoSolar pivots to B2B, after stake acquired by Chinese solar giant

Last year Wind and solar energy overtook fossil fuels to provide 30% of the EU’s electricity. With that in the backgroun...
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Quantum VC QDNL hits €25M first-close on new fund

VC investment into Quantum computing declined by 50% last year according to the ‘State of Quantum 2024’ report, dropping...
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Qomodo raises $13.9M to expand BNPL for Italy’s main-street retailers

Payments and financial solutions are two-a-penny at this point, but mostly for online e-commerce. What about physical st...
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Prepaid payments platform Recharge raises €45M to go on M&A spree

With inflation still stubbornly high in comparison to previous years, and the siren voices of subscription services like...
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