Mike Butcher

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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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As Gen Z job applicants balloon, companies are turning to AI agent recruiters

According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the UK alone, employers runnin...
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UK in-home healthcare provider Cera raises $150M to expand its AI platform

Around the world, public healthcare systems have struggled to reset post-pandemic, and in particular, the increasingly a...
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Snappy aquires swag-gifting startup Covver as it seks to roll-up players

It’s now broadly accepted that customers and employees who receive corporate gifts end up appreciating the brand much mo...
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Beams secures $9M Series A to digitize UK home renovation market

Home renovation projects can be unpredictable for both customers and builders. Meanwhile, small contractors barely use m...
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Siren secures strategic funding for its socks that detect diabetic foot ulcers

After studying burn victims and war veterans, entrepreneur Ran Ma hand-made a sock that contained sensors to detect foot...
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Report: VC in emerging markets plummeted by over 40% last year

8th January at 9:30 am Dubai  VC investments in emerging markets such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) pl...
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Revenue-based financing startups continue to raise capital in MENA, where the model just works

In an era where it’s become tougher to raise venture capital, many companies have turned to non-dilutive, Revenue-Based ...
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Proton’s device aims to help those with kidney disease, and cut heart failure risks

People with chronic kidney disease, or those at risk of heart failure, are greatly affected by potassium imbalances in t...
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Energy Revolution Ventures’ $18M fund lays a bet on ‘new chemistry’ startups in energy and hydrogen

What happens when a chemical engineer, who’s previously built a hydrogen-powered drone, becomes a venture capitalist? En...
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European Solo GP Robin Capital closes first fund with €15M to play with

Robin Capital — the Germany-based, Solo GP-led VC fund by former entrepreneur Robin Haak — has hit its final close of &#...
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After raising $26M, Hyme Energy signs global deal to scale thermal storage

With lithium battery storage too weak for many industries, companies are desperately looking elsewhere for energy storag...
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BlueQubit raises $10M to take Quantum software into real-world applications

Integrating quantum computing into real-world computer applications is an ongoing problem, as the platforms are architec...
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While some account-to-account payments players falter, Volume raises fresh cash

Online merchants can usually pay up to 8% of every sale on an item to companies like PayPal, Apple Pay, and Stripe —&#16...
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New Syndicate One fund joins Belgium’s small-but-punchy tech ecosystem

Syndicate One is a debut investment firm out of Belgium that has raised a €6.5 million fund to back Belgian founders and...
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As AI-fueled disinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack

With disinformation on the rise, especially given the explosion of AI, companies are just as vulnerable to its effects a...
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A new $25M fund aims to give UK mental health startups a shot in the arm

KHP Ventures is raising a £20 million ($25.5 million) fund specifically aimed at accelerating startups addressing depres...
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Albert Invent hopes to revolutionize the chemicals sector with its AI platform

If startup funding rounds are any metric, generative AI is seeing ample adoption in the sciences. It makes sense: there&...
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TeamViewer buys 1E, which detects PC software problems, for $720M

U.K.-based 1E, which detects software problems on desktop PCs remotely, has been acquired by Germany-based remote-workin...
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Heartcore Capital closes $180M fund to pivot towards infrastructure, synthetic biology, climate

Back in the heady days of 2021, Heartcore Capital planned to focus on consumer technology with a $200 million fund. Fast...
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Fly Ventures sets its eyes on technical founders with a fresh €80M fund

Fly Ventures, the Berlin-based VC that invests in seed-stage European startups within enterprise and deep tech, has laun...
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ARX launches firestick-like platform to make military trucks autonomous

A startup with founders who previously served in the German military has created a product akin to an Amazon Firestick f...
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Lawhive raises $40M to go after ‘Main Street’ US lawyers

U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive, which allows small, ‘Main Street’ law firms to run their affairs through an AI-ba...
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As Cohere and Writer mine the ‘Live AI’ arena, Pathway joins the pack with a $10M round

As large enterprises grapple with how to incorporate AI into their platforms and processes, they have encountered a prob...
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EV charging platform Ampeco raise $26M Series B, as demand for charging soars

We last covered EV charging platform Ampeco in 2023 when it raised a Series A round of $13 million. Today it’s raised $2...
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Biolevate’s raises €6M to helps medical writers keep up with the pace of new drugs

Writing the documentation that must go alongside the development of new drugs is a highly labor-intensive process: not m...
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Portugal’s Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine

Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) to develop its product and expand into new markets, ...
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Former basketball hopeful wants to prevent ACL tears with airbags for knees

You’ve heard of car airbags deploying within milliseconds to protect passengers. How about an airbag for your knee? © 2...
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Germany’s Klim raises $22M to take its regenerative farming platform international

So-called “regenerative” farming, which is said to be less harmful to soils and biodiversity than convention...
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From self-driving cars to AI that writes enterprise software: Cogna founder raises $15M

A founder who was an early mover in the race to build autonomous vehicles has raised $15 million for his next act: a sta...
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