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Faber launches third VC fund with $34M first close, aims for $64M

The startup ecosystem in the Iberian Peninsula — the region encompassing Spain and Portugal — has been on a roll the las...
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Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an ‘EU Inc’ has a rocky road ahead

It’s become a common refrain in political discourse: Europe needs to take radical action to remain competitive. On...
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Airdog’s founders are back with a precision-strike drone meant for modern warfare

The war in Ukraine has shown that warfare changes by the day. It’s also clear that the tech used to make war today...
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Contactles stores to grow in Europe as Sensei reels in another $16M

While Amazon Go helped pioneer the concept of the totally contactless store, others, like 7-Eleven and Walmart, have ent...
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Long careers in luxury fashion led to a $17M raise for this supply chain platform

The retail sector needs Inventory planning to maintain margins and meet demand. This is getting harder because there are...
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Aktiia trained AI on 11 billion data points of blood pressure, and now a clinically certified app is coming

As well as being a major cause of premature death worldwide, hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a major...
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Unhappy with their exit, these ex-Planetly employees are using AI to refine carbon accounting

Startup employees often go on to found interesting ventures, basing their new work on the experience gained from their t...
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Gropyus plans to use robots to help rebuild Ukraine better and faster

Construction tech startup Groypus has raised $100 million to scale up its factory that uses robots to make buildings 30%...
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Quoroom acquires Investory to scale up its capital-raising platform for startups

These days, private investors have a range of options for investing in startups without having to deal with them in real...
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Scammed and exploited, she built an AI-driven app for immigrants like her

Immigrants face an enormous number of challenges and difficulties. In particular, without a local base of family or frie...
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Hedosophia leads $7M seed round into retail supply chain AI startup Ameba

Ameba takes the unstructured data in a retailer’s supply chain systems, sprinkles in some generative AI, and makes the w...
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Direct ocean capture may be the next frontier for carbon removal

Amsterdam-based Brineworks, a company specializing in seawater electrolysis technology, says its innovative method is ex...
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Direct ocean capture may be the next frontier for carbon removal

Amsterdam-based Brineworks, a company specializing in seawater electrolysis technology, says its innovative method is ex...
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As war rages in Ukraine, investment in European defense and dual-use tech skyrockets

A new Dealroom report shows that VC investment in defense-related tech is outpacing any other type of investment across ...
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A startup from ex-Revolut employees uses AI to automate accounts — but hopes to keep accountants in jobs

Often successful startups can give rise to ‘startup mafias’ – groups of former founders who go on to create other ...
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All Iron Ventures rebrands as Acurio Ventures with a new €150M ‘follow-on’ fund

The new fund has already made around 20 investments, and it will operate with a generalist thesis, investing across the ...
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She sat down in the COVID lockdown and started coding — now she’s taking on Bolt

Sitting in Athens during the first Covid-19 lockdown, entrepreneur Rania Lamprou watched as online e-commerce exploded b...
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This founder grew up in wine country — nows he’s built a platform for wine makers

Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never reali...
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Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals

A joint pilot by Apian, Alphabet’s drone company Wing, and the U.K.’s NHS will see drones used to fly urgent blood sampl...
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How Google and Yahoo’s shift to stricter email standards proved a windfall for this Armenian startup

EasyDMARC, a B2B SaaS startup out of Armenia that aims to simplify email security and authentication, said it has raised...
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This startup is making manure out of other biogas power plants and now has $62M to play with

Working away on his PhD in Munich only a few years ago, Stephan Herrmann (now a doctor) couldn’t have conceived of a tim...
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As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation

No one is putting the remote working genie back in the bottle. Which is good news for Oyster, a payroll and HR platform ...
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Tilt raises $18M Series A to build on its live-shopping app’s success

Live-shopping has grown into a massive sector in Asia, but the phenomenon is yet to see similar uptake in Western market...
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As CO2 emissions from supply chains come into focus, this startup is aiming at farms

Root helps food and beverage companies collect primary data on their agricultural supply chains.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
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She grew up a gearhead — now her startup has raised $4M to cut CO2 from trucking

The irony was not lost on her. Growing up the daughter of a racing car enthusiast father, Danielle Walsh had become — in...
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Euro VCs welcome Balderton’s fresh $1.3B but grumble about Europe’s AI misses

In the last 12 months, Balderton has announced 12 new investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal ...
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AI business agent startup Bardeen pulls in strategic investment from Dropbox and Hubspot

Bardeen has raised $3M to build its platform that uses a natural language interface to automate repetitive knowledge wor...
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Hey, there ARE Growth funds in Europe — Kennet raises $287M for its largest fund to date

Europe is routinely castigated by tech industry observers for having too little ‘growth capital’ funds, and, compared to...
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Packing travel insurance products into an app helped FAYE to a $31M Series B

We’ve been covering US-based Insurtech startup FAYE way back since 2022 with its Seed round, and the Series A round in 2...
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ZeroTier raises $13.5M to help avert CrowdStrike-like network problems

With the CrowdStrike update continuing to cause havoc across the planet, a startup has raised $13.5 million to at least ...
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