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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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bunch raises $15.5M for its platform that simplifies investment management for VCs

Public market investors have a large variety of infrastructure and software that helps them keep track of, analyze and m...
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Spanish startup Exoticca raises a €60M Series D for its tour packages platform

Exoticca’s platform connects flights, hotels, meals, transfers, transportation and more, plus the local companies at the...
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A startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers

The founders of HERO Software didn’t start out to help small tradespeople in construction with a platform. They started ...
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Exein raised $15M Series B to stop robotic arms going haywire

The capital will be used to expand in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal us...
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Defence AI startup Helsing raises $487M Series C, plans Baltic expansion to combat Russian threat

Defence AI startup Helsing has raised €450 million ($487 million) in a Series C financing round led by General Catalyst....
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Alexa co-creator gives first glimpse of Unlikely AI’s tech strategy

After announcing a whopping $20 million seed last year, Unlikely AI‘s founder William Tunstall-Pedoe has kept the ...
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Quantum Rise grabs $15M seed for its AI-driven ‘Consulting 2.0’ startup

Quantum Rise, a Chicago-based startup which does AI-driven automation for companies like dunnhumby (a retail analytics p...
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Spain’s exposure to climate change helps Madrid-based VC, Seaya, close €300M climate-tech fund

According to a recent Dealroom report on the Spanish tech ecosystem, the combined enterprise value of Spanish startups&#...
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Forestay, Europe’s newest $220M growth-stage VC fund, will focus on AI

Forestay, an emerging VC based out of Geneva, Switzerland has been busy. This week it closed its second fund, Forestay C...
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Forestay, Europe’s newest $220M growth-stage VC fund, will focus on AI

Forestay, an emerging VC based out of Geneva, Switzerland has been busy. This week it closed its second fund, Forestay C...
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Vaire Computing raises $4.5M for ‘reversible computing’ moonshot which could drastically reduce energy needs

Vaire Computing, based in London and Seattle, is betting that chips that can do reversible computing are going to be the...
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CuspAI raises $30M to create a Gen-AI-driven search engine for new materials

The company says its platform functions like a search engine for materials, enabling the fast evaluation of a “vast numb...
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Autonomy’s Mike Lynch acquitted after US fraud trial brought by HP

Former Autonomy chief executive Dr Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, e...
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Qargo raises $14M to digitize and decarbonize the trucking industry

While the transport industry does use legacy software, many of these platforms are from an earlier era. Qargo hopes its ...
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Swiss startup Neural Concept raises $27M to cut EV design time to 18 months

Neural Concept lets designers model how components will perform before they can be manufactured. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
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Romanian startup FintechOS raises $60M to help old banks fight back against neobanks

FintechOS competes with other companies such as Ncino, Meridian Link, Abrigo and Backbase. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
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Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output

Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art while being able to reproduce ...
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Mental health insurance platform ifeel raises a $20 million Series B

Ifeel is being offered as part of an employer’s or insurance provider’s healthcare coverage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI 

Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal a...
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Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures

If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The so-called ‘autonomous navigation’ market — w...
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Portuguese VC firm Shilling launches €50M opportunity fund to back growth-stage startups

Venture firm Shilling has launched a €50M fund to support growth-stage startups in its own portfolio and to invest in st...
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Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs

Trawa simplifies energy purchasing and management for SMEs by leveraging an AI-powered platform and downstream data from...
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Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico

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Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed, applying AI to remote inspections and audits

Checkfirst enables businesses to schedule inspectors based on geographical location and qualifications, in addition to a...
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After a $20M Series A funding, Germany’s Insempra plans eco-friendly lipid production

Insempra plans to turn oil yeast in lipids on an industrial scale using yeast fermentation factories. © 2024 TechCrunch...
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Exclusive: Wayve co-founder Alex Kendall on the autonomous future for cars and robots

UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric ‘car’ called a...
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Wayve raises $1 billion to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers

Wayve, a UK-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed a $...
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