IT総合 Belgium’s Aikido lands $17M Series A for its ‘no BS’ security platform aimed at developers
Developers have a problem. It used to be the case that only large enterprises needed to worry themselves with security, ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Devastated by his image being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea
Realising that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, put previously private, intimate videos of them onto a porn sit...
IT総合 London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups
Last week, the UK announced its largest ever military support package for Ukraine. The bill takes the U.K.’s total...
IT総合 Equities platform Midas raises $45M Series A as fintech retains its sparkle in Turkey
Midas, a fintech startup that allows people in Turkey to invest in U.S. and Turkish equities, says it has raised $45 mil...
IT総合 Langdock raises $3M with General Catalyst to help companies avoid vendor lock-in with LLMs
Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it’s too early to be locked into one foundati...
IT総合 Lawhive raises $12M to expand its legaltech AI platform for small firms
UK-based legaltech company Lawhive, which offers an AI-based in-house ‘lawyer’ through a software-as-a-servi...
IT総合 Turkish startup ikas attracts $20M for its e-commerce platform designed for small businesses
E-commerce's field remains vast and fertile, and further evidence of this has surfaced in the form of one of the largest...
IT総合 Proxima Fusion raises $21M to build on its ‘stellarator’ approach to nuclear fusion
Munich-based Proxima has raised €20 million ($21.7M) in a seed round to begin building its first generation of fusion po...
IT総合 TransferGo raises $10M to expand its remittance business in Asia, doubling valuation
TransferGo, the UK-based fintech best known as a consumer platform for global remittances, has raised a $10 million grow...
IT総合 Paddy Cosgrave returns as Web Summit CEO after resigning over Israel/Gaza controversy
Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in Oct...
IT総合 Against games industry doldrums, Bitkraft Ventures raises $275M to back studios and platforms
Bitkraft Ventures — a games investor based out of Denver, Colorado, but with European founders — has raised its third fu...
IT総合 A new games-focused VC in Turkey shows the industry there continues to gain steam
Turkey has gained a well-earned reputation as a veritable cauldron of mobile games startups, leading to the rise of VCs ...
IT総合 Buy-now-pay-later on a Porsche? Zaver now has $30 million to make it a reality
We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million fund...
IT総合 New study of unicorn founders finds most are ‘underdogs,’ and female founders are rising
A new study that zeros-in on the founders of so-called “Unicorns” (companies worth over a billion dollars) has found mos...
IT総合 Boeing CEO to leave company by year-end, after a wave of safety incidents
Boeing’s chief executive Dave Calhoun will leave the plane-maker by the end of 2024, according to the company. The...
IT総合 1991 Ventures in London joins the growing list of VCs aimed at Ukrainian startups
UK-based limited partners Venrex and Samos Investments are this week backing the launch of a new VC primarily aimed at i...
IT総合 World Fund closes first €300M climate tech fund, seeking to follow on and back hardware
After a three-year fund-raise, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of it’s target...
IT総合 Cure51 raises a €15M Seed round aiming to crack the code on cancer survival
Rather than grimly assembling data about cancer deaths to predict outcomes in treatment, the founders of Cure51 had anot...
IT総合 Inclusivity-focused VC Ada Ventures pulls in $80M for second fund
UK-based Ada Ventures is an unusual VC. Instead of just talking about SaaS or AI, it hunts down founders addressing incl...
IT総合 ‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin raises $24M as it attains full banking license
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform, just att...
IT総合 LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence tools easier and faster to use
At the moment, large organizations often employ ‘business intelligence’ (BI) tools to figure out what the heck is going ...
IT総合 This Swedish startup wants to reduce the cost, and controversy, around stem cells production
With the news yesterday that “mini organs” have been grown for the first time using human stem cells, this futuristic ar...
IT総合 New report confirms Europe’s tech investment doldrums, but there are signs of life
Europe is suffering from a big hangover after the tech investment party of the 2020-2021 period. That said, compared to ...
IT総合 MWC: Swayy app lets you share your future location with close friends, or groups you curate
Given that this week Instagram revealed that it was developing a “Friend Map” feature, it was interesting and timely to ...
IT総合 The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 2024 pitch competition
Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncrati...
IT総合 Spain’s Embat, which has raised $16M, plans to compete with Trovata in real-time accounting
For obvious reasons, financial teams can spend a great deal of time on corporate treasury management, accounting and ban...
IT総合 The Displace wireless TV, that sticks to walls, plans new models and new AI features
At CES 2023 a startup hardware company called Displace launched the 55-inch ‘Display Flex’, a “wireless” $3,000 4K OLED ...
IT総合 Doublepoint launches its WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Pixel Watch 2
Admittedly Apple iWatch uses have had it since October last year, but as of today at Mobile World Congress, the Doublepo...
IT総合 Two years since Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s startups soldier on
This weekend marks exactly two years since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine. Despite overwhel...
IT総合 $13M and 3 years later, Superlist hopes to become a Decacorn. But will it?
The former founder of a To Do lists app which sold for as much as $200 million, comes back, 9 years later, with yet anot...