Startups, venture capital and company building.
The gist: Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting $15.9 billion funding round for China’s DeepSeek.
The gist: Latvian proptech startup Unitoq has raised €155,000 in apre-seed funding round from a syndicate of business angels, including membersof the Latvian Business Angel Network (LatBAN).Founded in 2026 by E...
The gist: Italian cybersecuritystartup CyberKord has raised €2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round tosupport the development of its AI-powered platform for automating IT andcybersecurity operations. The round...
The gist: A former partner at London VC firm Phoenix Court, who bet on fintech giant Wise and insurance unicorn Marshmallow, has launched her debut solo fund, a $17m fund looking to unearth Europe’s next AI suc...
The gist: Vitroscope, a biotech company developing perfusion platforms to study immune activity, treatment responses and disease mechanisms in real time, has raised $7 million, comprising a $5 million seed roun...
The gist: Swiss cleantech startup Apolarion, a spin-off from EPFL, has received€164,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance its chemical-free seedtreatment technology.Founded by Jesus Poley and Luke Simo...
The gist: 1nhaler, a Scotland-based drug delivery device developer, has secured £2.2 million in follow-on funding to progress its novel pop-up cardboard inhaler towards first regulatory approval. Archangels led...
The gist: German quantum computing startup Quint Computing has raised €9.1 million in an initial funding round led by Vsquared,with participation from Quantonation, Nucleus Capital, Faber, Vanagon Venturesand Z...
The gist: Austrian startup Tumbleweed has raised €6.9 million in the country's largest-ever spacetech seed round, just four months after launching Austria's first commercial satellite. PactVC led the round, wit...
The gist: Portuguese startup Granter has raised €1.6 million in a funding round toexpand its AI-powered platform that simplifies access to European fundingprogrammes. The round was led by 3XP Global through its...
The gist: Before I even spoke to Robin Haak, more than one person warned me he was “a lot”. And they're not entirely wrong. He's outspoken, intense and hardly your typical VC. But spend any time talking to him,...
The gist: Gallium Defense has emerged from stealth with a €7.1 million seed funding round led by Keen Venture Partners and 360 Capital, with participation from Omnes Capital and Polytechnique Ventures. The Fren...
The gist: London-based LO:TECH, a capital markets firm built for round-the-clock andonchain markets, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by MMC,with participation from existing investors Fact...
The gist: Roleo, a startup developing a personalAI career agent for technology professionals, has raised €2.9 million in afunding round led by Baltic venture capital firm Practica Capital, withparticipation fro...
The gist: European early-stage VC firm Creandum, which has backed the likes of Lovable, Klarna and Black Forest Labs, today said it had closed its largest ever fund, a $750m fund. The new $750m fund, Fund VIII,...
The gist: Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
The gist: One thing I often hear from startups is that they wish their government would hire a bunch of entrepreneurs to solve its inefficiencies. Not in the vein of DOGE, with its focus on cutting government s...
The gist: Scottish Widows, Aberdeen Investments and IP Group today announced their first investments to connect workplace pension savings with high-growth, innovative UK science and technology companies via the...
The gist: A British-German defence startup developing hypersonic long-range missiles which travel at more than five times the speed of sound has raised €100m in funding, it said today.Hypersonica has raised the...
The gist: Last week, we tracked more than 60 tech funding deals worth over €1.3 billion and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.📊 The top three industries that r...
The gist: AI startup Marble Cognition (Marble) has raised $3.75 million in a pre-seed funding round co-ledby Heartcore and Seedcamp, with participation from angel investors including aboard member of Datadog, a...
The gist: Stockholm-based Sortrace, a companydeveloping AI-powered technology for waste analysis, has raised approximately$800,000 in a funding round led by Almi Invest, with participation from Antler,Gorilla C...
