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Afreshed acquires etepetete as food waste startups consolidate in DACH
Afreshed, an Austrian organic fruit-and-vegetable rescue-box company, has acquired the German competitor etepetete. Fresh fruit and vegetables account for 35 per cent. of all avoidable food waste in private households. Fruit and vegetables that do not meet the required standard sometimes do not make it onto the shelves and are, in some cases, destroyed directly read more
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Brickken secures €3M to expand tokenisation infrastructure
Barcelona-based Brickken, a provider of tokenisation infrastructure for financial institutions, has raised €3 million in a pre-Series A funding round. The round included strategic investors from across Europe, including Marco Podini, founder and executive chairman of Dedagroup, who invested in a personal capacity, as well as GRX. The funding follows the company’s seed round, completed read more
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Kestra raises $25M Series A to build the enterprise orchestration standard
Kestra has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by RTP Global, with continued participation from Alven, ISAI, and Axeleo. The round brings the company’s total funding to $36 million. Kestra develops an open-source orchestration platform designed to unify data pipelines, AI workflows, infrastructure automation, and business processes within a single control read more
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Is university losing its edge? ELVTR bets on live, industry-led learning
If you were finishing high school this year, would you go to University? What if you wanted to change careers or upskill in your profession? While many would look to a Master’s, others are looking for more hands-on, workplace-based learning. This growing focus on practical learning is evident in venture capital investments. Firms such as read more
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Riplo raises £2.3M to build an AI operating system for consulting
Riplo, a London-based company developing an agentic operating system for consulting, has raised £2.3 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Blue Lion Capital, the founders of QuantumBlack, and a group of angel investors from the technology and professional services sectors. Riplo is building a platform designed to read more
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Nebius announces construction of one of Europe's largest data centres
European AI infrastructure companyNebiustoday said it was constructingone of Europe’s largest data centres, as the demand for AI compute shows no signs of slowing down. The data centre, located in theFinnish city ofLappeenranta, has a capacity of up to 310 megawatts and is expected to be up and running by 2027, Nebius said. The Amsterdam-based read more
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Building Europe’s deeptech backbone: Inside European Deeptech Week 2026
From March 16 to 20, Paris became the command centre for the future of European deeptech, bringing together founders, industrialists, investors, and public decision-makers at Bpifrance’s headquarters to accelerate the transition from science labs and startup studios to commercial markets. A convergence of European deeptech power players Conceived by Bpifrance and INSKIP with the support read more
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Standing Ovation raises €30M to scale precision fermentation dairy proteins globally
French precision fermentation company Standing Ovation has announced a €30 million Series B financing round, including €25 million in equity, led jointly by the Ecotechnologies 2 fund — managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifrance as part of the France 2030 initiative — and Crédit Mutuel Innovation. The round includes its existing investors read more
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Endform secures €1.5M for high-performance web testing tools
Stockholm-based Endform, a platform designed to run browser-based end-to-end tests at high speed, has raised €1.5 million in funding. The round was led by Alliance VC, Antler, First Fellow, and Greens, with participation from a group of strategic angel investors. Endform develops a platform that enables engineering teams to run browser-based end-to-end tests for web read more
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Qover raises $12M from CIBC as it celebrates 10 years of embedded insurance growth
Insurtech Qover today marks its 10th anniversary with a significant milestone: the extension of a $12 million growth capital facility from CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing total funding raised since inception to over $100 million. Founded in 2016 by Quentin Colmant and Jean-Charles Velge, Qover set out to make insurance simple, transparent, and accessible across borders read more
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Enkei secures pre-seed funding to develop circular design materials
Stockholm-based Enkei, a company developing circular materials for architecture and interior design, has closed a pre-seed funding round at a €3 million valuation. The round includes investors such as architect Anders Lendager, Christina Åqvist, Ulf Mattsson, and Fabian Månsson, alongside RadCap. It also brings in materials expertise from Thomas Granfeldt and Daniel Strömberg. Founded by read more
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Empirical Ventures secures £10M to back UK “venture scientists” building deeptech
Empirical Ventures, a specialist deeptech Fund, has secured an additional £10 million British Business Bank commitment to back the UK’s best venture scientists,bringing its total support to £15 million. This partnership will accelerate Empirical’s mission to back the best venture scientists in the UK. Empirical Ventures was built to solve a specific problem: exceptional scientists read more
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German deeplify raises €2M to modernise infrastructure inspections
German industrial AI startup deeplify has announced the successful closing of a €2 million pre-seed funding round. The round was led by D11Z Ventures, with participation from Vanagon Ventures, EWOR, and a group of strategic business angels. The investment will support the company’s mission to modernise how critical infrastructure is inspected and managed. The company read more
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Midas closes $50M Series A to scale on-chain investment products
Midas, a platform for composable on-chain investment products, has raised $50 million in Series A funding. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Creandum, with participation from Framework Ventures, HV Capital, Ledger Cathay, Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, M1 Capital, Anchorage Digital, FJ Labs, North Island Ventures and GSR. The round brings total funding to read more
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TerraSpark advances space-based solar power with €5M funding
TerraSpark, a developer of space-based solar energy systems, has raised over €5 million in a pre-seed financing round. Investors include Daphni, better ventures, the Hans(wo)men Group, and a group of strategic business angels. TerraSpark is developing a long-term approach to energy generation based on space-based solar power, aiming to provide continuous energy independent of weather read more
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miros raises €1.1M to bring on-demand workpods to public spaces
miros, a Lausanne-based startup founded in 2023 and spun outof the EPFL ecosystem, announced the closing of a €1.1 million (CHF 1 million) Pre-Seed funding round from various business angels. miros is building a network of connected workpods to bring privacy, calm and comfort into public and semi-public spaces. Through its hardware and software platform, read more
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IQM secures €50M to accelerate global growth
Finland-based quantum computing startup IQM Quantum Computers has secured a €50 million financing package from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. The funding is intended to support the company’s continued growth and strengthen its position in the global quantum computing market. The facility was secured ahead of IQM’s previously announced plans to become the first read more
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Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty
Today, a coalition of European enterprises and community organisations has launched Euro-Office, a solution for editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, developed as a true sovereign community collaboration of over a dozen different organisations. A tech preview is available immediately. The effort, backed by major European tech firms including IONOS, Nextcloud, Eurostack, XWiki, OpenProject, Soverin, Abilian read more
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ICE Agents Frustrate Airport Workers as Shutdown Drags On
On Thursday, hours-long security lines snaked through New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. The wait was far from the longest in the country—George Bush International Airport in Houston reported three and a half hour lines. Over a month into a partial government shutdown that has left some Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees working without pay, read more
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European Parliament Members Call on EU to Strip Funding from Venice Biennale Amid Russian Pavilion Controversy
As controversy mounts over Russia’s plans to mount its first Venice Biennale pavilion since the nation’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, 37 members of the European Parliament signed a letter that calls for the European Union to cease all funding to the Biennale. The EU has not publicly stated how much money it gives to read more
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