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  • Tequipy raises €3M+ to automate global IT operations across 180 countries

    Tequipy,a platform that ships, services, and retrieves employee IT devices in 180+ countries, has raised over €3 million in a round led by Smedvig Ventures, with participation from Manta Ray and Unfold.vc. The company already works with more than 150 fast-growing tech companies, including Booksy, Connecteam, Gigs, ICEYE, RemoFirst, and Taptap Send, and has grown read more

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    Tequipy raises €3M+ to automate global IT operations across 180 countries

  • Wall Street bets on 2026 rate rise as Kevin Warsh takes charge of the Fed

    Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wall Street is betting that the Federal Reserve will raise borrowing costs by the end of this year to combat the jump in inflation triggered by the Iran war as Kevin Warsh takes the helm read more

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  • The call centre enters the voice AI era

    In March, Tech.eu reported on the story of “Rachel,” an AI voice agent created by AI engineer Matt Cortland to call more than 3,000 pubs across Ireland and ask a simple question: how much does a pint of Guinness cost? Using voice AI tools, Rachel successfully collected over 1,000 verified prices from pubs across all read more

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  • Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia

    Driverless car startup Bliq.ai this week announced that it has received approval to operate its vehicles on public roads in Estonia without a driver behind the wheel. The approval marks the first authorisation of its kind in an EU member state and enables Bliq to begin fully driverless road operations under remote supervision. With a read more

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  • Alice & Bob expands Series B with investment from NVIDIA’s venture arm

    French fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob has raised investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, that expands its €100 million Series B round. The investment supports Alice & Bob’s development of an architecture towards fault-tolerant quantum computing. According to Théau Peronnin, CEO, Alice & Bob: “We’ve been working alongside NVIDIA to connect our read more

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    Alice & Bob expands Series B with investment from NVIDIA’s venture arm

  • REPS raises $23.6M to turn roads into power plants by harvesting energy from traffic

    Tyrol energy generation startupREPS today announced a $23.6 million equity financing round to scale its Road Energy Production System, a patented “road power plant” that converts vehicle traffic into electrical energy. Its core product is a patented road power plant that installs directly into existing road infrastructure and harvests energy from trucks and cars driving read more

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    REPS raises .6M to turn roads into power plants by harvesting energy from traffic

  • Efferon secures €2.5M to grow blood purification platform

    Biotech company Efferon has raised €2.5 million in a seed funding round led by private investors from the DACH region to support the European commercial expansion of Efferon LPS, its hemoadsorption device approved for the treatment of sepsis and septic shock. Efferon develops multimodal hemoadsorption therapeutic devices designed to remove endotoxins and inflammatory mediators directly read more

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    Efferon secures €2.5M to grow blood purification platform

  • Starling’s SaaS business sees revenue lift but group profits dip

    Starling Bank has reported a drop in profits and revenues, but said revenues at its SaaS subsidiary surged, according to its latest set of financial results. The UK challenger bank, which has over six million customers, reported that pre-tax profits fell three per cent to £217m while revenues fell from £940m to £887m in the read more

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    Starling’s SaaS business sees revenue lift but group profits dip

  • AI: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025

    European AI companies raised over €5.3 billion during 2025, with capital heavily concentrated among a small group of companies led by Mistral AI, Helsing, Black Forest Labs, Synthesia, ElevenLabs and n8n. While foundation models, defence AI and generative media attracted some of the year’s largest rounds, the broader market also showed strong momentum across applied read more

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    AI: 10 companies that raised the most in 2025

  • Imperagen raises £5M seed round to accelerate AI-driven enzyme engineering

    Manchester techbio Imperagenhas closed a £5 million seed funding round led by PXN Ventures with participation from Imperagen’s existing investors IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. Established in 2021 by researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, Imperagen is focused on accelerating the process of enzyme engineering. Serving diverse markets, from pharmaceutical manufacturing and life sciences read more

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    Imperagen raises £5M seed round to accelerate AI-driven enzyme engineering

  • Muybridge raises $16M Series A to scale software-defined camera technology

    Norwegian imaging technology company Muybridge has closed an oversubscribed $16 million Series A funding round led by Investinor, Fairpoint, Idekapital and RunwayFBU, with participation from several Nordic technology founders and operators. The company develops a software-defined imaging platform designed to replace traditional broadcast camera infrastructure with compact arrays of 4K sensors and GPU-powered systems. Rather read more

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    Muybridge raises M Series A to scale software-defined camera technology

  • Pivot raises $40M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform

    Paris-based Pivot, an AI-powered procurement and finance operations platform, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound, procurement industry executives and existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club and Emblem. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised since its founding read more

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    Pivot raises M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform

  • AI model "capability overhang" biggest challenge facing European businesses, says OpenAI revenue chief

    European businesses are shifting from pilot to deep integration of OpenAI’s technology, but there is a “little bit of a capability overhang” between the utility ofAI models and what businesses can successfully deploy, according to OpenAI’s revenue boss. Ashley Kramer, OpenAI’s vice president, enterprise, said the biggest challenge European enterprises- typically defined as businesses with read more

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    AI model "capability overhang" biggest challenge facing European businesses, says OpenAI revenue chief

  • Quantum Bridge Technologies bags $8M Series A to scale quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure

    Quantum Bridge Technologies has closed a $8 million Series A funding round led by Primo Capital SGR to accelerate the global transition to quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure. Founded in 2019 by Mattia Montagna and Hoi-Kwong Lo, Quantum Bridge emerged from one of the world’s leading quantum security research groups to deliver quantum-safe security solutions. Quantum Bridge read more

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    Quantum Bridge Technologies bags M Series A to scale quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure

  • QuberTech raises £3.4M to develop sustainable natural rubber from engineered dandelions

    QuberTech, a UK biotechnology company developing sustainable natural rubber from specially engineered dandelions, has raised £3.4 million in combined grant funding and equity investment to accelerate development of its engineering biology platform and scale commercial operations. Natural rubber is one of the world’s most strategically important industrial materials, used across sectors ranging from automotive and read more

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    QuberTech raises £3.4M to develop sustainable natural rubber from engineered dandelions

  • AVIAN raises $2.6M to bring always-on thermal intelligence to high-risk industrial sites

    Zurich-based industrial AI company building 24/7 thermal monitoring for the world’s most fire-prone facilities,AVIAN,has raised a $2.6M pre-seed round, led by Founderful. Insurance markets are tightening, and more sites are being treated as high risk as equipment ages and failure rates climb. The old approach to thermal safety still looks like periodic thermography, a technician read more

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    AVIAN raises .6M to bring always-on thermal intelligence to high-risk industrial sites

  • Neurosoft Bioelectronics raises $7.5M for scalable brain-computer interfaces

    Neurosoft Bioelectronics, a neurotechnology company developing scalable and minimally invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Skybound Venture Capital, with participation from Protocol Labs, IAG Capital Partners and Connecticut Innovations, among others. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding to more than $20 million. Headquartered read more

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    Neurosoft Bioelectronics raises .5M for scalable brain-computer interfaces

  • Skybound launches with $38M to back early deeptech founders

    Skybound Venture Capital has announced the launch of its founder-led venture capital fund focused on deeptech startups, securing a $38 million oversubscribed first close anchored by the European Investment Fund. Based in Athens, Skybound was founded by Thaleia Misailidou, who previously worked at Marathon Venture Capital and has been active in the Greek deeptech ecosystem, read more

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    Skybound launches with M to back early deeptech founders

  • Irish Better Futures raises €600K for AI-driven engineering documentation automation

    Dublin-based AI startup Better Futures has secured €600,000 in funding from private angel investors and Enterprise Ireland through its High Potential Start-Up (HPSU) programme, bringing the company’s total funding raised to date to €1.1 million. Headquartered at NovaUCD, Better Futures develops AI technology designed to automate engineering documentation workflows in regulated industries. The funding announcement read more

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    Irish Better Futures raises €600K for AI-driven engineering documentation automation

  • Infrawatch secures $3M pre-seed for internet infrastructure intelligence

    London-based cybersecurity startup Infrawatch has raised $3 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Outward VC and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Portfolio Ventures and a group of fintech and cybersecurity angel investors. Founded by Lloyd Davies and built by a team of former employees from CrowdStrike, Recorded Future and Intel 471, Infrawatch read more

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    Infrawatch secures M pre-seed for internet infrastructure intelligence