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Finance, startups, productivity
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Credo Ventures raises $88M Fund 5 to double down on pre-seed in CEE and its global diaspora
Today, Credo Ventures announces Credo Stage 5, a $88 million fund that continues the firm’s mission to be the first backer of the most ambitious CEE founders globally, both in the CEE region and in diaspora communities. Credo Ventures is a Prague and Krakow-based venture capital firm founded in 2010, investing in exceptional founders from read more
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Interloom raises $16.5M to develop enterprise memory for AI agents
Interloom, an enterprise operations platform that captures expert knowledge and converts it into a persistent memory layer for AI agents, has closed a $16.5 million seed funding round. The round was led by DN Capital, with participation from Bek Ventures and existing investor Air Street Capital. The company addresses a key limitation in enterprise AI read more
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Adzuna acquires Trovit and Mitula jobs businesses to expand global footprint
Job search platform Adzuna has acquired the jobs businesses of Trovit and Mitula, two market-leading search engines operated by the Lifull Connect group. The acquisition marks Adzuna’s third acquisition in four years, further strengthening its position as one of the world’s leading global job search platforms. Founded in 2006, Trovit and Mitula operate in more read more
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EGIDE raises €8M Seed to build affordable interceptor systems for modern warfare
French defencetech EGIDE has raised an €8 million seed round. The round was co-led by Expeditions, Eurazeo, and Heartcore Capital, with participation from Galion.exe and Kima Ventures. Founded in 2025 by former MBDA aerospace and defence engineers Simon Calonne and Florian Audigier, EGIDE was created to address the rapidly growing threat posed by cheap mass-produced read more
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Newly secures $2M+ in funding to advance native app creation platform
Stockholm-based Newly (formerly Natively), a mobile app development company,has raised over $2 million to date in funding to accelerate its growth and broaden access to native app development. The round was led by PSV Tech, with participation from Karaoke Club, Wave Ventures, Inception Fund, Foundry Ventures, Tiny Supercomputing Investment Company, and a group of prominent read more
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Nathan Benaich's Air Street raises $232M Fund III, becoming Europe’s largest solo GP venture firm
Air Street Capital, founded by Nathan Benaich, has raised $232M for Fund III — making it the largest solo GP venture fund in Europe. The fund invests in AI-first companies in North America and Europe. The firm will lead early-stage rounds with cheques ranging from $500,000 to $15 million, alongside select growth investments of up read more
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360 Capital announces €85M close for Poli360 2, targeting €100M
360 Capital, a European venture capital firm, has closed €85 million for Poli360 2, its new technology transfer fund targeting a total size of €100 million. The fund focuses on early-stage deeptech startups. Poli360 2 is classified as an Article 8 fund under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). Its investor base includes the European read more
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AI model giants should pay a levy to operate in Europe, says Mistral boss
AI model giants should pay a “levy” for selling their services in Europe with the money funnelled into Europe’s cultural sector,according to the boss of Europe’s leading AI model startup. Arthur Mensch, the CEO and co-founder of Mistral, says such a levy would be a win-win for both the AI model providers, giving them legal read more
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Starling Bank rolls out “UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant”
Starling Bank is rolling out what it says is the “UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant”, as it looks to leverage the new technology to help improve day-to-day banking. The UK challenger bank, which has nearly fivemillion customers, said that Starling Assistant can help its customers manage day-to-day finances, share personalised financial insights and give read more
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Meet Rachel: the AI agent that phoned 3,000 pubs to price a pint
Over Paddy’s weekend 2026, a friendly Northern Irish “woman” called Rachel rang more than 3,000 pubs across all 32 counties to find out the price of a pint of Guinness. Over 1,000 gave a price. Only a handful seemed to realise Rachel was an AI voice agent. A data gap 14 years in the making read more
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Eternal.ag raises €8M to automate greenhouse harvesting with AI-powered robots
Eternal.ag, a startup building autonomous harvesting robots for greenhouses, today announced it has raised €8 million in funding from Simon Capital, Oyster Bay Venture Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures and Backbone Ventures. Eternal.ag is developing fully autonomous robots that perform greenhouse crop work without human operators. Greenhouses are increasingly essential for securing the year-round supply of fresh read more
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Sequoia-backed Edra raises $30M Series A to turn enterprise data into self-improving AI agents
Today, startup Edra announced $30 million Series A led by Sequoia, which included investment from 8VC and A*z. Edra builds AI agents that learn how a business operates, then automate the work. Its AI agents reverse-engineer how a business actually runs from existing systems and create executable knowledge: structured, white-box instructions that agents can act read more
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Cleavr raises €1M to develop an AI solution for accounts receivable
Cleavr, an AI solution dedicated to autonomous accounts receivable management, has raised €1 million in a funding round backed by Kima Ventures, Better Angle, Raphaël Nahum (CFO of Pennylane), Régis Samuel (CEO of MyUnisoft), and Olivier Brourhant (CEO of Mantu). The company develops an AI solution designed to support finance teams across the full accounts read more
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Europe’s filmtech ecosystem is growing fast — here are the startups to watch
This week, the Oscars celebrated some of last year’s most outstanding achievements in cinema. In the meantime, the tools behind filmmaking are undergoing a profound transformation. Media and filmtech startups have fundamentally changed how films are storyboarded, edited, soundtracked, and enhanced with special effects. AI is also reshaping how speech is generated and reproduced, as read more
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Alpine Eagle scales Sentinel production with new Munich facility and European expansion
Today, counter-drone defence technology company Alpine Eagle announced it is scaling production of its Sentinel system. Alpine Eagle develops counter-drone (counter-UAS) systems designed to detect, track, and neutralise hostile drones, including increasingly sophisticated autonomous swarms. Its technology combines multiple sensing modalities —such as radar, radio-frequency scanning, and optical or infrared cameras — to identify aerial read more
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Zopa reports third consecutive year of profit, says new current account topping expectations
Zopa Bank, the UK savings and lending digital bank, has reported its third consecutive year of profit, as it says take-up of its new current account proposition has eclipsed expectations. The London-based bank reported pre-tax profits of £44.9m 2025, up from £31.6m in 2024, driven by its borrowing and savings products. The SoftBank-backed digital bank read more
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Ventech leads Bounti’s €4M funding to apply AI in the physical economy
Berlin-based Bounti has raised €4 million in a funding round led by Ventech, with participation from IBB Ventures, Robin Capital, Common Magic, and several business angels. While much of the technology has been deployed in knowledge-based work, sectors such as hospitality, retail, and services continue to face challenges, including labour shortages, high staff turnover, and read more
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Ringtime secures €1.8M to improve blue-collar hiring processes
Ghent-based Ringtime, an AI agent platform for managing inbound and outbound conversations, has raised €1.8 million in a seed round led by Volta Ventures, with participation from Syndicate One, JK Invest, New School VC and Allusion. The company is focused on addressing structural labour shortages across sectors such as retail, logistics and hospitality, where many read more
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Reson8 collects €5M to develop Europe-focused speech AI
Amsterdam-based Reson8, a speech technology company developing hyper-customised automatic speech recognition (ASR), has raised €5 million in a pre-seed round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from NP Hard. The company aims to address limitations in existing speech recognition systems, where performance often declines across European languages, dialects, and domain-specific terminology. Instead of relying on read more
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Parallel raises $20M to scale AI solutions for hospital administration
Paris-based Parallel, a startup developing AI agents for hospitals, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Frst, Y Combinator, Hexa, and several angel investors. The funding follows a $3.5 million seed round less than a year earlier, with the company’s technology already deployed across multiple public read more
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