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Finance, startups, productivity
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UK tech startups urged to take bold risks, by AI minister, as chip startup Fractile invests £100M
UK tech startups are being urged to take bold risks, by the UK’s AI minister,saying the government will back them, as a UK chip startup pledges to invest £100m in its business. The call comes as the UK government looks to make the UK an AI superpower, attracting investment from tech giants to build massive read more
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OpenAI and Hugging Face angels back Hungary's "highest-ever" pre-seed funding round
A Hungarian robotics hardware startup says it has raised the “highest-ever” pre-seed funding round in the country’s history. Allonic has raised$7.2m in pre-seed funding, in a round led by Visionaries Club, with participation from Day One Capital. Other investors include angel investors from Hugging Face and OpenAI. Allonic’s play is to speed up how robot read more
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AI-native proptech startup MARC backed by a group of angel investors
Dublin-based MARC, an AI company focused on real estate asset management, has raised a $1 million pre-seed round from 23 angel investors, with no venture capital participation. Backers include Jack Pierse (Wayflyer), Tom Kennedy (Hostelworld), Susan Spence (SoftCo), Eoghan Quigley (the Dublin Chamber of Commerce), and James McGann (Unmind), alongside institutional real estate investors and read more
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Vesiro raises €1.6M to optimise elasticsearch and lower server energy use
Gothenburg-based Vesiro, a spinout from Chalmers University, has raised €1.6 million in a seed funding round. The round was backed by Chalmers Ventures, Industrifonden, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg & Bohuslän, Yuncture, First Gate Invest, E14 Invest, Mach One, and a group of angel investors including Stefan Mahlstein, Staffan Truvé, Jan Sparud, Petter Eriksson, and Magnus Lundgren. The read more
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xWatts closes £1.6M to expand AI-powered energy management solutions
London-based xWatts, an intelligent energy management platform focused on decarbonising complex real estate assets, has closed a £1.6 million seed funding round. The investment was led by Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, with participation from Cambridge Angels, Parkwalk, and R42. xWatts develops AI- and machine-learning-based technology to manage energy use across large and complex real estate portfolios, read more
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Naboo raises $70M from Lightspeed for AI-powered events procurement
Naboo, a Paris-based event-tech company, has closed a $70 million Series B funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Notion Capital, ISAI, and Ternel. The round follows the company’s €20 million Series A announced in January 2025 and comes after its expansion into the North American market. The funding comes read more
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MuseCool is using audio AI to fix the biggest problem in music education
Music education hasn’t changed much in generations. Children still attend weekly lessons, practise inconsistently at home, and teachers rely largely on instinct rather than measurable data. But now a startup believes AI can fix that gap and bring gamification and feedback loops to one of the most traditional corners of education. MuseCool is a London-based read more
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Dcycle acquires ESG-X to scale sustainability data management in Europe
Dcycle, a sustainability data management platform, has acquired ESG-X, a software company specialising in AI-enabled sustainability reporting. The acquisition supports Dcycle’s European expansion and reflects increasing consolidation in the ESG software market. The transaction comes as European companies face expanding sustainability reporting obligations, with CSRD-aligned disclosures beginning across the EU, UK companies preparing for upcoming read more
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Capalo AI raises €11M to expand battery storage optimisation
Finnish sustainable technology company Capalo AI has completed an €11 million Series A funding round to support the expansion of its AI-powered virtual power plant across Europe and to scale the optimisation and trading of battery energy storage systems. The round was led by Heartcore Capital, with participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment), existing investors read more
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Daytona raises $24M Series A to build agent-native compute infrastructure
Croatian-founded Daytona has raised a $24M Series A to build infrastructure designed for large-scale agent workloads. The round was led by FirstMark Capital, with Matt Turck joining the board. Additional participation came from Pace Capital, Upfront Ventures, Darkmode, and E2VC, along with strategic investments from Datadog and Figma Ventures. The round also includes a group read more
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Bound secures $24.5M Series A to expand FX hedging tools
London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, has closed a $24.5 million Series A funding round led by AlbionVC, with participation from Notion Capital and GoHub Ventures, alongside continued support from existing investors. The funding comes amid heightened geopolitical instability, trade uncertainty, and policy-driven volatility in global currency markets, which have increased the financial read more
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UK legaltech Lawhive raises $60M as looks to crack US
A UK-founded legaltech startup looking to democratise legal services for consumers has raised $60 million in funding, with the funds geared towards speeding up its US expansion. The Series B funding round inLawhive was led byMitch Rales, co-founder of conglomerate Danaher Corporation, withparticipation from TQ Ventures, Google’s investment arm GV, Balderton Capital andJigsaw. The investment read more
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Invest Europe and EIF report: How gender and geography shape Europe’s VC ecosystem
Invest Europe, in collaboration with the European Investment Fund (EIF), has published a new report titled TheVC Factor: Skills Edition. The report analyses Europe’s venture capital landscape, with a focus on cross-border startup funding and the influence of education and gender on funding outcomes and startup development. Beyond mapping current investment volumes, the Skills Edition read more
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Synthesia and Flatpay founders back Pluto.markets in $6M raise
Danish tech luminaries, including leaders from Synthesia, Pleo and Flatpay, are backing Pluto.markets, a Danish YC-backed investment platformlooking to disrupt the brokerage market in the Nordics, in a new funding round. Danish challenger neobroker Pluto.marketswas founded in 2021 by Joakim Bruchmann, a former base metals trader at Goldman Sachs, and Oscar Vingtoft, a software engineer. read more
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Gardia secures €8.5M to scale its mobile emergency system for seniors
Healthtech startup Gardia has closed an €8.5 million Series A round to support the expansion of its mobile fall-detection emergency system for seniors. The round was led by European venture capital firm Peak, with participation from amberra, the corporate venture studio of Germany’s Cooperative Financial Group, and the butterfly & elephant accelerator by GS1 Germany. read more
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Plato closes $14.5M round to scale AI tools for distributors
Plato, an AI-based operating system for wholesale distributors, has closed a $14.5 million seed funding round led by Atomico, with participation from existing investors including Cherry Ventures. The distribution sector is under increasing pressure from labour constraints, low margins, economic uncertainty, and rising digital expectations from B2B customers. Plato aims to address these challenges by read more
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Valeria lands $2M to fix payroll for the frontline economy
Valeria, a Barcelona-based payroll and workforce operations startup, has raised $2 million in a funding round led by Venture Friends, with participation from Fortino Capital and 10k Ventures. Founded by Pau Laporte, Carlos Saiz, and Sergio Morales Bonet, Valeria is pioneering a payroll and workforce management platform designed specifically for industries where high turnover and read more
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R3 Robotics raises €20M to automate EV dismantling at scale
R3 Robotics (formerly Circu Li-ion) has raised €20 million in combined financing to industrialise the automated disassembly of electric vehicle systems at scale. The company has raised €14 million in Series A funding, co-led by HG Ventures and Suma Capital, with participation from Oetker Collection, the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), and existing shareholders read more
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Fintower completes €1.5M oversubscribed seed round
The Gothenburg-based company Fintower has closed an oversubscribed €1.5 million seed round, attracting both new and existing investors. Participants include Chalmers Ventures, Akka, the Stena family through William Olsson, several entrepreneurs and angel investors, as well as existing investors Almi, Daniel Jonsson from Inet, and Alexander Hars. Founded by Salman Eskandari and Ehsan Yazdani, Fintower read more
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Willo secures €2.9M to commercialise alignment-free wireless power
Finnish-headquartered deeptech company Willo has raised a €2.9 million Pre-Seed round to accelerate the development of its wireless power system. While most wireless power systems depend on alignment or directionality, Willo has designed a system that keeps devices charging over the air even as they move and rotate. From hackathon meeting to deeptech founders Willo read more
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