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Finance, startups, productivity
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YEP Accelerator opens Silicon Valley program to help Ukrainian startups scale into the US
Today YEP Accelerator announced that it is opening a new office in California and launching an international track for growth-stage Ukrainian startups looking to enter the US market. The new track is designed for Ukrainian startups that already have a live product, paying customers, and ambitions to scale in the US. Unlike traditional accelerator programs, read more
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Bounce Watch: Building the intelligence layer for faster market decisions
Finding information is no longer the main challenge, as most companies today have access to more market data than ever before. Identifying the right signals early enough to act on them is another story. That is the gap Bounce Watch aims to address. Founded in 2023 by Cem Otkun (CEO) and Sedat Yusuf Ergunes (CTO), read more
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Euan Blair’s Multiverse raises $70M at $2.1BN valuation
Euan Blair’s Multiverse has raised £70m in fresh funding, as it looks to expand across Europe and take a chunk of the enterprise AI training market. The funding round in the edtech, which originally specialised in digital apprenticeships at tech firms, was led by new investor Schroders Capital. Existing investors, including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 read more
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Meet the startup taking on gaming's cheating problem
In 2019,the Portugal-based startupAnybrainfiled a patent application claiming its AI could detect game cheating solely from player inputs such as keyboards, controllers,and joysticks. It was met with disbelief. At the time, anti-cheat systems relied heavily on invasive software monitoring. Behavioural input detection was seen as too abstract, too ambitious and too difficult to prove. Just read more
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Startup nsave is bringing international banking access to Syrians shut out of the financial system
Nsave , a UK-founded offshore banking platform built for people from distressed economies, today announced the launch of financial services for Syrians in two phases: inbound transfers into Syria and international accounts for residents inside Syria. For the first time, Syrians will have access to a stable foreign currency account, providing a hedge against local read more
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Meet the 3D printing startup that spent five years not selling its technology
Most people think of additive manufacturing — better known as 3D printing — as small plastic prototypes or desktop machines producing objects you can hold in your hand. Since emerging in the 1980s, the technology has steadily evolved from a rapid prototyping tool into a serious industrial process used across aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and defence. read more
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Iceotope raises $26M to advance cooling for next-generation AI infrastructure
Iceotope Group, a provider of precision liquid cooling solutions for data centres and edge infrastructure, has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures, with participation from existing investors Edinv, ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, and British Business Bank. Founded in 2005 as a research-driven green read more
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Ouinex reaches $9M in community funding, launches token platform
Ouinex, a Paris-based crypto asset exchange, has raised $3.5 million in a new equity round, bringing its total funding to $9 million, all of it from retail and professional traders using its own platform and with no venture capital participation. Alongside the funding round, Ouinex introduced Ouinex Launchpad, a token sale platform designed to give read more
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Twin Prime lands $10M pre-seed to build frontier AI models for defence and security
Frontier AI lab for defence and security Twin Prime has raised have $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Expeditions, with additional investment from American and European VCs, Theon, family offices, and angels from within Palantir, Anduril, Quorum, and more. Twin Prime is developing AI models that natively reason on data from a large number read more
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Ten Years In, VivaTech Is Just Getting Started
When VivaTech first opened its doors in 2016, it gathered 45,000 visitors. This June, the 10th edition is expected to welcome more than 180,000 attendees from 171 countries, a 300% increase that reflects not just the event’s growth, but the pace of transformation reshaping the global tech landscape. From 17 to 20 June at Paris read more
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Zerops raises $2M seed to rebuild cloud infrastructure for the AI development era
Zerops, a Platform-as-a-Service startup redesigning cloud architecture, has raised a $2 million seed round led by Gi21 Capital. Zeropsremoves the separation between development and production environments, a long-standing flaw in cloud architecture that causes deployment failures for developers and AI coding agents alike. It creates a unified environment where applications behave identically from development through read more
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DDD Invoices raises €1.31M to simplify global e-invoicing compliance
DDD Invoices, a Ljubljana-based company building API-driven infrastructure for global e-invoicing compliance, has raised a €1.31 million seed round backed by Fil Rouge Capital, 500 Global, and experienced operators from the ERP and e-invoicing ecosystem. The company is also supported by angel investors and advisors from the e-invoicing and ERP ecosystem, including former executives and read more
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UK AI chip startup Fractile raises $220M to tackle the growing inference bottleneck
UK company Fractile has today raised a $220M Series B as it continues to build next-generation inference hardware for AI. The round was led by Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund, with participation from Conviction, Gigascale, O1A, Felicis, Buckley Ventures and 8VC. Founded in 2022, Fractile is building next-generation inference hardware for frontier AI. Its read more
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Recursive Superintelligence emerges from stealth with $650M raise
A London-based AI startup set up just months ago, which believes it’s pursuing the fastest path to surpassing human intelligence, has today come out of stealth, having raised over $650m at a $4.65bn valuation. Called Recursive Superintelligence,the funding round was led by GV, Google’s VC arm, and US VCGreycroft, with participation from chip makers Nvidia read more
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Isomorphic Labs lands $2.1BN investment
Sir Demis Hassabis has hailed a multi-billion-dollar investment in the startup he founded which was spun out ofGoogle DeepMind and focuses on leveraging AI to help drug discovery as a “massive vote of confidence”. Isomorphic Labssaid it has raised$2.1bn in a Series B funding. The funding round was led by existing investor Thrive Capital, the read more
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Gyver scores €1.4M to help power Europe’s industrial workforce
Gyver, the Italian startup developing workforce infrastructure for Europe’s industrial and energy sectors, has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Brighteye, with participation from āltitude, Vento Ventures, Zanichelli Venture and existing investor Antler, alongside several business angels. Founded by Francesco Defendi, Leo Acciarri and Mattia Zarrelli, Gyver is focused on read more
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Romanian DesignVerse raises $5.5M to modernise legacy enterprise software
Bucharest-based DesignVerse, the enterprise software startup using AI to modernise complex legacy systems, has raised more than $5.5 million in seed funding as demand grows for tools that can safely accelerate software development in mission-critical industries. The round included investment from Begin Capital, Gapminder VC, Underline Ventures, and strategic angel investors from companies including Adobe, read more
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Nordic Compass launches to fast-track Nordic resilience and industrial competitiveness
This week, Nordic Compass launches, a new pan-Nordic industry alliance for resilience and competitiveness. The ambition is to move faster than the current European process and turn Nordic industrial strengths into concrete initiatives, aligned between the business community and the Nordic governments. Initiatives in four critical areas will be presented at the Nordic Compass Summit read more
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Corti launches no-equity accelerator for healthcare AI startups
Healthtech startup Corti today announced the launch of the Startup Acceleration Program, a no-equity initiative providing healthcare AI builders worldwide with access to the same clinical-grade models that power AI for highly regulated systems across Europe and the US. The grant-funded program aims to help founders ship and scale at a moment when the regulatory read more
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BioInnovation Institute launches AI Lab with €7M from Danish Industry Foundation
BioInnovation Institute (BII) is launching AI Lab, a new innovation platform designed to support the commercialisation of artificial intelligence research and accelerate the development of early-stage AI startups in Denmark. The initiative is backed by € 7 million (DKK 60 million) in funding from the Danish Industry Foundation and aims to strengthen collaboration between startups, read more
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