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betacluster Ventures launches new early-stage fund to support AI-driven innovation
betacluster Ventures has launched betacluster Poland.One, a new early-stage fund under the PFR Starter program. With a target capitalisation of €19 million (PLN 81.25 million), the fund will invest in technology startups primarily from Poland that are developing solutions for the Smart Data Economy, where intelligent data systems, AI and automation transform how industries operate, read more
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Algori raises €3.6M to scale its AI shopper insights platform globally
Madrid-based Algori, a purchase and behavioural data platform for the FMCG industry, has raised an additional €3.6 million in growth capital, bringing the company’s total funding to €7.5 million. The round brought in new investors, including Red Bull Ventures, Tech Transfer Agrifood (Clave Capital), Co-Invest Capital, AttaPoll, and Firstpick, alongside continued support from existing backers read more
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Evertrust secures €10M to accelerate expansion in Europe’s digital trust market
French cybersecurity software vendor Evertrust has closed a €10 million Series A round from the fund Elephant, which will support the company’s growth strategy, including team expansion, product development, and international scaling. Founded in 2017 by Kamel Ferchouche (CEO), Jean-Julien Alvado (CTO) and Étienne Laviolette (COO), Evertrust has evolved from a digital trust consulting firm read more
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How an Irish startup is turning speech into a dementia early-warning signal
There are a whopping 64,142 people currently living with dementia in Ireland. With age being the leading risk factor for dementia, this number is expected to rise alongside population ageing to 150,131 by 2045. Dementia describes a group of symptoms that affect memory, thinking, and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily life. Among read more
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Freepress raises €1M to make global news more accessible through AI
News service Freepress has raised €1M in seed funding to advance its platform and prepare for international expansion. The AI-powered service plans to enter global markets in collaboration with local publishers, sharing up to half of its revenue to help sustain quality journalism.Freepress curates verified news from multiple global sources and presents it as concise, read more
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Corma raises €3.5M to advance software license and access governance
Paris-based Corma, a SaaS management solution that helps IT teams better control software usage and sprawl, has raised €3.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by XTX Ventures, with follow-on investments from Tuesday Capital, Kima Ventures, 50 Partners, and Olympe Capital. It also includes participation from business angels such as Thomas Wolf (co-founder read more
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yuv raises $12M to scale sustainable hair colour tech in the UK and US
London-based yuv, a beauty technology company developing the world’s first smart hair colour lab system for salons and freelancers, has closed a $12 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Nineyards Equity, with participation from Founder Francisco Gimenez, existing investor VNV Global, and a network of strategic angel investors. yuv is modernising read more
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Sky Spy lands $1.6M to fix SIGINT failures in saturated signal environments
Sky Spy, a technology company developing compact signal intelligence (SIGINT) systems for contested and congested environments, has raised $1.6 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed round to go-to-market, launch production and expand its team to deliver fully autonomous AI-driven systems. Sky Spy was founded to address a critical gap in SIGINT in today’s saturated signal environments.Lessons read more
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Superbo secures strategic investment from Deep Capital to build the future of enterprise automation
UK agentic AI startupSuperbohas secured a strategic investment from Deep Capital Group. Superbo’s platform enables organisations to streamline operations and unlock efficiency through AI agents and cognitive flows. Through its Opero Suite, Nova, Solo and Aeon, the company turns enterprise knowledge into intelligent dialogue, connects APIs and systems into seamless cognitive workflows and deploys autonomous read more
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FORMEL SKIN joins MANUAL to expand from skin health to whole-body care
UK healthtech platform MANUAL has acquired FORMEL SKIN, Germany’s largest digital dermatology provider. Together, the companies will form one of Europe’s fastest-growing healthtech groups, united by a bold vision: to build the world’s leading unified health platform. Since its founding in 2019, FORMEL SKIN has offered patients expert guidance, personalised treatments, and long-term support through read more
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Entrepreneurs launch European “venture studio”
Two experienced entrepreneurs are launching an early-stage European “venture studio”, which will invest in startups it co-founds as it looks to unearth the hot industrial AI companies of tomorrow. Founded by Kostas Fetfatsidis,a mechanical engineer turned entrepreneur, andDimitrios Kourtesis,a founder, investor, and engineer, the new entity is called The Flywheel and is billing itself as read more
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Track Titan raises $5M for AI-powered motorsport tracking platform
Track Titan, an AI-powered motorsport tracking platform, has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, the fund led by Alpine F1 co-owner Roger Ehrenberg. The round also includes participation from investors such as Colton Parayko, Trevoh Chalobah, Sequel, Martin Hoffmann, and Emmanuel Tahar. Existing investor APX, a joint venture read more
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French CRM outfit Brevo hits unicorn status
French customer relationship management (CRM) company Brevo has become a unicorn following a €500m funding round. The funding round sees General Atlantic and Oakley Capital joining Brevo’s roster of investors while Bpifrance and Bridgepoint remain minority investors, with the latter reinvesting via Bridgepoint Development Capital V. The round sees Partech fully exiting its stake while read more
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Curvestone AI closes a $4M round to enhance AI reliability for regulated industries
London-based Curvestone AI has raised $4 million in seed funding led by MTech Capital, with participation from Boost Capital Partners, D2 Fund, and Portfolio Ventures. The company addresses a key challenge that most AI tools fail to solve in financial and professional services: making automation reliably accurate at scale. While individual AI tasks may achieve read more
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Spark Cleantech closes €30M for heavy industry decarbonisation
Paris-based Spark Cleantech has closed a €30 million Series A funding round (including €17 million in equity). The round was led by 360 Capital and Taranis, with participation from the Île-de-France Reindustrialisation Fund (initiated by the Île-de-France Region and operated by Innovacom), alongside Asterion Ventures, the company’s long-standing investor. Founded in 2022 in the laboratories read more
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Hypercritical raises £2M to modernise software engineering for heavy industry
London-based Hypercritical has raised £2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate development of its foundation model and expand its engineering team. The round was led by Join Capital, with participation from Octopus Ventures, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company (tiny.vc), and Plug and Play. Hypercritical is a deeptech company that develops machine learning models to generate fully read more
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Fronted lands $1M to modernise global hiring using AI
Fronted, the Nordic startup building an AI-powered platform to simplify international hiring, has closed a $1 million pre-seed funding round led by Antler and Sondo Capital. Fronted is a global talent operating system that provides a unified platform for companies to manage their international teams. It addresses two key challenges for scaling businesses in a read more
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Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine, about the rise of Nvidia and its hard-driving leader Jensen Huang, has won the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. It is the second year read more
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Shop Circle secures $100M credit facility as it positions itself as Europe’s alternative to VC funding
Shop Circle today announced an expanded partnership with i80 Group, increasing its credit facility to $100 million. Shop Circle is a global AI-powered software platform that acquires and scales B2B software products. It operates a growing ecosystem of mission-critical tools used by over 165,000 companies worldwide. The acquisitive model is exploding, especially in Europe, with read more
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UN Development Program and Wazoku invite startups to pioneer new tech for underwater mine detection
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a global innovation challenge to identify bold, practical solutions that can help crisis-affected communities recover and rebuild from scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs around the world. Partnering with UK-based innovation platform Wazoku, the UNDP will crowdsource ideas through a series of open-innovation challenges to find simple solutions that read more
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