Category: business
Finance, startups, productivity
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Paymentology targets new growth areas with $175M investment
Paymentology, the global issuer-processing platform for banks and fintechs, has secured a $175 million investment co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners. Founded to help financial institutions modernise payment issuing systems, Paymentology provides real-time card and payment processing technology for fintechs, digital banks and retail banks operating across multiple markets. The company says its platform read more
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“Very difficult" for US competitors in Europe, says boss of healthtech Tandem Health
The CEO of Sweden-based healthtech startup Tandem Health said it is “very difficult” for US competitors to compete against Tandem Health in Europe, amid a push from European healthcare providers to work with European businesses. Speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, Lukas Saari, Tandem co-founder, said: “We have very much taken the full European focus, we read more
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Ventory closes €2.65M funding round led by KBC Securities
Ventory, the inventory management platform connecting enterprise ERP systems with field operations, has raised €2.65 million in a funding round led by KBC Securities, with participation from existing investors Finindus, Matterwave and delaware. Founded by Vishal Punamiya, Ventory develops software designed to help organisations manage inventory across field operations, including service vans, depots, consignment stock read more
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Holmes launches with €1.1M pre-seed for autonomous software testing
Ghent-based Holmes, a technology company focused on reinventing software quality assurance for the AI era, has launched with €1.1 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Syndicate One, with participation from Aikido founders Roeland Delrue and Willem Delbare, Showpad co-founder Louis Jonckheere, and serial entrepreneur Thomas Van Overbeke. Investment funds NewSchool.vc, RDY Capital, read more
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Pillar secures €12M to build an AI-powered operating system for construction
Italian construction technology startup Pillar has raised €12 million in a seed funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital and Base10 Partners, with participation from Italian Founders Fund. The round brings Pillar’s total funding to €15.2 million, less than eight months after its public launch. Existing investors, including Emblem, also participated in earlier financing rounds. read more
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Dutch healthtech Ditto raises €7.6M to bring AI-powered patient support across Europe
Dutch healthtech startup Ditto has raised €7.6 million to support its European expansion and further develop its AI-powered patient communication platform.The funding round was led by Heal Capital, with participation from Optiverderand Rubio Impact Ventures. Since launching last summer, the app has been downloaded by nearly 100,000 users. Ditto was founded by Tobias Polak, Bart read more
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White Circle lands $11M to help companies secure AI systems
White Circle, the enterprise AI governance company helping organisations monitor, protect and improve AI systems in real time, has raised $11 million in seed funding from a group of prominent AI and technology leaders. Investors include Romain Huet (OpenAI), Dirk Kingma (Anthropic, formerly OpenAI), Guillaume Lample (Mistral), Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), Olivier Pomel (Datadog), François read more
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Regulate raises €1.4M Seed to bring science-backed breathwork into the workplace
Breathwork platform Regulate has closed a €1.4M Seed round. The round is led by impact investor 4impact.vc and backed by an angel syndicate, which includes: Hanno Renner (Co-Founder & CEO, Personio), Mike Wax (Co-Founder, Forto), Marlena Hien (Co-Founder, Bears with Benefits), and Felix Haas (10x Group, IDnow, Bits & Pretzels). Founded in 2024 by CEO read more
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Tolemy Bio lands €1.4M to power AI-driven cell biology
Cambridge-based biotech startup Tolemy Bio has raised €1.4 million in pre-seed funding to advance its AI-enabled technology for cell biology research and biopharma development. The round was led by Norrsken Evolve, with participation from Big Sur Ventures, JME Ventures, Masia, and a new UK-based stealth fund. Founded by Alex Ward and Caelan Anderson, Tolemy Bio read more
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With $18M in new funding, Adfin expands AI-powered business finance
London-based fintech Adfin has raised $18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered money movement and cashflow management platform for businesses. The round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Visionaries Club and new investors Stéphane Kurgan and Andrey Khusid. The investment brings Adfin’s total funding to more than $30 million, less read more
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Lunar co-founder exits CEO role after 11 years
The co-founder of Danish digital bankLunar is stepping down as CEO after more than ten years and is being replaced by a former Danske Bank and Saxo Bank executive. Ken Villum Klausen, Lunar co-founder and CEO, who has led Lunar since its founding in 2015, said the timing “feels right” to stand down. He pointed read more
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From outsourcing to AI-native delivery: Poland’s software evolution
Poland has long been known as one of Europe’s strongest software development and IT outsourcing hubs, supplying engineering talent and enterprise delivery capabilities to companies across Western Europe and the US. While countries like Germany focused more heavily on fintech or SaaS products, Poland carved out its own service niche. As AI reshapes how software read more
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Algorithmiq moves global HQ to Milan and raises €18M in Italy’s largest quantum VC round
Quantum software company Algorithmiq has established Milan as its global headquarters, signalling its confidence and commitment to Italy and Europe as the future hub for leadership in the industrialisation of quantum algorithms. Algorithmiq has raised €18 million in funding led by United Ventures and Italian institutional investor CDP Venture Capital, with continued participation from Inventure read more
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Grand Games raises $70M Series B to scale hybrid casual mobile games
Grand Games, a mobile gaming company focused on hybrid casual titles, has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to $103 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital through its Growth Fund, following the firm’s earlier Series A investment via its Early Stage Fund in January last read more
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eyeo raises €40M to improve imaging and sensor performance
Dutch nanophotonic imaging company eyeo has raised €40 million in a Series A funding round led by Innovation Industries, with participation from existing investors imec.xpand, Invest-NL, Qbic, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Brabant Development Agency. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to €55 million. Founded to commercialise technology developed at imec, eyeo develops nanophotonic colour-splitting read more
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Keel unveils fintech infrastructure business after pivot from neobank
Manchester-based Keel has emerged from stealth after reaching profitability and establishing a growing client base for its Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform across multiple fintech markets. Originally founded in 2019 as consumer neobank Frost, the company combined digital banking services with energy-switching tools and grew its user base to more than 18,000 customers. Following changes in market read more
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NanoStruct raises €2.6M Seed to bring same-day pathogen detection to the food industry
German-based deeptech startup NanoStruct has raised €2.6 million Seed funding. Founded by Dr Henriette Maaß, Enno Schatz, and Kai Leibfried, the company develops nanostructured sensor chips for the rapid identification of dangerous pathogens in food. Detecting dangerous bacteria in food currently takes several days, far too long to ensure that harmful pathogens don’t reach consumers. read more
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Front Ventures raises €5M to back defence tech innovation in Ukraine
Stockholm-based defence-focused investment company Front Ventures has raised €5 million through an oversubscribed rights issue of B-shares, with the raise subscribed to 278 per cent. The company backs early-stage defence technology companies developing operationally relevant systems in Ukraine and Sweden. The round included participation from all major shareholders, including CEO Jonas Malmgren and board member read more
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Europe’s second chance: The rise of a new battery ecosystem
Europe’s battery ambitions took a major hit with the collapse of Northvolt, once seen as the continent’s best chance to rival Chinese competitors and build a homegrown supply chain. But since then, we’ve seen a more modular, ecosystem-driven approach with scaleups rebuilding momentum across the battery value chain, by tackling a specific bottleneck rather than read more
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German AI translation startup DeepL to axe 250 staff
DeepL, the German AI translation startup, is cuttingaround 250 jobs, about a quarter of its headcount, saying it was moving to smaller teams so it is able to compete amid rapid AI advancements, its CEO said today. Posting on LinkedIn, Jarek Kutylowksi, CEO andfounder, said the cuts at DeepL, which employs over 1,000 people globally, read more
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