Category: business
Finance, startups, productivity
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Sencillo raises £350K+ to help UK families navigate rising education costs
Education financing platform Sencillo has raised over £350,000 in Pre-seed Funding. The rising costs of education mean UK families are now spending increasingly larger amounts on their children’s education each year, averaging between £3,600 and £15,000 per annum for early years childcare, £19,000 to £50,000 for independent schooling, and over £22,700 a year for university, read more
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When anything is possible: what creatives should make in the age of AI
Earlier this year, I attended Upscale Conf in San Francisco, a conference hosted by Spanish generative AI creative suite Freepik. One of the topics I was most interested in was how creatives – designers, illustrators, film makers, etc. think about and use AI, so I was excited to attend a workshop titled “When anything is read more
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NexDash raises €5M and launches AI-powered, fully electric road freight carrier
Berlin-based NexDashhas secured €5 million in seed funding to build Neo-Carrier for electric trucks, only three months after its founding. The round included participation from Extantia Capital and Clean Energy Ventures. Heavy-duty trucks account for around 35 per cent of transport-related CO₂ emissions, while over 90 per cent of logistics operators rely on small, ageing read more
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The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
The FT connected abuses in some of these fleets to UK supermarket shelves using fishery details provided by retailers, data from the Ocean Disclosure Project — where companies voluntarily publish seafood sources — research into products in supermarkets, publicly available paperwork and interviews with workers. One of the Chinese longline fisheries where workers reported abuses read more
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SOC Prime secures new investment to accelerate AI-driven threat detection
Ukrainian cybersecurity startup SOC Prime today announced the closing of its next investment round to drive the company’s next wave of growth and innovation to help customers automate critical threat detections with AI. SOC Prime has built and operates the world’s largest AI-Native Detection Intelligence Platform for SOC teams. Trusted by over 11,000 organisations, the read more
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PolyModels Hub secures £7M investment led by Molten Ventures and Marathon VC
London-based PolyModels Hub has secured a £7 million Series A investment from Molten Ventures, in partnership with Marathon VentureCapital. PolyModels Hub is a biotech software company developing the digital backbone for biopharma process development, reshaping how medicines are designed, developed, and manufactured. The company combines AI, advanced modelling, and data-driven workflows to help teams move read more
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Mirantus Health lands €5.5M to bring faster eye screening to 1,000+ locations
The Berlin-based health tech company Mirantus Health has received€5.5 million to scale its software platform mira in the DACH region. Ophthalmological care in Europe is increasingly strained: 30 per cent of ophthalmologists in Germany are already 60 years of age or older and approaching retirement, while at the same time, the need for consultations is read more
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Unveiling the Second Round of Speakers for the Tech.eu Summit London 2026!
Following the excitement of our initial announcement, we are delighted to share the second round of speakers for the Tech.eu Summit London 2026. The event will take place on 21–22 April 2026 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, bringing together leading figures shaping the future of technology across Europe and the world. What read more
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Logistica OS secures €1.5M to build the AI operating system for supply chains
Logistica OS, the Berlin-based startup developing AI agents for supply chain operations, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by NAP, alongside Daphni and angel investors Javier de la Fuente, Nono Konopka, Daniel Khachab, Andrew Shaw, Jonas Meynert, Tony Kula and Hermann Ude. Europe’s logistics sector underpins around €10 trillion in read more
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NcodiN secures €16M seed investment led by MIG Capital
NcodiN, a French deeptech startup, has secured a €16 million seed investment led by MIG Capital AG through its MIG Fonds 17 and 18. The round also includes participation from Maverick Silicon, PhotonVentures, and Verve Ventures, along with continued support from existing investors Elaia, Earlybird, and OVNI. Founded in 2023 by Fabrice Raineri (CSO), Bruno read more
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Rift raises €4.6M for global on-demand real-time aerial intelligence network
Paris-based Rift, a deeptech company focused on on-demand aerial intelligence, has raised €4.6 million to advance its technology and roll out the first on-demand aerial intelligence network, operated from a single remote command centre in France. The round was led by AlleyCorp, with participation from OVNI Capital. A pioneer in autonomous drone-based observation, Rift is read more
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Spend management startup Pleo makes layoffs
Pleo, the Danish spend management startup, has laid off workers,following changes it introduced earlier this year regarding how it launches new products and services. The job cuts took place during September and October, with up to 100 workers laid off, sources told Tech.eu. Those impacted mostly worked acrosscommercial, including leadershiproles,and those who worked with Pleo’s read more
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Dost launches in UK with £6M Series A led by Octopus Ventures
London-based Dost, an AI-powered financial automation platform, has closed a £6 million Series A round led by Octopus Ventures and officially launched in the UK market. The round also included participation from new investor TQ Ventures, as well as continued support from existing backers such as Draper B1, Born Capital and Eoniq.fund. Co-founded in 2021 read more
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Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startupDeblockhas secured €30 million in Series A funding led bySpeedinvest, alongsideCommerzVenturesandLatitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a read more
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Integral acquires cleverlohn and secures funding to advance its AI accounting and payroll platform
Berlin-based Integral, an AI-powered services company focused on accounting, tax and payroll for SMEs, has acquired cleverlohn, a digital payroll and HR provider in Germany. The acquisition expands Integral’s AI-based offering and represents a step in its strategy to build a leading AI-first advisory firm in accounting, tax and payroll in Europe. Integral has also read more
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Europe at a “crossroads” as it is called to power its first trillion-euro tech company
Europeis at a “crossroads” and has not realised its full potential, according to leading VC firm Atomico, which has urged the European ecosystem to power its firsttrillion-euro company. Atomico’s latest State of European Tech report (its eleventh) paints a positive picture of the European startup scene but says structural gaps mean Europe is potentially leaving read more
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Nordic Salt Cycle raises €3.5M to advance molten salt mineral recovery technology
Copenhagen-based Nordic Salt Cycle has raised €3.5 million in pre-seed funding to commercialise its molten salt technology for the cost-effective, scalable recovery of critical minerals from sources such as electric vehicles, wind turbines and consumer products. The round includes investment from EIFO, Denmark’s state-owned green transition investment fund, existing investor The Footprint Firm, and German read more
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Why expense infrastructure is becoming core tech for modern companies
For years, expense management sat in the administrative shadows – a necessary, vital but rather unremarkable process centred on receipts, reimbursements, and end-of-month corrections and scrambling. That model no longer fits the way modern companies operate. As European businesses scale faster, adopt cloud-heavy tech stacks, and expand across borders, spending has evolved from a back-office read more
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AI customer support agent startup GetVocal raises $26M
A Paris-headquartered startupwhich develops AI agents for businesses to use in customer supporthas raised $26m and says it’s working with big-name brands such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom. The Series A funding round in GetVocal was led by Creandum, the Nordic VC firm, with participation from Austrian VC Speedinvest and Elaia, the French deeptech VC. read more
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Condukt emerges from stealth with $10M to power next-generation compliance
London-based Condukt, a next-generation compliance platform for financial services, has raised $10 million in seed funding and emerged from stealth. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and MMC Ventures, with participation from Cocoa Ventures. Founded in May 2023, Condukt is designed as an agentic, real-time compliance solution that is always-on and policy-aware, giving read more
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