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  • Meatly raises £10.4M to build Europe’s largest cultivated meat bioreactor facility in London

    Cultivated meat pioneer Meatly, Europe’s first company to sell cultivated meat, has today announced that it has raised £10.4 million in Series A funding. Since launching in 2022, Meatly has solved the key technical cost challenges facing the cultivated meat industry, accelerating the path to scalable, affordable production. In 2024, Meatly announced it had reduced read more

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    Meatly raises £10.4M to build Europe’s largest cultivated meat bioreactor facility in London

  • UK quantum outfit Quantum Motion run on silicon chips raises $160M

    A UK university spinout, which builds full-stack quantum computers made with the same silicon chip technology used in laptops and smartphones, has raised $160m in an investment round, it said today. The Series C funding round in Quantum Motion was co-led by US VC DCVC and Spanish deeptech investor Kembara with participation from British Business read more

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  • Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2025 Report highlights strong fundraising and investment performance

    Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, has released Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2025, its annual report examining performance across the region. The report provides a comprehensive breakdown of activity across segments, stages, sectors and geographies. It also introduces new data on continuation funds and investment in read more

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    Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2025 Report highlights strong fundraising and investment performance

  • SWEBAL raises €30M to build Sweden’s first TNT facility and strengthen NATO ammunition supply

    Sweden Ballistics (SWEBAL), the Swedish defence manufacturing company driving domestic trinitrotoluene (TNT) production to strengthen NATO resilience, today announces a €30 million funding round to complete construction of its TNT manufacturing facility in Nora, Sweden. SWEBAL is dedicated to strengthening NATO’s resilience and enhancing European security through sustainable, large-scale ammunition production. Founded in 2024, SWEBAL read more

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    SWEBAL raises €30M to build Sweden’s first TNT facility and strengthen NATO ammunition supply

  • Belgian AI startup Tekst raises €11.5 million to tackle the bottleneck holding back enterprise AI

    Ghent-based Tekst has closed an €11.5 million Series A led by US venture firm Elephant. Tekst was founded in Ghent in 2022 by Wouter Janssen (CEO) and Tiebe Parmentier (CTO) and is taking aim at one of the biggest headaches in enterprise AI. Companies are pouring money into AI but struggling to make it pay read more

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    Belgian AI startup Tekst raises €11.5 million to tackle the bottleneck holding back enterprise AI

  • One-time treatment with lasting effects as Sedivention advances obesity therapy with €2.9M funding

    Sedivention, a Germany-based medtech startup, has raised €2.9 million in a seed funding round led by bmp Ventures alongside the IBG funds. Additional investors include the strategic investment arm of a global medtech company, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), superangels, and Cambridge Ventures. The company is developing a minimally invasive, one-time outpatient therapy for the treatment of read more

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    One-time treatment with lasting effects as Sedivention advances obesity therapy with €2.9M funding

  • Pit launches with $16M, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to power AI-native enterprise operations

    Stockholm-based Pit, an AI-native platform that replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, inboxes, and rigid SaaS tools used in enterprise operations, has announced its public launch. The company also raised $16 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Lakestar, its founders, and angel investors including executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and read more

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    Pit launches with M, led by Andreessen Horowitz, to power AI-native enterprise operations

  • OpsMill raises $14M to address enterprise infrastructure data challenges

    OpsMill, a Paris-based infrastructure data management company, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by IRIS, with participation from BGV and existing investors Serena and Partech. OpsMill addresses a core challenge in enterprise IT: fragmented and unreliable infrastructure data. Its flagship product, Infrahub, is an open-source infrastructure data management platform built read more

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    OpsMill raises M to address enterprise infrastructure data challenges

  • The hidden cost of fragmented IoT development

    A device ships but collects field data at only 60% of the target rate. The hardware vendor blames firmware. The firmware contractor faults the RF environment. The RF consultant cites power management. No one modeled how modem power use, battery discharge, and packet retransmission interact as a system because no single team owned all of read more

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    The hidden cost of fragmented IoT development

  • AI consulting startup co-founded by DeepMind scientist lands $22.75M Series A

    An AI consulting-cum-recruitment startup co-founded by a Google DeepMind scientist and a SoftBank executive has raised $22.75m, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. The Series A founding round in Ethos also features participation fromGeneral Catalyst, Matt Miller’s Evantic and trading firm XTX.It follows its $3.25m seed round last year led by General Catalyst. The startup read more

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    AI consulting startup co-founded by DeepMind scientist lands .75M Series A

  • OpenTrade secures $17M in strategic funding to scale its stablecoin yield infrastructure

    OpenTrade, a stablecoin yield infrastructure platform used by fintechs and exchanges, has raised $17 million in a strategic funding round led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto, AlbionVC, and CMCC Global. The round brings the company’s total funding to over $30 million. The raise comes as the global stablecoin market read more

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    OpenTrade secures M in strategic funding to scale its stablecoin yield infrastructure

  • Peter Sarlin's AI startup Qutwo hits €325M valuation months after launch

    A Finnish AI startup, co-founded by an executive whose previous startup was sold to US semiconductor giant AMD, has raised €25m in an angel round, giving it a €325m valuation, just months after its launch. Helsinki-basedQutwowas co-founded by Peter Sarlin, whose previous startup Silo AI was sold toAMD for $665m in 2024. Qutwo hasraised the read more

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    Peter Sarlin's AI startup Qutwo hits €325M valuation months after launch

  • RSI Europe skipped the crowded drone race — and it paid off

    In modern warfare, speed is becoming the defining advantage. Systems that once took years to design and deploy are now expected to reach the battlefield in months — or risk becoming irrelevant before they are ever used. RSI Europe is a Lithuania-based defence tech company building remote-controlled explosive systems and drone technologies designed for rapid read more

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    RSI Europe skipped the crowded drone race — and it paid off

  • Antwerp startup Maurice & Nora raises €1M to address rising care demand

    Antwerp-based social-impact startup Maurice & Nora has raised €1 million in funding to accelerate its growth and expand its platform for non-medical in-home assistance. The round includes backing from investors such as Coformaco (led by Conny Vandendriessche), Dries Buytaert, 100IN, Annemie Colruyt & Stef Goossens, Jan Delaere, Lorenz Bogaert, Toon Coppens, Piet Maes, Roeland Delrue, read more

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    Antwerp startup Maurice & Nora raises €1M to address rising care demand

  • Renaissance Philanthropy reshapes science funding with a new model for innovation

    Renaissance Philanthropy, a nonprofit focused on accelerating scientific and technological breakthroughs by connecting philanthropists, researchers, and innovators, has mobilised more than $533 million in funding within its first two years. The milestone reflects rapid growth across the organisation’s platform, which now includes more than 20 active programmes and funds, as well as multiple government partnerships. read more

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  • Monzo to launch in Spain, as ramps up EU expansion plans

    Monzo, the UK digital bank, is to launch in Spain, ramping up its European expansion plans, following its exit from the US market. Monzo has set up offices in Barcelona and Madrid, with over 50 employees, and plans to grow the team over the next year, it said. It has also appointed Francisco Sierra, a read more

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    Monzo to launch in Spain, as ramps up EU expansion plans

  • Netradyne acquires Moove Connected Mobility to scale AI-powered fleet intelligence across Europe

    AI-powered fleet safety and performance solutions providerNetradyne has acquired Moove Connected Mobility, a German-founded fleet intelligence and connected mobility company. By combining Netradyne’s AI-driven edge intelligence platform with Moove’s strong local presence, customer relationships, and operational experience, the company is creating a scaled, durable foundation to serve enterprise customers across the continent. Following the acquisition, read more

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    Netradyne acquires Moove Connected Mobility to scale AI-powered fleet intelligence across Europe

  • ElevenLabs adds BlackRock, Nvidia and Jamie Foxx to $550M+ Series D

    One of the UK’s most hyped AI startups today said it has added Nvidia, BlackRock and film stars Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria to its investment roster, as it also announced it has completed its second employee secondary share sale in less than a year. UK-headquartered ElevenLabs, founded by two Polish entrepreneurs, made a name read more

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    ElevenLabs adds BlackRock, Nvidia and Jamie Foxx to 0M+ Series D

  • Quantum Machines acquires QHarbor and opens Delft office to deepen European quantum footprint

    Quantum Machines (QM), a provider of hybrid quantum-classical control solutions, today announced the acquisition of Dutch company QHarbor and the opening of a new office in Delft, the Netherlands. The move establishes a local base in one of Europe’s leading quantum ecosystems and supports the continued expansion of QM’s software platform. Quantum Machines develops the read more

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    Quantum Machines acquires QHarbor and opens Delft office to deepen European quantum footprint

  • QuantWare secures €152M for large-scale quantum systems

    The quantum processor company QuantWare has raised €152 million in a Series B funding round to support the development and scaling of its technology. The announcement follows the introduction of its VIO-40K™ architecture, designed to enable quantum processors with significantly higher qubit capacity than current systems. New investors in the round include Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, read more

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    QuantWare secures €152M for large-scale quantum systems