Tag: Launches
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Mission Control Games launches with $4M to develop new casual gaming sub-genres
Mission Control Games, a mobile game studio focused on the casual puzzle genre, has announced its launch alongside the close of a $4 million pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Arcadia Gaming Partners and e2vc. The studio was co-founded by Kıvanç Okutur (CEO) and Murat Gürel (CTO), both read more
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Verne launches Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb
Verne today announced the launch of Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service, starting in Zagreb, Croatia. Beginning today, members of the public can now book and pay for a Pony.ai-powered autonomous ride through the Verne app. The service will soon also be available through the Uber app, following a recently announced strategic partnership between the three read more
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Qumulo launches Cork hub to build the backbone of AI-scale data
Today data storage and cloud infrastructure company Qumulo announced the official launch of its European Software R&D hub in Cork. Through this strategic expansion, Qumulo will create 50 highly skilled R&D positions in the coming three years to solve the major challenges for data management at enormous scale and scope for global business. Information, derived read more
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Team Scaleup launches to close Europe’s post-Seed funding gap
Today sees the launch of a new venture targeting Europe’s scaleup gap. Europe is losing too many of its most promising companies in the critical growth phase after seed funding; only one in four ever graduates to a Series A round. In response,Team Scaleup, a newly launched platform, is building a bespoke accelerator that tailors read more
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Ukraine launches world-first programme giving startups access to real war data for AI training
Ukraine is opening partner access to train AI models using real battlefield data — the first initiative of its kind in the world. According to Mykhailo Fedorov, the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, the government has approved a resolution launching a new framework for cooperation between the state, Ukrainian companies, and international partners. For startups, read more
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Samaipata launches €110M Fund III to back Europe’s next generation of AI-native startups
VC firm Samaipata has launched its third fund – Samaipata III – a €110 million vehicle aimed at backing early-stage tech startups building on the AI wave. Samaipata plans to invest in 25 to 30 early-stage companies, with the capacity to deploy up to €10 million per startup over time. The main focus is on read more
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Deep Science Ventures launches new doctoral cohort to turn science into startups
Deep Science Ventures has funded the third cohort of its Venture Science Doctorate programme, which empowers a new archetype of Venture Scientist to solve neglected health and planetary challenges. Starting this April, the next cohort of five venture scientistswill be supported by a funding consortium led by SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, and read more
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Vanity Fair Launches Revamp of Nate Freeman’s Newsletter With Michael Govan Interview on LACMA’s New $720 M. Building
Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan is speaking publicly for the first time about the museum’s long-awaited David Geffen Galleries. The interview, which went live today, appears in the relaunch of True Colors, Vanity Fair’s art-world newsletter written by Nate Freeman. The newsletter will now land in inboxes weekly on Fridays with read more
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GHARAGE Ventures launches Fund I and opens global travel platform
GHARAGE Ventures has launched its €40 million Fund I, positioning itself as an independent venture capital platform focused on early-stage technologies shaping the future of global travel and retail. Anchored by Gebr. Heinemann, the firm plans to collaborate with additional strategic investors to support innovation across the travel and retail ecosystem. As air travel continues read more
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Radioposter launches Paper-fi with synced soundtracks
For all the talk about 2026 being the year of analog, most of the conversation has been about rediscovering old formats like vinyl, film photography, and journaling. What’s been missing from these hobbies is something genuinely new, a reason to believe paper can do more than it did before. Radioposter is betting it can. The read more
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Scotch & Soda Launches Basquiat-Inspired Collection
Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda released a collection this week that is inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and features some of the artist’s work. The collection is a partnership with the Basquiat estate, via the global licensing agency Artestar. In a press release, Scotch & Soda said that like Basquiat, who is best known for read more
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Founders House launches in Helsinki for Finland tech
Founders House has officially launched in Helsinki, bringing a highly successful Swedish “founder factory” to Finland. Founders House Helsinki is a highly selective workspace and community for Finland’s most ambitious startup founders. The launch follows the success of Founders House Stockholm, which has become a cornerstone of the Swedish technology ecosystem and a launchpad read more
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Noxtua launches Europe’s first cross-border legal AI license
European sovereign legal AI Noxtua has introduced the market’s first Europe License, enabling legal professionals to access multiple European jurisdictions through a single interface with a single license, and to seamlessly cross-border legal work in a consistent Legal AI workspace. Europe’s legal landscape is characterised by distinct legal systems, languages, and traditions that shape the read more
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UK legaltech adeus launches True Wills ahead of electronic will reforms
London-basedadeus, a legaltech company specialising in modernising will-writing and legacy planning, has launched adeus True Wills™, a service intended to help prevent wills from being lost, altered, or disputed after death. Founded in 2024 by entrepreneurs Nick Adams and Mark Hedley, the launch marks the first major product release from an innovation project supported by read more
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SurrealDB secures $23M and launches SurrealDB 3.0 to address AI agent memory challenges
London-based SurrealDB, the company behind a multi-model, AI-native database, has raised an additional $23 million in Series A funding, bringing the round’s total to $38 million. Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital joined existing investors FirstMark and Georgian in the extension, while Mike Chalfen of Chalfen Ventures will join the company as a director. The latest read more
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ScyAI secures €2M and launches AI risk platform for real assets
Zurich-based startup ScyAI has closed a €2 million pre-seed funding round led by AENU and co-led by PT1. The round also includes participation from unicorn founders David Helgason (Unity), Maex Ament and Philip Stehlik (Taulia, Centrifuge) through Anti Ordinary Ventures, as well as Bela Lainck, Robert Levenhagen, Christoph Aufmhof and Stefanie Gerhart through the angel read more
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Reflow launches following a $15M+ seed round focused on operational visibility for enterprises
Reflow has closed a seed funding round of more than $15 million to support ongoing technology development and broaden access to its workflow and AI automation intelligence, alongside the launch of its workforce and workflow intelligence platform for enterprise customers. As organisations adopt AI, many are able to measure outcomes but have limited visibility into read more
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Overmind launches with £2M in seed funding to support development of agentic AI
London-based Overmind, which is developing a supervision layer for AI agents, has closed a £2 million seed funding round. The round was led by specialist cybersecurity investor Osney Capital, with participation from 14Peaks, Portfolio Ventures, Antler, and Endurance Ventures. As agentic AI systems advance, security requirements are becoming more complex and are increasingly difficult to read more
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Hammer Museum Names Chief Curator and Launches Chief of Learning, Engagement, and Research Role
The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles announced two senior leadership appointments today: Michael Wellen will be chief curator, and Regan Pro will be chief of learning, engagement, and research, a newly created role. Wellen begins at the museum on April 6, while Pro will start on March 2. The chief curatorship at the Hammer, which read more
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Qilimanjaro launches EduQit, a modular build-your-own quantum computer for education and research
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech today announced the release of EduQit, a modular quantum computing kit designed to enable hands-on training, experimental learning, and early-stage research using an on-site superconducting quantum computing system. EduQit enables universities and research institutions to work directly with a physical quantum computing system. This provides hands-on experience with hardware, control systems, operations, read more
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