Tag: raise

  • SportIQ expands connected sports ball technology with $6.2M raise

    SportIQ, a company that develops smart basketballs and in-app shooting coaching technology, has raised a total of $6.2 million in a Series A funding round completed in two closings. The latest closing included $3.2 million in new funding from KB Partners, Koppenberg Management, Match Ventures, and a group of high-net-worth individuals and family offices. Read read more

    SportIQ expands connected sports ball technology with .2M raise
  • Andercore is expanding its AI-based industrial trade platform following a $40M Series B raise

    Berlin-based Andercore, an AI-enabled industrial supply trade platform, has raised $40 million in a Series B round comprising equity and debt to support its expansion in Europe. The round includes participation from existing investors Atomico and Project A, with Inven Capital joining as a new investor, alongside institutional financing from Commerzbank and KfW. The company read more

    Andercore is expanding its AI-based industrial trade platform following a M Series B raise
  • Synthesia and Flatpay founders back Pluto.markets in $6M raise

    Danish tech luminaries, including leaders from Synthesia, Pleo and Flatpay, are backing Pluto.markets, a Danish YC-backed investment platformlooking to disrupt the brokerage market in the Nordics, in a new funding round. Danish challenger neobroker Pluto.marketswas founded in 2021 by Joakim Bruchmann, a former base metals trader at Goldman Sachs, and Oscar Vingtoft, a software engineer. read more

    Synthesia and Flatpay founders back Pluto.markets in M raise
  • $1M+ raise for construction startup Arctis AI led by former fencing champion Dila Ekrem

    The construction and real estate sector is Europe’s largest industry, yet it remains largely dependent on manual and disconnected processes. This inefficiency is becoming critical as the sector faces a massive wave of activity, driven by a €584 billion requirement for power grid upgrades and an estimated €500 billion in transport infrastructure modernisations across Europe read more

    M+ raise for construction startup Arctis AI led by former fencing champion Dila Ekrem
  • Shield Space completes £2M raise to strengthen space security efforts

    Shield Space, a defence technology startup developing systems to protect satellites from signal jamming and other threats, has raised £2 million to support its first orbital test flight. The round was led by the Midlands Engine Investment Fund II via Mercia Ventures, with participation from Twin Path Ventures, ROI Ventures, and P3A Ventures. Space assets read more

    Shield Space completes £2M raise to strengthen space security efforts
  • Google alums raise $5M for Sparkli, an AI-based learning platform for children

    Zurich-based Sparkli, an AI-based learning platform for children, has raised a $5 million pre-seed round to bring its multimodal learning engine to families and schools globally. While children today have broad access to information, many digital learning tools offer limited ways to explore complex ideas in engaging and age-appropriate formats. Sparkli aims to address this read more

    Google alums raise M for Sparkli, an AI-based learning platform for children
  • AINA introduces AI-driven hiring platform backed by $1M raise

    Cyprus-based AINA has raised $1 million in seed funding from a private angel investor to expand its AI-driven hiring platform, which aims to improve hiring efficiency and reduce recruitment costs. As competition in the job market intensifies, employers are receiving growing volumes of AI-generated applications, many of which are poorly aligned with open roles. At read more

    AINA introduces AI-driven hiring platform backed by M raise
  • German sustainability software outfit osapiens becomes unicorn, following $100M raise

    German startuposapiens,which providessoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) services to help companies meet ESG targets, says it has become a unicorn after raising $100m. The Series C round was funded solely by Decarbonization Partners, the joint venture betweenBlackRockand Temasek focused on late-stage VC investing in decarbonising tech. The company isnow valued at over $1.1bn, following this round, it said. read more

    German sustainability software outfit osapiens becomes unicorn, following 0M raise
  • Amazon seeks to raise $12 billion from US bond sale, Bloomberg News reports

    (Reuters) -Amazon plans to raise about $12 billion in corporate bonds, its first such deal in U.S.​ dollars in about three years, Bloomberg News reported on Monday,‌ as big tech firms increase investments to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence. The e-commerce giant filed ‌for a six-part bond sale earlier in the day without disclosing a read more

    Amazon seeks to raise  billion from US bond sale, Bloomberg News reports