Good news from around Europe
Oura delays $15BN US IPO Finland-founded smart ring maker Oura is delaying its US IPO due to market uncertainty, it said today. Oura said it had taken the decision to postpone listing on the Nasdaq “despite strong demand”. Oura, which was founded in Finland in 2013, did not
Axiology joins Europe’s push to bring central bank money to digital capital markets Earlier this month, Pontes went live, enabling transactions in Europe’s emerging digital capital markets to be settled in central bank money for the first time. The Eurosystem service bridges platforms that use distributed ledger technology (DLT) to
Berlin’s Apheris and Ginkgo bring pharma giants together to train AI on 10,000 antibodies Ginkgo Datapoints and Berlin-based Apheris today announced that the Antibody Developability Consortium has kicked off with its founding members. The Consortium is a new industry collaboration designed to help pharmaceutical and biotech companies predict manufacturability and
Belgian construction tech Spotable raises €4M for international expansion Ghent-based construction tech company Spotable has raised €4 million in seed funding to further develop its platform and accelerate its expansion across Europe and the United States. The round was arranged by investment broker The Harbour, with investors including Jonas Dhaenens
Cotierra raises $3M to scale decentralised biochar across tropical agriculture Zurich-based climate technology company Cotierra has raised $3 million to take its technology from successful field deployments to repeatable commercial scale. The company has raised $4.75 million since its founding. Across tropical agricultural value chains, large volumes of agricultural residues
Inside the ‘secondaries arms race’: How employee liquidity is becoming fundamental to private businesses Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-employee-liquidity-is-becoming-fundamental-brnd/
As FlatPay soars, the rest of Nordic fintech searches for its next act Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nordic-fintech-week-dispatch/
Ineffable, Recursive, Fractile call on UK to limit non-competes Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ineffable-recursive-fractile-non-competes/
You have to still ‘keep taste and judgement’: How companies are actually putting agentic AI to work Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-companies-are-putting-agentic-ai-to-work-brnd/
Manna boss Bobby Healy on moving to Oklahoma: ‘The US is open for business, Europe is not’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/bobby-healy-manna-trump-oklahoma/