Month: February 2025

The all-women led VC firms in Europe Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/europe-all-female-led-vc-firms/

Inside the French founders factory churning out AI startups like Mistral and Hugging Face: There are swarms of them Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/inside-ecole-polytechnique-ai/

19 former Palantir employees now heading up startups of their own Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/palantir-founders-startups-europe/

Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei claims DeepSeek generated sensitive bioweapons data in a safety test it ran. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/anthropic-ceo-says-deepseek-was-the-worst-on-a-critical-bioweapons-data-safety-test/

OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany. According to a press release issued Friday, the ChatGPT maker plans to open an office in Munich in the coming months. “Germany is renowned for its technical expertise, academic excellence, and industrial innovation,” OpenAI CEO

Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14 billion, it’s in talks to raise another $2.5 billion, at a valuation of up to $28 billion, sources told CNBC.

Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions The Department of Transportation (DOT) has paused funding for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program that Tesla has received at least $31 million from. The move is widely viewed to be illegal. It’s the latest attempt from the Trump

Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B Rapyd Financial Network is reportedly looking to raise $300 million in a new funding at a steep valuation cut from its 2021 high. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/fintech-rapyd-seeks-funding-at-3-5b-valuation-a-steep-drop-from-9b/

Avelios raises €30M Series B led by Sequoia for hospital data system overhaul Munich healthtech startup Avelios has raised €30 million Series A (€30m) funding led by Sequoia to advance its efforts in developing its hospital data operating system. Most hospitals run on data centres developed in the ‘90s, if

KOA Biotech raises €2M for early disease detection for fish farms Aquaculture production startup KOA Biotech raised €2 million in funding.  More than half of the fish consumed comes from aquaculture production. However, as highlighted by Sira Mogas, CEO and founder of KOA, “infections in fish farms are a growing