Month: February 2025

Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/25/y-combinator-deletes-posts-after-a-startups-demo-goes-viral/

Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on

Solid IO secures €800K to transform cancer treatment with tumour-on-chip technology Solid IO, a pioneering medtech company specialising in patient-specific organ-on-chip technology, has successfully closed its first funding round of €800,000. The startup spun out of the University of Helsinki, has developed a tumour-on-chip platform that replicates the patient’s tumour

WilsonAI raises $1.7M for “AI paralegal” model WilsonAI, a generative AI platform whose model synthesises legal documents, has raised a $1.7M pre-seed round led by Nomad Ventures. Additional participants include Autopilot Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Transpose Platform, and key strategic angels, including Mei Z, and several exited founders and law firm

Fintech Flow48 secures $69M Series A to expand into Saudi Arabia Fintech Flow48, whose platform enables SME lending across emerging markets, has raised a $69M Series A funding round. The round, which is a combination of debt and equity, was led by Breega with participation from 212, Speedinvest, Daphni, Endeavor

Ukraine’s startup ecosystem continues to shine Over the years as a journalist, I’ve kept a close eye on Ukraine’s vibrant startup ecosystem. These companies aren’t just solving consumer and business pain points; they’re pioneering important R&D, creating new business models, and operating with an international mindset from day one. On

Karomia raises €2M for ESG compliance platform Belgian software company Karomia has secured €2M in a round led by Entourage, imec.start Future Fund & imec.start Fund to expand its AI-powered ESG reporting platform. Karomia is a B2B SaaS platform that streamlines Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) compliance through AI-powered automation.

Dealcar closes a €3 million round to digitise used car dealerships and begin EU expansion Barcelona-based Dealcar, an SaaS platform that digitises and optimises the buying and selling of used cars for dealerships of any size, has closed a €3 million Seed round to expand and fuel the development of

Sparta secures €40 million for AI-powered commodity trading Geneva-based Sparta, a provider of real-time intelligence for commodity traders, has secured €40 million in Series B funding to fuel their expansion beyond oil and gas, evolving from a data provider into a full-scale AI-powered trading platform. The funding round was led

BitDCA raises €7.6 million to bring Bitcoin to the masses—one purchase at a time In an exclusive reveal to EU-Startups, Prague-based fintech startup BitDCA has raised €7.6 million to scale its ‘Littlebit’ app — designed to simplify Bitcoin investment for everyday consumers and “dethrone Revolut.” The fundraising round was led