Day: April 17, 2025

Lighthouse acquires The Hotels Network to boost personalised marketing management Commercial travel and hospitality platform Lighthouse has acquired hotel marketing company The Hotels Network. The ability to deliver personalised offers and marketing messages to travellers has become a key piece of the commercial strategy technology stack, as hoteliers seek to

Skin Analytics raises  £15M Series B to build a future where nobody dies of skin cancer  British medtech company Skin Analytics has secured £15 million in Series B funding led by Intrepid Partners. This investment follows Skin Analytics’ recent EU MDR Class III CE mark approval,  making its technology, DERM,

Inephany secures $2.2M for more efficient AI Model training London-based AI startup Inephany has raised $2.2M in a pre-seed funding round to develop a platform aimed at optimising the training of neural networks, including large language models (LLMs). The round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from Sure

We have spent “millions” on AI training data, says Photoroom CEO, who wants to make the internet “more beautiful” France and the US are the two countries which have shaped the career of Matthieu Rouif (known as “Matt”), the co-founder and CEO of Photoroom, one of the most talked-about startups

With 5 min EV-charging and $9M revenue, Nyobolt secures $30M to scale high-power battery tech Battery charging tech company Nyobolt has raised $30 million in funding, bringing its total raised to $100 million.  Power-intensive sectors like AI automation, heavy-duty transport and data centres are under increasing pressure to cut emissions while

Estonian startup Esgrid raises €900k for supplier management for SMEs Tallinn-based Esgrid, an ESG risk management platform, has raised €900k in pre-Seed funding to build the future of supplier management for SMEs and accelerate product development to cover a broader range of supplier workflows, with a strong focus on AI-supported

Lyft takes the wheel as FreeNow exits European ownership in €175 million deal Lyft has announced its acquisition of German mobility platform FREENOW for €175 million, marking the U.S. company’s most significant expansion into the European market to date. The deal, confirmed on 16 April 2025, involves purchasing FreeNow from

British startup Portia AI bags €5 million to help developers build AI agents in production with better human oversight London-based Portia AI, an open-source AI agents SDK, announced today a €5.1 million funding round to give developers the tools to build production-grade AI agents they can predict, control and authenticate.

Italian FinTech Tundr secures €7.2 million to scale its digital platform for corporate welfare Milan-based FinTech startup Tundr, which is simplifying corporate welfare through a fully digital and user-friendly platform, has raised a €7.2 million Seed round to scale its product and expand in the Italian market. The round was

British HealthTech company Skin Analytics raises €17 million to deliver AI skin cancer detection Skin Analytics, a HealthTech company focused on building a future where “nobody dies of skin cancer”, has secured €17.5 million in Series B funding led by Intrepid Growth Partners in order to expand to Europe and