Good news from around Europe
Health startups spur UK VC investment to top $4BN in Q1 UK health and life sciences startups raised $1.8bn in VC investment in Q1 2025, more than double the amount of the second-placed sector, as UK VC investment grew on the year, new data shows. HSBC Innovation Banking and Dealroom
London-based AI creative studio Wonder raises €2.6 million for GenAI visual content Wonder, an AI-native creative studio, has raised €2.6 million in pre-Seed funding to enable the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers to craft visual content and bring concepts to life faster – improving the efficiency of the content
British FinTech startup BKN301 Group raises €21 million BaaS platform London-based BKN301 Group, a global FinTech specialising in Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), has successfully closed a €21.5 million Series B round to support their international growth through organic development and strategic acquisitions, as well as enhancing the firm’s proprietary BaaS Orchestrator platform.
Get ready for the “Investors on Stage” session at this year’s EU-Startups Summit! On April 24-25, we’ll be hosting the 11th edition of the EU-Startups Summit in beautiful and sunny Malta! With around 2,200 founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts joining us for two days packed with insights, inspiration, and high-impact
Swiss HealthTech startup CGC Genomics raises €1.7 million for regulated GenAI platform Basel-based CGC Genomics has raised €1.7 million in pre-Seed funding to innovate the interpretation of cancer genome data with its GenAI platform Qnomx, bringing to market their regulatory-grade generative AI solution for clinical decision support in oncology. Backers
Klaimy bags €1.2 million to support medical underwriters and claims handlers with AI copilot In an exclusive reveal to EU-Startups, Paris-based Klaimy, an AI-powered SaaS platform transforming medical data processing for insurers, has raised €1.2 million in pre-Seed funding to scale its engineering and data science teams, expand its product capabilities,
Polish AI unicorn ElevenLabs opens a new office in Japan According to the company’s GTM, Japan is a key market for their international growth. Powered by WPeMatico https://en.ain.ua/2025/04/14/polish-elevenlabs-opens-a-new-office-in-japan/
GPT-4o will be answering your requests soon. OpenAI is going to replace the GPT-4 AI model in ChatGPT The GPT-4 will be retired on April 30, 2025, but the model will still be available through the API. Powered by WPeMatico https://en.ain.ua/2025/04/14/openai-to-replace-gpt-4-with-gpt-4o/
Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup Safe Superintelligence has raised $2 billion, with Alphabet and Nvidia among the investors. The deal valued the company at $32 billion. Powered by WPeMatico https://en.ain.ua/2025/04/14/safe-superintelligence-2-billion/
Ukraine reveals its own laser air defense system Tryzub The released footage shows the testing of the system, including the defeat of a conditional ground target and countering an FPV drone on fiber optics. Powered by WPeMatico https://en.ain.ua/2025/04/14/ukraine-reveals-laser-system-tryzub/