Month: June 2025

From rooftop chats to real investments: How the EU-Startups Summit turned conversations into real opportunities Across its 2024 and 2025 editions, the EU-Startups Summit has continued to evolve into a fertile meeting ground for European innovation, where spontaneous conversations can often translate into investment cheques, new hires, and strategic collaborations.

French FoodTech startup Fungu’it raises €4 million to reinvent natural flavorings through fungi fermentation Dijon-based Fungu’it , a FoodTech startup specialising in the production of natural flavorings through solid-state fungi fermentation, announced a €4 million funding round to build an industrial pilot plant and accelerate the commercialisation of its first flavorings.

Polish Mysite.ai raises €2.1M in pre-seed round to develop AI-powered platform for small businesses Mysite.ai, a Polish all-in-one AI platform for small businesses, has closed its pre-seed round at €2.1 million. The round was led by Inovo VC and joined by existing investors Sunfish Partners, Fabian Veit, Bart Roszkowski and

Czech Orbit Capital launches €100M Growth Debt II Fund to back tech innovators overlooked by banks Czech investment firm Orbit Capital has launched its second venture debt fund, Growth Debt II, with a target size of €100 million. The fund aims to accelerate growth for technology companies in Central and

Nabla raises $70m Series C to build AI agents for doctors Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nabla-raises-70m-series-c/

Defence unicorn Helsing raises 600m led by Daniel Eks Prima Materia Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/helsing-fundraise-600m-daniel-ek/

DIY AI: Sometimes the smartest thing to build is nothing at all Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/diy-ai/

Rob Lacher: ‘Defence is the most complex and most interesting space I’ve seen as a VC’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/rob-lacher-defence-vc/

Meet the women founders behind France and Southern Europe’s fastest growing startups Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/women-founders-france-se/

Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over “the most legendary party that never happened.” Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/police-shut-down-cluelys-party-the-cheat-at-everything-startup/