Month: July 2025

Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI to revolutionize estate processing Acrew Capital’s Kolodny led a $20 million Series A in Alix, a startup that uses AI to automate estate processing. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/chime-backer-lauren-kolodny-bets-on-ai-to-revolutionize-estate-processing/

Lovable becomes fastest software company ever to reach $100M ARR Swedish unicorn AI platform Lovable today announced that it has just surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in just eight months, and has amassed more than 2.3 million active users. This makes Lovable the #1 fastest-growing software company

Bitfount raises $8M to unlock clinical research data with federated AI London-based Bitfount, the federated AI platform transforming clinical research collaboration, has secured $8 million in Series A funding to scale its privacy-preserving network across healthcare systems globally. Bitfount removes the data-sharing roadblock that has long held back clinical research.

French recruitment startup asap.work acquires JUST CONSTRUCTION to accelerate US expansion French construction recruitment company asap.work has acquired UK HRtech JUST CONSTRUCTION, as it launches into the booming American market.  With 95 percent of JUST CONSTRUCTION’s business rooted in the US, including high-growth regions like Texas, Florida, and North Carolina

Droidrun raises €2.1M pre-seed to scale mobile-native AI agent infrastructure Berlin-based Droidrun, the company behind the best-performing AI mobile agent, has secured a €2.1 million pre-seed funding round to grow its framework that enables AI agents to control Android and iOS devices and apps through natural language commands. In a

Win-Win raises £3M to scale cocoa-free chocolate and expand across Europe Food tech company Win-Win, creators of the UK’s first cocoa-free alternative to chocolate, has raised £3 million in a Series A funding round, bringing their total raised to date to £8 million. The funding round will further fuel Win-Win’s

British startup Modern Baker raises €2.8 million to scale “healthy ultra-processed food” Oxford-based Modern Baker, the food-as-medicine startup behind SUPERLOAF, has raised €2.8 million in Series A funding to reframe the narrative around ultra-processed food (UPF) as a healthy innovation – delivered through nutrient density, without sacrificing taste or convenience.

British NZN raises €5.6 million for biofertiliser solution delivering a ‘green discount’ for farmers NetZeroNitrogen (NZN), a Nottingham-based AgTech company on a mission to end reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilisers (SNFs), has raised a €5.6 million Seed round to make key hires in ASEAN markets, pass certification, and finalise commercial

Sweden’s Lovable becomes fastest growing software company ever by skyrocketing to $100 million ARR in 8 months Stockholm-based Lovable, the AI platform that lets anyone build end-to-end software by talking to AI, today announced that it has just surpassed $100 million (€85 million) in ARR in just eight months, and

London’s Connectd has just raised €6.3 million to double down on an increasingly fractional workforce Connectd, a British platform connecting startups and scaleups with experienced fractional executives and strategic advisors, announced it has raised €6.3 million, as it capitalises on 80% growth this year and surpasses €9.9 million ARR. The