Good news from around Europe
Madrid-based VIVLA secures €8 million to scale its co-ownership model for premium second homes VIVLA, a Spanish PropTech startup focused on access to second homes through a co-ownership model, has raised €8 million in fresh funding in order to expand to other strategic locations and invest in talent and AI.
Figma is preparing for an IPO with a potential valuation of $16 billion Figma, an American company that develops software for designers, has published an updated prospectus for its initial public offering (IPO). According to the document, the company plans to sell about 37 million shares at a price of
Finnish deeptech Brightplus secures €2M in funding to scale bio-based, recyclable textile coatings Brightplus, a Finnish deep tech innovator transforming the future of textiles through recyclable, bio-based coatings, has secured €2 million funding round. The round was led by Collateral Good with co-lead participation from Butterfly Ventures and support from
A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers. On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the
Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking
Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up
A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-troubled-spac-plans-to-buy-irocket-for-400m-but-it-already-returned-most-of-its-cash/
YouTube sees a rise in ad revenue to reach nearly $10 billion YouTube continues to lead in the streaming market, with ad revenue increasing by 13% to $9.8 billion. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/youtube-sees-a-rise-in-ad-revenue-to-reach-nearly-10-billion/
inforcer raises $35M Series B to power MSPs in Microsoft security and AI UK software platform for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) inforcer has raised $35 million in Series B funding. The company enables MSPs and Microsoft Partners of all sizes to implement, configure, and manage Microsoft products, including specialised security
$1.4M Pre-Seed fuels Source, the AI startup led by 18-year-old Liam Fuller Irish-founded retailtech startup Source has secured $1.4 million in Pre-Seed funding. Source, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and registered as QuickFind AI, Inc., a Delaware C-Corp, has developed a platform that automates stock purchasing for retailers using agentic AI. I