Month: July 2025

Orfium receives EU grant to tackle copyright attribution in AI-generated music Music rights company Orfium has been awarded a major grant from the European Commission to lead a groundbreaking research project addressing one of the most pressing challenges facing the music and broader creative industries: detecting and attributing the use

Aircap raises €500K to lead risk and cash flow management for private assets France-based fintech Aircap has secured €500,000 in fresh funding from business angels, including founders of leading crowdfunding platforms, as well as Bpifrance. Founded in 2024 by Grégoire Bloch-Escoffier, Adrien Ducreux, and Thomas Kientz, Aircap specialises in investment

Italian HRtech Toduba secures €3.5M to digitise and decentralise employee welfare Italian HRtech startup Toduba has raised €3.5 million in a funding round led by P101 SGR.  The Turin-based scaleup is focused on employee welfare, offering companies a fully digital platform for end-to-end employee welfare management, including meal vouchers. At

Sunsave raises £113M to scale UK’s first solar subscription service The UK’s first FCA-authorised solar subscription service, Sunsave, has raised £113 million to accelerate its rollout of rooftop solar across England and Wales and save households hundreds of pounds each year. Founded in 2022 by Oxford University alumni Alick Dru

UK urged to set standards for startup accelerators A report released today from the UK think tank for entrepreneurship policy, Entrepreneurs Network, urges the UK Government to establish clear programme standards and classifications for startup support schemes, such as accelerators and incubators.  The UK now hosts over 500 accelerator programmes

London-based Zvilo secures expanded credit facility of up to €75 million to power MSME growth Zvilo, a FinTech platform using data-driven solutions to close the global trade finance gap for underserved MSMEs, has announced the expansion of its debt facility with FinTech-focused investor Fasanara Capital to up to €75 million.

German startup Sdui Group secures investment to become one of the de facto leaders in the European EdTech space Koblenz-based Sdui Group, a provider of cloud-based administrative software for K-12 schools, today announced a new growth investment to strengthen their product suite, deepen its support for educational institutions, and further

Swiss CleanTech startup Jaipur Robotics secures an additional €161k to turn waste-to-energy inefficiencies into profit Manno-based Jaipur Robotics has raised €161k from Venture Kick to bring intelligent automation to waste-to-energy plants, addressing multi-million-euros losses from manual waste handling with a computer vision platform designed specifically for waste recognition and process

Italian FinTech platform Toduba raises €3.5 million to digitise the employee welfare sector Toduba, a Turin-based company innovating the employee welfare landscape by leveraging a proprietary, cloud-native technology platform, has raised €3.5 million to expand their product portfolio, strengthen its merchant network, and introduce complementary services. The investment was provided

London-based Sunsave banks €130 million to take solar mainstream with zero-upfront subscription model Sunsave, a British energy startup making rooftop solar more accessible through its €0 upfront subscription model, has secured a €130 million in funding to scale its offer across England and Wales and become the UK’s first all-in-one