Good news from around Europe
London-based Gradient Labs raises over €11 million for its AI customer service agent Gradient Labs, a British AI startup focused on customer service in regulated industries, today announced a Series A round of over €11 million to expand its technology, marketing, sales, onboarding, and customer success teams and increase its investment
Friendsurance secures funding from Round2 Capital to expand sales and partnerships with European banks and insurers Friendsurance, a German provider of a digital bancassurance software platform and accompanying services, has secured funding from Round2 Capital to boost its further sales expansion and expand its partnerships with European banks and insurers.
Czech Excalibur Army opens representative office in Ukraine to boost defense cooperation and local production Excalibur Army company, one of Ukraine’s biggest arms suppliers, has officially opened its representative office in Ukraine. A move set to boost local cooperation, streamline logistics, and launch joint defense manufacturing on Ukrainian soil. The
Vitalii Gorovyi has increased his stake in Linkup ST to 45%, and his InSoft.Partners has exited the portfolio company Rolique – details Serial entrepreneur Vitalii Gorovyi has additionally invested in Linkup ST and withdrawn the company from the portfolio of his InSoft.Partners group of companies. The amount of the deal
Mistral in talks to raise $1bn from Abu Dhabi fund MGX, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-mgx-funding-billion/
French chipmaker SiPearl secures €130m Series A Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/sipearl-130m-series-a/
Builder.ai founder pulled from RAISE lineup over ‘security concerns’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/builder-ai-sachin-dev-duggal-raise-cancelled/
Mubadala eyes $100m Revolut stake, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mubadala-revolut-stake/
NATO tech accelerator hires new interim managing director amid shakeup Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nato-accelerator-new-managing-director-turnover/
Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M to build e-bikes and more Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian this year, was raised $200 million from Greenoaks Capital. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/rivian-spinoff-also-raises-another-200m-to-build-e-bikes-and-more/