Month: August 2025

Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Jul 25 – Aug 01) This article is visible for CLUB members only. If you are already a member but don’t see the content of this article, please login here. If you’re not a CLUB member

German camper van rental startup roadsurfer lands €25 million to accelerate international growth Roadsurfer, a Munich-based company specialising in outdoor mobility has raised €25 million to support the international expansion of their camper van rental platform and accelerate its growth across Europe and North America. The financing came in the

London’s Atlantica powers up in Canada with renewable platform acquisition from Oslo’s Statkraft Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure, the London-based company focused on sustainable assets, has announced the acquisition of Statkraft’s Canadian renewable energy platform. The move adds 236 MW of operational capacity and a development pipeline totalling 0.8 GW across solar,

VC firm Cambridge Innovation Capital commits €115 million to back University of Cambridge spinouts Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), the VC firm investing in British high-potential DeepTech and life sciences companies, announced they are committing at least €115 million to invest in spinouts from the University of Cambridge. This investment forms

Latvian startup Handwave raises €3.6 million to make payment and identification as easy as a wave of your hand Riga-based Handwave, a biometric startup founded in Latvia, has raised €3.6 million in Seed funding to launch its palm-based payment and identity platform in Europe and the US. The round includes

OpenAI invests in Stargate’s first European data center OpenAI has agreed to become a key customer of a new data center in Norway, which will be the first European facility of the Stargate infrastructure project. This was announced in a joint statement by Norwegian investor Aker ASA and Nscale Global

German defense tech Project Q secures €7.5M to expand internet of defence capabilities with AI Project Q, a German-based ​defense tech company specializing in AI-enhanced data integration and analysis solutions for the defense and security sectors, has secured €7.5 million in funding to expand its Internet of Defence (IoD) capabilities.

Latvian biometric startup Handwave raises $4.2M in Seed funding to launch palm-based payment platform Handwave, a Latvian biometric startup developing a palm scan-based payment system, has raised $4.2 million in Seed funding to launch its palm-based payment and identity platform in Europe and the US. The round was led by

Cambridge Innovation Capital commits £100m to spinouts, launches EIR programme Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/cambridge-innovation-capital-100m-spinouts/

The European VCs hiring in summer 2025 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/vcs-hiring-2025/