Day: September 23, 2025

Ventech closes €175M Fund VI — largest in firm’s history Early-stage VC firm Ventech has announced the final closing of its sixth flagship fund, Ventech Capital VI, at €175 million, the largest fund in the firm’s 26-year history. With €1.1 billion fund raised,    Ventech has built a cross-border investment

EE Inc before EU Inc: What Estonia can teach Europe about digital sovereignty If Europe’s tech ecosystem wants to see how a digital-first approach to startups and governance can work in practice — and what it could mean for the proposed 28th Regime — it needs look no further than

Predicti closes $4.2M to scale predictive AI for finance Danish fintech Predicti has secured $4.2 million in funding led by TX Ventures and Dreamcraft Ventures, with participation from Plug and Play, to accelerate growth and advance its AI platform. Predicti builds a fully API-enabled system that helps financial institutions anticipate

Climate Investment backs ANYbotics to advance industrial decarbonization ANYbotics, a provider of autonomous robotic inspection solutions, received a strategic investment from Climate Investment (CI), following a recent round and bringing total funding to over $150 million. With this investment, CI joins existing backers such as Aramco Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners,

UK fintech Tide attains unicorn status, with $120M funding round Tide, the UK business management platform, has attained unicorn status, following a $120m funding round. The funding round was led by a “strategic investment” from TPG, the asset management firm, which is a new investor in Tide, and existing investor, Apax Digital

Rome’s SylloTips closes €4.2 million round for AI that learns from employees when in doubt SylloTips, an Italian startup innovating the use of automation, today announced the closing of a €4.2 million Seed round to accelerate the development of its human-in-the-loop AI Agents. The round, led by Azimut through its

London’s Nuclide Therapeutics raises €5.7 million in largest pre-money valuation of any King’s College London spin-out Nuclide Therapeutics, a British BioTech company and King’s College London spin-out focused on developing targeted radiopharmaceuticals for therapy-resistant cancers, has raised €5.7 million in funding. The round saw participation from Marathon Beteiligungs AG, in

Lessons from the buy side: How startups can use M&A to accelerate growth without losing focus I used to think M&A was only for big companies. My plan was straightforward: build the best service, grow organically, and let results speak for themselves. Acquisitions appeared to be corporate shortcuts taken by

Zurich’s Veezoo raises €5 million to scale its Agentic Analytics platform globally Veezoo, a Swiss Agentic Analytics company that empowers users to make decisions with confidence using data, announced a €5 million Series A funding to accelerate its expansion in Europe and the United States. The round was led by

British startup YASO, an OS for global brands in China, raises €9.4 million to accelerate growth London’s YASO, an OS that enables global consumer brands to grow in the Chinese market, has raised €9.4 million in a Series A investment round to scale its sales and marketing function, accelerate onboarding