Month: September 2025

Baltic-Nordic VC Outlast Fund closes €21M to back early-stage startups in Baltics and Nordics Outlast Fund, a Baltic-Nordic VC fund, has closed its first fund at €21 million to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage startups from the region.  About Outlast Fund Outlast Fund is a venture fund based in Riga

Finnish startup Time Atlas Labs raises €1.8M to expand privacy-first life tracking app Time Atlas Labs, a Finnish startup which helps people track and learn from life’s most important moments, has raised €1.8 million in growth funding led by Lifeline Ventures, with participation from a syndicate of angel investors, tech.eu

Romanian-founded startup DRUID AI raises $31M in Series C to accelerate global expansion DRUID AI, a Romanian-founded startup, has raised $31 million in a Series C funding round to drive global expansion and further develop its enterprise-grade AI platform. The round was led by Cipio Partners alongside participation from previous

AI scaleup Wayve to raise $500m from Nvidia Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nvidia-wayve-500m-investment/

Nvidia to invest £2bn into UK AI startups Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nvidia-uk-ai-funding/

Lovable CEO pledges 50% of future earnings to combatting ‘bad AI’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lovable-ceo-pledges-50-of-future-earnings-to-combatting-bad-ai/

Deliveroo founder Will Shu set to depart after DoorDash acquisition Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/will-shu-departs-deliveroo/

Can anything stop Synthesia? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/synthesia-podcast/

OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild  AI models don’t just hallucinate. They also “scheme,” meaning deliberately lie or hide their true intentions. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/openais-research-on-ai-models-deliberately-lying-is-wild/

Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from top early-stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV) share how to win Series A funding in 2026 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/term-sheets-traction-and-truth-bombs-inside-the-series-a-mindset-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2025/