Good news from around Europe
Germany’s FERNRIDE bags additional €18 million for their Series A to develop autonomous trucking system FERNRIDE, a Munich-based ground autonomy platform, announced the extension of its Series A financing round, raising an additional €18 million – bringing the total funding to €75 million. The extension is backed by Helantic and
Apple plans to create its own AI search engine for Siri — it may be based on Google Gemini Apple Inc. plans to launch its own AI-powered search tool based on Google’s Gemini technology next year, Bloomberg reports, citing informed sources. This move will intensify competition with giants such as
Finnish company SuperGround raises €1.15M to scale operations and commercialize seafood products with Ocean Next SuperGround Oy, a Finnish food technology company, has raised an additional €1.15 million, extending its earlier €2.5 million funding round. The round was led by CHECK24 Impact and Propeller Ventures. About SuperGround SuperGround, established in
Mistral AI raises €2 billion. The company’s valuation reached $14 billion Mistral AI, a French startup specializing in the development of open language models and the Le Chat chatbot, completes a €2 billion funding round that raised the company’s valuation to €12 billion ($14 billion). This makes Mistral one of
Finnish IQM Quantum Computers raises $320M to expand globally and advance quantum computing IQM Quantum Computers, a Finnish global leader in full-stack superconducting quantum computers, announced that it has raised $320 million in a Series B venture capital round, bringing its total funding to $600 million. The round was led by
Quantinuum hits $10bn valuation in $600m raise backed by Nvidia’s VC arm Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/quantinuum-raises-from-nvidia-vc-arm-10bn-valuation/
Mistral set to close funding round at €11.6bn valuation Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-fundraise-12-bn-valuation/
Dimming the sun, refreezing the ice: VCs flirt with geoengineering Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/geoengineering-startups-europe/
Driverless truck startup Fernride moves into defence with €18m raise Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fernride-raises-18m/
Everyone wants AI. No-one wants to pay for it Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-pricing-2025-brnd/