Month: September 2025

Greentech startup Finnish Food Factory secures €10M from Taaleri Bioindustry to scale plant-based dairy production Finnish Food Factory, a rapidly growing contract manufacturer of plant-based dairy products, has secured €10 million in funding. The round was led by Taaleri Bioindustry Fund I to expand its production capabilities, driving long-term growth

Revolut valued at $75 billion in new employee share sale The British fintech giant Revolut Ltd. has launched a new round of secondary share sales, in which some employees will be able to sell their shares in the company for an estimated $75 billion. Bloomberg reports this with reference to

Austrian startup mypaperwork.ai raises €500k pre-seed to expand European immigration platform mypaperwork.ai, an Austrian platform that simplifies residence and work permits in Europe, has raised €500,000 in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by Angels United to fuel product growth and European market entry. About mypaperwork.ai mypaperwork.ai is a

Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans Add another two cities to the growing list where Waymo is looking to deploy its robotaxis. The company will start with manual testing but is eyeing a commercial launch in both cities. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/waymo-expands-to-denver-and-seattle-with-its-zeekr-made-vans/

Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps

OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – part of an ongoing response to recent safety incidents involving ChatGPT failing to detect mental distress.

Judges side with Trump EPA over canceled Inflation Reduction Act grants to nonprofits An appellate court found that the Trump administration was within its rights to cancel billions of dollars in grants. The nonprofits that had their grants canceled are expected to appeal. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/judges-side-with-trump-epa-over-canceled-inflation-reduction-act-grants-to-nonprofits/

Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world Lens Live will not replace Amazon’s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon

Allasso secures $3M to deliver AI-powered options analytics Geneva-based Allasso, the fintech that brings data-backed, modern analytics to one intuitive interface for financial market professionals, has secured $3 million in investment in its latest funding round. Allasso delivers modern analytics and risk management tools that empower traders, brokers, and hedgers to

UNIVITY secures strategic France 2030 funding to accelerate VLEO 5G constellation CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), the public establishment responsible for proposing French space policy to the Government and implementing it in Europe, has awarded €31 million in strategic funding to UNIVITY — formerly Constellation Technologies & Operations — as