Good news from around Europe
From Seed to sovereignty: HV Capital’s expanding mandate across Europe There’s a lot you can learn from how venture firms evolve — not just in what they invest in, but in how they run themselves. Take HV Capital. Late last year the firm completed a full handover from its four
HotGreen Solutions raises £1.2M for ultra-efficient heat pumps A UK cleantech startup HotGreen Solutions, has closed a £1.2 million pre-seed round, led by Empirical Ventures, with strategic participation from Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), First Imagine! Ventures, The Conduit Impact Fund, and Almanac Ventures. Industrial process heat accounts for over 20
Non-drill brain monitoring startup CoMind raises over $100M A UK startup which is developing brain monitoring and treatment technology which avoids drilling a hole into a patient’s skull has raised more than $100m in funding in total, it has announced. Led by “generational founder” James Dacombe, the $102.5m funding includes a $60m Series A funding round
European tech weekly recap: More than 85 tech funding deals worth over €2.2B Last week, we tracked more than 85 tech funding deals worth over €2.2 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. Click to read the rest of the news. Powered by WPeMatico
Certificall raises €1M seed to strengthen its position in the European market Toulouse-based Certificall, a trusttech company, has closed a €1 million seed round led by TomCat, Groupama, and InsurAngels. Founded in 2022 by insurtech specialists Guillaume Laurent and Nicolas Chabauty, Certificall provides fast, certified, and cost-efficient visual evidence solutions
We asked 3 chatbots about Europe’s startup future – here’s what they said As artificial intelligence becomes an ever louder voice in how we consume and analyse information, we wondered: how well do AI chatbots understand Europe’s startup landscape? To find out, we asked three of the most talked-about tools
Sales engagement platform lemlist acquires fellow French AI platform Claap to transform sales with AI technology lemlist, a sales engagement platform, has acquired fellow-Parisian AI platform Claap, aimed at transforming sales with AI technology – Claaps’s investors, Headline and LocalGlobe, are exiting through the acquisition after funding and scaling the
Spanish drone developer Fuvex raises €1.7 million to fly high across Europe’s inspection skies Fuvex, a Navarra-based drone startup developing long-range autonomous aerial systems, has secured €1.7 million in the first phase of its Series A funding round to grow into new verticals such as gas pipelines, agriculture, and security/defence,
With €4 million in funding, German InsurTech developer Enzo looks to tackle water damage with their novel sensor Heidelberg-based Enzo, a startup protecting homes from water damage, has closed a €4 million Seed extension, bringing its total Seed funding to €6.2 million to develop Enzo’s AI platform, expand partnerships with
From guiding the blind to delivering goods: Romania’s .lumen expands into urban robotics with €11 million grant Cluj-Napoca-based DeepTech startup .lumen, known for its AI-powered glasses for the blind, has secured an €11 million grant for the project “PABLO – Autonomous Robots for Urban Delivery”, funded under the Intelligent Growth,