Day: October 30, 2025

Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies. Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by private equity firm Apollo for an undisclosed sum, though the Italian firm said it had bagged a $2.8 billion debt financing

Ukrainian startups can raise external funding during “hard war”, says country’s newest unicorn “It is a sign for Ukrainian businesses and the country”, says the co-founder of Ukraine’s newest unicorn, commenting on its recent external funding, which propelled it to unicorn status. Fintech-IT Group, the firm whose tech powers Ukraine’s

Earlybird Health promotes two new partners as firm deepens biotech and analytics focus Life sciences investor Earlybird Health has promoted Dr. Rabab Nasrallah and Dr. Christoph Massner to Partners. Both new partners have led the firm’s strategy across biotech, data-enabled therapeutics and medtech. Earlybird Health, part of Earlybird Venture Capital,

Marleybones snaps up £2.5M to scale Pantry Fresh® dog meals London-based Marleybones, a premium dog food brand, has closed a £2.5 million funding round led by TAW Ventures, the investment firm founded by Jane Lauder, with follow-on support from JamJar Investments, Active Partners, and Animal Health Angels. The round stands

Intercom expands to Berlin with new AI R&D Hub and 100 jobs AI customer service firm Intercom has announced the opening of its next R&D hub in Berlin, marking a major investment in the company’s AI-powered customer service platform and its market-leading AI agent, Fin. Founded in Dublin in 2011,

From climate to resilience: what does this shift really means? As we enter the final few months of 2025, a year that has proven volatile for geopolitics, climate tech is facing a new world. One that is defined by those rapidly shifting geopolitics, more careful investors and an increasing focus

With 57% of German tax advisors over 50, AnyTax raises €1 million to modernise tax infrastructure AnyTax, the Berlin-based startup building embedded tax solutions for financial platforms, today announced the closing of its €1 million pre-Seed funding round to make tax “truly accessible“, simplifying how platforms integrate tax capabilities and

Investors back Zurich-based Qala with €1.7 million to strengthen enterprise data governance in the AI era Qala AG, a Swiss startup redefining how enterprises achieve real-time data visibility and governance at source, today announces it has raised €1.7 million in pre-Seed funding to accelerate product development for their source-level data

Fireworks AI, a startup co-founded by Ukrainians, raised $250M and reached a valuation of $4 billion American startup Fireworks AI, which helps developers use powerful artificial intelligence chips and work with AI models, has raised $250 million in a new round of Series C funding. The company is valued at

Finnish Nano raises funding from Gorilla Capital to expand AI-driven platform across the Nordics Nano, a Turku-based SaaS company using AI to help small and mid-sized consumer businesses drive growth and repeat sales, has raised a new funding from Gorilla Capital Fund III to accelerate growth in Finland and expand