Year: 2025

French startup Exeliom Biosciences boosts funding with €2.85 million to accelerate immunotherapy for cancer Paris-based Exeliom Biosciences, a clinical-stage BioTech company developing new therapies in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation, today announced the completion of a €2.85 million extension to its Series A round, bringing the total Series A funding to €11.85

X launches a marketplace for inactive nicknames. How will it work? Social network X is preparing to launch a new service, Handle Marketplace, which will allow users to purchase and reserve inactive nicknames, Verge reports. Premium Plus and Premium Business subscribers will have access to the marketplace. They will be

$1M for business automation. Ukrainian Vchasno Group has invested in Uzbekistan’s IT platform Hippo.uz Ukrainian IT company group Vchasno Group has invested $1 million in Hippo.uz, an Uzbek platform specializing in business process automation. Vchasno reported this to AIN.  The agreement aims to exchange technological expertise and accelerate the implementation

Estonian e-commerce startup Yaga raises €4M to expand second-hand fashion marketplace Yaga, a Tallinn-based online marketplace for second-hand fashion, has raised €4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Specialist VC, with participation from H&M Group, Trind Ventures, Startup Wise Guys, and several angel investors, Tech.eu reports. About Yaga 

Lithuanian startup nexos.ai secures €30M Series A to enhance AI platform and expand globally nexos.ai, Vilnius-based AI orchestration startup, has closed a €30 million Series A to securely expedite enterprise AI adoption. The funding round was co-led by Evantic Capital and existing investor Index Ventures, with participation from previous investors

Polytechnique Ventures raises €21m fund to back university founders Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/polytechnique-ventures-alumni-fund/

“This is Europe’s opportunity to win”: agentic payments fintechs get ready to go to market Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/agentic-payments-analysis/

Alexa creator William Tunstall-Pedoe: ‘Businesses still don’t fully trust AI’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/alexa-creator-william-tunstall-pedoe-businesses-still-dont-fully-trust-ai/

Netflix goes ‘all in’ on generative AI as entertainment industry remains divided Netflix is using AI for special effects and pre-production, but CEO Ted Sarandos that Netflix “not worried about AI replacing creativity.” Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/netflix-goes-all-in-on-generative-ai-as-entertainment-industry-remains-divided/

Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/open-source-agentic-startup-langchain-hits-1-25b-valuation/