Year: 2025

10 Italian startups to watch, according to VCs Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/10-italian-startups-to-watch/

OpenAI is building five new Stargate data centers with Oracle and SoftBank OpenAI is continuing to build out massive AI data centers to train and serve increasingly powerful AI models. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/openai-is-building-five-new-stargate-data-centers-with-oracle-and-softbank/

Ventech closes €175M Fund VI — largest in firm’s history Early-stage VC firm Ventech has announced the final closing of its sixth flagship fund, Ventech Capital VI, at €175 million, the largest fund in the firm’s 26-year history. With €1.1 billion fund raised,    Ventech has built a cross-border investment

EE Inc before EU Inc: What Estonia can teach Europe about digital sovereignty If Europe’s tech ecosystem wants to see how a digital-first approach to startups and governance can work in practice — and what it could mean for the proposed 28th Regime — it needs look no further than

Predicti closes $4.2M to scale predictive AI for finance Danish fintech Predicti has secured $4.2 million in funding led by TX Ventures and Dreamcraft Ventures, with participation from Plug and Play, to accelerate growth and advance its AI platform. Predicti builds a fully API-enabled system that helps financial institutions anticipate

Climate Investment backs ANYbotics to advance industrial decarbonization ANYbotics, a provider of autonomous robotic inspection solutions, received a strategic investment from Climate Investment (CI), following a recent round and bringing total funding to over $150 million. With this investment, CI joins existing backers such as Aramco Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners,

UK fintech Tide attains unicorn status, with $120M funding round Tide, the UK business management platform, has attained unicorn status, following a $120m funding round. The funding round was led by a “strategic investment” from TPG, the asset management firm, which is a new investor in Tide, and existing investor, Apax Digital

Rome’s SylloTips closes €4.2 million round for AI that learns from employees when in doubt SylloTips, an Italian startup innovating the use of automation, today announced the closing of a €4.2 million Seed round to accelerate the development of its human-in-the-loop AI Agents. The round, led by Azimut through its

London’s Nuclide Therapeutics raises €5.7 million in largest pre-money valuation of any King’s College London spin-out Nuclide Therapeutics, a British BioTech company and King’s College London spin-out focused on developing targeted radiopharmaceuticals for therapy-resistant cancers, has raised €5.7 million in funding. The round saw participation from Marathon Beteiligungs AG, in

Lessons from the buy side: How startups can use M&A to accelerate growth without losing focus I used to think M&A was only for big companies. My plan was straightforward: build the best service, grow organically, and let results speak for themselves. Acquisitions appeared to be corporate shortcuts taken by