Year: 2025

Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/personalized-ai-companion-app-dot-is-shutting-down/

Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’ California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens.  Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/attorneys-general-warn-openai-harm-to-children-will-not-be-tolerated/

Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment Google’s Gemini comes up short on kids’ safety, says Common Sense Media. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/google-gemini-dubbed-high-risk-for-kids-and-teens-in-new-safety-assessment/

Ketryx raises $39M to advance AI compliance in life sciences Austrian-American Ketryx, the AI-powered compliance platform helping life sciences companies ship safer products faster, today announced a $39 million Series B, bringing the company’s total funding to over $55 million. Life sciences teams face the challenge of balancing strict compliance

Aonic completes $250M+ acquisition of Prime Insights in largest deal to date Aonic, a Stockholm-based powerhouse with a global group of multiplatform tech and gaming companies, has completed the acquisition of research technology firm Prime Insights for a total transaction value in excess of $250 million. This represents Aonic’s largest acquisition

Summer chill: European tech funding cools by 66% in August Investment volumes fell to €3.2B across 189 deals, with Bending Spoons’ €500M raise standing out, while energy startups and UK companies continued to dominate the landscape. Click to read the rest of the news. Powered by WPeMatico https://tech.eu/2025/09/04/summer-chill-european-tech-funding-cools-by-66-in-august/

Flowbox acquires Dreaminfluence Swedish SaaS company Flowbox has acquired Danish Dreaminfluence, pushing Flowbox past 1,000 customers in Europe and bringing its annual recurring revenue (ARR) close to €9 million. Founded in 2018, Dreaminfluence has built a leading influencer marketing platform used by more than 200 companies, including Estée Lauder, Mondelēz,

European Tech.eu Pulse: key trends and investment in August At Tech.eu, we keep track of the investment landscape with data-driven insights. Our Tech.eu Insiders enjoy unlimited, exclusive access to all our content, including market-intelligence analysis, reports, articles, and useful insights on tech trends and developments.  But we know that a

UK/Ukrainian startup Offset Labs raises €600k to catalyse Europe’s AI lab for defence and national security Offset Labs, a startup applying artificial intelligence to defence and security, has landed €600k in pre-Seed funding to advance NATO-allied defence technologies, EU-Startups has learned from sources close to the deal. The round was

London’s Throxy raises €5.3 million to overcome sales bottleneck and burnout with outbound growth partner If you don’t book a meeting, you don’t have to pay. That’s what Throxy, a British outbound growth partner for companies selling into traditional industries, says as it raised €5.3 million to deliver meetings through