Year: 2025

Dutch HospitalityTech startup Toppi secures nearly €1 million to scale AI solutions for hospitality businesses Amsterdam-based HospitalityTech startup Toppi has completed its first investment round of almost €1 million, according to information obtained by EU-Startups. This will accelerate product development, strengthen its team, and scale its AI-powered solutions for the

German BioTech startup Detechgene pockets €3.2 million to take lab diagnostics mobile Detechgene, a Cologne-based BioTech startup, has successfully raised €3.2 million in its second Seed round as it pursues its mission to make molecular diagnostics fast, mobile and accessible to all. The round was led by neoteq ventures, joined

British PropTech startup Property Sense extends Series A after securing over €1 million for its national rollout Stockport-based Property Sense, the PropTech-driven lettings specialist has successfully secured €1.1 million of Series A investment to advance its growth and is now extending the round by a further €1.1 million due to

Dutch startup Vox AI raises €7.5 million to transform drive-thrus with autonomous voice AI Amsterdam-based Vox AI, a conversational voice AI platform purpose-built for drive-thru and operations automations in quick service restaurants (QSRs), today announced it has raised €7.5 million in Seed funding. The round was led by global venture

Belgium’s Showpad to lead AI sales tech charge after Vector Capital-backed merger Ghent-based Showpad, a revenue enablement startup harnessing AI to power smarter buyer-seller interactions, is being acquired by private equity firm Vector Capital, with plans to merge it with Bigtincan, another prominent player in AI sales enablement. The combined

Starship launches model satellites into orbit for the first time and tests new heat shielding The company SpaceX successfully conducted the tenth test flight of its nadvazhkoi rocket Starship, successfully ignited in space in a series of mock-ups of satellites Starlink and tried out new heat-shielding tiles during the entry

Finnish SAR satellite operator ICEYE raises €9.38M from Polish Vinci ICEYE, a satellite company specializing in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology, has raised €9.38 million from Vinci S.A., the venture arm of Poland’s National Development Bank (BGK), ArcticStartup reports. About ICEYE Founded in 2015 and led by CEO Rafal Modrzewski,

Finnish MariaDB acquires SkySQL to enhance cloud-native database offerings with AI-powered DBaaS platform MariaDB plc, a Finnish Open source enterprise database company, announced it has acquired SkySQL Inc., the company behind an AI-powered, serverless database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform. The acquisition brings SkySQL’s established DBaaS product back into the MariaDB portfolio.  About SkySQL

Perplexity will pay publishers a share of revenue from AI queries: how the new program will work American startup Perplexity AI Inc., which is developing an AI-powered search engine and aims to compete with Google, has announced the launch of a media revenue sharing program, Bloomberg reports. The company has

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