Year: 2025

Aspirity Partners secures €875 million for debut fund, one of Europe’s largest new private equity launches of 2025 Aspirity Partners, a London-based private equity firm focused on Financial and Enterprise Technology Services, has announced the final close of its inaugural fund, Aspirity Partners I (AP I), at over €875 million.

Amid just 2.3% of VC capital going to female founders, YON E Health secures €250k for its vaginal health device EU-Startups has learned that Dutch FemTech startup YON E Health has raised €250k in pre-Seed funding to develop a first-of-its-kind smart vaginal health device that measures pH and temperature, the

Adaptive grippers allowing robots to grasp any object drives €3.15 million investment in Italy’s Adaptronics Adaptronics, a Bologna-based DeepTech startup specialising in electro-adhesive grippers for robotic systems with industrial automation and space applications, today announced the closing of a €3.15 million round. The round was led by European venture capital

$500,000 for the development of drone swarms: Ukrainian company Swarmer raises investment from the new Oppenheimer Fund syndicate Ukrainian technology company Swarmer, known for its AI technology developments for drone swarms, has successfully attracted $500,000 in investment, DOU reports. The funding came from Oppenheimer Syndicate, a newly formed investment syndicate

Zscaler acquires Croatian-founded AI security startup SPLX to strengthen protection across AI systems Zscaler, the leader in cloud security,  announced it has acquired SPLX, a company specializing in cybersecurity for AI chatbots. Extending the Zscaler Zero Trust ExchangeTM platform with shift-left AI asset discovery, automated red teaming, and governance, so

Czech-founded voice AI startup Freya raises $3.5M seed round to automate business conversations Freya, a Czech-founded startup develops secure, humanlike voice AI agents that automate business calls for enterprises, announces a $3.5 million seed round, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, 212 VC, N1 Tech, BD Partners, and several

OpenAI launches the Sora app for Android OpenAI has released the Sora app for Android devices, CNBC reports. Sora is an AI model from the creators of ChatGPT that can create realistic and detailed videos based on text descriptions. Simply put, you write what you want to see, and Sora

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M&A: The European startups on the hunt for acquisitions Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ma-the-european-startups-on-the-hunt-for-acquisitions/

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