Year: 2025

With UK families now facing up to €25.7k in university costs – Sencillo advances education finance platform with new €397k London’s Sencillo, a new FinTech venture launching a finance platform that helps parents plan, fund and manage their children’s education with confidence, control, and clarity, has secured over €397k (£350k)

Berlin-based NexDash hauls in €5 million to electrify Europe’s freight NexDash, a German-based logistics startup, has raised €5 million in a Seed round to build Europe’s first “Neo-Carrier” for electric trucks, just three months after its founding. The round was led by Extantia Capital with participation from Clean Energy Ventures,

Spanish VCs weigh in – What 2025 means for Spain’s growing startup ecosystem In 2025, Spain’s startup ecosystem has seen several major VCs closing new funds, highlighting the country’s growing potential. Although Madrid and Barcelona continue to dominate as the primary hubs, cities like Valencia, Málaga, Bilbao are emerging as

Konvolo secures new funding from Gorilla Capital to scale its AI-driven customer interview platform Konvolo, a Swedish company replacing outdated surveys with scalable, AI-led customer interviews, has raised funding from Gorilla Capital Fund III to enhance the platform and support further scaling. Tommy Nordahl, Almi Invest and existing shareholders also

How to prepare for arms exports. A checklist for founders of Defense Tech startups A window of opportunity is slowly opening for Ukrainian Defense Tech companies. As Ukraine prepares to lift restrictions on arms exports, the long-locked-down market will finally be able to expand beyond its borders. This will mean

Startup of the Day: Czech Recombee, an AI platform for content personalization Recombee is a Czech AI startup developing a platform for content personalization and recommendations. Founded by Pavel Kordik, Tomas Rehorek, Gabriela Takacova, Ondrej Fiedler, Tomas Barton, Antonin Kral, the company works with media, streaming services, and marketplaces, providing

Google has unveiled a new AI model for generating images called Nano Banana Pro Google has unveiled an updated model for generating and editing images — Nano Banana Pro. This was reported by the company. Nano Banana Pro is based on Gemini 3 Pro. It is the successor to the

UK recruits leaders from Balderton, DeepMind and Monzo to steer AI strategy Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/deepmind-monzo-balderton-ai-ambassadors-sovereignty-uk/

The sector with 5 quarters of deal growth and a 52% rise in funding (spoiler: it’s not AI) Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/cybersecurity-funding-boom/

Is Spain Europe’s AI dark horse? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/spain-europe-ai-darkhorse/