Year: 2025

Don’t tax me, I’m a CEO! Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/exit-tax-uk-france-startup-life-entrepreneurs/

Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/leaked-documents-shed-light-into-how-much-openai-pays-microsoft/

Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI VC Andy Konwinski argues that the U.S. is losing its AI research dominance to China. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/databricks-co-founder-argues-us-must-go-open-source-to-beat-china-in-ai/

Acurast raises $11M to launch the world’s first smartphone-powered compute network Acurast, the first decentralised physical infrastructure network (DePIN) that turns smartphones into a global mesh of verifiable, confidential compute, today announced that it has raised a total of $11 million to date.  Acurast is redefining compute by utilising billions

FMC raises €100M as it unveils new class of memory chips for the AI era Semiconductor pioneer FMC has raised €100 million to set new standards in memory chips with its highly innovative technology. The €77 million in equity comes from FMC’s oversubscribed Series C financing round, which is backed

The biggest European security tech deals in H1 2025 From cybersecurity to defence and privacy innovation, European security companies in H1 2025 are increasingly addressing the complex security needs of both enterprises and governments. The landscape spans from software-driven automation and cloud-native threat detection to emerging categories such as AI-powered

Journalist to founder: Monty Munford’s HomeTruth emerges from stealth to solve a £60B problem It’s not every day that I write about a colleague’s startup. Today, HomeTruth, a home finance tech startup, has emerged from stealth with a $4 million valuation, having graduated from proptech VC STYX’s living lab and

Zilch nets $175M as eyes “strategic” M&A Zilch, the UK consumer lending fintech, has netted over $175m in an equity and debt funding round as it eyes acquisition targets. The funding round was led by KKCG, the Czech investment group, with participation from BNF Capital, the family office, and other strategic

Swiss startup Forgis raises €3.8 million to automate industrial machines as Europe confronts Asia’s manufacturing lead Forgis, a Zurich-based startup developing software to automate industrial machines, today announced a €3.8 million ($4.5 million) pre-Seed funding round to continue projects underway in the automotive and advanced manufacturing sectors. The round was

Cambridge startup T-Therapeutics secures €27.5 million to improve how the immune system targets disease T-Therapeutics, a British BioTech company developing next-generation T cell receptor (TCR) therapeutics for cancer and autoimmune disease, today announced the successful expansion of its Series A financing, raising a further €27.5 million ($32 million). New investors