Year: 2025

Record breakers: Europe’s top 10 AI funding rounds of 2025 We all know that artificial intelligence has moved beyond the hype phase and is now reshaping nearly every industry, from healthcare and finance to logistics, retail, and defence. Across Europe, this technology is here to stay, with billions flowing into

EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 143: Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General Partner at Norrsken Evolve This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General Partner at Norrsken Evolve, a €57M oversubscribed pre-seed fund backing founders who are building Europe’s resilient and sustainable future. Born out of Norrsken

Estonian deeptech startup Leil raises €1.5M to make data storage more efficient Leil, an Estonian specialist data storage-infrastructure software company, has raised €1.5 million in seed funding to help organizations store enormous datasets more cost-efficiently and with lower energy use. The round was led by Karma Ventures, with participation from

Over 1 million business customers worldwide use OpenAI OpenAI has announced that the number of business users of its products has exceeded 1 million. This is stated on the company’s website. Its clients include Amgen, Booking.com, Cisco, T-Mobile, Target, Morgan Stanley, Lowe’s, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and other large businesses. These

Apple will pay Google $1B annually for using Gemini Apple is preparing to sign a deal with Google worth approximately $1 billion annually to use Gemini to update Siri, Bloomberg reports. Apple will gain access to the Gemini model with 1.2 trillion parameters. This is the most powerful AI system,

Estonian fund Trind Ventures leads €1.6M round for German e-mobility startup Aampere Aampere, a German E-mobility startup, has successfully closed a €1.6 million funding round to further accelerate its European growth trajectory. The round was led by Trind Ventures, with the participation of Gimic Ventures and several experienced business angels

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Healthtech unicorn Doctolib hit with €4.6m fine by French competition watchdog Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/doctolib-competition-watchdog-fine/

Exclusive: AI startup PhysicsX to raise up to $100m from Nvidia Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/physicsx-nvidia-raise/

Sequoia-backed e-bike startup Upway raises $60m Series C at $400m valuation Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/e-bike-upway-series-b-60m/