Day: January 13, 2026

Tallinn AI startup Flashka raises €1M pre-seed and hits 1M users in a year Tallinn-founded startup Flashka, an AI-driven study app for university students, has closed a €1 million Pre-Seed round led by Outlast Fund, a Nordic-Baltic early-stage VC. Additional investors in the round include UCP and Vento Ventures. The app

From children’s colouring books to official portals: EU under fire for social media links Corporate watchdog Ekō has today filed a formal complaint with the European Ombudsman, challenging the European Commission and other EU institutions over their systematic promotion of US-based social media platforms on official europa.eu websites, including Elon

Basecamp Research unveils programmable gene insertion AI models, as confirms Nvidia investment A UK startup aiming to solve key challenges in life sciences through AI has unveiled the “world’s first AI models for programmable gene insertion”, as it confirms Nvidia has invested in the startup. London-based Basecamp Research harnesses biodiversity to

Avenue Biosciences raises $5.7M to scale high-throughput protein engineering Finnish protein engineering company Avenue Biosciences has raised  $5.7 million in a Seed extension funding round co-led by Balnord and Tesi, with support from existing investors Voima Ventures, Inventure, University of Helsinki, and Dimerent. The funding aims to help scale its

French startup Harmattan AI hits unicorn status, as it strikes deal with French aerospace group French autonomous defence systems startup Harmattan AI says it has hit a $1.4bn valuation, after raising $200m, in a funding round led by French aerospace group Dassault Aviation, which has inked a strategic partnership with the

Finnish startup Avenue Biosciences secures €4.8 million to help drugmakers manufacture proteins more reliably Helsinki-based Avenue Biosciences, a protein engineering technology company, today announced a Seed extension of €4.8 million ($5.7 million) to scale a high-throughput protein engineering tech that accelerates the discovery of protein-based therapies and tools for the

Inside Croatia’s startup scene: 10 startups worth keeping an eye on in 2026 As part of our annual country-by-country series, we now turn our attention to Croatia, a market that continues to build momentum within Europe’s innovation landscape. While smaller than some of its neighbours, Croatia has developed a growing

Swiss LegalTech startup Ex Nunc Intelligence closes €1.8 million round for its ‘Silex’ platform Lausanne-based Ex Nunc Intelligence, the developer of a LegalTech platform Silex, has today announced the closing of an oversubscribed pre-Seed round of €1.8 million ($2.15 million) to create the infrastructure layer for legal intelligence. The round

Former F1 champion Nico Rosberg pushes Rosberg Ventures to close third fund at €86 million Former F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg is once again accelerating forward – this time not on the track, but in the venture capital world. His firm, Rosberg Ventures, has announced the close of its third

Female-led Swiss BioTech FluoSphera secures €1.23 million to advance animal-free, human-relevant drug discovery Geneva-based BioTech startup FluoSphera today announced that it has raised €1.23 million (CHF 1.15 million) in funding to make drug discovery faster, safer, and more human-relevant with its patented multi-tissue platform.  The round was led by Soulmates