Good news from around Europe
How Distance Technologies is giving armoured vehicle crews x-ray-like vision As defence shifts toward data-driven operations, digital terrain models, simulations, and sensor inputs are becoming central to how forces train, plan, and coordinate. Yet the interfaces used to access this information remain largely two-dimensional and siloed. So, how do you
More European SPAC IPOs to come, says Einride boss The CEO of Swedish autonomous truck startup Einride believes more European startups will follow Einride and go public via a SPAC. Einride is going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company), a vehicle which is designed as
The tech gender gap in the UK will not be equal until 2060 The UK loves to congratulate itself on innovation. We have world-class universities, globally admired research and a spinout ecosystem that, compared to many other countries, does a respectable job of turning ideas into companies. Ministers talk up
Carne Group secures strategic investment from Permira at a €1.4B valuation Carne Group, Europe’s largest independent third-party management company and a provider of fund regulation and governance services, has agreed to sell a significant minority stake to funds advised by Permira at an enterprise valuation of €1.4 billion. As part
Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Jan. 26-30) Friday is here with a new edition of our weekly VC funding overview for our CLUB members. Below you’ll find this week’s overview of all the (equity) funding activities we tracked from across Europe.
What Series A founders get wrong about hiring You just closed your Series A. The wire hit last week, and now you’re staring at a hiring plan that calls for tripling your team in eighteen months. Most founders treat this moment as a signal to start calling recruiters. That instinct,
Not letting context collapse: from Series A growth to Series B readiness Series A is often described as a slingshot, but for many founders it feels more like a centrifuge. The centre wobbles, momentum increases, and yet outcomes can feel oddly misaligned. Roughly half of startups stall or fold after
GuestReady’s acquisition of Lightbooking lifts Spanish portfolio by 200+ units, taking global total beyond 4,000 GuestReady, a Swiss short-term rental management company, is expanding into the Canary Islands with the acquisition of Lightbooking, a Spanish vacation rental management and distribution operators. This strategic acquisition will add more than 200 units
UK’s WealthAi closes €837k pre-Seed to automate workflows for private banks and family offices London-based WealthAi, a FinTech company and the first AI-driven OS designed specifically for wealth managers, family offices and private banks, has raised an initial €837k ($1 million) pre-Seed. The round was led by Fuel Ventures and
Finnish company Carbonaide raises €3.7M to scale carbon-negative concrete technology Carbonaide, a Finnish company that enables the manufacturing of carbon-negative concrete, has raised €3.7 million in its latest funding round, which it will use to scale up its operations and accelerate key strategic initiatives. The round was led by Carbonaide’s