Good news from around Europe
British Business Bank invests up to £45M in VC fund targeting consumer brand startups The British Business Bank is investing up to £45m in a VC fund which makes seed-stage investments in consumer brand startups and B2B tech that supports them. The UK state-backed bank is investing the funds in Redrice
Gates Foundation backs Basel’s Axmed with €5 million to support affordable medicines distribution Axmed, a Swiss HealthTech company, today announced it has been awarded €5 million ($6 million) in non-dilutive grant funding from the Gates Foundation to expand access to high-quality, affordable medicines across low- and middle-income countries through its
London-based SurrealDB raises additional €19 million to scale multi-model database for AI applications SurrealDB, a UK company developing a multi-model, AI-native database, has secured an additional €19 million ($23 million) in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total investment to-date (including Seed) to €37 million ($44 million). Chalfen Ventures and
Turin’s NANDO secures €3.3 million to scale municipal and food waste optimisation technology NANDO (formerly Re Learn), an Italian startup developing AI-driven solutions for waste monitoring, announces the closing of a €3.3 million capital increase to strengthen its leadership in two key areas: optimising municipal waste collection and reducing food
UK thermal intelligence startup SatVu secures €34 million to scale multi-satellite constellation SatVu, a London-based thermal intelligence company that reveals operational activity and infrastructure performance from space, has closed a €34 million (£30 million) funding round bringing its total equity funding to €68 million (£60 million), as it accelerates from
British startup Toyo raises €3.6 million to develop secure AI agents for non-technical founders London-based Toyo, a startup building AI agents designed to run day-to-day business operations autonomously, has raised a €3.6 million ($4.3 million) Seed to support product development and the expansion of its secure infrastructure, as the company
AI-powered worksite safety startup Fyld raises £32m Series B Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fyld-ai-funding-round-bcg-partech
Mistral seals first acquisition deal with cloud startup Koyeb Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-first-acquisition-koyeb
How UK startups can best access innovation funding: ‘The rulebook is relentlessly changing’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/startups-access-innovation-funding-brnd
Frontline Ventures backs ‘OpenClaw for founders’ in $4.3m raise Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/openclaw-toyo-frontline-raise-cloudflare