Good news from around Europe
Empirical Ventures secures £10M to back UK “venture scientists” building deeptech Empirical Ventures, a specialist deeptech Fund, has secured an additional £10 million British Business Bank commitment to back the UK’s best venture scientists, bringing its total support to £15 million. This partnership will accelerate Empirical’s mission to back the best
Italy’s VC ecosystem matures into €10B engine — but structural gaps still hold it back Today, VC firm P101 released the tenth edition of the “State of Italian VC” report, an analysis of the evolution of the Italian innovation industry. The Italian tech sector includes more than 14,000 innovative companies
Maguar takes significant stake in GlobalSuite Solutions to capitalise on surging demand for compliance tech German tech investor Maguar , which specialises in medium-sized B2B software companies, has acquired a significant stake in GlobalSuite Solutions, a multinational software company specialising in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions. This transaction
Midas closes $50M Series A to scale on-chain investment products Midas, a platform for composable on-chain investment products, has raised $50 million in Series A funding. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Creandum, with participation from Framework Ventures, HV Capital, Ledger Cathay, Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, M1 Capital,
TerraSpark advances space-based solar power with €5M funding TerraSpark, a developer of space-based solar energy systems, has raised over €5 million in a pre-seed financing round. Investors include Daphni, better ventures, the Hans(wo)men Group, and a group of strategic business angels. TerraSpark is developing a long-term approach to energy generation
UK’s flagship female founder fund loses two founding partners Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/women-backing-women-fund-departures
Mistral secures $830m loan to fund AI data centre build-out Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/mistral-830m-loan-data-centres
Making the most of Europe’s second mover advantage Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/making-the-most-of-europes-second-mover-advantage
European founders are obsessed with Silicon Valley. Here’s why I’m not Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lukas-saari-tandem-health-oped
15% of Americans say they’d be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll According to a Quinnipiac University poll, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned tasks and set schedules. Powered by