Good news from around Europe
New €34M Nucleo Ventures fund targets startups and SMEs across Central and Eastern Europe Fortech Ventures announces the launch of a €34 million investment fund and its transition to a new public identity, Nucleo Ventures. Developed in partnership with the North-West Regional Development Agency (ADR Nord-Vest), the fund will
Tissium raises €30M in equity funding, €30M in debt A French startup which uses a novel technology to reconstruct damaged tissue and restore it to its natural state has raised €30m in equity funding and taken out up to €30m in debt financing, it said today. Tissium has developed materials called ”biomorphic programmable
LiveKid acquires Aldea to expand in Latin America LiveKid, a platform for preschool and nursery management and parent-school communication, has acquired Aldea, a software provider serving early childhood education centres across Mexico, Colombia, and Chile. The transaction marks LiveKid’s second acquisition of 2026 and forms part of the company’s broader
17 techies share their advice for thriving in the hybrid AI-human office Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-hybrid-ai-human-office
Car subscription company Finn becomes Germany’s newest unicorn Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/finn-germanys-newest-unicorn
Records broken as eight European startups raised $1bn+ rounds in 2026 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/records-broken-as-eight-european-startups-raised-1bn-rounds-in-2026
Startups are relocating the wrong person Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/startups-relocating-tips
‘Europe needs this revolution’: How Revolut People is selling Silicon Valley’s performance culture Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-people-interview
Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off limits. Powered by WPeMatico
Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/former-infosys-chief-has-a-new-startup-that-wants-to-challenge-the-it-services-world/