Good news from around Europe
Y Combinator-backed German startup Finto raises $3.4M, says chose Munich over Silicon Valley A German startup building AI agents for accounting today said it had deliberately opted to be based in Munich over Silicon Valley after going through Y Combinator in San Francisco and raising a £3.4m seed round. Finto
Kord secures £6.4M to unify onboarding, compliance and payments UK fintech Kord, the end-to-end platform making onboarding clients, identity verification and payment processing simpler and more secure, has raised £6.4 million in a Series A funding round. The investment was led by Guinness Ventures, with participation from Beringea, SFC Capital and
Polysense raises $10.7M to scale AI quality control for food manufacturers Belgian startup Polysense has raised $10.7 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to accelerate the global rollout of its AI-powered quality control platform for food manufacturers. The round was led by Felix Capital, with participation from Fortino Ventures,
Hamburg on a tear, as Germany witnesses record 3,000 new startups in six months When contemplating Germany’s startup scene, one tends to think of Berlin and Munich. But Hamburg is on a tear, with new data showing that more startups were founded in Hamburg than in Munich in the first
Fleek secures $25M to digitise secondhand fashion Fleek, a UK-based startup developing AI infrastructure for the secondhand clothing industry, has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round. The investment was led by Burda Principal Investments, with participation from eBay, FJ Labs, H14 and existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz,
Superhuman launches team collaboration tool Superhuman Docs Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) is launching the AI team collaboration tool Superhuman Docs. The company told AIN about it. The product is a continuation of the platform development based on Coda, which the company acquired in 2025. More about the new tool One of
Nvidia backs voice AI startup Gradium, bringing seed round to over $100m Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/gradium-nvidia-30m-extension-seed
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‘I want to be the MrBeast of tech’: Why Max Tkacz left n8n to become a Youtube gameshow host Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-mrbeast-of-tech
Exclusive: Lovable in talks to raise $300m at $13.2bn valuation Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lovable-300m-13-2bn-valuation