Good news from around Europe
Hosel raises £500K pre-seed to create the “Vinted for golf” Golf tech startup Hosel is aiming to take a swing at a global second-hand club, equipment, and accessory market valued at $3 billion. Ascension VC has led a pre-seed £500,000 investment round, with a further institutional round and US expansion
Beyond LLMs: AI pioneer Yann LeCun’s new venture AMI raises €890 million to build “world model” AI systems Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup founded by the former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-recipient of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Yann LeCun, has raised nearly €890
British startup Outpost raises €15 million to build liability-free cross-border commerce platform London-based Outpost, an AI-powered platform that enables merchants to sell worldwide with “zero liability“, today announced it has raised €15 million ($17.5 million) in Series A funding to accelerate product development, expand jurisdictional coverage, and increase headcount to
Targeting water innovation, Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100 million for Global Water Fund II Emerald Technology Ventures, a Zurich-based VC firm with two decades of water-sector leadership, announced reaching the €100 million milestone for its Global Water Fund II in order to invest in startups innovating in the
From AI features to AI workers: The 2026 enterprise shift Despite talk of an ‘AI bubble’ happening on the sidelines, enterprises are heading into 2026 with more investment earmarked for AI. According to Boston Consulting Group’s annual AI Radar, corporations expect to double their AI spending this year, from 0.8%
Inspired by the Cyphochilus beetle, Seprify raises €13.4 million to develop cellulose-based industrial ingredients Seprify, a Fribourg-based biomaterials company developing high-performance cellulose-based ingredients for industrial applications, today announced that it has raised €13.4 million (CHF 12.25 million) in Series A funding. Supported by this funding, the company has also announced
Lloyds wants to be the UK’s biggest fintech. Are legacy banks ready to fight back? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lloyds-fintech-revolut-monzo-challengers
Legal tech Legora raises $550m Series D at a $5.55bn valuation Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/legal-tech-legora-raises-550m
Europe built the Green Regulation. It forgot to fund the companies that would deliver it Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/europe-green-regulation-brnd
Yann LeCun’s AI startup raises $1bn seed round backed by Nvidia and Temasek Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/yann-lecun-ami-labs-meta-funding-round-nvidia