Good news from around Europe
Global food security concerns drive €8 million raise for London’s AgTech startup Biographica Biographica, a British AI startup innovating how the agricultural industry develops new crop varieties, today announced an €8 million (£7 million) funding round to accelerate the creation of climate-resilient, productive and nutritious crops – addressing global food
Amgen acquires Oxford-based Dark Blue in deal worth up to €718 million to advance leukemia programme Dark Blue Therapeutics, a British discovery and development BioTech company innovating the next generation of precision oncology medicines, has been acquired by US-based global BioTech company Amgen, in a transaction valued at up to
4Founders Capital launches €60 million Hospitality fund against backdrop of strong hotel investment flows in Spain Barcelona-based pre-Seed manager 4Founders Capital today announced they will be taking a new step forward after surpassing €130 million in AUM with the launch of their first fund specialised in hotel real estate; 4Founders
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20B for Colossus supercomputer and Grok improvements Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI announced the completion of its Series E funding round, raising $20 billion. This significantly exceeds the initial target of $15 billion. Investors include Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, as
NVIDIA and Universal Music Group to collaborate on music AI Universal Music Group has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to implement a new artificial intelligence model in one of the world’s largest music catalogs, The Verge reports. As part of the partnership, the companies will use the Music Flamingo AI
Appearance changes, comics, and photo restoration. Google showed what images users generated in Nano Banana in 2025 Google has summed up the year for its Nano Banana image generation and editing tool, which debuted in August 2025. According to the company, the model received the highest ratings among image editing
Austrian deeptech Vitrealab raises $11M Series A to scale AR photonics technology Vitrealab, an Austrian developer of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for laser–LCoS-based AR light engines, announced the successful closing of $11 million Series A financing. The investment was led by LIFTT Italian Venture Capital and LIFTT EuroInvest with participation
Vestiaire Collective cofounder pushed out after 16 years Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/vestiaire-collective-cofounder-leaves
Revolut in talks to buy Turkish neobank FUPS Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-turkey-acquisition
Discord and Mercor investor Niko Bonatsos departs General Catalyst, plans new VC firm Bonatsos spent 15 years at GC, and until last year led the firm’s seed investing strategy. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/discord-and-mercor-investor-niko-bonatsos-departs-general-catalyst-plans-new-vc-firm/