Good news from around Europe
German BioTech iDEL Therapeutics lands €9 million to develop cancer therapeutics platform Dortmund-based iDEL Therapeutics announced the closing of a €9 million Seed financing, to develop a pipeline of cancer therapeutics that are delivered directly into the cytosol of tumor cells. The financing was led by BiomedVC with participation from
Berlin’s Upvest raises €108 million to scale securities infrastructure for banks and FinTechs Upvest, a German investment infrastructure provider, today announces a €108 million ($125 million) financing round to accelerate the modernisation of legacy banking systems across Europe and the UK. The €78 million ($90 million) equity round is led
CEO & Founder of seQura, David Bäckström, will be speaking at this year’s EU-Startups Summit! We are pleased to announce that David Bäckström, Founder and CEO of SeQura, will join the stage at the EU-Startups Summit 2026 on May 7-8 in sunny Malta for a special fireside chat. David is
European fintech’s sovereignty problem is getting harder to ignore Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fintech-london-startup-investment-sovereignty-europe
Upvest wins backing from Tencent and Sapphire Ventures for $125m raise Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/upvest-tencent-funding-round-fintech
Dozens of scaleup execs back new VC to find Europe’s next decacorn Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/dozens-scaleup-execs-new-vc-firm-europes-next-decacorn
Why the fastest AI wins aren’t coming from big enterprises Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fastest-ai-wins-are-from-smbs-brnd
The most active investors in the Netherlands Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/netherlands-most-active-investors
Apple rolls out first ‘background security’ update for iPhones, iPads, and Macs to fix Safari bug Apple’s first-ever “background security improvement” fixes a vulnerability in its Safari browser running its latest software. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/apple-rolls-out-first-background-security-update-for-iphones-ipads-and-macs-to-fix-safari-bug/
Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup, which was shared on GitHub. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/why-garry-tans-claude-code-setup-has-gotten-so-much-love-and-hate/