Category: Startups

London-based LO:TECH lands $12M Series A led by MMC London-based LO:TECH, a capital markets firm built for round-the-clock and onchain markets, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by MMC, with participation from existing investors Faction and 13 Books Capital, alongside Atka. Founded by Tim Meggs

Lovable and Black Forest Labs backer Creandum closes $750M fund European early-stage VC firm Creandum, which has backed the likes of Lovable, Klarna and Black Forest Labs, today said it had closed its largest ever fund, a $750m fund. The new $750m fund, Fund VIII, is up in size from Creandum’s

Inside Mriia: Ukraine’s million-user experiment in startup-driven GovTech One thing I often hear from startups is that they wish their government would hire a bunch of entrepreneurs to solve its inefficiencies. Not in the vein of DOGE, with its focus on cutting government spending and jobs, but to develop better

Swedish VC Creandum closes €668 million CVIII fund – its largest to date Stockholm-based venture capital firm Creandum has closed a €668 million ($750 million) fund, Creandum VIII, to back early-stage technology startups from pre-Seed to Series A. The fund, its largest to date, will support approximately 30 investments over

Looking for a job? Estonia’s Roleo just raised €2.9 million to help you on your journey Roleo, an Estonian personal AI career agent, has raised €2.9 million to expand across Europe and help tech professionals discover career opportunities – without the hassle of searching and applying. The round was led

Is Mistral overlooking Europe? 10 homegrown startups that could join its connector ecosystem Of the 12 companies listed by French AI unicorn Mistral as available Connectors (ready-made integrations connecting AI to external applications), not one hails from Europe; raising questions about the continent’s competitiveness. Despite what this may imply, there

Paris-based Gallium Defence emerges from stealth with €7.1 million to scale affordable drone detection Gallium Defence, a Paris-based startup working on drone detection at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems, has emerged from stealth with a €7.1 million Seed funding round. The round was led by Keen Venture

Hypersonica secures €100 million to boost sovereign hypersonic deep-strike systems for Europe and its allies Hypersonica, the British-German defence company developing sovereign hypersonic deep-strike systems for Europe and its allies, has secured €100 million in Series B funding. The Series B funding round was co-led by Lightspeed and General Catalyst,

OpenAI will merge ChatGPT and Codex limits: what will change for users Starting in December, OpenAI will introduce a shared usage limit for ChatGPT and Codex for users on the Plus, Pro, and Business plans.  The company announced this. Instead of separate limits for the two services, users will have

Anthropic limited making copies of games in Claude Code — original games and projects in the same genre remain allowed Anthropic added an instruction to Claude Code not to reproduce specific existing video games — even if a user renames the project or gives it an original title. At the