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The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora, with a six-partner team and a $1–5M typical cheque. Credo Ventures has closed Credo Stage 5, an $88 million fund raised in a single closing, continuing the Prague and […]
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The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this story that could have been told three years ago and would have raised eyebrows in polite European venture circles: a deeptech fund, backed by a major defence prime, raising tens […]
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360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime Read More »
For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The large teams, the committee structures, the distributed decision-making, these were treated not merely as operational choices but as a kind of institutional legitimacy. Nathan Benaich has spent the […]
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Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise Read More »
A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC pipeline. What the week of 16-22 March delivered was something different in texture rather than volume: smaller rounds, more specific theses, and a […]
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Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March) Read More »
The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Capital has raised €50 million at first close for a new fund, Montis VC, targeting European startups at the intersection […]
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VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups Read More »
The partnership puts Rivian’s in-house chip and full autonomous stack to work as a robotaxi platform, with commercial deployments planned for San Francisco and Miami in 2028. Uber has been signing robotaxi deals at a pace that can make any single announcement feel routine. But this partnership with Rivian is structurally different from the rest […]
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Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal Read More »
Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For years, the criticism of European venture capital has been structural: too few firms willing to write large cheques, and too little operational experience […]
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Former scaleup operators launch Operator Circle VC to back Europe’s next decacorn Read More »
The Paris-based VC is targeting 15 B2B companies with revenues above €10M in clean manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, green construction, and digital health, with carry tied to impact performance for the first time. Europe has no shortage of early-stage climate tech funding. What it has historically lacked is the growth capital to take companies that have […]
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The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-term AI infrastructure agreement with Dutch neocloud operator Nebius Group worth up to $27 billion over five […]
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NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partnership aimed at deploying more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered compute capacity by the […]
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NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius Read More »