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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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The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building on the AI wave. Samaipata, the pan-European venture capital firm founded in Madrid in 2016, has launched its third fund with […]
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Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe Read More »
The San Francisco firm has closed its third fund at $114 million, its largest to date, betting that AI and biology are now inseparable, and that the founders who understand both will build the companies that matter most. Lindy Fishburne started Breakout in a somewhat unusual place: inside the Thiel Foundation, running a grant programme […]
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Breakout Ventures closes $114m Fund III to back AI-powered science startups Read More »
When FIRSTPICK backed Emilė Radytė in 2021, her company Samphire Neuroscience was still building its first product and the risk, by the fund’s own assessment, was high. There was no revenue, no clear route to market, and a proposition, a neurotechnology wearable for menstrual pain, that most European investors would have politely declined to engage […]
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FIRSTPICK closes €25M second fund to back Baltic founders before anyone else does Read More »
Berlin- and Singapore-based venture platform GHARAGE Ventures has launched Fund I, a €40 million early-stage fund focused on technologies shaping the future of travel infrastructure and airport retail. The fund is anchored by Gebr. Heinemann, the Hamburg-based global travel retailer, and will invest worldwide from Seed to Series A in startups developing operational technology for […]
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Eindhoven-based LUMO Labs has secured a €6 million commitment from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), the public investment arm of the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service, into its LUMO Fund, a €100 million multi-stage venture capital vehicle targeting impact-driven technology startups across Europe. The capital will support early-stage investment activity […]
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LUMO Fund wins €6M from Spain’s SETT to support European impact startups Read More »
Brussels-based investor Syndicate One has hit a funding milestone with the €22 million first close of its second early-stage tech fund, underscoring a growing confidence in Belgium’s startup ecosystem. The new capital builds on the firm’s first fund, which closed at €6.5 million in late 2024, and will be deployed to support early-stage Belgian tech […]
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A new early-stage fund: Syndicate One raises €22M for Belgium’s startups Read More »
A Paris-based venture firm that has quietly shaped the quantum technology scenery is now making a much louder statement about Europe’s role in the future of computing, materials science, and sensing. Quantonation Ventures has today announced the successful close of its second flagship fund at €220 million, more than double the size of its first […]
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VC Quantonation closes €220M fund to back next-gen physics tech Read More »
Venture capital has long avoided ‘hard’ sectors such as government, defence, energy, manufacturing, and hardware, viewing them as uninvestable because startups have limited scope to challenge incumbents. Instead, investors have prioritised fast-moving and lightly regulated software markets with lower barriers to entry. End users in these hard industries have paid the price, as a lack […]
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How the uninvestable is becoming investable Read More »
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Naboo raises $70M to turn AI event planning into corporate procurement platform Read More »