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FIRSTPICK closes €25M second fund to back Baltic founders before anyone else does

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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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GHARAGE Ventures launches €40M Fund I to back travel and airport technology startups

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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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LUMO Fund wins €6M from Spain’s SETT to support European impact startups

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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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A new early-stage fund: Syndicate One raises €22M for Belgium’s startups

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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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VC Quantonation closes €220M fund to back next-gen physics tech

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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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How the uninvestable is becoming investable

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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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Naboo raises $70M to turn AI event planning into corporate procurement platform

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Paris-headquartered Naboo has raised a $70m in Series B as it accelerates its ambition to become the operating layer for how large companies plan, book, and control corporate events. The round is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, the same investor that backed Mistral AI in 2023, and lands just a year after Naboo closed a €20m Series A. Naboo positions itself as an AI-powered procurement platform for corporate events, covering everything from venue booking and travel to supplier coordination and budget control. Founded in 2022, Naboo built its name on simplifying how companies organise and run corporate events,  from booking…

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Kembara closes €750M first close to fuel growth of European deep tech startups

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 Europe’s largest dedicated deep tech growth fund has taken a major step forward after closing the first tranche of its fundraising effort at €750 million. The fund, known as Kembara Fund I and managed by Spain-based Mundi Ventures, is aiming for a €1 billion target. It will invest in European companies developing breakthrough technologies in areas such as clean energy, AI, quantum computing, advanced materials, robotics, and space tech. A cornerstone of the fundraising so far is a €350 million commitment from the European Investment Fund, part of the EU’s attempt to strengthen local growth capital. Additional backing comes from…

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Apple buys “Silent Speech” AI startup for $2B, because talking is so 2025

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Apple confirmed this week that it has acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai in a deal valued at close to $2 billion, making it one of the company’s largest acquisitions ever, second only to the $3 billion purchase of Beats in 2014.  But check your assumptions: this isn’t Beats 2.0. There’s no new headphone brand to flex. Instead, Apple is paying top dollar for tech that might let your devices understand you without you ever saying a word. ​​These days we put our phones on silent so they won’t disturb us; soon the phone will put us on silent so it…

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G2 bold move to reshape software discovery with major acquisition from Gartner

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G2, the Chicago-based software insights platform, agreed today to acquire three prominent software review and discovery properties from Gartner: Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp. The deal brings four of the largest B2B review sites under a single roof and signals a shift toward unified, AI-driven software recommendation and buying experiences.   According to the announcement, the combined business will include roughly six million verified customer reviews and tap into an audience of more than 200 million annual software buyers. G2 said it expects the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2026, subject to standard regulatory and closing conditions.   G2’s…

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