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Brigitte Baumann, business angel & founder at efino will speak at this year’s EU-Startups Summit!
We are delighted to announce that Brigitte Baumann, Founder of efino, will be speaking at this year’s EU-Startups Summit on May 9-10 in Malta! With over 30 years of experience, Brigitte is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur, and Business Angel known for introducing new technologies in the US and Europe. She founded GoBeyond in 2009, an…
Paris-based The Mobile-First Company launches with €3.5 million pre-seed to develop mobile apps for SMBs
The Mobile-First Company, a French startup on a mission to build a suite of B2B Apps to helps business globally finally use simple solutions, launched with €3.5 million in pre-seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Emblem, and joined by angel investors including Xavier Niel (Kima Ventures), Thibaud Elzière (eFounders), Jean-Baptiste Hironde (MWM) and…
Frankfurt-based fintech Bavest raises €1.1 million pre-seed to provide access to real-time financial and alternative data
Bavest, an innovative B2B German fintech, announced that it has completed a successful financing round of €1.1 million. The round was led by a group of renowned investors and will help Bavest accelerate its growth and further solidify its position as a leading provider of AI-based financial infrastructure for businesses. The latest funding round underscores…
Munich-based Stackfield raises a double-digit million investment to scale its privacy-first collaboration platform
Stackfield, a provider of an all-in-one, privacy-first collaboration platform, developed according to the highest German security standards, has raised a double-digit million investment from Nordwind Growth, a leading German growth fund, that will support Stackfield’s successful journey in further scaling its business. “We are thrilled to be working with Stackfield in the next phase of…
EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 62: Guy Kawasaki Chief Evangelist at Canva
In this episode, Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva and former Chief Evangelist at Apple, shares insights from his upbringing in Hawaii, which influenced his approach to life and business. He discusses the evolution of technology and marketing, the traits that make a product remarkable, and the future of creativity and technology in work. Kawasaki…
Bristol-based WASE secures over €9.9 million to scale waste-to-energy technology
WASE, a UK-based startup which is unlocking the power of waste to make it the fuel for the future, announced it raised over €9.9 million, including €2.8 million in non-dilutive funding. The financing round was led by Extantia Capital, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, WEPA Ventures, the family venture capital firm of the European multigenerational…
Hong Kong’s InnoEX and Electronics Fair Spring Edition 2024: Where the world’s electronics marketplace meets innovation (Sponsored)
Hong Kong, a dynamic and innovative city, is gearing up to host two of the year’s most eagerly awaited technology events: The 2nd InnoEX, Asia’s Most Anticipated I&T Event, and the 20th edition of the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition) 2024. Set to take place from April 13th to 16th, 2024, the Hong Kong Convention…
Dheeraj Pandey, Co-founder & CEO at DevRev, will speak at this year’s EU-Startups Summit!
We’re thrilled to announce that Dheeraj Pandey, Co-founder & CEO of DevRev, will be speaking at this year’s EU-Startups Summit! Dheeraj, a distinguished figure in the tech industry and a board member at Adobe, is at the helm of DevRev, a company pioneering in AI and design aiming to revolutionise software and customer engineering workflows….
London-based Oriole Networks raises €11.6 million to fast-train LLMs with AI ‘super-brains’
Oriole Networks, a startup using light to train LLMs a hundred times faster with only a fraction of power, has raised €11.6 million in seed funding to revolutionise AI performance and adoption, and solve AI’s critical energy problem. The round, which is one of the UK’s largest seed raises in recent years, was co-led by…
German startup watttron secures €12 million Series B to lead the sustainable packaging movement
Freital-based watttron, a leader in digital temperature control systems, has successfully raised €12 million in Series B funding. The round was led by the Circular Innovation Fund (CIF) – a global venture capital fund focused on circular innovation and jointly managed by European-based Demeter and North American-based Cycle Capital – and the European Circular Bioeconomy…
Geneva-based Hive raises €12 million Series A to make sustainable distributed cloud computing for the masses
Swiss startup Hive has raised a €12 million Series A round led by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, to increase access to sustainable, high-powered computing resources for businesses and individuals. OneRagtime, a French venture capital fund that led Hive’s seed round, and a collection of private investors also joined the…
London-based Scaleup Finance secured over €7.4 million to expand its digital CFO platform
London-based Scaleup Finance has secured over €7.4 million aimed at solving the challenge of financial management for startups and scale-ups. The round was led by Inveready, alongside Crowberry Capital, Seed X, PROfounders, Fin Capital, and CircleRock Capital. The funds will be used to help drive continued growth in the UK and prepare for future expansion…
UK foodtech Clean Food Group gets €2.9 million to utilise food waste to deliver sustainable oil and fat ingredients
Pioneering UK-based biotech business Clean Food Group has announced a further €2.9 million in funding from Clean Growth Fund, a climate-specific UK venture capital fund, providing UK cleantech entrepreneurs with the expertise and capital they need to reduce carbon emissions and tackle the climate crisis. The funding will be used to accelerate the commercialisation of…
Meet the 15 Pitch Competition finalists of the EU-Startups Summit 2024!
On May 9-10 we’ll be hosting the 10th edition of the EU-Startups Summit in sunny Malta! The event will bring together more than 2,000 founders, startup enthusiasts, and investors for a dynamic two-day experience filled with networking opportunities, inspirational talks, and learning sessions. Our annual Pitch Competition showcases Europe’s top seed and pre-seed startups. This…
Porto-based health tech Tonic App raises €10.85 million Series A to enter the UK and Germany
Tonic App, a digital health startup that makes the day-to-day of physicians simpler by aggregating all the resources they need in a single platform, has just closed a Series A investment round of €10.85 million. With this capital, the startup aims to become the first medical platform with a presence in the five largest European…
Lisbon-based Cargofive raises €2.5 million to continue accelerating digital transformation in freight forwarding
Cargofive, a leading innovator in the freight forwarding industry, announced the successful completion of an extended funding round, raising €2.5 million. This round saw the new participation of prominent venture capitalists Indico Capital and EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union,. This…