The femtech app, Jennis, founded by Olympic and World Heptathlon Champion Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, has raised €1.17 million in pre-seed funding to improve hormonal health for all women and tackle the gender data gap in women’s health (only 6% of sport and exercise studies are done using exclusively female participants). The funding round was led by Maki.vc,…
Rotterdam-based Orchest secures €3 million to automate the data science infrastructure within companies
Orchest, a new open source data science platform, just raised €3 million in seed funding. Currently in private beta for select companies, Orchest removes the need for a company to have a team focused on machine learning (ML). The seed round is co-led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, and Basis Set Ventures, with…
Weekly VC Overview: All European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Sept. 27 – Oct. 1)
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Cambridge-based online security startup Profian scores €4.3 million to make cloud computing more secure
Profian, a Confidential Computing platform focused on bespoke open source solutions, announced has just secured €4.3 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Project A Ventures and Illuminate Financial, and included angel investors like Olivier Pomel, CEO of Datadog, and Tyler McMullen, CTO of Fastly. Founded earlier this year, Profian aims to bring…
Berlin-based emlen raises over €3.6 million to build the “Netflix for B2B Sales”
The Saarbrücken- and Berlin-based SaaS startup emlen has just closed a €3.6 million seed funding round to create a “Netflix-like” buyer experience for B2B sales. This seed round is being co-led by coparion and Montan-Ventures-Saar, along with existing investors Holzer Group as well as experienced angel investors from the leadership team of Personio and the…
One third of people are ‘physically pained’ throwing away good food- yet, they do so almost daily: Interview with OLIO’s Co-Founder, Tessa Clarke
A few weeks ago, the London-based startup OLIO hit the news with the €36.2 million Series B funding round for its food-sharing mobile app. OLIO‘s mission is to tackle the increasingly concerning problem of food waste. For instance, did you know that over a third of all the food produced globally is thrown away? Food waste…
CryptoArt: Italian NFT startup Reasoned Art closed a €310K pre-seed round
The Italian startup Reasoned Art just closed its first investment round of €310K. Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A and collector of contemporary art, participated in the funding round, together with LVenture Group, which selected the startup for its LUISS EnLabs Acceleration Program. Thanks to the fresh capital, the team led by…
London-based Lapse secures €1.2 million and launches app to capture magic of the pre-digital photo experience
The London-based startup Lapse has today launched its social disposable camera app, supported by a €1.2 million seed round. The funding round was was led by Speedinvest, with participation from Atomico (via its angel programme’s Sameer Singh), and notable angels including Matt Robinson (Founder of Nested, GoCardless), Ian Hogarth (Founder of SongKick), and Simon Franks…
Hamburg-based no-code software Heyflow raises €5.17 million to help companies win conversions at scale
Heyflow, the industry’s first no-code platform for interactive user experiences, has just closed a €5.17 million seed financing round led by Project A Ventures. Additional investors include existing backers Atlantic Labs and Possible Ventures as well as several angel investors. Founded in 2020, Heyflow solves the growing challenge companies face when trying to design high-converting…
Madrid-based foodtech startup Katoo secures €6.2 million to bring tech to the old-school food supply industry
Katoo, the foodtech startup that brings tech to the old-school food supply industry, is announcing a €6.2 million fundraise. The round was led by Spanish-based investor K Fund, and followed by American funds Expa, FJ Labs, Soma Capital and Portuguese VC Shilling Founders Fund. Existing investors GFC and Otium Capital doubled down their bet on…
“Transparency is absolutely key for helping your team and your business grow” – Interview with Pleo’s co-founder and CEO Jeppe Rindom
Copenhagen-based Pleo is reshaping how businesses manage company spending, and how they operate, enabling staff to feel more empowered and ultimately more productive. Pleo has been revolutionizing the tedious expense process, making it quicker, simpler and more transparent. The Danish company recently became a unicorn after raising its Series C round totalling around €126.5 million….
Helping more startups experience Notion, in partnership with AWS and Stripe (Sponsored)
When we first launched our Notion for Startups program two years ago, we had no idea how much the world would change — or how many different shapes and sizes of companies would end up relying on our tools to bridge the divides of remote work. Some of these companies are like Cocoon, whose founders…
Swedish startup Telness secures €1.5 million additional funding to take European telecoms digital
The Swedish “teltech” challenger Telness has today announced €1.5 million in post-seed funding to help it revolutionise the European telecoms market. Participants in the funding round include existing angel investors such as Viveka Ekberg, plus Gothenburg-based JCE Investments. This new round takes the total funding raised by Telness to €6.5 million. Founded in 2016 in Stockholm…
Stockholm-based insurtech startup Hedvig raises €38.6 million for European expansion
Following its recent launch into Denmark, the Nordic neo insurer Hedvig announced today that it closed a €38.6 million Series B funding round led by Anthemis, with participation from existing investors including Cherry Ventures, Obvious Ventures, CommerzVentures, along with Swedish Novax, Nineyards Equity, Jonas Kamprad and Mathias Kamprad. In just a few years, Hedvig, a…
Dublin-based data compliance & relationship startup DataShips raises €2.6 million
Dataships, the Dublin-based data compliance & relationship management firm, has closed a €2.6 million seed funding round led by US-based Urban Innovation Fund and Lavrock Ventures – with participation from Tony Smurfit, Peter Crowley and the NDRC, operated by Dogpatch Labs. Founded in 2019, Dataships is on a mission to prove just how effortless data…
Paris-based Witco launches its smart building app also in the UK – with €12 million in Series A funding
Witco, the smart building app, has launched in the UK with €12 million in Series A funding. The fresh capital comes from new investors Daphni, Eurazeo, UL Invest, and business angels, joining Naxicap who also invested in earlier funding rounds. The latest capital injection will help launch Witco in the UK and expand into Germany…
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Quiz: True or Fake startups. Can you tell the difference?
Modern problems call for modern solutions, and there’s no place quite like the startup ecosystem when it comes to looking for innovative and unusual ideas. If you can imagine it, you can almost guarantee someone, somewhere, has tried to create it. To honour the wonderful (and occasionally weird) world of startups, we’ve put together a…