Startup

Duqu, an Amsterdam-based FinTech startup that gives businesses immediate access to money tied up in outstanding invoices, has raised €1.5 million in a pre-Seed round from Curiosity VC and No…

Join us for a conversation with Andreas Flodström, co-founder and chairman of Varangians, as we explore the journey that led him from building the Swedish-Ukrainian tech ecosystem Beetroot to investing…

The question of expanding to the US often comes up early, while the team is still raising seed capital and still arguing about product-market fit at home. What makes it…

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group have launched the European Institutional Investors Pact (EIIP), a new voluntary framework aimed at channelling more long-term institutional capital into…

Europe’s startup ecosystem has a stubborn funding problem. Women are building companies, but investment is still overwhelmingly flowing elsewhere. However, a 2026 study has shown that in 2025, all-female founding…

Verda (formerly DataCrunch), a Helsinki-based AI infrastructure company, announced today that it has raised €164.8 million ($189 million) in fresh funding to scale its full-stack AI cloud. With this funding,…

Ask a European founder how the company is going and you’ll usually hear a number of answers. Ask an investor how a portfolio company is progressing and headcount will often…

Lightspring, a Besançon-based DeepTech startup that designs and manufactures the optical interfaces of photonic integrated circuits, today announced the close of a €3.1 million Seed round to tackle optical packaging,…

Earlier this year, I wrote about the AI power crisis and argued that coordination now matters more than new capacity. The numbers have not improved. Research from the International Energy…

NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) has announced the first 24 investors who are joining the NATO DIANA Capital Network (NDCN), among which 20 are European-based –…