Fora raises $60 million at $1 billion valuation for travel advisor platform
The New York company says it has passed $3 billion in lifetime bookings while recruiting 15,000 active advisors, most new to trave...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month agoVenture Capital Reporter
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Saible raises £2.9 million for construction payment software
The UK fintech says its trust-based payment model will be tested in public-sector pilots with the Environment Agency and BAM Nutta...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Antler says scale-up experience is Europe's strongest founder signal
Antler’s analysis of 51,722 European seed-stage companies links prior scale-up jobs to a much higher chance of raising Series A.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Rime raises $24 million Series A for enterprise voice AI models
M13 led the round for the San Francisco startup, which says its speech models handle nearly 100 million enterprise calls a month.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Techscaler backs Scotland’s university spinout push
The Venture Builder Incubator has supported 164 founders and businesses since 2021, with participants raising £58m in grants and i...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Norrsken Evolve sets Amsterdam base after €62M pre-seed fund close
The Norrsken Foundation-backed fund plans about €3 million for Dutch pre-seed deals after closing above its original €40 million t...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Walden Robotics raises $300 million seed at $1.1 billion valuation
The Toyota Research Institute spinout says its humanoid robots are already working eight-hour shifts inside a Toyota plant in Nort...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
SWISSto12 raises $70M Series C after ESA backing
The Swiss satellite hardware company says it is EBITDA-positive and will use the capital to expand production across HummingSat an...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
British Business Bank commits €25 million to EQT life sciences fund
The UK state-backed investor is putting €25 million into EQT HE3, a medtech and healthtech fund, with no fund size or UK allocatio...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Monumental raises $32 million for bricklaying robots
Khosla Ventures led the Amsterdam construction robotics startup’s Series B as it expands deployments in Europe, the UK and planned...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
Neko raises $700m as its health scans test behavior-change claims
The Daniel Ek-backed preventative health company is adding clinics and features, while its body-scan avatars raise questions about...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 1 month ago
PayPal wind-down points to a split in corporate venture capital
PayPal Ventures and Fidelity International’s VC closure contrast with Big Tech’s larger role in AI financing, according to Bain an...
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