HTGF’s Family Day turns Germany revival talk into startup meetings
High-Tech Gründerfonds’ Berlin event put life sciences, chemistry and deep-tech founders in front of corporates and investors for...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months agoStartups Editor
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Marcus tracks companies from seed to scale: launches, pivots, shutdowns, and the operating decisions in between.
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Meticulous raises $15 million to test AI-generated code
The London startup says customers including Notion, ElevenLabs and Wiz use its frontend testing system as AI coding increases revi...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
EQT in talks to lead Mistral Series D through €5bn scale-up fund
EQT is discussing a lead or co-lead role in Mistral’s Series D, a deal that could be the first investment from its €5bn Scaleup Eu...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Uber agrees to buy Delivery Hero in €13 billion cash offer
The proposed deal would combine Uber with Berlin-based Delivery Hero and extend the company’s mobility and delivery platform to 99...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Omio signs deal to acquire Rail Europe as rail booking consolidation continues
The transaction would add Rail Europe’s agent network and 5 million annual train ticket sales to Omio Group, though financial term...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Visma puts 600-plus AI projects behind accounting automation
The European software group says its portfolio is using AI to automate bookkeeping, advisory and reconciliation, with Chaintrust a...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Resist.UA pushes wartime Ukraine as a defense tech investment window
The Ukrainian fund says early defense tech access is shifting toward investors already on the ground, as local startups move from...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Fintech funding rose in H1 as investors wrote fewer, larger checks
Crunchbase data shows global fintech startups raised $28.6 billion in H1 2026, even as deal count dropped sharply from a year earl...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Microagi raises $55 million seed round for robotics training data
The Munich startup, founded by former Formula 1 engineers, is collecting factory and home task data to train humanoid robots.
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Bison Ventures analysis questions the billion-dollar AI seed round
Ellie McDonald says a study of roughly 200 mega-seed financings shows big first rounds have rarely produced venture-scale returns.
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago
Juno Bio raises $3.8 million and opens Oakland women’s health lab
The UK-founded company opened a CLIA-certified sequencing lab for vaginal microbiome testing; valuation and round terms were not d...
By Marcus Adeyemi 2 months ago