Startups

Yann LeCun exits AI VC fund hours after launch

Extelligence Invest planned early-stage investments across Europe, Asia and North America before LeCun left the vehicle within hou...

By Dominic Okoye · 2 months ago

Antler data ranks Klarna and Improbable as Europe’s founder pipelines

A study of 51,722 startups says seed-to-Series C startup experience is a stronger Series A signal than time at better-known employ...

By Ingrid Halvorsen · 2 months ago

Dust CEO pitches shared AI agents over solo workplace chatbots

Dust says enterprise AI use is shifting from individual chat sessions to shared agents, but governance and access controls remain...

By Dominic Okoye · 2 months ago

Neko Health raises $700 million as CEO claims clinic-level profit

The body-scanning startup says it has 100,000 members, but did not disclose revenue, valuation or headcount in the reported update...

By Ingrid Halvorsen · 2 months ago

Syntetica raises $30 million to scale nylon textile recycling

The French deeptech company will use the Series A to build a demonstration plant with Michelin and move its nylon recycling proces...

By Ingrid Halvorsen · 2 months ago

SWISSto12 raises $70 million Series C to expand satellite production

The Swiss aerospace company will use the funding to build more HummingSat and HummingLink systems for commercial and government cu...

By Ingrid Halvorsen · 2 months ago

Arq raises $1.4 million pre-seed for quantum networking hardware

The Spanish startup is developing quantum repeaters for long-distance links between quantum computers, with Ground State Ventures...

By Dominic Okoye · 2 months ago

Syntetica raises $30 million Series A for nylon recycling plant

Bpifrance led the Paris startup’s Series A, with Lululemon, MAS Holdings, SWEN Capital Partners, Indorama Ventures and EQT Venture...

By Ingrid Halvorsen · 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