US-based Benepass secures $40M in fresh funding to modernise flexible employee benefits, giving HR teams a unified, tax‑efficient platform for personalised perks and wellbeing.
Author: Aden Erickson
RiskFront AI raises $3.3M to replace manual fraud checks with AI-driven, real-time risk assessment tools for fintechs, banks and digital platforms.
Berlin-based Cloover has raised $1.2B to finance solar, batteries and heat pumps across Europe. Can its software and funding model ease the continent’s distributed energy crunch?
Language-learning platform Preply secures €127M, nearly triples its valuation, and doubles down on AI-driven tutoring as it accelerates global expansion.
Dutch crypto investment platform Finst has raised €8 million to accelerate its expansion across Europe, betting on transparent, low‑fee digital asset investing.
As mobile apps eclipsed gaming, a handful of investors made a generational trade while most VCs stayed focused on hits, not habits.
Spanish scale-up Fracttal raises €29.8M to accelerate AI-driven maintenance software expansion across Europe and Latin America.
Ex‑OpenAI researchers at Humans& secure a massive $480M round, igniting debate over whether their human‑centric AI lab can outpace rival Thinking Machines Lab.
Swiss space-tech firm SWISSto12 secures €73M to industrialize its compact HummingSat platform, targeting a 2027 launch and reshaping the geostationary satellite market.
AI contract review startup Ivo secures $55M to cut legal review time by up to 75%, winning enterprise clients like Uber and Shopify and reshaping how global teams manage contracts.
