New €76M Footprint Fund I will back 30 early-stage climate and DeepTech startups across Northern Europe, targeting high-impact, scalable decarbonisation solutions.
Author: Kenyon Shah
Finland’s startup scene is surging past €1.5B in fresh capital, driven by 10 powerhouse VC firms backing deeptech, gaming, climate tech and global SaaS champions.
Climate-focused VC firm 2150 has closed its second fund at €210M, lifting its total assets under management to €500M to back sustainable urban technologies worldwide.
Europe’s low-tax jurisdictions are drawing startups and multinationals alike. Here’s how Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and others compete—and what risks founders must weigh.
The original vLLM research team has spun out a $150M-backed AI inference startup, with a16z and Lightspeed betting big on faster, cheaper large language model serving.
Flashpoint, a backer of Preply, is raising a $100M second direct secondary fund to offer early liquidity to startup shareholders across Europe and emerging tech hubs.
OpenAI is reportedly seeking up to $50B from Middle East investors, targeting a valuation above $750B as it races to dominate the global AI landscape.
The British Business Bank is investing £25M in crypto exchange Kraken to boost UK capital markets and keep its anticipated IPO in London.
Early-stage VCs obsessed with unicorns are missing stronger returns, better portfolios and healthier founder relationships. Here’s why the model is breaking.
Vanagon Ventures raises a €20M early-stage fund to plug Europe’s deep tech pre-seed gap, backing frontier technologies spun out of universities and research labs.