eu-startups.com · 2d Stockholm-based Elekta secures €100 million EIB loan to advance cancer and neurological treatments Stockholm-based HealthTech company Elekta has secured a loan of up to €100 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union’s financing arm. The financing falls under the EIB Group’s TechEU programme, which is designed to strengthen European investment in strategic technologies and innovation, and it also feeds into EU objectives around health research, […] The post Stockholm-ba
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techcrunch.com · 2d Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month
trendingtopics.eu · 2d Z.ai, Maker of GLMs, Makes $142 Million in Revenue at a $71 Billion Market Value GLM models have reliably made the AI industry sit up and take notice. On agentic capabilities in particular, Z.ai has repeatedly set new standards in the open-weight space, most recently with GLM-5.3. Now the Chinese AI developer Z.ai, better known as Zhipu and as the company behind the GLM model family, has just published its […] Der Beitrag Z.ai, Maker of GLMs, Makes $142 Million in Revenue at a
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tech.eu · 2d PANDA Therapeutics secures €160K to advance multi-target Alzheimer’s therapy Biotech startup PANDA Therapeutics has obtained €160,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease toward clinical development. By targeting multiple harmful p...
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€160k Funding tech.eu · 2d Foldcast secures €160K to reduce concrete use with recyclable paper moulds Swissconstruction technology startup Foldcast has secured €160,000 (CHF 150,000) fromVenture Kick to advance its recyclable paper mould technology for concreteconstruction and move towards commercial ...
€117M GB Funding eu-startups.com · 2d UK-based BatteryTech firm Nexeon secures €116.7 million with National Wealth Fund backing Nexeon, an Oxfordshire-based developer of advanced silicon-based battery materials, has completed its latest investment round totalling €116.7 million (£100 million/$133 million), with the National Wealth Fund committing €61.4 million (£52.6 million/$70 million). Other new investors include the Korea Development Bank and Honda Xcelerator Ventures. The company plans to use this capital to support t
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deutsche-startups.de · 2d #StartupTicker - +++ Mobility Signage +++ Traxit +++ Tractive +++ Voyager AI +++ Alasco +++ Out-of-Home +++ +++ #StartupTicker +++ Startup der Woche: Mobility Signage +++ Traxit: Ex-Tractive-Führungsteam startet Early-Stage-Investor +++ Seriengründerin Ina Just startet Voyager AI +++ Alasco wächst auf 7,3 Millionen Umsatz +++ Out-of-Home-Werbung erlebt ein Comeback +++
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munich-startup.de · 2d Nnexoro holt zwei Business Angels an Bord Das Münchner KI-Startup Nnexoro schließt seine erste Angel-Runde ab. Mit Stefan Smalla und Dennis Vogt gewinnt das Unternehmen zwei Investoren für den Ausbau seines digitalen Kollegen Carl.
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brutkasten.com · 2d Vorarlberger Fintech-Startup ioumi erreicht in unter drei Monaten eine Million Euro an Vertragsvolumen In weniger als drei Monaten konnte das von Christian Stockklauser gegründete Unternehmen ioumi bereits Verträge im Wert von mehr als einer Million Euro abschließen. Mit seiner Plattform will das Startup den bisher auf mehrere Tools verteilten Prozess von Angebot und Vertrag bis zur Bezahlung in einem System bündeln.
€3M pre seed FI Funding eu-startups.com · 2d Finland’s S-Transistors raises €2.6 million to build the world’s first quantum motherboard S-Transistors, a newly launched Finnish startup and a spin-off from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has raised €2.6 million in pre-Seed funding to deliver a new class of integrated circuits based on superconducting transistors. The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, a leading Nordic investor, and joined by an angel investor. The company plans […] The post Finland’s S-Transistors raises
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gruenderszene.de · 2d „Nächstes Jahr sind wir Unicorn“: Peec-AI-Gründer über 100 Millionen Umsatz, schnelles Wachstum und Socken im Büro Peec AI hat im Turbo-Tempo Millionen Euro geraised und 100 Mitarbeiter eingestellt. Wir haben CEO Marius Meiners im neuen Hauptsitz besucht.
Launches trendingtopics.eu · 2d Shein Worth Only $26 Billion in Stock Market Debut, Down From $100 Billion in 2022 It is the listing the fashion industry has been waiting on for years, and it has come in far smaller than expected. Shein has just wrapped up its initial public offering in Hong Kong, raising about $1.7 billion and landing at a market value of roughly $26 billion. Back in 2022, a private funding round […] Der Beitrag Shein Worth Only $26 Billion in Stock Market Debut, Down From $100 Billion in 202
€3M pre seed Funding tech.eu · 2d S-Transistors raises €2.6M for superconducting quantum computing platform Finnishquantum technology startup S-Transistors has raised €2.6 million in pre-seedfunding to develop integrated circuits based on superconducting transistors,initially targeting the control and signa...
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M&A eu-startups.com · 2d London’s HITAI acquires YC-backed fitness gaming developer Quell to strengthen its sports motion-tracking platform HITAI, a London-based movement intelligence platform for sports, has acquired the technology and IP of Quell, a UK-based fitness gaming developer and publisher behind the ‘Impact’ fitness gaming platform and Shardfall, its flagship high-intensity combat game. The acquisition will enhance HITAI’s camera-based motion recognition platform via Quell’s camera-less, patent-pending tech, built to run in
AT Launches brutkasten.com · 2d Neue KI-Beratung aus Wien: KI Schmiede setzt auf Organisationsentwicklung statt reinen Tool-Rollout Mathias Lipp-Rosenthal hat im Juni die KI Schmiede gegründet. Statt Tools auszurollen, will er Unternehmen so weit bringen, dass sie KI selbst beherrschen. Denn wer mit KI sparen will, so seine These, wird zum Technologieunternehmen.
deutsche-startups.de · 2d #Interview - „Wir wollten unsere Entscheidungen selbst treffen“ Solago ist in wenigen Jahren zu einem der größten Photovoltaik-Anbieter in Deutschland gewachsen. Im Interview spricht Gründer Janik Nolden, über Bootstrapping, Profitabilität und die Lehren aus seinem ersten gescheiterten Startup.
AT Launches trendingtopics.eu · 2d Pulse: Wiener Startup will Paare per Gesundheitsdaten besser verbinden Wenn die Apple Watch am Handgelenk registriert, dass jemand schlecht geschlafen hat, bleibt diese Information normalerweise in einer Gesundheits-App liegen. Das Wiener Startup Knightify FlexCo will daraus etwas anderes machen: einen kleinen Hinweis an die Partnerin oder den Partner, formuliert in Alltagssprache statt in Messwerten. „Pulse“ heißt die App, die dahintersteht und die kürzlich in […] D
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techcrunch.com · 2d Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gayborhood in your pocket" he's been promising since 2022.
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thenextweb.com · 3d Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company famous for hosting the open-source AI ecosystem with more than 3 million open-source LLMs, for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, […] This story continues at The Next Web
CN thenextweb.com · 4d Chinese memory maker CXMT sues Pentagon to get off US list CXMT has sued the US Department of Defense in Washington seeking removal from the list identifying it as a Chinese military company, a designation that blocks defence contracts without restricting commercial sales. The company is the world’s fourth-largest DRAM maker and passed Tencent this month to become China’s most valuable listed company. CXMT has sued […] This story continues at The Next Web
Launches techcrunch.com · 4d The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’ve tried a few off-brand ones and just assumed […]
trendingtopics.eu · 4d OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor’s Access Its AI Models In Fear of AI Distillation OpenAI is ending its partnership with the AI coding startup Cursor. The company has just notified SpaceX that it will wind down the contract under which it supplies its models, naming November 12, 2026 as the proposed shutoff date. That is the longest notice period the existing agreement allows. The trigger is the acquisition of […] Der Beitrag OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor’s Access Its AI Models In Fear
thenextweb.com · 4d OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12 November and its forthcoming Astra model withheld. Cursor and SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.5 together in July, which is available in Cursor on every plan. OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor. The […] This story continues at The Next Web
techcrunch.com · 4d Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?
€900M debt Funding techcrunch.com · 4d Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.
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Launches techcrunch.com · 4d Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.
news.crunchbase.com · 4d The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI Tools And Assistants Lead Sparser Lineup Of Megadeals Most of this week’s largest funding recipients were AI-focused startups, with Instinct, a developer of AI assistants, pulling in the biggest round.
€19M series a Funding techcrunch.com · 5d Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A funding.
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venturebeat.com · 5d Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page. Enterprises trying to feed PDFs, slides and scanned documents into AI pipelines keep running into the same wall: the tools either miss the structure — tables, charts, layout — or cost too much to run at scale. Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, positioning it on price-to-performance, not raw accuracy — the right cost-capability mix for enterprise scale. Parse 5 is a 2.3-billion-parameter vision
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www.eu-startups.com · 5d Biomaterials company Ponda closes crowdfunding round at €1.6 million – welcoming 256 new investors Ponda, a biomaterials company out of Bristol restoring wetlands through regenerative farming, has closed its latest crowdfunding campaign, raising €1.6 million (£1.4 million) in a Seed extension that welcomed 256 new investors. The company had previously shared with EU-Startups that they were looking to raise “at least €230k (£200k), with no cap” back in April […] The post Biomaterials company Pon
techcrunch.com · 5d Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.
Funding gruenderszene.de · 5d „Nächstes Jahr sind wir Unicorn“: Peec-AI-Gründer über 100 Millionen Umsatz, schnelles Wachstum und Socken im Büro Peec AI hat im Turbo-Tempo Millionen Euro geraised und 100 Mitarbeiter eingestellt. Wir haben CEO Marius Meiners im neuen Hauptsitz besucht.
People gruenderszene.de · 5d „Unfassbar enttäuscht“: Glow25-Gründer streiten sich in Whatsapp-Gruppe mit Mitarbeitern um Betriebsrat Interne Chats zwischen Gründern und Mitarbeitern zeigen den Streit um einen gewünschten Betriebsrat. Alle Insights gibt es hier.
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techfundingnews.com · 5d Atorie raises $9.5M to bring luxury-grade fashion to shoppers without the markup Luxury fashion has a pricing problem, and Atorie thinks the fix sits on the factory floor, not in…
thenextweb.com · 5d SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that size, secured against the same asset, 22 days earlier. TNW has not independently verified the report and could not review its full terms, so what follows sets the reported request against the […] This story continues at The Next Web
thenextweb.com · 5d Nvidia has paused parts of the revenue-sharing programme it launched in July Nvidia has halted some of the transactions under the financing programme it introduced eight weeks ago, in which it extends credit to AI cloud companies buying its chips and takes a cut of what those chips later earn, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The scheme was announced on 1 July, and it does […] This story continues at The Next Web
FR Launches eu-startups.com · 5d French quantum scale-up Pasqal hits Nasdaq with €309 million in cash at closing Paris-based quantum computing scale-up Pasqal is set to begin trading on Nasdaq today after completing its business combination with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. II, marking the DeepTech company’s transition from a venture-backed scale-up to a publicly listed business. The transaction leaves the company with approximately €309 million ($360 million) in cash at closing, which they plan […] The po
AT People trendingtopics.eu · 5d Erste Asset Management: Robert Kubin übernimmt CEO-Position Die Erste Asset Management bekommt einen neuen Chef: Robert Kubin wechselt von Amundi zur österreichischen Fondsgesellschaft und übernimmt ab 1. Dezember 2026 den Vorsitz der Geschäftsführung. Er folgt damit Heinz Bednar nach, der das Unternehmen seit 2006 führt und nach 20 Jahren in den Ruhestand tritt. Die Bestellung steht noch unter dem Vorbehalt der Zustimmung […] Der Beitrag Erste Asset Manag
Launches trendingtopics.eu · 5d GLM 5.3: „Offensive A.I. Systems No Longer Confined to Tightly Controlled Labs“ The Chinese A.I. lab Z.ai has released its new frontier model GLM 5.3 as open-weight software, after testing it anonymously under the codename „Ox Alpha.“ Open weight means the underlying model weights are freely available, so anyone can use, adapt and run the system locally. For the security vendor Check Point Software, that combination is […] Der Beitrag GLM 5.3: „Offensive A.I. Systems No Longe
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Launches thenextweb.com · 5d Nvidia ships first H200 chips to China, but expects no data-centre revenue from them Nvidia shipped its first H200 processors to China under a new US licensing scheme, and they accounted for less than 1% of $89B in quarterly data centre revenue. Its $108B forecast for the current quarter assumes no data centre computing revenue from China at all. Nvidia has started shipping H200 processors to China and told […] This story continues at The Next Web
thenextweb.com · 11d Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […] This story continues at The Next Web
US Launches thenextweb.com · 11d Meta launched Pocket in the US, and the app it came from shut down the same day Meta has launched Pocket across the United States. The app it is based on shut down the same day. Pocket had been testing quietly in Brazil since July. It is now available to everyone in the US. Pocket lets people type a prompt and get back a small interactive thing, which Meta calls a gizmo. […] This story continues at The Next Web
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M&A thenextweb.com · 11d Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no price. It is the second consultancy Ode has absorbed in four months. The company Anthropic built […] This story continues at The Next Web
People thenextweb.com · 11d Two 21-year-olds built an AI that runs online stores They started selling online at 15. Their company, Siml, now runs over 1,000 stores. Nurtilek Raimzhanov and Zuhayr Abdullazhanov met in high school and have been best friends ever since. They were fifteen when the pandemic hit, and they decided to sell something online. In their case, hand sanitizer. It worked well enough to become […] This story continues at The Next Web
€18M Funding thenextweb.com · 11d Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the […] This story continues at The Next Web
Launches thenextweb.com · 11d World ID and peaqOS bring privacy-preserving human verification to robots and machines It lets autonomous machines confirm they are interacting with real people without learning their identities August 21, 2026: Robots and autonomous machines running peaqOS can now verify whether they are interacting with a real human through World ID, following a new integration available through robotic.sh. The integration brings proof of human directly into peaqOS, allowing […] This story continu
Launches thenextweb.com · 11d Walmart is accepting tap to pay after eleven years of refusing Walmart is adding tap to pay at its checkouts from Monday, ending more than a decade of refusing the technology. The retailer will not say so in those terms. Its announcement does not use the word Apple once. The rollout starts at selected Walmart stores and Sam’s Club locations on 24 August, the company said. […] This story continues at The Next Web