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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s new safety-centric AI venture Safe Superintelligence raises $1B
Safe Superintelligence Inc.
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Germany’s Lucid Genomics secures €1.3M to advance AI-driven genetic insights for faster drug discovery
Berlin-based Lucid Genomics, a healthtech startup, has secured €1.3M in a pre-seed round of funding led by Caesar Ventures, with additional contributions from BIF Partners, Another.vc, and the MPF Accelerator Program.
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Amsterdam’s Shift Invest leads €2.5M investment round in Belgium-based billing platform Zero Friction
Ghent-based Zero Friction, a billing and customer interaction solutions provider for heat and cold suppliers, announced that it secured €2.5M in a fresh round of funding led by Amsterdam-based Shift Invest.
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France-based Steerlab secures €1.7M to automate RFP and security questionnaire and boost deal wins
Paris-based Steerlab, an AI platform that automates responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and security questionnaires, announced that it has secured €1.7M in a pre-seed round of funding.
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Dutch-based Shipping Technology raises funds to advance AI solutions for the inland shipping industry
Rotterdam-based Shipping Technology, a company in the maritime industry, has secured an investment from First Dutch and the founders of Platform Zero.
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Dutch-based Carbyon secures €15.3M to turn direct air capture of CO2 into an affordable and scalable technology
Eindhoven-based Carbyon, a Direct Air Capture (DAC) startup whose goal is to create affordable and scalable technology to stop climate change, announced that it raised €15.3M in a Series A funding round.
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Sweden’s Amferia secures €1.2M to kill bacteria, even resistant ones; here’s how
Mölndal-based Amferia, a Swedish medtech company specialising in antimicrobial healthcare solutions, has completed an “over-prescribed” €1.2M investment round, with participation from existing owners, new investors, and Chalmers Ventures.
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UK’s Signol raises €2.9M to use behavioural science for reducing emissions in shipping and aviation
London-based Signol, a sustainability startup that uses behavioural science to decarbonise hard-to-abate industries, has secured £2.5M (approximately €2.96M) in a seed extension round funding led by TMV, a New York-based VC firm.
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Germany’s Quintauris adds STMicroelectronics as its 6th shareholder to commercialise RISC-V-based products
Munich-based Quintauris, a company aimed at advancing the RISC-V instruction set architecture, has added STMicroelectronics as its sixth shareholder.
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Enerpoly opens world’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory in Sweden
Enerpoly, a Stockholm-based innovator in zinc-ion battery cell technology, has launched the world’s first zinc-ion battery megafactory.
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Celebrating Silicon Canals’ 10th Anniversary! Highlighting our most impactful stories since 2014
We are celebrating Silicon Canals’ 10th anniversary!
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Dutch-based 20Face secures €1.3M to advance its privacy-proof facial recognition technology
Enschede-based 20face, a Dutch scale-up specialising in privacy-proof facial recognition software, announced that it secured €1.3M in a fresh round of funding.