Alphabet's Wing begins commercial drone delivery service in Texas; delivering from Walgreens and other stores
Wing, the drone delivery business run by Google parent Alphabet, has begun delivering packages using drones.
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EIB backs The Hague-based Airborne with €16M to produce advanced composites for new space and big science applications
The Hague-based Airborne, a company specialising in the development and production of advanced composite products, announced that it has secured €16M from the European Investment Bank.
Meet the 8 new startups backed by Antler in its second Berlin cohort
As part of Antler's second Berlin cohort, eight teams took to the stage to showcase their innovations.
Metaverse startup Improbable secures €138.1M from Andreessen Horowitz, SoftBank, others
Improbable is a metaverse technology company that partners with video game developers, entertainment companies, and defence and academic institutions to enable virtual worlds of unprecedented size and usefulness.
Amsterdam-based The Fabricant bags €12.8M from Ashton Kutcher, others to build ‘wardrobe of the metaverse’
Amsterdam-based The Fabricant, a decentralised digital fashion house building the wardrobe of the metaverse, announced that it has secured $14M (€12.8M) in Series A round of funding led by Greenfield One.
Grover grows a horn: Berlin’s tech subscription scaleup raises €302M at unicorn valuation
Grover, a Berlin-based company that enables people to subscribe to tech products instead of buying them, announced that it has raised $330M…
Vilnius-based cybersecurity firm Nord Security bags €91.7M, becomes Lithuania’s second unicorn
Nord Security, a Vilnius-based cybersecurity firm, announced that it has raised a $100M (approx €91.7M) in a financing round at a valuation of $1.6B, making it Lithuania’s second tech unicorn.
Amsterdam’s ZonnepanelenDelen secures over €20M from ING to upscale its solar financing platform
ZonnepanelenDelen aims to accelerate the energy transition by making the financing of solar energy simple and accessible to all.
Twitter confirms working on edit button; will be available to Twitter Blue subscribers first
Twitter is indeed working on an edit button.
DOEN Participaties-backed The Renewal Workshop acquired by Dutch-based Bleckmann
The step is part of The Renewal Workshop’s efforts to create a fully circular supply chain proposition for Bleckmann’s fashion and lifestyle clients.
Balderton backs UK’s Better Origin in €14.6M funding to convert food waste into sustainable animal feed
Better Origin, a Cambridge-based agtech startup, announced that it has raised $16M (approximately €14.6M) in a Series A round of funding led by Balderton Capital.
International Day of Sport for Development and Peace: Top 10 Amsterdam-based sports tech startups to watch in 2022
The world observes April 6 every year as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.