23.02.24 Countries Ukraine Horizon Capital closes its Ukraine Fund IV at $350M Horizon Capital, a leading American private equity firm, has announced that its latest Ukraine-focused fund, Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV, has reached $350 million in commitments. The Final Closing was held in Tokyo on February 19, 2024, boosting AUM to
23.02.24 News AceON Accelerator launches Spring program of 2024: best startups can get investment capital Prague-based AceON Accelerator has announced the start of its Spring Accelerator 2024 program, where early-stage startups can go through an international 2-month intensive training and individual support from AceON. The best winning startups can even get investment funds, AceON shared with
22.02.24 News D2SCALE is launching to support deeptech and digital innovation in Europe D2SCALE, a new EU-funded scaling program for deeptech and digital ventures in sectors such as Transport, Logistics, Trade, and Smart Cities, has announced it public launch. The Recursive, which is part of the consortium behind D2SCALE, shared the details about the
22.02.24 Tech1 M&A Dutch Stellantis acquired CloudMade, an AI company with a team in Ukraine The Dutch car manufacturing corporation Stellantis has acquired CloudMade, a British AI company with a team operating in Ukraine, which has software developments for its vehicles. The amount of the deal is not disclosed, but according to sources, the deal
22.02.24 Tech1 Investments New Vision 3 announces €3M investment in 7 Bulgarian startups Bulgarian VC fund New Vision 3 (NV3) has announced the details of its autumn investment round. The period was marked by investments in 7 Bulgarian startups with a little over €3 million of total pre-seed capital. The strategic investments included
22.02.24 Tech1 Investments Lithuanian Evergrowth secures $2.2M in one of the largest pre-Seed round in the Baltics Evergrowth, a Vilnius-based AI-powered B2B sales platform, has secured a $2.2 million funding round, marking one of the largest pre-seed investments in the Baltic region. The round was led by Impellent Ventures and Practica Capital, Founders Today reports.
21.02.24 Countries Poland PFR Ventures invests close to €35M in 4 Polish VC funds PFR Ventures has announced the agreements with four Polish venture capital funds that invest in innovative companies in the country and the CEE region, including Inovo VC, Market One Capital, and SMOK Ventures. With the development of the Polish venture
21.02.24 Countries Estonia Estonian AI startup Cognitiwe closes a €1M funding round Tallinn-based AI-driven retail solutions provider Cognitiwe has closed its funding round at €1 million. The investment comes from notable venture capital firms, including TechOne VC, Eleven Ventures, Flat6Labs, Domino VC, and Caucasus VC, as well as angel investors, EU-Startups reports.
20.02.24 Countries Finland Finland’s Desentum raises €12M to advance allergy vaccine development Desentum, a Finnish biopharmaceutical company, has raised €12 million in a funding round led by an investment service company Springvest Oyj. Desentum intends to use the fresh capital to continue clinical development and preclinical testing of various allergy vaccines. We have
20.02.24 Countries Finland DealGuru secures €890k from Finnish backers Innovestor and Gorilla Capital Swedish e-commerce startup DealGuru has secured around €890,000 (SEK 10 million) in an oversubscribed seed round. Helsinki-based venture capital firms Innovestor and Gorilla Capital provided the capital to help build the largest e-commerce community in Sweden. The feedback from our