21.12.22 Tech1 Investments Polish chemicals company Apeiron Synthesis raises €4.5M from Orlen VC Wroclaw-based chemicals company Apeiron Synthesis has raised €4.5 million (PLN 21 million) from Orlen VC, the leading Polish corporate PKN ORLEN’s fund. The company develops catalysts, with a broad application in pharmaceuticals, flavors, and fragrances. Aper Ventures and Adamed supported
21.12.22 Tech1 Investments Geek Ventures invests in Nomad Data during $3.2M seed round Venture capital fund Geek Ventures has invested in Nomad Data, the data relationship management and discovery platform. The company announced the closing of $3.2 million seed funding round, led by Struck Capital. The amount of the exact investment from Geek Ventures
19.12.22 Countries Estonia Key Trends of the Baltic Startup Ecosystem in 2022 — FIRSTPICK Even though this year has been slower than the record 2021, the Baltic startup ecosystem in 2022 is getting a lot of attention. The Baltic VC fund FIRSTPICK made an overview of the most important trends in the region this
16.12.22 Countries Romania Startup of the Day: Romanian legal infrastructure platform Goodlegal Goodlegal is a Burcharest-based legal infrastructure platform designed to offer an out-of-the-box legal operations framework for any company. The platform provides access to document management system, document lifecycle, e-sign among other services. To date, the company has raised a €1.2
15.12.22 Tech1 M&A Croatian studio Gamepires is acquired by Jagex, the developer of Runescape Jagex, the leading game company in the community-driven genre, has acquired Gamepires, a Zargeb-based studio of over 50 experienced developers. The studio is best known for its open world survival title, SCUM, Business Wire reports. “Partnering with Jagex provides us
14.12.22 Tech1 Investments Polish startup Stepapp raises €470k to expand abroad Warsaw-based cleaning services-on-demand application developer Stepapp has raised €470,000 (2.2 million PLN) in a funding round aimed at expansion abroad. SMOK Ventures, Freya Capital, and several business angels participated in the funding, MamStartup reports.
14.12.22 Countries Lithuania Lithuanian firm Baltic Sandbox Ventures raises €10M for its first fund Freshly founded Lithuanian firm Baltic Sandbox Ventures has raised €10 million for its first deeptech fund. For its closure, the firm targets to raise a total of €13 million. The fund is the first in the Baltics focusing on early-stage
13.12.22 Tech1 Investments Polish foodtech Fresh Inset secures €2.1M in Series A round Torun-based foodtech startup Fresh Inset has secured €2.1 million (10 million PLN) during its Series A round of funding. The company develops a technology that extends the shelf-life of fresh fruit and vegetables, MamStartup reports. “If food waste were a
13.12.22 Countries Finland Finland’s Upright Project raises €5M to make net impact data more available Helsinki-based deeptech-driven open data analysis startup Upright Project has raised €5 million in a seed round. The greentech VC Planet A Ventures alongside First Fellow Partners led the funding round, Tech.eu reports. “Upright’s goal is in their name: make impact assessments more
12.12.22 Countries Finland Finnish startup Statzon raises €400k in a seed round Lahti-based market intelligence startup Statzon has raised €400,000 during a seed round. It consisted of the equity funding from Gorilla Capital and Sofokus Ventures, and an R&D loan from Business Finland. “We have confidence in the team’s capabilities and their passion to