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Polish fund SpeedUp Energy Innovation joins €2M round for Swobbee

Berlin-based climate tech startup Swobbee has raised €2 million of debt and equity financing in an extension of a preceding Series A Round. The round is backed by Dutch Stichting Clean Future Dividend Fund and Polish SpeedUp Energy Innovation, the

Finnish IoT company Haltian raises €22M for further expansion

The Oulu-based Haltian, a company that offers easy-to-use IoT software for commercial real estate needs, has announced a fresh €22 million investment. The round was led by Mandatum Asset Management Growth Equity II fund.  “The new funding enables us to

EACL 2023 conference welcomes representatives of sanctioned Russian companies

In early May 2023, the Association of Computational Linguistics will host EACL 2023, the 17th Conference of its European Chapter, which has considerable weight in the academic world. Despite many US and EU representatives in governing bodies of the organization, the

Finnish startup Epicbrief secures €1M for its customer relationship management platform 

The Helsinki-based startup Epicbrief that develops an AI-based solution for automation of administrative tasks in sales has secured €1 million to optimize its platform and expand the user base. Dutch VC firm Curiosity led the round.  “By automating administrative tasks,

Israel IT wants to buy several small Ukrainian outsourcers

Mergewave Capital signed an agreement with the software developer Israel IT, which will allow to search for companies for a merger in the IT sector in Ukraine for the latter. Taras Bachynskyi, the co-founder of Mergewave Capital, told AIN.Capital about

Lithuanian logistics startup Swotzy raises €90k from FIRSTPICK

The Riga-based startup Swotzy, that provides delivery options for e-commerce, has raised €90,000 led by Lithuanian VC fund FIRSTPICK. This is the first investment for Swotzy. “We are a platform that consolidates postal players in one place. We allow our

Market One Capital joins ＄9.5M seed investment in MetaGravity

Warsaw-based venture capital fund Market One Capital has joined a $9.5 million seed investment round in MetaGravity. It’s a London-based firm creating the technical foundation for a scalable and decentralised metaverse, Tech.eu reports. “MetaGravity’s proprietary IP has the potential to

American Lyft lays off at least 1,200 people. Ukrainian office will be cut by 20%

The US-based service Lyft has announced a new wave of layoffs. We will remind, Lyft opened an office in Ukraine and started recruiting the team back in 2021. The Lyft service does not work in Ukraine, and its launch was

Spotify marks Crimea as part of Russia… again

Spotify has marked occupied Crimea as part of the Russian Federation in the list of countries where it operates. As AlexGoogole, who was the first to notice Spotify’s new policy, noted on Twitter, the dataset for this map is available

Even wars have rules. ICRC promoted Russian-made shooter during its campaign for gamers

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has run Play by the Rules campaign that urged gamers from all over the world to play first-person shooters (FPS) by the Rules of War to show everyone that “even wars have