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Finnish startup Return Entertainment raises €5.3M for cloud-native gaming

Return Entertainment, a Finland-based gaming startup, has raised a €5.3 million round. The company develops cloud technology to transform the gaming industry, EU-Startups reports. The company was founded in 2019 by seven industry veterans. Among them are CEO Antti Sartanen,

Ukrainian bank and government websites under attack. Recent info

The websites of Ukrainian state services and dozens of banks have been hardly attacked. AIN.Capital shares recent information. The first was the state-owned Oshchadbank: Yesterday morning, there was information that its ATMs, website, and app don’t work. The bank reps

Wirex raises $15M to develop R&D in Ukraine

Wirex, a British fintech company that launched its product in Ukraine back in December 2021, has announced the raising of a $15 million investment, representatives of the company told AIN.UA. Funding details As reported, the raised funds will go toward

Estonian startup EyeVi Technologies closes $2M seed round for mapping technology

Estonia-based EyeVi Technologies has raise $2 million in a seed round for its mapping technology. ff Venture Capital led the round, ArcticStartup reports. Founded in 2020 by Gaspar Anton, EyeVi develops an AI-powered platform for geospatial data production, as well

Hotels.com to cease all operations in Ukraine from 1 April 2022

Social media users have been posting screenshots of emails from Hotels.com, in which the company announces the cessation of its operations in Ukraine. Hotels.com also informs that the service does not accept bookings for dates after March 13, 2022. Shutting

Estonian Specialist VC opens new €50M fund to support Baltic, Finnish, Ukrainian, and Belarusian startups

The Tallinn-based tech investor Specialist VC has announced the first close of a new €50 million fund at €42 million. The Specialist VC Fund II has been backed by the founders of Bolt, Veriff, and Vinted, Tech.eu reports.

Vilnius-based platform, benme, secures €100K pre-seed investment

benme, a Vilnius-based employee benefits and suppliers management platform, has secured €100,000 from two unnamed business angels. It’s their second pre-seed investment round, Startup Lithuania informs. Started in early 2021 by Irma Bucinskaite and Tomas Smagurauskas, benme develops a platform

Ambisafe owes $200k in salaries to dozens of developers

The Ambisafe IT company that develops blockchain projects owes salaries to its 30 ex-workers since 2019: developers, DevOps, Team Leads. The total debt exceeds $200,000. The management has remained silent on this issue since summer 2021. However, now the company

HARMAN acquires Ukrainian automotive technology developer Apostera

HARMAN International (the subsidiary of Samsung Electronics), focused on connected technologies for automotive, consumer, and enterprise markets, announced the acquisition of the automotive technology company Apostera. The amount of the deal has not been disclosed. About Apostera and HARMAN Apostera

Estonian agtech startup eAgronom closes €6.4M Series A round

eAgronom, an Estonian farm management software developer, has raised a total of €6.4 million in a Series A funding round to tackle the problem of carbon footprint in farming. The lead investors are Yolo Investments and ZGI Capital, EU-Startups reports.