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Hungarian agtech Proofminder receives €400k round from Impact Ventures

The Budapest-based agtech startup Proofminder that provides a leaf-level farming platform has received €400,000 from Impact Ventures. With the fresh round, the startup aims to start the global expansion.

Startup of the Day: Digicust, digital customs clearance platform provider

Founded in 2020, Vienna-based Digicust develops machine learning and AI-based systems for the digitalization and automation of customs documents processing for freight forwarders and other enterprises. The startup also offers its virtual customs robot, Dexter IDP, which builds on companies’

Atomic Heart, Escape from Tarkov, and Wagner Groups: how Steam tolerates the war sympathizers

Valve Corporation, the owner of Steam, is currently facing the community backlash as several groups were found on the platform named after the Wagner Group, an internationally-recognized and banned terrorist organization rooted in Russia. However, the company doesn’t seem to

Four CEE funds receive €80M from Romanian Recovery Equity Fund

Romanian Recovery Equity Fund will invest €80 million in four local investment funds —  Innova/7, Booster Capital, GapMinder II, and Morphosis Capital I, in the frames of the EU Recovery and Resilience Program. Four funds will invest in at least

Polish spacetech Liftero secures pre-seed round to revolutionize orbital transportation

Poland-based spacetech company Liftero has successfully closed a pre-seed funding round. Sunfish Partners, Freya Capital, bValue, and several angel investors participated in the round set to revolutionize orbital transportation. “Super-heavy and reusable launchers are coming to the market, with SpaceX

Latvian agritech WeedBot raises €425k in a round led by Overkill Ventures

Riga-based laser weeding technology startup WeedBot has raised €425,000 in a new investment round led by Overkill Ventures. Accelerace also joined the round, along with several business angels in Latvia and the UK, Labs of Latvia reports. “To ‘catch’ the

Austrian ASI Reisen participates in $1M round for Viatu, the sustainable travel company 

The Switzerland-based Viatu, a startup for sustainable multi-day tours, has raised $1 million in a seed round led by Ndoto with participation from ASI Reisen. The investment will help Viatu to finish building its booking platform. “We created Viatu to

German Blocktorch secures ＄4.2M in a seed round joined by Speedinvest and RockawayX

Berlin-based Web3 observability platform Blocktorch has secured $4.2 million in a seed funding round led by IDEO CoLab Ventures. Among others, the round also saw participation from the Austrian early-stage fund Speedinvest and Czech Web3 fund RockawayX, Tech.eu reports. “We are

D3 military tech accelerator is to launch in Ukraine. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is among the LPs

In recent months, Ukraine has been preparing for the launch of several accelerators and funds focused on military tech. In cooperation with the ministries, they are creating a framework that will cover the entire path from stimulation and financing of

Polish medtech BioCam secures €440k to develop an AI-based endoscopic capsule

Wroclaw-based medtech startup BioCam has secured about €440,000 (PLN 2 million) from the Level2 Ventures fund. The company develops an endoscopic capsule technology supported by AI, MamStartup informs.