Tech Fund 23.04.2026
Ex-Swapfiets founders snap €3.2M for a platform for buying EVs. Here’s the pitch deck behind the raise

Eccasion, a used EV platform founded by the team behind Swapfiets, has raised €3.2 million from Playfair VC and Rethink Ventures to connect buyers directly with ex-lease inventory....

Tech Fund 23.04.2026
Voima Ventures, Superhero Capital back TheStorage’s €3.6M round to slash factory energy bills by 70%

TheStorage has raised €3.6 million in seed funding to scale a technology that stores energy in moving sand and helps factories move away from fossil fuels....

Tech Fund 23.04.2026
Bpifrance and Blast back UNIVITY with €27M to build a space network for telecom operators

Paris-based UNIVITY has raised a €27 million Series A from Blast and Bpifrance to build a wholesale VLEO 5G satellite constellation, providing telecom operators with a sovereign alternative to Starlink....

Tech Fund 23.04.2026
Bath University spinout replacing microplastics with plant beads just got €4.1M to open its Italian factory

Naturbeads has secured a €4.1 million EU grant to build its first commercial plant in Puglia, scaling biodegradable cellulose microspheres as a drop-in alternative to plastic microbeads....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
NeoCognition emerges from stealth with $40M to train AI agents that learn on the job

San Francisco startup NeoCognition has emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding to build self-learning AI agents that specialise on their own for complex enterprise tasks....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
OpenAI in talks to fund DeployCo with $1.5B to make AI easier for companies to use: report

OpenAI is reportedly launching DeployCo, a $10B joint venture backed by TPG, Bain Capital, and Advent, designed to embed AI engineers directly into enterprise companies to restructure operations....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
SpaceX could buy Cursor for $60B; the pair partner on AI model training

Cursor has formed a strategic partnership with SpaceX, giving Elon Musk's company the option to acquire the AI coding startup for $60 billion by the end of 2026, or pay a $10 billion collaboration fee....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
13 European climate tech startups to watch, according to top VCs

Despite a slight dip in European cleantech funding to €8.2 billion in 2025, leading climate tech VCs reveal the top portfolio and non-portfolio startups they are backing for Earth Day 2026....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
Blue Energy raises $380M from VXI Capital to bring factory-built nuclear plants to market

US startup Blue Energy has raised $380 million led by VXI Capital to build prefabricated, financeable nuclear power plants for AI data centres and advanced manufacturing, with its first 1.5GW Texas project starting in 2026....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
London’s talent lures OpenAI to the UK. But energy costs keep sovereign AI at bay 

OpenAI is expanding its London office for 500+ employees while pausing its Stargate UK data centre, exposing a growing split: the UK has world-class AI talent, but energy costs make it too expensive for compute infrastructure....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
UCL spinout QMatter raises $1.2M from 55 North to shrink quantum algorithms for drug discovery

London and Boston-based QMatter has raised a $1.2 million pre-seed round led by 55 North to scale its quantum compression platform, allowing pharma companies to run real-world molecular simulations on today's quantum hardware....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
Peek inside the deck the ex-N26 exec used to grab $3.3M from Amino Collective to replace health-guesswork with AI

Former N26 Chief Growth Officer Alexander Weber raised $3.3M for his AI health startup Calibre. See the pitch deck that secured backing from Amino Collective, Daybreak Ventures and N26's founder....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
A YouTuber who saw Europe's night trains vanish has now raised €2M from IBB Ventures to bring them back

Berlin-based Nox Mobility has raised a €2 million pre-seed round led by IBB Ventures to redesign European night train coaches for privacy and profitability, targeting business travellers....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
Slack, Deel founders back Realm's $4.5M round to bring AI layer to sales teams

Realm helps sales teams use AI agents to draft RFP responses, security questionnaires and deal materials, and is now opening self-serve access as it prepares for US expansion....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
Anthropic’s London Knowledge Quarter office marks its 'most important' hub outside of the US

Anthropic’s new office will be in London’s Knowledge Quarter in King’s Cross, following in the footsteps of rival OpenAI, as the AI company deepens its "Europe's largest businesses and fastest-growing startups are choosing Claude, and we're scaling to match," Pip White, who leads northern Europe at Anthropic, tells TFN....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
Project A backs Linexa with €2M to make production lines AI-ready

Munich startup Linexa has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding led by Project A to help manufacturers decode legacy factory control systems and build AI-ready production lines....

Tech Fund 22.04.2026
ATMOS wants build a space cargo highway. It just raised €25.7M to do so

German-French startup ATMOS Space Cargo has raised a €25.7 million Series A to launch three PHOENIX 2 vehicles, establishing Europe’s sovereign capability to return payloads from orbit....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
Norrsken Evolve backs Bubble Robotics' $5M raise to deploy an autonomous workforce at sea

Paris-based Bubble Robotics has raised $5 million to deploy crewless autonomous underwater robots for offshore wind, maritime security, and subsea inspection with no upfront costs....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
Tava Health bags $40M to power AI behavioural health platform

Tava Health has raised $40 million in Series C funding to launch a full-stack behavioral health platform serving clinicians, employers, and health plans from unified infrastructure....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
Ex-Stripe execs scoop €7.5M to automate the financial back office for early-stage startups

Founded by Stripe's former European CIO, Dublin fintech Seapoint has raised a €7.5 million seed round led by 13books to automate financial operations for European startups....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
Prediction market startup Polymarket nabs $400M at $15B valuation from NYSE owner: sources

Prediction market Polymarket is in talks to raise $400 million at $15 billion valuation following Intercontinental Exchange's $600 million investment, with volumes hitting $51 billion in 2025....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
AI search engine for new materials nears $200M raise to cross $1B valuation: report

Cambridge-based CuspAI is in talks to raise $200 million at over $1 billion valuation, accelerating AI-powered materials discovery for semiconductors and batteries....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
Amazon invests another $5B in Anthropic as part of $100B cloud commitment: report

Amazon has invested an additional $5 billion in Anthropic, bringing total backing to $13 billion, while securing a decade-long exclusive AWS Trainium partnership and $100 billion in cloud commitments....

Tech Fund 21.04.2026
BlackRock and JPMorgan back Bezos’ AI lab in a $10B raise at $38B valuation: report

Jeff Bezos' physical AI lab Project Prometheus is close to closing a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, backed by BlackRock and JPMorgan, to train models on industrial data....