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| 11.11.2024 | The Future of Sustainable Innovation: Jellatech and DREM Lead the Charge | In a world increasingly focused on sustainability, two companies are making waves in their respective fields. Jellatech, a North Carolina-based biotech firm, and DREM, a Swedish greentech startup, are pushing the boundaries of innovation. T... |
| 11.11.2024 | Stockholm-based DREM secures €1 million to expand heat pump technology | Stockholm-based DREM, a greentech company specialising in affordable, smart heat pump technology, has raised €1 million in additional funding from venture capital firms Peak, byFounders, Redstone, and Futurum Ventures. This investment will ... |
| 06.11.2024 | Jellatech to Expand Bioidentical Human Collagen Production at New 9,000-Square-Foot Facility | US biotech company Jellatech, a leading innovator in cell-based collagen, announces it has completed construction of its 9,000 square-foot facility in Morrisville, North Carolina.
The facility is designed for ongoing research and developmen... |
| 22.10.2024 | DataCrunch Raises €12m to Scale AI Infrastructure Across Europe | Listen to this article
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DataCrunch, a European provider of artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure, has secured €12 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm byFounders.
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| 21.10.2024 | DataCrunch advances affordable AI infrastructure with $13M Seed funding | DataCrunch, the European provider of AI computing infrastructure, has raised $13 million Seed funding, bringing its funding to $18 million.
Despite global growth, AI innovation faces significant challenges; namely, the cost and limited avai... |
| 21.10.2024 | Helsinki-based DataCrunch.io Raises €12 million to hyperscale AI Computing in Europe | DataCrunch, an European provider of AI computing infrastructure, has raised a €12 million seed funding round led by byFounders. The funding will be used to scale infrastructure as the company sets out to become Europe’s first hyperscaler – ... |
| 17.10.2024 | Jellatech Unveils Updated Brand to Showcase Cell-Based Collagen Solutions for Health and Longevity | Jellatech, a US biotech startup pioneering the development of cell-based collagen, announces the launch of its updated brand and website.
As stated by the company, the new rebrand has been designed to showcase its mission to revolutionize b... |
| 08.10.2024 | Lovable's Leap: Democratizing Software Development with GPT Engineer | In a world where technology reigns supreme, coding is the new literacy. Yet, only a fraction of the population can wield this power. Enter Lovable, a Stockholm-based startup that aims to change the game. With a fresh €6.8 million (approxima... |
| 07.10.2024 | Lovable raises $7.5M for GPT Engineer | Lovable, a platform aiming to allow anyone to create software, has closed a $7.5M pre-Seed funding round. The round was led by Hummingbird VC and byFounders VC, top Nordic funds and angel syndicates, as well as Deepmind angel operators, pro... |
| 20.05.2024 | Sweden-based QA.tech secures €3M to accelerate AI-powered software testing: Know more | Read this article in:
Stockholm-based AI company QA.tech has secured €3M in a seed round of funding, just six months following its $1M pre-seed round.
The current investment was led by British venture capital firm PROfounders, accompanied b... |
| 26.09.2023 | Sweden's QA.tech raises $1M for AI tool to speed up code testing | Developers may just get some of their precious coding time back as QA.tech is using AI to speed up the code testing process. The Swedish startup’s SaaS tool has been designed to mock a real tester searching for any issues in webpage code. I... |
| 04.09.2023 | Danish startup Rig.dev raises €2M to develop its open source platform for Kubernetes | This week, Danish startup Rig.dev raised €2 million in one of the largest pre-seed rounds in Danish history.
The company has developed an open-source solution built on top of Kubernetes that helps developers build scalable backend and cloud... |
| 02.09.2023 | Deal Dive: A cellular ag startup with a real moat | Would you eat lab-grown meat? Would you give the same answer if someone asked you to use a beauty product that had lab-grown collagen as an ingredient?
Cellular agriculture — the process of growing an agriculture product from cell cultures ... |
| 24.08.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Bayer & Shell tackle rice farming emissions, Mosaic launches biologicals business | Between August holidays and an uncertain economy, funding rounds were few and far between this week. Nonetheless, CPG product-testing startup Highlight snagged funds from major agrifood corporates and grain-trading platform Bushel announced... |
| 22.08.2023 | Brief: Jellatech lands $3.5m to produce collagen without having to ‘mine the animal’ | B2B biotech company Jellatech has secured $3.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round to build up its business of producing animal-free collagen, gelatin and other proteins.
Denmark-based byFounders led the round with participation from Mi... |
| 04.08.2023 | Danish startup Nuntio raises €2M to develop the first open source BaaS platform on Kubernetes | This week Danish startup Nuntio raised €2 million in one of the largest pre-seed rounds in Danish history.
The company has developed the first-ever open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution built on top of Kubernetes that helps devel... |
| 23.02.2023 | Using generative AI to turn team chatter into bullet points, Berlin's Spoke.ai raises €2 million | Berlin's Spoke.ai recently began an open beta of its generative AI operating system for aggregating project deadlines, discussion and promotional work, allowing it to extract the important bits and reduce workday incursions caused by ill-ti... |
| 23.02.2023 | OWND raises $750,000 to let Gen Z back brands using fashion NFTs | Copenhagen startup OWND recently secured $750,000 of pre-seed funds ahead of launching its fashion NFT platform.
Two Nordic VCs — byFounders and Skyfall — co-led the pre-seed round with participation from Steel DAO, a blockchain tech commun... |
| 22.02.2023 | Spoke AI is using generative AI to pull signal from workplace noise | As generative AI’s fast-unfolding power to supercharge content-creation amps up concern over what automation might mean for free access to quality information online, Berlin-based startup Spoke AI is gearing up to apply generative AI in a m... |
| 19.01.2023 | Digitail Nabs USD 11M to Transform Petcare Industry and Improve the Life of Pets Worldwide | Romanian petcare startup Digitail brings in USD 11M in Series A round Digitail’s platform automates veterinarians’ administrative tasks and facilitates communication between clinics and pet parents With the new investment, the startup will ... |
| 26.12.2022 | Lithuanian beautytech Watalook raises €3M to help manage business in the beauty industry | Lithuanian beautytech Watalook raises €3M to help manage business in the beauty industry
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| 18.11.2022 | Danish proptech Proper eyes European growth, following €3 million seed raise | Proper, a Copenhagen-based startup with hopes to expand across Europe with its software for rental tenancy agreements, just generated €3 million in a seed round of funding led by German VC 14Peaks Capital.
The round takes Proper's lifetime ... |
| 18.11.2022 | Danish proptech Proper eyes European growth, following €3 million seed raise | Proper, a Copenhagen-based startup with hopes to expand across Europe with its software for rental tenancy agreements, just generated €3 million in a seed round of funding led by 14Peaks Capital and Danish VC ALFA Ventures.
The round takes ... |
| 22.09.2022 | Cello scores €2.3 million to build word-of-mouth customer acquisition | The cost of customer acquisition is the main factor that limits the top-line growth of SaaS companies. In the current market, growth is being squeezed by external factors, too. On a macroeconomic level, founders are struggling with the new ... |
| 14.09.2022 | Monta mounts up for North American expansion with €30 million raise | Monta has raised €30 million in what the company is calling a Series A+ funding round. In addition to solidifying and bolstering its market position in Scandinavia, the UK, and Germany, Monta is also now setting its sights further afield an... |
| 30.06.2022 | Meet Vibrant, the Danish startup nabs €4 million to replace cash and expensive card terminals | Transforming Android devices into points of sale, Danish app Vibrant has raised €4 million funding. The round was led by byFounders, with participation from Luminar Ventures. The startup has raised €5.5 million to date.
Founded in 2020 by K... |
| 19.05.2022 | Disney for mental health! Berlin-based startup rethinks children’s entertainment and brings in €3 million | Alarmingly, one in three children has suffered mental health problems since the outbreak of the pandemic. The global digital health market is predicted to be worth around $640 billion by 2026. While the market for digital mental health prod... |
| 03.05.2022 | German venture network 10x Founders launches with €160m, backed by 200 entrepreneurs | 200 German entrepreneurs have pooled their cash into a new €160m fund to splash on pre-seed to Series A startups in Europe.
Dubbed 10x Founders, the venture network was founded by a group of seven German entrepreneurs and investors — Andrea... |
| 18.06.2021 | Smitten romances Gen Z with a new twist on dating apps | Iceland is not a stranger to romantic innovation. The island nation — population 360k — boasts the world’s first-ever app to keep singles from dating their cousins.
Now, two Icelandic entrepreneurs are betting they can make Generation Z fal... |
| 04.05.2021 | Pivoting from offline into virtual events for enterprises nets Tame a $5.5M seed round | In March 2020, Tame had a digital event suite for offline corporate events. But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events.... |
| 04.05.2021 | Copenhagen’s virtual events platform Tame raises €4.6 million in seed round | Let’s just call it like it is, event planning is truly a labour of love. It’s a million headaches before the curtain goes up, and another million more before the coffee has even arrived.
Having personally stood backstage at a countless numb... |
| 06.04.2021 | Helsinki-based autonomous hosptech platform Bob W raises €10 million in seed funding | Helsinki-based better-than-a-hotel hospitality platform Bob W has raised a total of €10 million in seed funding. The company raised €4 million in the first round of seed funding last year, and has closed and addition €6 million more as of t... |
| 20.03.2021 | This Week in Apps: Google Play slashes commissions, Apple sued over scammy apps, YouTube launches a TikTok clone in the US | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 bill... |
| 17.03.2021 | Digitail, an app for vets and their customers, raises $2.5M seed round led by byFounders | Digitail, a cloud service for veterinary surgeries and customers, has raised $2.5 million in a seed round led by byFounders and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), joined by Partech and a series of angels including Dr. Ivan Zakharenkov (S... |
| 11.03.2021 | Copenhagen-based proptech startup Proper closes $4.6 million seed round | Danish proptech startup focusing on long-term property rentals Proper has closed a $4.6 million seed round.
Led by byFounders, investors also include PreSeed Ventures, Prehype, Vaekstfonden, renowned architect Bjarke Ingels (BIG), and other... |
| 26.02.2021 | 6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021 | While Denmark and Copenhagen don’t often come up as a destination for European startups, it has a thriving local tech scene that’s home to some of the better startup conferences. After all, who doesn’t want to visit Copenhagen?
A highly edu... |
| 20.01.2020 | Tech.eu Podcast #152: Pointy and Google, what’s on at Davos, interview with byFounders’ Tommy Andersen, and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
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| 18.09.2019 | Vegetarian meal delivery startup Simple Feast raises €30m to take on the US | Danish plant-based meal delivery service Simple Feast has raised another €30m to launch its business in the US, hoping to find new customers among health-conscious Californians.
Backed by investors such as American venture capital firm W14,... |
| 04.04.2019 | Early stage VC, byFounders gets €100M as first-time fund, plans to back next-gen Nordic and Baltic tech startups | byFounders, an early-stage VC fund which focuses on tech startups from the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe has recently announced its debut fund of €100 million.
The investment came from the Danish Growth Fund, one of the most active fu... |
| 03.04.2019 | Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm byFounders Launches €100M Initial Fund | byFounders, a Copenhagen, Denmark and San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm, launched its initial fund of €100m.
The largest investor was the Danish Growth Fund. Other backers included Isomer Capital, Draper Esprit, Digital G... |
| 03.04.2019 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 3: Inside Andreessen’s Big Crypto Play | NEW FUND, NEW STRATEGY
Andreessen Horowitz, the 10-year-old venture capital firm, is ready for its next chapter. That chapter includes raising a new growth fund and renouncing its status as a venture firm.
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| 03.04.2019 | byFounders closes a €100 million fund to invest across the Nordics and Baltics | byFounders, an early-stage VC firm based in Copenhagen and San Francisco and backed by over 50 startup founders, has closed its first fund at €100 million. The firm plans to make about 30 investments — primarily in seed-stage and Series A s... |
| 03.04.2019 | byFounders closes €100 million fund to scale Nordic and Baltic startups and strengthen ties with Silicon Valley | Copenhagen and San Francisco-based byFounders, an early-stage VC fund, has launched its initial fund of €100 million to support the next generation of Nordic and Baltic tech startups to scale up and expand globally, with plans to make over ... |
| 02.04.2019 | Early-stage VC byFounders closes €100M fund to back Nordics and Baltics startups | ByFounders, a relatively new early-stage venture capital firm targeting the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe, is officially launching its first fund today.
The debut fund has closed at €100 million and will be used to back tech startups ... |
| - | Copenhagen’s virtual events platform Tame raises €4.6 million in seed round | Let’s just call it like it is, event planning is truly a labour of love. It’s a million headaches before the curtain goes up, and another million more before the coffee has even arrived.
Having personally stood backstage at a countless numb... |
| - | Simple Feast raises $12M to fight climate change with plant-based food | This Series A funding round is led by Balderton, with participation from 14W in New York. Existing investors Sweet Capital, ByFounders and a group of business angels are reinvesting.
Simple Feast was founded in 2015 by repeat entrepreneurs... |
| - | Ahead of COP26, Stockholm’s Normative raises €10 million | Self-billed as an “emissions accounting engine”, Stockholm-based Normative has netted €10 million and is aiming to take on the widespread practice of greenwashing, holding businesses truly accountable for their environmental impact. No indi... |
| - | Disney for mental health! Berlin-based startup rethinks children’s entertainment and brings in €3 million | Alarmingly, one in three children has suffered mental health problems since the outbreak of the pandemic. The global digital health market is predicted to be worth around $640 billion by 2026. While the market for digital mental health prod... |
| - | Meet Vibrant, the Danish startup nabs €4 million to replace cash and expensive card terminals | Transforming Android devices into points of sale, Danish app Vibrant has raised €4 million funding. The round was led by byFounders, with participation from Luminar Ventures. The startup has raised €5.5 million to date.
Founded in 2020 by K... |
| - | Transforming how talent is measured on web! Finnish startup takes on old-fashioned CVs with $1.2 million | Old-fashioned CVs don’t give a realistic image of the candidate’s experience and skills. Attempting to change how people measure and discover talent in the online native world is Finnish Web3 startup Kleoverse. It has now raised $1.2 millio... |
| - | Helsinki-based autonomous hosptech platform Bob W raises €10 million in seed funding | Helsinki-based better-than-a-hotel hospitality platform Bob W has raised a total of €10 million in seed funding. The company raised €4 million in the first round of seed funding last year, and has closed and addition €6 million more as of t... |
| - | Rolling out incentive tokens to fix stock option, Salto X picks up €5.2 million | Ukraine and Estonia-based platform which enables founders to easily create token pools in their cap table, Salto X has raised a seed round of €5.2 million to build a remote-friendly alternative to stock options in Europe.
The round was led ... |
| - | Design tool for non-designers Uizard raises $15 million | AI-powered digital design assistant Uizard has secured $15 million in a Series-A investment round. The previously “impossible” platform helps non-designers, well, quite frankly, design. Perhaps an easy way to think of it is the Canva for no... |
