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| 16.04.2025 | Portia AI Raises £4.4 million in Funding Round led by General Catalyst | Listen to this article
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Artificial intelligence startup Portia AI has raised £4.4 million in funding led by General Catalyst with the participation of First Minute Capital and Stem AI.
Portia AI is a provider of AI... |
| 16.04.2025 | British startup Portia AI bags €5 million to help developers build AI agents in production with better human oversight | London-based Portia AI, an open-source AI agents SDK, announced today a €5.1 million funding round to give developers the tools to build production-grade AI agents they can predict, control and authenticate.
The round was led by General Cat... |
| 15.04.2025 | South Africa’s payments startup Stitch raises $55 million Series B funding | Stitch, a South Africa-based payments infrastructure startup founded in 2021, has raised $55 million in a Series B round, bringing its total funding to $107 million within just four years of operation. The funding is aimed at expanding its ... |
| 15.04.2025 | Payments Firm Stitch Raises $55 Million in Funding Round led by QED | Listen to this article
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Stich, a Fintech payments venture based in South Africa, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by QED Investors.
Other investors include Flourish Ventures, Norrsken22, and G... |
| 05.04.2025 | GRACE: The New Shield for Luxury Items | In a world where luxury is both a status symbol and a target, GRACE emerges as a guardian. This Franco-Swiss fintech has just secured €5.9 million in seed funding, a significant step towards revolutionizing the insurance landscape for high-... |
| 04.04.2025 | Insurtech GRACE secures €5.9M Seed to protect luxury items | GRACE, a Franco-Swiss fintech specialising in luxury item protection, has closed its €5.9M Seed round.
The round was led by FinTech Collective and Speedinvest, with participation from Firstminute Capital, Purple, Kima Ventures, Bpifrance, a... |
| 03.04.2025 | Mark Kleinman: Britain should steel itself for unwanted status among G7 | Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column
Sajid Javid, Greg Clark, Andrea Leadsom, Kemi Badenoch and now Jonathan Reynolds: the list of business secretaries handed the a... |
| 17.03.2025 | EngFlow Acquires tipi.build | EngFlow, an Austin, TX-based build acceleration company, announced the acquisition of tipi.build, a Zurich, Switzerland-based provider of fast remote C, C++ and Rust.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company also announced the ... |
| 13.03.2025 | Texas-based company acquires tipi.build |
Dedicated to helping C and C++ developers enhance efficiency and productivity, Zurich-based startup tipi technologies AG developed a platform to streamline and accelerate the development process. Tipi empowers developers in the IoT, financ... |
| 21.02.2025 | Capi Money Raises €17.2M in Series A Funding | Capi Money, a London, UK-based FinTech startup, raised €17.2M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Creandum and joined by Janngo.africa, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Firstminute Capital, 4Cities, The Raba Pa... |
| 18.02.2025 | Capi Money secures €17.2 million to revolutionise global trade for SMEs in emerging markets | London-based FinTech startup Capi Money has raised €17.2 million in a Series A round to scale its international payments platform designed for SMEs in emerging markets, primarily in Africa, Latin America and China.
The funding round was led... |
| 03.02.2025 | Tana: The Future of Work is Here with AI-Native Collaboration | In the bustling world of technology, a new player is making waves. Tana, an Oslo-based startup, has just raised €13.6 million in Series A funding. This brings their total funding to €24.3 million. The goal? To redefine how we work by integr... |
| 03.02.2025 | AI-native workspace startup Tana raises €13.6 million to develop voice-powered workflow | Oslo-based startup Tana, an all-in-one workspace that integrates AI into everyday work, announced a €13.6 million Series A round to further develop their AI agents and voice-powered workflow.
The funding round was led by Tola Capital, with ... |
| 03.02.2025 | Tana raises $25M for AI-embedded workflow platform | Tana, an online workspace platform embedded with advanced analytics, has raised a $14M Series A round led by Tola Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Alliance VC, and firstminute capital.
This brings the... |
| 03.02.2025 | Lindus Health: ‘Anti-CRO’ Company Raises $55 Million (Series B) | Lindus Health, an the anti-CRO running faster and more reliable clinical trials, announced it has raised $55 million in Series B funding. This funding round was led by new investor Balderton Capital, with support from Visionaries Club and e... |
| 03.02.2025 | Tana: $25 Million Closed For Human-AI Collaboration Platform | Tana, an all-in-one workspace that naturally integrates AI into everyday work, announced a $14 million Series A round led by Tola Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Northzone, Alliance VC, and firstminute capital.... |
| 03.02.2025 | Tana Raises $25Million to Unlock the Power of Human-AI Collaboration | The AI-native workspace launches powerful Voice and AI workflows—attracting over 160,000 users to the waitlist.
Today, Tana, the all-in-one workspace that naturally integrates AI into everyday work, announced a $14 million Series A round le... |
| 22.01.2025 | Lindus Health Raises $55M to Accelerate AI-Driven Clinical Trials | What You Should Know:
– Lindus Health, a company transforming the clinical trial landscape with its tech-first approach raises $55M in Series B funding round led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Visionaries Club and existing in... |
| 16.01.2025 | Vet services platform Lupa raises $4M Seed | Lupa, a vet services platform, has raised a $4M seed from firstminute capital, 2100 Ventures and Vento by Exor Ventures. Other investors include top McKinsey, BCG, JP Morgan, Nexi, and NovaCapital angels.
Lupa will use the new funding to ac... |
| 14.12.2024 | Concentro: Clean Energy Financing Company Secures $3 Million (Seed) | Concentro – a clean energy financing platform – announced it closed a seed round of $3 million in an oversubscribed deal led by firstminute Capital, with participation from Silence VC, LifeX, Plug & Play, & Avesta Fund. Other partic... |
| 11.10.2024 | ClaimSorted raises $3M to expedite insurance claim processing | ClaimSorted, a company dedicated to simplifying claims processing for insurers, has secured $3 million in pre-seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Firstminute capital, with participation from YCombinator, Precursor Ventures, an... |
| 12.09.2024 | Landbase: The Dawn of Agentic AI in Sales and Marketing | In the bustling landscape of technology, a new player has emerged, ready to shake up the sales and marketing game. Landbase, a San Francisco-based startup, recently unveiled its innovative AI platform, GTM-1 Omni, and secured $12.5 million ... |
| 11.09.2024 | Landbase unveils AI platform to transform go-to-market strategies, secures $12.5M in funding | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Landbase, a startup aiming to transform sales and marketing automation, emerged from stealth mode today with a $1... |
| 25.10.2023 | London's Klu raises $1.7M for large language model application platform | UK-based large language model application platform Klu, has raised a $1.7 million Pre-seed funding round led by Firstminute Capital and included participation from a16z, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, and Atomico and angel investors from ... |
| 25.10.2023 | London’s Klu bags €1.6M to empower AI engineers and teams with one-stop platform | Read this article in:
London-based Klu, a startup that provides a platform for building and optimising AI-powered applications, announced that it has raised €1.6M in a pre-seed round of funding.
The round was led by Firstminute Capital, wit... |
| 24.07.2023 | Quench.ai raises $5 million to expand its team to support product and tech development of the AI-powered edtech start-up | London-based AI edtech platform Quench.ai is aimed at professionals looking to learn in real-time. Through a series of short questions, it searches through a host of video learning content to offer the most relevant content for the user's n... |
| 11.07.2023 | Roadie Announces General Availability of ‘Tech Insights,’ an Enhancement to Its Spotify Backstage SaaS Offering | SaaS Backstage. Simple, safe, and more powerful. The early product-market fit we’ve found is a great indicator that there’s a strong market for internal developer portals that abstract away the complexity while embracing an open source etho... |
| 12.06.2023 | Slack’s Cal Henderson and Sir Richard Branson back firstminute capital’s third fund | Despite some typically British (or, more accurately, English) doom-mongering about the UK’s VC ecosystem lately, there’s no denying its capability for reinvention. Witness Moonfire’s recent new $115 million fund, IQ Capital’s $200 million f... |
| 01.06.2023 | Lindus Health kicks off more clinical trials through its clinical trial management platform | London-based medtech Lindus Health has announced a new rake of clinical trials which will be managed through its platform. It claims that using its clinical trial management platform it can speed trials up to three times faster than the tra... |
| 13.04.2023 | Fork & Good targets cost parity for cultivated pork: ‘It’s a totally useless exercise to make products nobody can afford’ | In theory, growing meat from animal cells instead of slaughtering billions of sentient creatures and plundering the oceans sounds like a no-brainer: The promise of ‘real’ meat, without the ethical and environmental baggage.
In practice, man... |
| 22.03.2023 | UK-based RightHub bags €13.8M to upgrade global infrastructure for protecting innovations | London-based RightHub, a collaborative Intellectual Property (IP) platform for managing and enforcing innovation and ideas, announced on Wednesday that it has secured $15M (approximately €13.89M) in an oversubscribed Seed round of funding.
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| 10.11.2022 | Polish cleantech startup Airly raises $5.5M in a Series A round | Polish cleantech startup Airly raises $5.5M in a Series A round
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| 23.09.2022 | Managing headless storefronts for e-commerce brands lands €5.4 million for Instant Commerce | According to the Salesforce State of Commerce report, 80% of businesses that don’t currently have headless commerce technology plan to implement it in the next two years. But building, maintaining and managing headless storefronts is an eno... |
| 22.09.2022 | Amsterdam’s headless storefront builder Instant Commerce bags €5.4M for Europe, US expansion | Amsterdam-based Instant Commerce, a headless front-end builder for fast-growing e-commerce brands, announced on Thursday, September 22, that it has secured €5.4M in a Seed round of funding.
The round comes eight months after the company rai... |
| 30.08.2022 | Dublin-based Protex AI nabs €18.1 million to use AI hacks to prevent workplace accidents | Dublin-based startup preventing workplace accidents before they happen, Protex AI has raised $18 million in funding to expand its teams to meet the demands of the global market and expand its U.S. operations.
Leading the round was Notion Ca... |
| 06.07.2022 | Amsterdam-based open-source startup Baserow raises €5M from Inkef, Seedcamp, others | Amsterdam-based Baserow, an open-source startup building a collaborative no-code database platform, announced on Wednesday that it has raised €5M in its Seed round of funding.
The investment was led by Amsterdam-based early-stage investor I... |
| 09.06.2022 | Instant Commerce Secures €2M via Pre-Seed Round for Next-Gen “Headless” Storefront Builder | Listen to this article
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“Headless” e-commerce solution Instant Commerce has acquired €2 million in capital via a pre-seed round that was led by firstminute Capital.
The founders of Storyblok, Wandera, Snyk and Supe... |
| 09.06.2022 | Headless frontend builder for e-commerce shops Instant Commerce secures €2 million | Amsterdam-based Instant Commerce has raised €2 million in a pre-seed round. The commerce for Commerce is slated to be used to double the team size to some 40+ members, further develop the company’s technical offer, and build brand awareness... |
| 09.06.2022 | Amsterdam’s Instant Commerce raises €2M to help ecommerce brands build headless webshops | Amsterdam-based Instant Commerce, a next-generation headless storefront builder, announced on Thursday that it has raised €2M in its pre-Seed round of funding.
The startup is on a mission to redefine how e-commerce brands build and manage h... |
| 09.06.2022 | Brent Hoberman Welcomes Chronos Law to Founders Forum Group | Founders Forum Group has invested in full-service tech law firm, Chronos Law
9 JUNE 2022 – LONDON – Founders Forum Group has invested in boutique law firm, Chronos Law and will become a significant minority shareholder. The firm can now acc... |
| 17.05.2022 | Storyblok rakes in $47 million to boost content experience on digital platforms | Austria-based headless content management system (CMS), Storyblok has raised $47 million in funding to enable developers and marketers to deliver powerful content experiences on any digital platform. The Series B financing was led by Mubada... |
| 03.05.2022 | Checking in with $2 million, Cheq aims to bring hassle-free user experience in crypto | An ever-increasing number of consumers are turning to stable coins as a way of protecting their wealth against hyperinflation that their native currencies may be prone to. Traditional payment infrastructures can be less effective in some re... |
| 07.03.2022 | Cambridge startup ramps up $3.4 million to show how AI can make human connections deeper | University of Cambridge spin-out Tenyks has raised a $3.4 million seed investment to help machine learning engineers build better, safer AI. The round was co-led by Speedinvest and firstminute capital, with participation from LAUNCHub Ventu... |
| 23.06.2021 | Firstminute Capital стал первым в мире фондом, в который инвестировали 100 основателей «единорогов» | Во второй посевной фонд Firstminute Capital инвестировали 22 основателя $10 млрд+ компаний, а также фаундеры Farfetch, Flixbus, Checkout.com, iZettle и Babylon.
В 2017 году Firstminute Capital закрыл свой первый фонд на $100 млн с инвестици... |
| 22.03.2021 | Airly raises $3.3m from marquee tech investors to address the air quality health crisis | LONDON, March 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cleantech business Airly, Inc. today announced it has raised a $3.3m funding round to scale its AI-powered air quality platform globally. Airly's customers comprise over 600 local governments and citie... |
| 22.03.2021 | Airly raises $3.3m from marquee tech investors to address the air quality health crisis | |
| 09.12.2020 | Backed by Google’s Eric Schmidt, London-based VC Firstminute launches second £87M fund | London-headquartered Firstminute Capital announced its second early-stage venture fund of £87 million. Right now, the company is backed by 70 unicorn founders, alongside a host of global CEOs. Plans to invest across Europe and US
Founded by... |
| 03.12.2020 | Food robotics startup Karakuri unveils automated canteen, plus $8.4M investment led by firstminute | - |
| 02.12.2020 | Food robotics startup Karakuri unveils automated canteen, plus $8.4M investment led by firstminute | Last week I witnessed for myself how a new kind of robot really could — as sci-fi has been telling us for many years — create and serve us food. Today, Karakuri, a food robotics startup, unveils its first automated canteen to make meals: th... |
| 29.11.2020 | Firstminute Capital launches second $111M fund, featuring a who’s-who of founders as LPs | London HQ’d Firstminute Capital has announced its second early-stage venture fund of $111 million (£87 million). Founded and cornerstoned in 2016 by Brent Hoberman CBE (best known as co-founder of lastminute.com and MADE.com), together with... |
| 21.05.2020 | Automattic pumps $4.6M into New Vector to help grow Matrix, an open, decentralized comms ecosystem | Automattic, the open source force behind WordPress .com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and Tumblr, has made a $4.6M strategic investment into New Vector — the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix. Th... |
| 10.10.2019 | New Vector scores $8.5M to plug more users into its open, decentralized messaging Matrix | New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 by the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging protocol for instant messaging and VoIP a... |
| 21.08.2019 | Berlin-based game studio Klang raises €20 million to develop its virtual space colony, Seed | Berlin-based gaming studio Klang has raised €20 million to develop a virtual world, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) space colony simulation game called Seed. Klang describes the simulation as a voyage across an Earth-like exoplanet – a... |
| 21.02.2019 | Typology raises a $10M seed round with Alven, Marc Simoncini, Xavier Niel and Firstminute Capital | Typology.com is direct-to-consumer brand offering quality skincare and cosmetics products that wants to challenge established FMCG [fast-moving consumer goods] brands. This ambitious project, launched by Ning Li the founder of Made.com, amb... |
| 14.06.2018 | Firstminute Capital Closes First Venture Capital Fund, at $100M | Firstminute Capital, a London, UK-based early stage venture capital firm, closed its first seed fund, at $100m.
LPs include 50 entrepreneurs, 30 of whom have founded billion dollar businesses, as well as global institutions as well as strat... |
| 11.06.2018 | firstminute capital announces final close of a new $100 million pan-European seed fund | firstminute capital, the London-based pan-European seed fund founded by Brent Hoberman and Spencer Crawley, has today announced a final close of $100 million, as well as details around its first batch of early-stage investments made since S... |
| 11.06.2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, June 11 | ROUND TWO
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This marks Eckert’s second round as CEO of Sprout, the Raleigh, N.C.-based developer of a drug intended to treat hypoactive sexua... |
| 08.03.2018 | Luther Systems secures $1.5M from Firstminute for its ‘modular’ blockchain | Luther Systems, the London based enterprise blockchain technology startup founded in 2016 by a former Stanford PhD and ex-Tesla and Apple engineer, has secured $1.5m seed round back in a round led by Firstminute Capital. The startup says it... |
| 12.12.2017 | 5 Nordic Startups talk business at the European Parliament | The European Innovation Week is a joint initiative from the European Union institutions, which will feature a series of seminars for the whole week, starting today. Aside the 9th European Innovation Summit , Knowledge4Innovation , a non pro... |
| 14.09.2017 | Firstminute closes $85 million fund backed by Tencent and Atomico | VC firm Firstminute Capital has closed its new $85 million fund to invest in early stage European startups with backing from Chinese giant Tencent.
The London-based fund, cofounded by Brent Hoberman and Spencer Crawley, is also backed by VC... |
| 12.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, June 12 | SUNNY SUNDAY
Good morning! I hope you were all enjoying a lovely Sunday while Uber’s board held a seven-hour meeting to go over the results of Eric Holder’s independent investigation on Uber’s work environment, and reporters on the beat rac... |
| 12.06.2017 | Firstminute Capital launches $60 million seed fund for European startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Firstminute Capital, a new pan-European seed fund cofounded by Lastminute.com’s Brent Hoberman, announced it has closed an oversubscrib... |
| 12.06.2017 | Firstminute Capital launches $60 million seed fund for European startups | Firstminute Capital, a new pan-European seed fund cofounded by Lastminute.com’s Brent Hoberman, announced it has closed an oversubscribed first fund at $60 million.
The firm claims to have around two dozen founders of billion-dollar tech bu... |
| 11.06.2017 | Firstminute Capital closes $60 million seed fund with help from Atomico | Firstminute Capital has closed its new seed fund at $60 million to invest in early stage European tech companies.
The London-based firm will invest between $250,000 and $750,000 in startups and is currently hiring for its team. The fund was... |
| - | Passionfruit blossoms in $4.3 million seed round | London-based Passionfruit, not to be confused with Berlin’s Passionfroot, has raised $4.3 million in a seed funding round. The startup caters to Gen Z and helps the stressed, depressed, and exam-obsessed generation transition to the freelan... |
| - | Dutch platform Baserow picks up €5 million to create no-code toolchain | Since the pandemic, the low-code and no-code tools sectors have seen steady growth due to their effectiveness in addressing complex business challenges - particularly the need to digitise workflows, automate processes and improve business e... |
| - | Checking in with $2 million, Cheq aims to bring hassle-free user experience in crypto | An ever-increasing number of consumers are turning to stable coins as a way of protecting their wealth against hyperinflation that their native currencies may be prone to. Traditional payment infrastructures can be less effective in some re... |
| - | Home design and decorating startup Plum plumbs €5 million in seed funding | Let’s be honest, not all of us are incredible interior designers. Or, sometimes we’re just too busy with 99 other problems to worry about does this really go with that? and what if this were there? and this was combined with that? In an old... |
| - | Addressing privacy and compliance in engineering teams, London’s Soveren lands $6.5 million in seed round | London-based privacy and security solution for engineering teams, Soveren has closed $6.5 million seed round. The company analyzes real-time data flows inside the company’s infrastructure to discover personal data and detect privacy risks.
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| - | Headless frontend builder for e-commerce shops Instant Commerce secures €2 million | Amsterdam-based Instant Commerce has raised €2 million in a pre-seed round. The commerce for Commerce is slated to be used to double the team size to some 40+ members, further develop the company’s technical offer, and build brand awareness... |
| - | Storyblok rakes in $47 million to boost content experience on digital platforms | Austria-based headless content management system (CMS), Storyblok has raised $47 million in funding to enable developers and marketers to deliver powerful content experiences on any digital platform. The Series B financing was led by Mubada... |
| - | Serverless database provider Xata raises $5 million in Index led round | Berlin’s serverless database provider Xata has clocked $5 million in the bank in a seed round led by Index Ventures. The startup offers anyone the power of a traditional database with the usability of a spreadsheet app, because let’s be hon... |
| - | Berlin's Taktile raises $4.7 million via Index Ventures, Y Combinator, and others | Developing solutions aimed at accelerating the adoption of machine learning technology in the financial industry, Berlin-based Taktile has raised $4.7 million in a seed funding round led by Index Ventures. The funding is expected to continu... |
| - | Nou fond european de aproape 100 milioane Euro pentru startup-uri IT, cu participarea fostului șef Google | Startup-urile IT europene vor putea obține noi finanțări de capital de risc de la un fond de investiții de 87 de milioane de lire sterline (aproape 100 de milioane de euro) lansat la Londra, cu participarea fostului CEO al Google Eric Schmi... |
| - | London's Ramp ramps up the crypto payments infrastructure game with $52.7 million raise | London-based, but with deep roots in Poland, crypto payments infrastructure startup Ramp has raised $52.7 million in a Series A funding round. The platform provides developers with a non-custodial payment infrastructure that allows for the ... |
| - | SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge accelerator launches in Europe, aims to promote underrepresented entrepreneurs | SoftBank has launched the SoftBank Vision Fund Emerge accelerator in Europe with the goal of connecting underrepresented entrepreneurs with capital, tools, and networks to help them scale. The programme is open to European startups that hav... |
| - | London-based NFT platform Fair.xyz brings in $4.5 million | London-based NFT minting platform Fair.xyz has raised $4.5 million in funding. The investment was led by VC firm Eden Block and saw participation from OpenSea, NFX, and firstminute capital.
Founded by Isaac Kamlish, Isaac Bentata Chocron an... |
| - | Cambridge startup ramps up $3.4 million to show how AI can make human connections deeper | University of Cambridge spin-out Tenyks has raised a $3.4 million seed investment to help machine learning engineers build better, safer AI. The round was co-led by Speedinvest and firstminute capital, with participation from LAUNCHub Ventu... |
