| Date | Title | Description |
| 11.05.2026 | Finnish Airships Reshape Global Security: Kelluu's Autonomous Future Takes Flight | Finnish deeptech firm Kelluu secured €15 million, led by NATO Innovation Fund, for its autonomous airship platform. This funding fuels persistent low-altitude monitoring across vast, challenging regions, including the Arctic. Kelluu's silen... |
| 14.04.2026 | Kelluu raises €15M to scale autonomous airship intelligence platform | Kelluu, a Finnish deeptech company operating the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has raised €15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by the NATO Innovation Fund, marking its first investment in a Finnish company. Additio... |
| 06.03.2026 | TOP 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space in 2026! | Ahead of International Women’s Day 2026 on March 8, this year’s theme, “Give to Gain”, highlights the power of generosity, collaboration, and shared responsibility in advancing gender equality. The campaign encourages individuals, organisat... |
| 21.11.2025 | European Defense Tech Fund Secures €150M Amidst Rising Security Concerns | Keen Venture Partners closes Europe's largest defense tech VC fund. The fund aims to bolster European security with investments in cybersecurity, autonomous systems, and more. Geopolitical tensions drive increased defense spending.
Europe i... |
| 21.11.2025 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: The Largest Defense-Tech VC Fund in Europe | Europe ~
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The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, start... |
| 20.11.2025 | +++ Keen Venture Partners +++ State of European Tech +++ Trade Republic +++ Flix +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Donnerstag, 20. November). #STARTUPLAND: SAVE THE DATE
The next unicorn? You’ll meet it at STARUPLAND
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| 20.11.2025 | Largest Defense-Tech VC Fund Hits €150M First Close | Europe ~
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“We are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either.” This statement was made by Mark Rutte, Secretary-General of NATO, in early 2025. Months later, the phrase resurfaced, this time from Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich... |
| 18.11.2025 | As modern battlefield needs evolve, Keen Venture Partners raises Europe’s largest dedicated DefenceTech fund | Today, Amsterdam-based Keen Venture Partners announces that it has completed the first close of its European defence and security technology fund – raising more than €150 million to become the largest DefenceTech venture capital fund in Eur... |
| 16.11.2025 | Azumuta: €8 Million Series A Closed To Advance AI-Driven Digital Work Instructions For Global Manufacturers | Azumuta, a Ghent-based software scale-up focused on digitalizing frontline manufacturing operations, has secured €8 million in Series A funding to accelerate development of its operator-centric platform. The financing round was led by Keen ... |
| 07.11.2025 | Balnord Fund I Surpasses Target, Powers Europe's DeepTech Future | Balnord, a Luxembourg-based early-stage investor, has exceeded its €70M fundraising target for Balnord Fund I. It is poised for a €100M final close by mid-2026. The fund focuses on frontier and dual-use DeepTech in the Baltic Sea Region, fu... |
| 07.11.2025 | Balnord Exceeds Target for €70M Early-stage Fund, Plans €100M Final Close by 2026 | Europe ~
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Balnord, a Luxembourg-based early-stage investor focused on the Baltic Sea Region, has announced that it has surpassed its initial €70 million fundraising target, with commitments on track to reach €100 million by mid-2026... |
| 29.09.2025 | Over €100 million raised for pan-European Expeditions Fund II targeting cybersecurity, AI, quantum and defence | Warsaw-based Expeditions, a leading early-stage investor in European security, has announced over €100 million committed of its Fund II, exceeding its initial target, and is reportedly on track for a full €150 million final close.
Dr Mikola... |
| 26.06.2025 | Sibill Secures €12M to Transform Financial Management for Italian SMEs | In the bustling heart of Milan, a fintech startup named Sibill has just struck gold. The company has successfully closed a €12 million Series A funding round, a significant leap in its mission to simplify financial management for small and ... |
| 26.06.2025 | Italian FinTech startup Sibill raises €12 million to bring all-in-one finance platform to Italian SMEs and accountants | Milan-based Sibill, a FinTech startup specialising in solutions that simplify financial and administrative management for SMEs, announced the closing of a €12 million Series A funding round.
The round was led by the European venture capital... |
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| 22.05.2025 | Amsterdam-based VC firm Keen Venture Partners secures EIF backing for €40 million defence tech fund | Dutch VC firm Keen Venture Partners has landed a major investment boost as the European Investment Fund (EIF) announced today a €40 million commitment to its European Defence and Security Tech Fund.
As global tensions heighten and technolog... |
| 16.04.2025 | How CEE VCs Deployed Capital Across AI, Cybersecurity, and HealthTech in Q1 2025 | CEE ~
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A survey conducted by The Recursive in early 2025 revealed that 62% of CEE investors anticipate a more favorable investment climate compared to the previous year. Investors are particularly optimistic about opportunities in A... |
| 26.02.2025 | EvidenceHunt raises €1.2M for medical data analysis platform | Netherlands-based EvidenceHunt, an AI-powered medical research platform that allows medical professionals to analyse medical data, has closed a funding round of €1.2M led by Keen Venture Partners, Dff.ventures and Slimmer AI.
The consortium... |
| 17.01.2025 | Europe’s Defence Tech Revolution: A New Era of Innovation and Security | In the heart of Europe, a seismic shift is underway. Keen Venture Partners, a prominent venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, is spearheading this transformation with a bold initiative. They are raising a €125 million fund dedicated to d... |
| 17.01.2025 | NXP Semiconductors secures €1B loan, UK unveils £14B AI infrastructure plan, and edtech in an AI-driven world | This week we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €2.6 billion, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe. In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most i... |
| 16.01.2025 | +++ Taxfix +++ Keen Venture Partners +++ Mario Götze +++ HealthTech +++ Wayfair +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Donnerstag, 16. Januar) #STARTUPTICKER
Taxfix
+++ Zahlencheck! Das Berliner Steuer-Startup Taxfix präsentier... |
| 14.01.2025 | Keen Venture Partners raising €125 million to strengthen Europe’s defence tech ecosystem | Keen Venture Partners, a leading VC firm based in Amsterdam, has announced plans to raise a €125 million fund dedicated to defence and security technology startups in Europe from seed to Series B.
This fund will be the first of its kind in ... |
| 02.07.2024 | Feather Revolutionizes Expat Insurance in Europe | Feather, a Berlin-based startup, has secured €6 million in funding to simplify insurance for expats across Europe. Founded in 2018 by Rob Schumacher and Vincent Audoire, Feather aims to provide a seamless and transparent insurance experienc... |
| 28.06.2024 | Feather raises €6M to simplify Insurance for expats in Europe | Expat insurance startup Feather has secured €6 million in funding, bringing its funding to €10 million.
Today’s insurance offerings fall short in meeting the needs of the mobile migrant workforce, and student population. They’re too complic... |
| 19.06.2024 | Amsterdam-based defense tech Avalor AI raises €2 million to enhance military unmanned systems | Dutch software company Avalor AI has successfully raised a seed round of €2 million, led by Keen Venture Partners, to accelerate autonomous capabilities of unmanned military systems.
Envisioning ‘multi-domain distributed mission autonomy,’ ... |
| 03.06.2024 | Milan-based fintech startup Sibill secures €6.2M to automate financial operations for Italian SMBs | Read this article in:
Milan-based Sibill, a tool that makes financial tasks easier for small and medium businesses (SMBs), announced that it raised €6.2M in a fresh round of funding led by Keen Venture Partners with participation from Found... |
| 08.02.2024 | Hungarian HRtech Qneiform raises €750k in a pre-seed investment | Hungarian HRtech Qneiform raises €750k in a pre-seed investment
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Qneiform, a Budapest-based provider of AI-... |
| 08.02.2024 | Amsterdam’s Samen Slimmer AI backs Qneiform, an AI-based talent acquisition platform | Read this article in:
Amsterdam-based Samen Slimmer AI, a venture alliance of Dutch Founders Fund (DFF), Keen Venture Partners, and Slimmer AI, announces its first venture, Qneiform.
This Budapest, London, and Netherlands-based startup aims... |
| 30.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: AgroSpheres nets $25m, ex-Motif CEO joins MycoTechnology, Kitchen United shuts ghost kitchens | All eyes are on COP28 this week, where agrifood looks to be a central point of discussion. Elsewhere in the industry, AgroSpheres raised new funds for its novel crop protection tech and Motif FoodWorks former CEO moved over to MycoTechnolog... |
| 16.11.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Delivery startup Crisp bags $38m, ‘mindful drinking app’ Sunnyside lands $11m, Bowery layoffs | Announcements from this week suggests foodtech funding rounds are slowly gaining speed again. Crisp bucked the downward trend of food delivery startups with a Series C raise, Sunnyside raised funds for its alcohol monitoring app, and Le Fou... |
| 09.06.2023 | Amsterdam’s Keen Venture Partners backs Paris-based Cleyrop in €10M round for its sovereign data management software | Paris-based Cleyrop, a secure and sovereign platform for democratising and industrialising data use, announced on Wednesday, June 7, that it has secured more than €10M in a Series A round of funding led by Keen Venture Partners, a VC firm b... |
| 01.02.2023 | Doctify, practitioner reviews you can bank on, now with another $10 million to spend | Doctify set out eight years ago to bring patient reviews to the medical profession, serving up transparent feedback that's long been a consumer hallmark in the internet age.
Think TripAdvisor for travel, Trustpilot in consumer, and Glassdoo... |
| 22.12.2022 | The week in agrifoodtech: BigBasket bags $200m, Kodama’s forestry funding, more restaurant tech layoffs | Amid a slew of smaller funding announcements, India-based eGrocer BigBasket secured a $200 million mega-round this week. In agtech, deals from Grow Indigo and others were all about insect farming, forestry and capturing more carbon. Foodtec... |
| 16.12.2022 | allO banks €1.4 million to unify software controls in restauraunt kitchens | Munich-based allO has raised €1.4 million in seed funds. The round is led by the Amsterdam/London VC Keen Venture Partners, whose track record includes an earlier bet in the Amsterdam-based food ordering portal Takeaway.com, since merged in... |
| 09.11.2022 | Taking the sting out of frontline communications, Beekeeper adds $50 million to the hive | Zurich-based workplace app that connects the non-desk workforce to operational systems and communication channels Beekeeper has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round. The fresh honey is aimed at further fueling the company’s growth... |
| 09.11.2022 | USD 50 million to boost Beekeeper’s growth | |
| 05.10.2022 | Gourmey Raises $47.7 Million Series A, On A Mission For Europe’s Largest Cultivated Meat Lab | Cruelty free fois gras produced by the Paris based cultivated meat company Gourmey.Gourmey |
| 07.07.2022 | Iceland-based Lucinity secures €16.6M to help banks and fintechs fight money laundering | Reykjavík, Iceland-based Lucinity, an anti-money laundering (AML) software company, announced on Thursday that it has raised $17M (approximately €16.69M) in a Series B round of funding led by Keen Venture Partners.
The round was joined by E... |
| 23.06.2022 | Visma acquires Belgium’s Teamleader as it further strengthens its market position | Norway-born SaaS company Visma, which offers a suite of accounting, payroll, HR, and other business software products to more than 1.2 million SME customers across the Nordic, Benelux and Baltic regions, has acquired Belgian software develo... |
| 14.06.2022 | Bits of Stock ropes in €4.2 million to enable shoppers earn stock rewards | On a global scale, financial inequality is widening, and younger generations are taking the biggest burden of this challenge. Dutch fintech startup Bits of Stock has raised €4.2 million to address wealth inequality and help young people lea... |
| 21.04.2022 | Pitch, Blinkist, Wooga and Tier Mobility founders-backed Klima plants €10 million to encourage teams to fight against climate change | The climate crisis is the most pressing challenge facing humanity as of now. The current climate protection measures taken by governments around the world are insufficient to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. At the same time, 72% of CO2... |
| 18.11.2021 | Amsterdam’s Keen Venture Partners raises €120M for second fund from founders of Just-eat Takeaway.com, Adyen, TomTom, others | Amsterdam-based Keen Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing European scale-ups at the Series A and B stage, announced that it has closed its second fund at €120M. The firm is targeting €150M with a final close... |
| 18.11.2021 | Keen Venture Partners gets boost from EIF to support European technology SMEs | European Investment Fund (EIF) backs Keen Venture Partners with €30 million in launch of its second fund, which reaches first close at €120 million.
Financing to support SMEs across the EU, in line with Keen's first 2016 fund that was also ... |
| 14.04.2021 | Doctify raises further $7.5m in a new round led by KEEN Venture Partners | Doctify raises further $7.5m in a new round led by KEEN Venture Partners
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Doctify, a healthcare review platform, has announced an additional $7.5M in its latest funding round, taking the overall investment to $20M.
The round was l... |
| 13.04.2021 | London-based Doctify raises an additional €6.3M for its healthcare review platform; here’s why | London-based Doctify, a healthcare review platform, has raised an additional $7.5M (approx €6.3M) in a fresh round of funding. The additional investment was led by Keen Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors including ... |
| 13.04.2021 | London’s healthcare review platform Doctify raises $7.5 million, plans German market entry | London-based review-your-healthcare-provider Doctify has raised an additional $7.5 million in its latest funding round, bringing their total raise to date to $20 million.
The round was led by Keen Venture Partners and saw participation from... |
| 13.04.2021 | With $7.5M funding, this healthcare review platform from London plans to enter Germany | Today, London-based healthcare booking platform Doctify announced an additional $7.5M in its latest funding round, taking the overall investment to date to $20M.
The round was led by Keen Venture Partners, with participation from existing i... |
| 02.03.2021 | Amsterdam-based Crisp secures €30 million in (ultra) fresh funding | Dutch online supermarket Crisp has recently closed a €30 million funding round led by Target Global.
The series B round also included Keen Venture Partners, founders of Adyen and Just Eat, and Thomas Plantenga, Vinted CEO. To date, Crisp ha... |
| 16.09.2019 | Beekeeper Raises $45M Series B Funding Round | |
| 15.12.2018 | Sonae diluye su participación en Ulabox hasta el 36% con la entrada de nuevos inversores | 15/12/2018
SONAE DILUYE SU PARTICIPACIÓN EN ULABOX HASTA EL 36% CON LA ENTRADA DE NUEVOS INVERSORES.
El gigante portugués Sonae IM, ha reducido su participación en Ulabox al 36% tras alcanzar el 42% en varias inyecciones de capital hasta ... |
| 27.06.2018 | Nextail cierra una ronda de $10M liderada por Keen VP. Participan Sonae IM y Nauta | 27/06/2018
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NEXTAIL CIERRA UNA RONDA DE $10 MILLONES LIDERADA POR KEEN VENTURE PARTNERS. PARTICIPAN SONAE IM Y NAUTA CAPITAL.
The fast-growing Spanish SaaS company, Nextail, an intelligent platform for key commerce decision... |
| 09.11.2017 | EclecticIQ lands €14M Series B to further develop its cyber threat intelligence platform | EclecticIQ, a Dutch provider of global cyber threat intelligence technology platform, today announced the closing of a series B investment round of €14M. Keen Venture Partners led the round, joining existing investors like KPN Ventures and ... |
| 21.03.2017 | Beekeeper raises $8 million Series A financing round | |
| 04.11.2016 | Keen Venture Partners is a new European VC firm founded by ex-BT CEO | Europe gets another new VC today with the official outing of London and Amsterdam-based Keen Venture Partners, which plans to invest in European companies with “breakaway momentum,” ranging from €5-10 million per company.
Noteworthy are the... |
| 04.11.2016 | Keen Venture Partners Holds First Close of Maiden VC Fund, at €90M | Keen Venture Partners LLP, a venture capital firm operating from London and Amsterdam, announced a €90m first close of its inaugural fund.
Key investors in Keen Venture Partners Fund, L.P., include the European Investment Fund (which benefi... |
| 04.11.2016 | KEEN Venture Partners launches its first €90 million fund | KEEN Venture Partners, a new VC firm operating out of London and Amsterdam, has closed its first fund of €90 million for investing in early growth tech companies in Europe.
Helmed by Ben Verwaayen, former BT CEO, Alexander Ribbink, former C... |
| 04.11.2016 | KEEN Venture Partners plans to invest €90 million in growth stage startups from across Europe | KEEN Venture Partners, a new venture capital firm operating from London and Amsterdam, today announces the closing of its first €90 million fund.
The new fund will invest growth capital for tech companies with breakaway momentum across Euro... |
| - | With $7.5M funding, this healthcare review platform from London plans to enter Germany | Today, London-based healthcare booking platform Doctify announced an additional $7.5M in its latest funding round, taking the overall investment to date to $20M.
The round was led by Keen Venture Partners, with participation from existing i... |
| - | Pitch, Blinkist, Wooga and Tier Mobility founders-backed Klima plants €10 million to encourage teams to fight against climate change | The climate crisis is the most pressing challenge facing humanity as of now. The current climate protection measures taken by governments around the world are insufficient to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. At the same time, 72% of CO2... |
| - | Helping banks boost compliance productivity, Icelandic platform Lucinity grabs $17 million | Reykjavík-based Lucinity has raised $17 million in funding. The Series B round was led by Keen Venture Partners and joined by Experian and its major existing investors, Crowberry Capital, Karma Ventures, and byFounders. The platform will us... |
| - | No longer a newcomer, Keen Venture Partners goes for round two at €120 million | Amsterdam’s “radically human venture capital firm” Keen Venture Partners has left the rookie ranks and announced the first close of their second fund at €120 million. The firm is targeting €150 million and expects a final close sometime nex... |
| - | Bits of Stock ropes in €4.2 million to enable shoppers earn stock rewards | On a global scale, financial inequality is widening, and younger generations are taking the biggest burden of this challenge. Dutch fintech startup Bits of Stock has raised €4.2 million to address wealth inequality and help young people lea... |
| - | London’s healthcare review platform Doctify raises $7.5 million, plans German market entry | London-based review-your-healthcare-provider Doctify has raised an additional $7.5 million in its latest funding round, bringing their total raise to date to $20 million.
The round was led by Keen Venture Partners and saw participation from... |
| - | Withlocals Raises €8M Series B Lead by Keen Venture Partners | March 12, 2019 || The new 8M Euro funding round is led by London-based Keen Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Inkef Capital. Robert Verwaayen, General Partner at Keen says: “We believe Withlocals is tapping into a l... |
| - | Visma acquires Belgium’s Teamleader as it further strengthens its market position | Norway-born SaaS company Visma, which offers a suite of accounting, payroll, HR, and other business software products to more than 1.2 million SME customers across the Nordic, Benelux and Baltic regions, has acquired Belgian software develo... |
