SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up

Track tenders, win bids – British startup Stotles just raised €11.5 million to do exactly that

Germany’s trawa lands €24M to help European businesses slash energy costs

Palmstreet raises $25M to bring live shopping to more creators & collectors

Headline Asia closes $145M fund to fuel investments in Asia-Pacific

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Mistral inks €100M deal with French shipping giant CMA CGM

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Pipe continues international expansion to Canada through partnership with Housecall Pro

Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android

Bitwarden achieves landmark growth in 2024, empowering 10M users with trusted identity security solutions in over 180 countries

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Bioptimus raises $41M to develop a ‘GPT for biology’ 

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Creative Ops platform Air raises $35M Series B

Buk raises $50M in Series B, nearing unicorn status

Gentrace makes it easier for businesses to test AI-powered software

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Headline VP Sophia Samutin named an Inspiring FinTech Female 2024 in the Money Movers category

Nivoda secures $51M to expand global diamond supply chain

Upheal secures $10M to help reduce provider burnout and improve client outcomes with their AI-powered platform

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Motion raises $30M to build the command center for creative strategists

Headline raises $865M growth fund — and is eyeing defence and pharma startups

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Mistral secures €600M funding as valuation soars to almost €6B

Gorilla, a Belgian startup that helps energy providers crunch big data, raises $25M

Unbabel says its new AI model has dethroned OpenAI’s GPT-4 as the tech industry’s best language translator

World's first contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, raises $55M

Fertility tracker Natural Cycles nets $55M, sees IPO on horizon

Carbonfact is a carbon management platform for the fashion industry

Payflows raises €25M as B2B Fintech reigns

Helcim raises $20M amid payments fee price war

German robotics startup raises $43M to automate smaller factories

An LLM for biotech: French startup Bioptimus raises €35M Seed

Jow's bespoke menu app attracts $13M investment for US expansion

Closinglock, now with $12M, wants to prevent real estate transactions fraud

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Code-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25M investment

iink puts its digital stamp on property insurance claim lending following $12M Series A

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Axel Weber joins advisory board of Raisin as deposits soar to €50B

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Pet telehealth company Airvet closes on $18.2M to embark on enterprise focus

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Defacto gets new credit facility to provide instant financing to small companies

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Visa $1B buyout of Brazil's Pismo eases fintech M&A slowdown

France's Mistral AI raises $113M in big EU startup debut

Julie Wainwright is back with a new, venture-backed startup

Skincare telehealth and consultation platform GetHarley raises $52M

Investors turn to AI-guided dealmaking to gain edge over rivals

Ex-Mambu CTO's new startup raises Seed round to help banks cut tech hires

Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

Primo is the IT tool for companies that are too small for an IT Manager

Motion raises $6M to help creative teams quantify their impact

DBeaver takes $6M Seed investment to build on growing popularity

Honeycomb scores $50M investment as observability platform thrives

Savvy Games Group to buy mobile game publisher Scopely for $4.9B

Bianca Padilla, Co-Founder & CEO of Carewell, named to Inc. Magazine's 2023 Female Founders 200 List

Goldman keeps on keepin’ on with Raisin in fresh €60M round

AG5 throws a lifeline to a manufacturing industry drowning in spreadsheets

Elyn slightly delays online payments so you can try before you pay

Attio raises $23.5M to build a next-gen CRM platform

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Bitwarden acquires Passwordless.dev to help companies authenticate users without passwords

Fetch refreshes company name, makes Fetch happen

Homa raises another $100M for its data-driven mobile gaming tools

Danish podcaster Podimo raises $59M for shows, expansion

EV charging platform Monta raises at $155M valuation  

Solid banks $63M for easier deployment of embedded fintech products

Headline Closes $950M Spread Across Three Funds for Startups in US, Europe, LatAm and Asia

Headline raises nearly $1B across three new venture funds

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Endurance Events Marketplace Let’s Do This Raises $60M Series B

Cloud Storage and Data Streaming Platform LucidLink Raises $20M

Party Round: Air Raises $10M from Institutional Investors and Over 50 Individuals

Brazilian Fintech Creditas Lands $4.8B Valuation

Austria’s PlanRadar, which Digitizes Construction and Real Estate Docs, Raises $70M Series B

Swell Secures $20M to Develop More Adaptable Headless Commerce Infrastructure

European Podcast Startup Podimo Raises $78M to Fund Content, Market Expansion

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JACOB CONGER & RAM RAVAL — MARCH 13, 2025

The Duality of Infrastructure Investing in an AI World

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The AI Finance Platform to Rule Them All: Investing in Payflows

MATHIAS SCHILLING & THOMAS GIESELMANN - APRIL 18, 2024

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Why Capital Efficiency is Optimal at 0.5+

TAYLOR BRANDT & NICOLE FARB - MARCH 26, 2024

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KING GOH & SOPHIA SAMUTIN - February 26, 2024

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MATHIAS SCHILLING, TAYLOR BRANDT & DOMINIC WILHELM - January 31, 2024

Ageing, Energy, Upskilling: 4 B2B SaaS Trends

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Upstream/Downstream: Trends in Sofware Infrastructure

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From Combatting Loneliness to Convenience: 5 Consumer Trends

JACOB CONGER & Nicolas von Blottnitz - December 14, 2024

Polishing the Nivoda Brand: Putting Diamonds on Full Display

CONRAD CHU & JACOB CONGER — NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Powering the Future of Cloud-Based Collaboration with LucidLink

ANNA WU & NICOLAS VON BLOTTNITZ — NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Introducing Deepdive: Transforming Financial Data into Founder Insights

SOPHIA SAMUTIN & KING GOH — OCTOBER 18, 2023 

Investing in IINK: “Getting America Paid”

Lightning Up Open Banking: Investing in Brite

From Sudshare to Poplin: A Fresh Start for Laundry

ROMERO RODRIGUES & GABRIEL ALVES — AUGUST 7, 2023

Investing in Easy Access to Health & Wellness in Brazil with Fiibo

SOPHIA SAMUTIN & KING GOH - July 20, 2023

Real-Time Payments in the US: The Tale of 2 Rails

KING GOH & JONATHAN USEROVICI - July 18, 2023

The Present and Future of Global Fintech Investing

ROMERO RODRIGUES & MATHIAS SCHILLING — JUNE 28, 2023

Local to Global Fintech Innovation: Celebrating Pismo’s $1B Acquisition by Visa

TAYLOR BRANDT & MATHIAS SCHILLING — June 22, 2023

Investing in Heard: Purpose-Built Software for Therapists

Investing in the Beating Heart of the Health Sector with Fin-X

THOMAS GIESELMANN & CONRAD CHU — June 1, 2023

How We’re Building the Future of Tech-Enabled Venture Investing

TAYLOR BRANDT & ZEEZA COLE — May 25, 2023

The 2023 Top Vertical SaaS Companies to Watch

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MATHIAS SCHILLING & TAYLOR BRANDT — MAY 16, 2023

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The Story of Blinkist and its Acquisition by Go1

MATHIAS SCHILLING & ROMERO RODRIGUES — MAY 2, 2023

From Silicon Valley to Rio: Our Global Approach to Investing

Taylor Brandt & Nicole Farb - April 18, 2023

Investing in Motion: Empowering Creatives with Data-driven Insights

Jacob Conger & Thomas Gieselmann - April 11, 2023

Investing in the Future of Universal Database Management with DBeaver

TAYLOR BRANDT & ZEEZA COLE — MARCH 9, 2023

Creative Drives Business: It’s Time to Empower Design Teams 

Are We Witnessing Another Database Renaissance?

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NICOLAS VON BLOTTNITZ — NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The GPT-3 Boom: Generative AI is Changing How We Communicate

NICOLAS VON BLOTTNITZ — OCTOBER 11, 2022

A More Holistic Way to Calculate Your LTV-to-CAC Ratio

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3 Lessons From a Market Downturn: What Consumer Behavior Can Teach Us About the Future of Commerce

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Net Retention May Hide What's Really Going On With Your Customers. Here's Why

A More Accurate Equation: Calculating Your Average Retention to Perfection

The Calming Force in Commerce Supply Chain Chaos? Digitization

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Sustainability is Table Stakes: Successful Brands Add Deeper Value to Gain Loyal Customers

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