Paris-based Breega closes €250M fund, opens Barcelona office to back Iberian startups
Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well-known in the VC world (it only closed its 1st fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started attracting...
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Europe’s Revent hits $68M hard cap on its climate, health & impact-focused fund
Last year I covered the launch of Berlin-HQ’d Revent — a new European early-stage VC with an “impact” focus — as it aimed to launch a €50...
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Portuguese VC Shilling tops up its Founders Fund, hitting $59M in capital to deploy
Further evidence of the booming Portuguese tech ecosystem is emerging today with the news that venture capital firm Shilling is topping up its...
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Eleven Ventures closes new fund at $67.6M to invest in Southeastern European startups
Bulgarian venture capital is experiencing something of a renaissance. Last year LAUNCHub Ventures raised a €70 million find aimed at Southeastern...
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VentureFriends raises $112M fund aimed at Southern Europe, Middle East and LatAm
Southern Europe has sometimes been seen as a little bit of a backwater in terms of venture capital funding. However, that has gradually started to...
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Iceland’s Crowberry Capital launches $90M seed and early-stage fund aimed at Nordics
Crowberry Capital, operating in Reykjavik and Copenhagen, has launched Crowberry II: a $90 million seed and early-stage fund aimed at startups in the...
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Exeger takes $38M to ramp up production of its flexible solar cells for self-powered gadgets
Sweden’s Exeger, which for over a decade has been developing flexible solar cell technology (called Powerfoyle) that it touts as efficient...
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To improve accountability, Norrsken VC ties partner compensation to its portfolio’s sustainable successes
With the close of its latest investment fund, Norrsken VC is taking an unprecedented step in tying the compensation of its partners to the positive...
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Aldea Ventures creates ‘hybrid’ European €100M fund to invest both in micro VCs, plus follow-on
The historical trajectory of venture capital has been to move to earlier and earlier finding rounds in order to capture the greatest potential...
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Big data VC OpenOcean hits $111.5M for third fund, appoints Ekaterina Almasque to GP
OpenOcean, a European VC which has tended to specialise in big data-oriented startups and deep tech, has reach the €92 million ($111.5 million)...
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European Investment Fund puts $30M in Fabric Ventures’ new $130M digital assets fund
It is the first European Investment Fund-backed fund mandated to invest in digital assets and blockchain technology.
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iAngels raises $55 million, anchored by the European Investment Fund, for first institutional fund
iAngels, the private investment platform founded and helmed by Mor Assia and Shelly Hod Moyal, has today announced the close of its first...
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