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AI chip startup Graphcore closes $200M Series D, adds BMW and Microsoft as strategic investors
UK AI chip startup Graphcore has announced a $200 million Series D round today that’s jointly led by an existing investor, European…
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Tonsser scores €5.5M Series A to help discover the next soccer star
Tonsser, the Copenhagen-based startup that offers a “football performance app” aimed at youth soccer players who want to build their…
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YouGov acquires social analytics company Portent.IO
YouGov, the international data and analytics group, has acquired ‘social analytics’ startup Portent.IO, a company that it had previously invested…
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Starling’s Chief Platform Officer Megan Caywood has been recruited by Barclays
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but in the increasingly competitive world of banking, perhaps poaching your…
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Meeshkan raises €370K for its ‘ChatOps’ bot for training machine learning models
Meeshkan, a Finnish startup that made quite a splash at the recent Slush conference, has quietly raised €370,000 in pre-seed…
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Pimcore closes $3.5M for its open-source data platform to expand in the US
Pimcore, an open-source platform for data and customer experience management which has emerged out of Austria, has closed $3.5 million…
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Goldex raises $1M for its marketplace app for ‘ethical’ physical gold trading
Goldex, a trading app that claims to power so-called “ethical pricing” for retail gold investments, says it has now raised…
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Last call for Polish pitch-offs
I’m heading back to Europe to hang out in Wroclaw and Warsaw so it’s last call for pitch-off applications. I’ll…
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Waggel launches ‘fully digital’ pet insurance
Waggel, a new ‘insurtech’ startup in the U.K., is officially launching today to offer what it describes as “fully digital”…
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LeanIX, the SaaS that lets enterprises map out their software architecture, closes $30M Series C
LeanIX, the Software-as-a-Service for ‘Enterprise Architecture Management’, has closed $30 million in Series C funding. The round is led by…
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