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Paris-based video indexing and analysis startup Newsbridge has landed a €1.5 million funding round led by Elaia. Newsbridge’s product is targeting journalists, audiovisual production companies, and digital rights holders. The company claims that it can reduce the production costs by 30 to 80 percent by providing a more efficient way of finding and selecting the […]
Tel Aviv-based “urban revitalisation” startup Venn has secured a Series A funding round from Pitango Venture Capital, Hamilton Lane, and Bridges Israel, which brings the total amount of money secured by the company to $40 million. The company was founded in 2016 as an experimental revitalisation project in Tel Aviv’s neighbourhood of Shapira but is […]
British-founded startup The Nue Co. that provides subscription-based meal supplements has landed $9 million in a funding round led by Waldencast, with participation from Unilever Ventures, Redo Ventures, and Columbia Care. The startup is currently headquartered in the US, with the UK being its biggest market. The company develops formulas that come in the form […]
London-founded food and drinks discovery app nez has landed a £2 million funding round from several investors including Martin Robinson, chairman of Burger King UK. nez is an app that aggregates “hyperlocal, real-time offers in London,” namely is in Soho, Bank, Covent Garden, Holborn, Farringdon, Liverpool St, Old Street, St Paul’s and Chancery Lane. “I […]
Nodes & Links, a startup based in London with a software laboratory on Cyprus, has landed £1.4 million in a funding round led by ADV, with participation from Seedcamp and Entrepreneur First. The startup claims to be applying the complexity science to project management in order to help organisations control complex projects, which account for […]
42CAP, a Munich-based VC firm, has closed its second €50 million seed fund. The investors in the fund include the European Investment Fund (EIF), the German Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW Capital), Isomer Capital, as well as other private investors and business angels. Closing of the new fund will allow the firm to “lead seed investments […]
Utrecht-based data insight startup ValueBlue has landed €2 million in funding from Newion. The company plans to use the cash to strengthen its presence in the Benelux and North America. ValueBlue’s main product is BlueDolphin, a SaaS collaboration platform that can help “map the digital landscape and business processes of organizations,” it said in a […]