Leuven, Belgium-based icometrix has secured $18 million in funding from Forestay Capital, Optum Ventures and prior backer Capricorn Venture Partners. The company claims its technology has the potential to transform care for patients with brain injuries and disorders, by extracting clinically meaningful information from brain MRI and CT scans of patients. Its ‘icobrain’ software platform […]
Today, Tech.eu and Stripe have released the (free) “Life is Growth” report, a deep dive into the state of play for growth-stage technology companies in Europe. This is the second report Tech.eu and Stripe release after “Seed the Future” (November 2018), which looked specifically at early-stage investment in Europe. What’s clear from the report is […]
Invest Europe, the association that aims to represent European private equity and VC with over 1,400 member firms, has released a free report (PDF) on the private capital deployment activity it tracked in 2018. According to the organisation, private equity investment in Europe has hit a new record, increasing 7 percent year-over-year to reach €80.6 […]
This morning at the fifth edition of the Startup Olé conference in Salamanca, Spain, our tireless COO Helen Walsh presented our latest report, the most accurate in-depth analysis of the state of European tech in terms of startup investment and exit trends available on the market today. As the region’s startup ecosystems continue to evolve, […]
I am on my way to Estonia for the annual Startup Day in university town Tartu, where I will be braving the cold to deliver presentations tomorrow and on Thursday. One of the things I will be shining a light on tomorrow at the Investor Day is how the European tech scene did in 2018 […]
Editor’s note: This article from East-West Digital News penned by Adrien Henni was syndicated with permission. Tech investment volumes Russia and its Eastern European neighbors were modest last year, if compared with the Chinese, US or Western European markets. However, the year was marked by giant corporate deals involving international players while a series of […]
We’re thrilled to announce our latest report, developed in close partnership with Stripe and Techstars and launched today on the main stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon. It’s a doozy. It’s the first time anyone has ever undertaken research on early-stage technology startup activity on such a scale, this extensively. We dug deep, is […]