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Startups
Startup coverage on Europa Now: rounds, pivots and the European companies growing up in public.
Startups
Veriff Co-founder and Wise Engineer Launch €2.9M AI Career Platform in Tallinn
Roleo, an Estonian startup pairing job seekers with opportunities through an AI agent, has closed its seed round led by Practica Capital. The platform monitors European tech roles and connects candidates with employers without requiring active job applications.
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Hypersonica secures €100M to build Europe's sovereign hypersonic weapons
The British-German defence startup is racing to develop long-range missiles that travel at five times the speed of sound, reducing the continent's dependence on American military technology.
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Marble lands $3.75M to automate work by learning from employees
The Munich-based AI startup has closed a pre-seed round led by Heartcore and Seedcamp to expand its platform that watches how workers perform tasks, then builds AI agents to handle them.
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Instagram Dangling Half-Million-Dollar Deals to Lure YouTubers to New Long-Form Platform
Meta is offering select content creators between $50,000 and $500,000 to migrate their YouTube videos to Instagram Features, a 90-minute video format that currently generates no advertising revenue.
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OpenAI slashes funding target by $10bn as investor appetite cools
The AI company has reduced its Series B goal from $30bn to $20bn after several backers scaled back their commitments amid a broader downturn in technology stocks.
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Nvidia backs Nscale's West Virginia data centre with debt guarantee as AI cloud infrastructure faces headwinds
The chip maker is in talks to guarantee billions in debt for the UK cloud company's facility intended to serve Anthropic, though the deal remains unsigned and faces mounting construction challenges.
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Thrive Holdings to acquire ADT for $7.6bn, backed by Apollo financing
Joshua Kushner's investment vehicle Thrive Holdings is purchasing the US home security provider ADT in an all-cash deal, with Apollo Global Management providing the full financing.
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Copenhagen Vision Tech Brings Smartphone Eye Screening to UK Learner Drivers
OptikosPrime's VisionCheck software is being embedded into RED Driver Training's learning app, enabling hundreds of thousands of young drivers to check their eyesight on their phones before taking practical tests.