Euopean VC firm announces the final close of its €30M Fund II to help CEE-based startups grow

CEE-focused VC firm Presto Ventures closes its second fund and wants to help 40 B2B tech…

Danish startup Heyhack’s quick fix for web vulnerabilities attracted majors in its pre-seed round

Aarhus-based startup Heyhack shared details on its pre-seed round led by PreSeed Ventures, a Danish early-stage…

A new breakthrough in biology allows scientists to grow food without sunlight

Artificial photosynthesis could be ‘a paradigm shift for how we feed people.’ Originally published on Interesting…

Finnish tech startup raises €1M pre-seed to help SaaS companies dive into the world of data engineering

Helsinki-born growth engineering company reconfigured collected €1M pre-seed from Icebreaker VC. The Finnish startup’s time-efficient and…

Building a decentralized bank for micro businesses in Latin America

In Barranquilla, Colombia, Edinson Flores has run a small, family-owned fast-food business for many years. But…

Indian startups laid off over 10,000 employees in the first six months of 2022

As investors put pressure on startups in India to cut costs, employees are collateral damage. In…

Ritual lays off 16 percent of staff to “prepare for a recession”

Toronto-based food ordering and mobile pickup app Ritual has laid off 23 employees to “prepare for…

Impact Report is out: looking good in revenue and funding but not in the meaning of gender diversity

Startup Foundation and Startup Finland published a report that covers the Finland-based impact startups. These startups…

Donald Sadoway wins European Inventor Award for liquid metal batteries

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway has won the 2022 European Inventor Award, in the category for Non-European…

Nobody is shocked that this Kenyan food delivery startup failed after one year

Kune, a startup that caused a stir last year for its white founder’s claim of inventing…