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| 07.11.2025 | Balnord Fund I Surpasses Target, Powers Europe's DeepTech Future | Balnord, a Luxembourg-based early-stage investor, has exceeded its €70M fundraising target for Balnord Fund I. It is poised for a €100M final close by mid-2026. The fund focuses on frontier and dual-use DeepTech in the Baltic Sea Region, fu... |
| 07.11.2025 | Balnord closes €70 million first round to back frontier and dual-use tech across the Baltic Sea Region | Balnord, a Luxembourg-based early stage investor for the Baltic Sea Region, has announced this morning that it has oversubscribed its €70 million fund target and is well on its way to achieving a final close of €100 million by mid-2026.
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| 07.11.2025 | Balnord: €70 Million Fund Launched To Advance Frontier And Dual Use Technology Across The Baltic Sea Region | Balnord, an early-stage investor focused on companies in the Baltic Sea region, announced that its first fund has oversubscribed its initial €70 million target and is now moving toward a planned final close of €100 million by mid-2026. The ... |
| 24.10.2025 | MatrixSpace Secures $20M Series B: Powers Next-Gen AI Counter-Drone Radar | MatrixSpace secured a $20 million Series B funding round. This elevates its AI-powered portable counter-drone (CUAS) radar solutions. Total funding now stands at $58 million. The round was co-led by The Raptor Group and OTB Ventures. Strate... |
| 23.10.2025 | MatrixSpace: $20 Million Series B Closed To Advance AI-Based Portable Counter-Drone Radar Systems | MatrixSpace, a leader in portable AI-enhanced radar and counter-drone (CUAS) technology, announced the completion of a $20 million Series B funding round. The funding represents a significant increase in valuation from the company’s Series ... |
| 22.09.2025 | Plumerai Secures $8.7M for Edge AI, Revolutionizing Smart Cameras | Plumerai, a London-based AI innovator, secured $8.7M Series A funding, pushing total capital past $17M. This investment fuels their groundbreaking Tiny AI for cameras. Their technology brings powerful artificial intelligence directly to edg... |
| 16.09.2025 | Plumerai Raises $8.7M in Series A Funding | Plumerai, a London, UK- and Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based company which specializes in on-device AI for cameras, raised $8.7M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Partech and OTB Ventures, with support from Acclimate Ventures and ex... |
| 16.09.2025 | Plumerai raises $8.7M Series A to scale Tiny AI for cameras | Plumerai, London developer of AI solutions for cameras, today announced an $8.7 million Series A funding round. New investors Partech and OTB Ventures led the round, with support from Acclimate Ventures and existing investors.
This brings t... |
| 15.07.2025 | Auriga Space Raises $6M in Funding | Auriga Space, a Garden Grove, CA-based electromagnetic hypersonic launch technology developer, raised $6M in funding.
The round was led by OTB Ventures, an European deep tech investor, with participation from existing investors, including T... |
| 10.07.2025 | Have You Missed CEE’s Deep Tech Awakening in Zagreb? | Zagreb, CEE, Croatia, EU ~
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Last week, the capital of Croatia became the center of European deep tech innovation. Around 500 key stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem – including investors, technology leaders, scientists, and p... |
| 20.06.2025 | Vestbee’s Summer Pitch CEE returns to connect regional companies with global VCs | Vestbee
, Europe’s platform for startups, VCs, and corporates, has opened applications for its second edition of Vestbee Summer Pitch CEE
. This program connects startups from Central and Eastern Europe with global investors. With hundreds ... |
| 05.01.2025 | Apheris: Unlocking the Future of Life Sciences with Federated Computing | In the world of healthcare, data is gold. Yet, much of it remains buried, locked away by privacy concerns and regulatory barriers. Apheris, a Berlin-based startup, is on a mission to change that. Founded in 2019, Apheris is pioneering feder... |
| 04.01.2025 | Apheris: федеративные вычисления для преобразования медицины и фармацевтики через AI | Искусственный интеллект критически зависит от данных, однако большая часть медицинской информации остается неиспользованной из-за таких факторов, как защита конфиденциальности пациентов, нормативные ограничения и охрана интеллектуальной соб... |
| 10.12.2024 | In 2024, Bulgaria’s Startups Raised Only Half of 2023’s Total, The State of AI in CEE Report Shows | Bulgaria ~
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Bulgaria’s AI and tech ecosystem is undergoing rapid transformation, emerging as a significant player within Central and Eastern Europe. With increasing investment, the development of pioneering companies, and organized ... |
| 09.07.2024 | How a Cup of Coffee Can Turn You Into a VC Investor with Karol Szubstarski from OTB Ventures | Warsaw, Poland ~
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For today’s episode, we talked with Karol Szubstarski, a venture investor at OTB Ventures.
With over a decade of experience in the realm of venture capital, Karol brings a blend of traditional and corporate VC expe... |
| 02.07.2024 | Synthara Revolutionizes Embedded Chips with ComputeRAM | Synthara, a Swiss semiconductor company, has secured a whopping $11 million in funding to unleash its groundbreaking product, ComputeRAM, into the world of embedded computing. Led by Vsquared Ventures, this financing round includes heavywei... |
| 05.06.2024 | Synthara raises USD 11 million to increase compute performance of embedded chips |
The funding includes USD 5.5m equity from a financing round led by Vsquared Ventures, with participation from OTB Ventures, Hermann Hauser’s Onsight Ventures, Deep Tech Labs, along with existing investors such as High-Tech Gründerfonds, De... |
| 31.05.2024 | Vestbee announces Summer Pitch CEE | Vestbee
, European platform for startups, VC funds, accelerators, and corporates, has just launched a new program, Vestbee Summer Pitch CEE
, which connects startups from Central and Eastern Europe with global investors.
With Summer Pitch C... |
| 25.03.2024 | OTB Ventures Secures $185M for European Deep Tech | Polish-founded OTB Ventures secures $185M with NATO Innovation Fund backing to fuel European deep tech innovation. The fund will focus on late Seed, Series A, and B rounds in space tech, AI, fintech, and cybersecurity. NATO Innovation Fund ... |
| 21.03.2024 | Amsterdam-based VC OTB Ventures secures €170M to invest in European deep tech startups | Read this article in:
Amsterdam-based OTB Ventures, a European VC focused on DeepTech, announced on Thursday that it has closed its second fund at $185M (approximately €170M).
The investment comes from the European Investment Fund (EIF) und... |
| 21.03.2024 | Polish-founded OTB Ventures will invest $185M in European deeptech thanks to NATO backing | Polish-founded OTB Ventures will invest $185M in European deeptech thanks to NATO backing
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| 21.03.2024 | Amsterdam-based OTB Ventures closes a new €170 million fund to fuel European deeptech innovation | - |
| 21.03.2024 | Polish-founded OTB Ventures Secures $185M with NATO Innovation Fund Backing for European Deep Tech | CEE ~
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In a nutshell: OTB Ventures will invest $185M in European deep tech with backing from NATO Innovation Fund. It will be mainly deployed in the Series A stage, with 10% allocated to seed funding, and more than 50% to follow-on ... |
| 20.03.2024 | With backing from NATO Innovation Fund, OTB Ventures will invest $185M into European deep tech | Not a day goes by without some confirmation that deep tech is on the rise in Europe — and public and private capital investors are here for it.
Latest case in point, OTB Ventures, which closed a $185 million fund to invest in deep tech in... |
| 11.01.2024 | Poland’s Top VC Funds 2024 by Borys Musielak | The post was originally published in Polish on Borys’ LinkedIn profile. Szymon kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
Here are Polish VC funds with money to invest in startups in 2024:
Pre-Seed: SMOK Ve... |
| 18.12.2023 | Vestbee VC Talks Spotlight: What the Ecosystem Should Expect in 2024 | Vestbee’s CEE Startup Challenge 2023 Finals came complemented with VC Talks with an insightful discussions CEE’s top-tier VCs were speculating about what 2024 has in store In addition to the apparent AI focus, the forecast priority industri... |
| 30.11.2023 | Vestbee’s CEE Startup Challenge 2023 to Conclude with Final Pitches | Vestbee holds an online pitching session for the finalist startups of its CEE Startup Challenge 2023 in Zoom The three winners out of 10 finalists will be announced The event will be complemented by VC talks wrapping up 2023 and discussing ... |
| 27.10.2023 | Vestbee’s CEE Startup Challenge Calls Startups and Scaleups Once More | Vestbee once again partners with an extensive list of top-tier partners to reward the most aspiring startups and scaleups across various verticals in CEE Partners have prepared valuable and exciting prizes, including free credits, pleasant ... |
| 09.10.2023 | Prague’s Engaged Investments Conference Will Highlight Successful Startup Investment in 2023 | DEPO Ventures and other Czech and CEE funds announce the fifth Engaged Investments conference The event will investigate the ongoing and emerging trends in VC investments in the Czech republic and CEE The date is October 24-25th, and the pl... |
| 20.09.2023 | KYP ai secures €17.5M to boost GenAI feature and global expansion | Cologne-based business productivity platform KYP.ai has raised a Series A investment round of €17.5 million led by OTB Ventures and includes existing investors 42CAP and Tola Capital. The funding will allow the German startup to promote and... |
| 15.09.2023 | How To Web Presents the Biggest Startup Event of the Season in CEE | This year’s How To Web Conference will take place in Bucharest this October The Conference’s tagline is ‘Keep Building,’ and the topics will revolve around resilience in driving innovation in adverse times As usual, the Conference will be c... |
| 26.04.2023 | Polish OTB Ventures participates in a €20M Series A round for Hydrosat | Polish OTB Ventures participates in a €20M Series A round for Hydrosat
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| 21.02.2023 | Soleadify is now Veridion, with $6 million further to its name | Soleadify, the Romania-based "firmographic" database operator dealing with over 80 million company profiles, updated weekly, is getting a brand makeover.
Enter Veridion, the newly-branded company backed with a $6 million late seed... |
| 19.01.2023 | ClearSpace raises €26 million to cleanup space | |
| 19.01.2023 | Polish fund OTB Ventures leads a €26.7M Series A round for ClearSpace | Polish fund OTB Ventures leads a €26.7M Series A round for ClearSpace
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| 16.12.2022 | Fond de 150 milioane EUR pentru startup-uri IT din Europa Centrală și de Est, lansat de investitori ai românilor de la FintechOS | Startup-urile IT din Europa Centrală și de Est, inclusiv România, vor putea obține finanțări, în schimbul unei părți din business, de la un nou fond de investiții susținut de Uniunea Europeană, lansat de firma poloneză de capital OTB Ventur... |
| 22.11.2022 | Deep tech investor OTB Ventures raises $145 million for new fund and plans to expand into seed stage startups | Adam Niewinski and Marcin Hejka, OTB Ventures cofounders. OTB Ventures This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
European deep tech investor OTB Ventures has raised over 90% of its ... |
| 09.11.2022 | Vestbee’s CEE Startup Challenge Welcomes Startups | Vestbee teams up with an extensive list of recognized partners to recognize and reward aspiring startups across various industries in CEE All partners have prepared exciting prizes, including free credits, massive discounts, and press cover... |
| 19.10.2022 | Polish fund OTB Ventures leads SettleMint’s €16M funding round | Polish fund OTB Ventures leads SettleMint’s €16M funding round
19 October, 2022, 11:22
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| 19.04.2022 | Soter Analytics raises $12 million to help prevent workplace injuries | London-registered Soter Analytics has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. The company uses a combination of wearable technology and AI-powered coaching programmes to help workers avoid musculoskeletal problems, e.g. injuries to ... |
| 03.02.2022 | Eye in the sky ICEYE lands $136 million in new funding round | Designer, maker, and operator of the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) constellation, ICEYE, has raised $136 million in a Series D funding round. The new capital will be used to drive the further development of the company’s na... |
| 30.12.2021 | Космические стартапы — не Маском единым | Космические стартапы — не Маском единым |
| 30.11.2021 | Lithuanian KYC/AML Service Ondato Nabs Extra EUR 3.6M in Seed Extension and Prepares for Series A | Ondato, a Lithuanian Compliance-as-a-service startup, raises additional EUR 3.6M in Seed extension round The company’s comprehensive solution provides for an ever increasing demand in its services The new investment will help the company ke... |
| 14.07.2021 | CEE-focused OTB Ventures closes a $60M growth fund for follow-up investments | Company:
OTB Ventures, the early-stage VC firm with a focus on tech and R&D startups from the CEE region that have the potential to scale globally, announced a new $60M growth fund to support the companies from its portfolio with follow... |
| 13.07.2021 | Warsaw’s OTB Ventures launches €50.5 million CEE region focused growth fund | OTB Ventures has announced the launch of a new growth stage fund totaling €50.5 million. Through this fund, OTB Ventures plans a number of follow on investments in portfolio companies. The typical ticket size for the Warsaw-based firm range... |
| 13.07.2021 | OTB Ventures launches new €50.6M growth fund; plans to invest in 15 companies by mid-2022 | Europe-based venture capital firm OTB Ventures has unveiled a new fund called OTB Growth Fund I. This fund, totalling $60M (€50.6M) will extend its support to companies with more investments as they look to scale up to pursue and accelerate... |
| 13.07.2021 | OTB Ventures Launches $60M Fund | OTB Ventures, a Warsaw, Poland-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology businesses with R&D in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and global potential, has launched the new OTB Growth Fund I.
The fund, totalling $60m... |
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| 20.04.2021 | FintechOS raises USD60 million in Draper Esprit-led Series B funding round to fuel global expansion
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| 20.04.2021 | FintechOS raises $60 million in Draper Esprit led Series B round | London-based FintechOS has raised $60 million in a Series B round.
Led by Draper Esprit, whose previous investments include Revolut and N26, the round also saw participation from existing investors LAUNCHub, Earlybird Digital East, Gapminde... |
| 19.04.2021 | Scalarr, The World Leader in Ad Fraud Detection, Continues the Fight With a Brand New Service and $7.5m in Funding | Scalarr is the leading ad fraud detection solutions company in the world.
The company employs AI and ML technology to create consistent algorithms that produce great results.
They have recently launched DeepView, an advanced AI-driven fraud... |
| 06.04.2021 | Amsterdam-based SEGRON raises €4.5 million to expand automation services | Amsterdam-based SEGRON has raised €4.5 million, now bringing their total capital raised to €10 million.
The round was led by OTB Ventures and Credo, and is expected to fuel international expansion and the entry to new industry verticals.
“S... |
| 24.02.2021 | LAUNCHub Ventures-backed Startups Raise over 32 mln EUR in Series A Rounds | Bulgarian fund LAUNCHub Ventures has a training programme that helps startups prepare for raising Series A investments
Their “Series A Academy” has yielded financing for 5 out of 8 startups
LAUNCHub completed the first closing of its new fu... |
| 28.01.2021 | Lithuanian Digital Security Company Ondato Boosted by 2$M in Seed Funding | Ondato is a Lithuanian company providing security solutions for companies, financial institutions, and end-users.
The company has reached 25 countries in just under 5 years, with a total of over 170 clients.
Startup Wise Guys and OTB Ventur... |
| 15.09.2020 | In 2020, Warsaw’s startup ecosystem is ‘a place to observe carefully’ | If you listed the trends that have captured the attention of 20 Warsaw-focused investors who replied to our recent surveys, automation/AI, enterprise SaaS, cleantech, health, remote work and the sharing economy would top the list. These VCs... |
| 20.02.2020 | OTB Ventures raises $100m for Central and Eastern European tech start-ups | OTB Ventures, the Polish investor focused on the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has raised a $100 million (€92.4 million) fund to support the region’s technology start-ups.
Dubbed “the largest venture capital fund in CEE”, OTB’s nest egg... |
| 19.02.2020 | OTB Ventures launches $100m fund | OTB Ventures, a venture capital fund specialised in investments in technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe has today announced the launch of its early growth technology fund – the largest venture capital fund in CEE – with $100m ... |
| 19.02.2020 | OTB Ventures launches $100m fund for tech investment in Europe | OTB Ventures has announced the launch of its early growth technology fund with $100m in commitments. |
| 19.02.2020 | OTB Ventures launches €92.4 million fund to invest in Central and Eastern European tech startups | Today OTB Ventures, a leading venture capital fund specialised in investments in technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), announces the launch of its early growth technology fund, with €92.4 million in commitments. This fun... |
| 19.02.2020 | Nou fond de 92,4 milioane Euro pentru startup-uri CEE, de la un investitor al românilor de la FintechOS | Startup-urile IT din Europa Centrală și de Est (CEE), inclusiv din România, vor putea obține finanțări de capital de risc printr-un nou fond de investiții, de 92,4 milioane de euro, lansat, miercuri, de compania de venture capital OTB Ventu... |
| 16.10.2019 | Bratislava-based startup Minit raises €7 million in Series A round led by Target Global | Founded in 2017, Bratislava-based Minit builds process mining software that helps businesses make data-driven decisions to improve ROI. Its technology enables businesses to automatically analyse their processes, identifying specific areas a... |
| - | Warsaw’s OTB Ventures launches €50.5 million CEE region focused growth fund | OTB Ventures has announced the launch of a new growth stage fund totaling €50.5 million. Through this fund, OTB Ventures plans a number of follow on investments in portfolio companies. The typical ticket size for the Warsaw-based firm range... |
| - | Ondato Raises €3.6M Seed Extension To Support Rapid Expansion Of Its Compliance-as-a-Service Model
| Compliance-as-a-Service startup Ondato has closed a €3.6M seed extension round led by OTB Ventures, LitCapital, and Startup Wise Guys, bringing the total amount raised by Ondato so far to €5.6M. The seed extension sees the addition of exper... |
| - | Amsterdam-based SEGRON raises €4.5 million to expand automation services | Amsterdam-based SEGRON has raised €4.5 million, now bringing their total capital raised to €10 million.
The round was led by OTB Ventures and Credo, and is expected to fuel international expansion and the entry to new industry verticals.
“S... |
| - | Finanțatorii românilor de la FintechOS anunță noi investiții în startup-uri | Firma poloneză de investiții OTB Ventures, care a finanțat și startup-ul românesc FintechOS, a lansat, marți, un nou fond, de 60 de milioane de dolari, cu susținerea Uniunii Europene.
OTB Growth Fund I beneficiază de 30 de miliane de dolari... |
| - | Fondul NATO pentru Inovare susține un fond de investiții polonez care a finanțat startup-urile românești FintechOS și Veridion | Fondul NATO pentru Inovare (NIF) a anunțat, marți, că susține o serie de fonduri de investiții europene, printre care și OTB Ventures din Polonia, care a finanțat în trecut și stratup-urile românești FintechOS și Veridion. |
| - | FintechOS raises $60 million in Draper Esprit led Series B round | London-based FintechOS has raised $60 million in a Series B round.
Led by Draper Esprit, whose previous investments include Revolut and N26, the round also saw participation from existing investors LAUNCHub, Earlybird Digital East, Gapminde... |
| - | Soter Analytics raises $12 million to help prevent workplace injuries | London-registered Soter Analytics has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. The company uses a combination of wearable technology and AI-powered coaching programmes to help workers avoid musculoskeletal problems, e.g. injuries to ... |
| - | Eye in the sky ICEYE lands $136 million in new funding round | Designer, maker, and operator of the world’s largest synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) constellation, ICEYE, has raised $136 million in a Series D funding round. The new capital will be used to drive the further development of the company’s na... |
