| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.02.2026 | Rapidata: $8.5 Million Seed Funding Closed For Scaling Global Human Feedback Network | Rapidata announced it has raised an $8.5 million seed round to accelerate AI development by scaling on-demand human feedback for model training and evaluation. The round was co-led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures, with participation from... |
| 21.02.2026 | Rapidata Secures $8.5M, Unleashing AI's Feedback Loop | Zurich AI innovator Rapidata secured $8.5 million in Seed capital. This funding empowers its global human feedback network. Rapidata solves AI's critical bottleneck: slow human judgment. AI models require rapid, precise validation. The comp... |
| 20.02.2026 | Zurich-based AI infrastructure startup Rapidata raises €7.2 million to scale global human feedback network | Rapidata, a Swiss company that accelerates AI development through scalable, on-demand data labeling via digital ads, announced a €7.2 million ($8.5 million) Seed round to scale their global human data network and support growing demand from... |
| 20.02.2026 | Rapidata raised USD 8.5 million to eliminate the feedback bottleneck in AI development |
As AI development accelerates, access to timely human feedback has emerged as a critical bottleneck. While compute and model architectures have advanced rapidly, collecting high-quality human judgments, preferences, and validation data rem... |
| 19.02.2026 | Rapidata raises USD 8.5M to accelerate AI development | Rapidata, a Venture Leaders program participant and Venture Kick winner, is tackling one of AI development’s biggest bottlenecks: the slow, manual process of gathering large-scale human feedback. By leveraging crowd intelligence and a globa... |
| 19.02.2026 | Rapidata Raises $8.5M in Seed Funding | Rapidata, a Zurich, Switzerland-based AI infrastructure startup which specializes in providing human feedback for AI model development, raised $8.5M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Canaan Partners and IA Ventures with participation fr... |
| 19.02.2026 | Rapidata raises USD 8.5M to accelerate AI development | 19.02.2026 17:10, Rita Longobardi
Zurich-based AI startup Rapidata has raised USD 8.5 million in seed funding to scale its human feedback platform, dramatically speeding up AI model training. Rapidata, a Venture Leaders program participant ... |
| 14.01.2026 | Biotech Innovator bit.bio Secures $50M to Revolutionize Drug Discovery | bit.bio, a pioneering UK biotech, has secured $50 million in Series C funding, led by M&G Investments. This significant capital infusion will supercharge its human cell programming technology. The company aims to accelerate drug discove... |
| 11.01.2026 | bit.bio Raises $50 Million Series C Led by M&G To Scale Human Cell Programming Platform | M&G Investments has led a $50 million Series C funding round for bit.bio, a Cambridge-based biotechnology company developing human cell programming technology to improve the speed and predictability of drug discovery and safety testing.... |
| 22.12.2025 | ZeroPhase Raises $6.8M in Seed Funding | ZeroPhase, a Munich, Germany-based defense tech startup, raised $6.8m in seed funding.
The round was led by BlueYard Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to develop its software, build capacity, and scale its operations.
Founded in... |
| 20.12.2025 | ETHSGas Raises $12M in Seed Funding | ETHSGas, a Hong Kong based developer of settlement infrastructure for Ethereum, raised $12m in Seed funding.
The round was led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Stake Capital, BlueYard Capital, Lafayette Macro Advisors, SIG DT, ... |
| 19.12.2025 | European Tech Leaders Soar: Trade Republic Hits Decacorn Status as Deep Tech Dominates Funding | Trade Republic hit decacorn status, valued at €12.5 billion after a secondary share sale. This cements its leadership in European retail investing. DefenseTech Quantum Systems acquired autonomous mobility firm Fernride, broadening its techn... |
| 18.12.2025 | +++ Mirelo AI +++ Berlin Brands Group +++ Klarstein +++ BlueYard Capital +++ Soonicorns +++ | +++ #StartupTicker +++ Unbedingt merken: Mirelo AI +++ Niedergang der E-Commerce-Aggregatoren: Berlin Brands Group verschwindet hinter Klarstein +++ Eine stille VC-Größe: BlueYard Capital +++ 30 Startups, die vielleicht bald ein Unicorn sei... |
| 17.12.2025 | Ukraine battlefield use underpins €5.8 million raise for ZeroPhase’s communications software | ZeroPhase, a Munich-based company building software-defined, mission-proven data links for unmanned defense platforms, has raised €5.8 million in an oversubscribed Seed round to accelerate development and deployment of their adaptive commun... |
| 17.12.2025 | Trade Republic wird nun mit 12,5 Milliarden bewertet – Quantum Systems kauft Fernride | Im #DealMonitor für den 17. Dezember werfen wir einen Blick auf die wichtigsten, spannendsten und interessantesten Investments und Exits des Tages in der DACH-Region. Alle Deals der Vortage gibt es im großen und übersichtlichen #DealMonitor... |
| 26.11.2025 | Scottish Tech Sector Thrives Amidst Challenges: 20 Companies Leading the Way in 2025 | Scotland's tech sector faces cyber threats and AI layoffs. Despite challenges, it shows growth with firms securing investments and expanding globally. AutoRek, Chemify, Tomoro, and others drive innovation.
**Scotland's Tech Sector: A Story ... |
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SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Au... |
| 22.10.2025 | Chemify Raises $50M in Series B Funding | Glasgow spin-out Chemify has secured more than $50 million in series B funding.
The funding round, which was oversubscribed, was co-led by Wing Venture Capital and Insight Partners, with further participation from 8VC and existing backers E... |
| 22.10.2025 | Chemify Raises Over $50M in Series B Funding | Chemify, a Glasgow, Scotland, UK-based deep-tech company combining chemistry, robotics, computation, and AI to digitize molecule creation, raised over $50m in Series B funding.
The round was co-led by Wing Venture Capital and Insight Partne... |
| 22.10.2025 | Chemify: Over $50 Million Series B Raised To Expand Global Network of Digital Chemistry Facilities | Chemify, a company pioneering the fusion of chemistry, robotics, computation, and artificial intelligence, announced it has raised more than $50 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. The financing was co-led by Wing Venture C... |
| 06.10.2025 | Aerska Secures $21M to Transform Neurological Disease Treatment with RNAi | Dublin-based biotech Aerska raised $21 million in seed financing. This significant capital boost targets groundbreaking RNA interference (RNAi) medicines. The company aims to redefine neurological disease treatment. Aerska employs innovativ... |
| 06.10.2025 | Aerska Raises $21M in Seed Financing | Aerska, a Dublin, Ireland-based biotechnology company improving the treatment of neurological diseases, raised $21M in seed financing.
The round was co-led by Age1, Backed VC and Speedinvest, with participation from Blueyard, Lingotto (Exor... |
| 03.10.2025 | Europe's Tech Divide: New Funds Emerge as Startups Face Insolvency and Losses | Europe's startup ecosystem sees major movements. The Global Resilience Innovation Fund (GRIF) debuts, targeting €250M for DefenseTech and security innovations across NATO states. Norwegian private equity firm Verdane secures €2 billion for ... |
| 01.10.2025 | Irish biotech Aerska raises $21m to tackle neurological diseases | Irish biotech start-up Aerska has raised $21m (€19.5m) in seed funding to advance new genetic medicines aimed at treating and preventing neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The company, founded by Irish entrepreneur J... |
| 01.10.2025 | Irish BioTech Aerska launches with €17 million to develop RNAi medicines for diseases of the brain | Aerska, a Dublin-based BioTech company aiming to redefine the treatment of neurological diseases, today announced it has raised €17 million in Seed financing to develop systemically administered RNA interference (RNAi) medicines designed to... |
| 01.10.2025 | +++ Global Resilience Innovation Fund +++ Next Matter +++ Luca +++ suena energy +++ Verdane | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Mittwoch, 1. Oktober). #STARTUPLAND
SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Es... |
| 26.09.2025 | AI's Heat Crisis: Corintis Secures $24M to Power Next-Gen Chips | Corintis just secured $24 million in Series A funding, raising its total to $33.4 million. This investment targets AI's major bottleneck: intense chip heat. Powerful processors, vital for generative AI, generate unprecedented thermal loads.... |
| 26.09.2025 | $24M to bring chip cooling breakthrough to mass production |
The growth of AI is hampered by computational power. Increasing demands for AI to become ever more powerful and ever more accessible have placed a requirement for there to be ever more powerful computer chips. However, increasingly powerfu... |
| 25.09.2025 | Corintis lands $24M and Microsoft endorsement for chip cooling tech | Coming out of stealth mode, semiconductor cooling startup Corintis has today announced that it has raised a $24 million Series A to address the problem of liquid cooling at scale. To date, the company has raised $33.4 million in total.
The ... |
| 25.09.2025 | Swiss startup Corintis raises €20 million to target AI bottleneck, and collaborates with Microsoft for chip cooling breakthrough | Coming out of stealth mode, Laussane-based semiconductor cooling startup Corintis has today announced that it has raised a €20 million Series A to address the cooling bottleneck faced by computer chips in the age of AI – raising €28.5 milli... |
| 11.06.2025 | Manex AI: €8 Million Seed Round Closed For Enabling Autonomous Factories | Manex AI (formerly Datagon AI), an AI-based software platform for industrial quality management and process steering, announced a €8M seed round to build the control layer for autonomous manufacturing. The funding round was led by Lightspee... |
| 03.06.2025 | Manex AI Closes €8 Million Seed Round to Enable Autonomous Factories | Manex AI , an AI-driven software platform for industrial quality management and process steering, announced a €8M seed round to build the control layer for autonomous manufacturing. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and BlueY... |
| 04.02.2025 | Castelion: Defense Manufacturing Company Raises $100 Million | Castelion – a new defense manufacturer helping America and its allies preserve peace through deterrence with long-range hypersonic strike weapons – announced it has raised $100 million in debt and equity financing. And with rising tensions ... |
| 29.01.2025 | Weapons Startup Castelion Strikes $100M Series A
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Castelion, a defense manufacturer developing long-range hypersonic strike weapons, raised a $100 million Series A in a mix of debt and equity.
The El Segundo, California-based startup creates what it... |
| 19.12.2024 | bit.bio raises $30 Million led by M&G Investments | bit.bio raises $30 Million led by M&G Investments to focus on tools for the research, drug discovery and cell therapy markets.
Jonathan Milner appointed Interim CEO; Mark Kotter assumes Vice Chairman role as Company expands Board with d... |
| 10.10.2024 | clock.bio Raises $5.3M to Decode Human Rejuvenation, Develop Anti-Aging Therapies | What You Should Know:
– clock.bio, a healthspan biotechnology company based at the Milner Therapeutics Institute in Cambridge, has secured $5.3M in seed funding to advance its groundbreaking research on human rejuvenation.
– The seed fundin... |
| 29.04.2024 | Transcripta Bio: $10 Million Raised To Speed Up Drug Discovery With Lower Risk | Transcripta Bio, a company focused on drug discovery at unprecedented speed and scale, with lower risk and higher certainty across multiple diseases in parallel, announced its launch with $10 million in funding.
Transcripta Bio co-founder, ... |
| 06.04.2024 | Biofidelity Secures €22M in Funding: A Game-Changer in Genomic Technology | Cambridge-based Biofidelity, a genomic technology company, has just locked in a hefty €22M in funding, propelling its total funding to a staggering €55.3M. This cash injection, led by key investors like Octopus Ventures and Agilent Technolo... |
| 03.04.2024 | Biofidelity Raises $24M in Funding | Biofidelity, a Cambridge, UK- and Morrisville, NC-based genomic technology company, raised $24M in funding.
Backers included Agilent Technologies, Octopus Ventures, BlueYard Capital, and Longwall Ventures.
Led by Dr. Barnaby Balmforth, CEO,... |
| 07.08.2023 | Dutch cultivated meat startup Meatable raises $35m Series B, gears up for market entry in 2024 | Dutch cultivated meat startup Meatable has raised $35 million in a series B round led by Agronomics, taking its total funding to $95 million as it gears up to launch pork sausages and dumplings in Singapore next year.
The round includes $17... |
| 17.07.2023 | Rapidata banks CHF 1.5 million | |
| 04.07.2023 | Dutch firm VSParticle raises €14.5 million to scale its material discovery innovation | VSParticle began life as a long-term research project in TU Delft where Aaike van der Vugt (CEO) worked on it as a Master's student before collaborating with his professor Andreas Schmidt-Ott, co-founder and CTO Tobias Pfeiffer, and co-foun... |
| 11.01.2023 | Biomanufacturing Startup Visolis Has Raised $8 Million To Make Carbon-Negative Materials | Visolis founder and CEO, Deepak Dugar, in the lab. Visolis |
| 28.11.2022 | Aiming to make staking easier and for all, Kiln fires up €17 million | Parisian staking-as-a-service platform Kiln has raised €17 million in a Series A funding round. The startup is building a staking infrastructure aimed at enterprise-grade clientele, allowing them to offer staking directly to institutional c... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 20.04.2022 | Privy looks to protect user data in Web3, raises $8M in seed round | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Let’s talk about the IT greenfield of the future.... |
| 25.03.2021 | Meatable banks $47m from DSM, others to realize the pluri-potential of its cellular pork & beef | Netherlands foodtech startup Meatable plans to expand its portfolio of cell-cultured pork and beef products following the close of its $47 million Series A round, co-founder and chief technology officer Daan Luining told AFN.
New investors ... |
| 24.03.2021 | Dutch lab-grown meat startup Meatable raises €39.68M to bring its first products to market | Dutch lab-grown meat startup, Meatable, has raised $47M (approx €39.68M) in its Series A round of funding. With this, the company’s total funding has reached $60M (approx €50.66M), to date. The round was led by Dr. Rick Klausner, Section 32... |
| 21.07.2020 | Former SoundCloud founders launch e-bike subscription service, backed by BlueYard | You’ve heard of e-bike and e-scooter rental startups spreading across cities. But today three veterans of the startup world will launch what appears to be a brand new take on the “e-revolution” sweeping cities in the wake of the global pand... |
| 08.01.2020 | HUMM raises A$3.7M | // Perth born – but Silicon Valley resident – neuroscience wearable startup Humm Tech has raised a US$2.6M round, bringing their invested capital to US$3.1M so far.
As first reported in Techcrunch last month, Humm has raised US$2.6m from Bl... |
| 06.12.2019 | From stem cells to pork chops: Meatable raises $10m seed funding to prototype cultivated pork | The Dutch cultivated meat startup Meatable, which aims to lab-grow pork and beef, has raised an additional $10 million in seed funding, the company has disclosed to AFN.
The raise — which brings Meatable’s total funding to date to $13 milli... |
| 02.01.2019 | German VC BlueYard raises its second $120 million fund | Berlin-based VC firm BlueYard has raised a second fund of $120 million, which it described as “same size […], same team, same thesis, same strategy, same LPs.” The firm has described its current investment thesis as “the decentralisation of... |
| 05.04.2017 | Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital | Michael Kim is pretty much killing it.
Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the idea of creating a fund-of-funds that would invest in seed-stage, or so-called micro VC, funds, they were cool to the idea. In fact, it took... |
| 06.08.2016 | Video Of The Week: Brad In Berlin | Our partner Brad has had an interest in Berlin’s growing tech ecosystem since the earliest days of USV. One of our first investors in USV is a good friend of Brad’s from Berlin. So he has been a big supporter of what is going on in Berlin a... |
| 07.04.2016 | DeepstreamHub raises $1 million for real-time app development platform | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Berlin-based deepstreamHub, a platform for building real time apps, has closed a $1 million seed round from Blue Yard Capital to furthe... |
| 07.04.2016 | Real time app development platform deepstreamHub raises $1 million from Blue Yard Capital | Berlin-based deepstreamHub, a platform for building real time apps, has closed a $1 million seed round from Blue Yard Capital to further develop its cloud platform for app developers.
This marks the first investment for Berlin’s Blue Yard C... |
| 17.01.2016 | BlueYard Capital Closes First VC Fund at $120M | BlueYard Capital, a Berlin, Germany-based newly formed venture capital firm, has closed its first fund at $120m.
Launched by Ciarán O’Leary and Jason Whittier, former Earlybird Venture Capital investors, BlueYard will invest in early stage ... |
| 04.01.2016 | Europe’s BlueYard Capital Is A New $120M Early-Stage Fund From Ex-EarlyBird VCs | It was a few months back that rumours began to circulate within the European — and specifically Berlin — startup community that ex-Early Bird VCs Ciarán O’Leary and Jason Whitmire were raising a fund of their own. Well today that news comes... |
| 04.01.2016 | Former Earlybird partners start new $120 million early-stage VC fund, BlueYard Capital, in Berlin | It was one of the worst-kept secrets in the history of European VC, but now it's official: former Earlybird VC investors Ciarán O'Leary and Jason Whitmire have raised $120 million for a brand new early-stage investment firm (yes, another on... |
| - | As Kraken's venture arm closes its $65 million fund, here's a sneak peek at its plans (and brand new hire) for Europe | Investments in crypto, Web3 startups and blockchain ventures are on the rise worldwide, and in Europe the situation is no different. It's also no surprise that this is leading to investment firms intensifying their efforts in finding and ba... |
| - | Blockchain-focused VC firm Tioga Capital announces final close at $70 million | Brussels-based Tioga Capital has announced the final close of its inaugural fund at $70 million, a figure up $53 million since the firms’ first close, announced almost a year ago to date. Tioga is targeting promising blockchain-technology-f... |
