11 Munich startups to watch, according to top VCs
This week, Tech Funding News was at Bits & Pretzels in Munich to get a better view of…
Mistral backer Headline closes $400M fund as European AI seed rounds top $1B
Headline backed Mistral shortly after three researchers had left Google DeepMind and Meta to found the company. The…
Foundational raises £8.2M for satellite laser ranging network backed by Inflection, Final Frontier
Foundational states that its satellite laser ranging is so accurate that it’s as if you could tell from…
Deepslate raises $8.8M seed to build a speech-to-speech AI model in Europe
The voice AI lab Deepslate announced it had raised a seed round of €7.7 million, with 42CAP from…
MuleSoft founder’s DIG Ventures closes $120M Fund III to back 30 AI infrastructure startups
DIG Ventures has now closed its Fund III, a $120 million fund focused on supporting European pre-seed and…
FRANK lands €2.9M seed for an AI that fills in insurance brokers’ paperwork
The Portuguese insurtech company FRANK has secured €2.9 million in funding from Armilar and Start Ventures, who are…
Exclusive: Bulgaria’s LAUNCHub raises €65M for Fund III to back CEE startups
LAUNCHub, a pre-seed and seed venture capital firm based in Sofia, closed its first round of financing for…
Inside SereneDB: How this Berlin startup built the world’s fastest database
Around 200 microseconds – that’s how fast Alexander Malandin says his database can find a single record among…
Bits & Pretzels 2026: AI dominated the stage, but founders had other problems
Bits & Pretzels launched in September 2014 as a breakfast gathering for founders in Munich, created by Andreas…
