eAgronom, a pioneering climate tech company based in Tallinn, Estonia, has successfully closed a €10 million Series A2 equity round led by Swedbank. This funding milestone marks a significant leap forward for eAgronom, empowering the company to bolster its sustainable agriculture programs and expand its footprint across key global markets. The announcement was made through…
KNIME, a leader in open-source data science and AI, has secured an additional $30 million from longtime investor Invus, bringing the total Series B funding to $50 million. This investment will drive KNIME’s efforts to advance its enterprise-grade AI governance and ModelOps capabilities, positioning the company to meet the burgeoning demand for sophisticated data science…
A new wave of hope is washing over the oncology field with Myricx Bio’s impressive £90 million ($114 million) Series A funding. This UK biotech company, unlike its peers, isn’t taking an incremental step forward. Instead, they’re wielding a whole new weapon in the fight against cancer: N-Myristoyltransferase inhibitor (NMTi) antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). The significance…
Exa, a pioneering AI research lab focused on revolutionizing search capabilities for artificial intelligence, has secured $22 million in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. This investment round also saw participation from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, and Y Combinator, underscoring confidence in Exa’s vision to establish itself as the foundational…
Gensmo, an innovator in AI-powered fashion shopping, has secured over $60 million in seed funding to redefine how consumers explore and select personal style. The New York–based startup, founded and led by CEO Ning Hu, launched its real-time virtual “Try-On” feature in December 2024, allowing users to see garments on lifelike digital avatars—streamlining the path from…
When energy meets urgency, capital starts moving fast. Today, Eolian, L.P. disclosed a $463 million financing package—structured by Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking—to advance the last two phases of its ambitious Padua battery energy storage complex in Texas. The timing and size hint at how central large‑scale storage is becoming to grid reliability in a…
Feather, a pioneering startup dedicated to simplifying insurance for expatriates in Europe, has announced a significant milestone with the closing of a €6 million funding round, bringing its total funding to €10 million. Founded in 2018 by Rob Schumacher and Vincent Audoire during their tenure at Entrepreneur First’s inaugural Berlin cohort, Feather has swiftly emerged…
247Solar, the MIT-born clean energy innovator, announced a $25 million Series B funding round aimed at scaling its always-on industrial heat and electricity solutions for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers worldwide. Existing investors have already committed $3.5 million, with additional capital under active due diligence. Founded on a vision to decarbonize the hardest-to-abate industrial energy,…
Cambridge-based Antler Bio, an emerging force in agricultural biotechnology, has announced a €3.6 million investment round to accelerate the deployment of its gene-expression platform, EpiHerd, across European dairy farms. The round was led by The First Thirty Ventures, with support from Endgame Capital and regenerative agriculture syndicate Generation-RE, bringing total capital raised to €7.2 million…
SYSO, a prominent player in the renewable energy and battery storage markets, has announced the successful closure of its Series B funding round, securing $14.5 million. The round, spearheaded by Kimmeridge through its Carbon Solutions strategy, saw participation from existing investor Lacuna Sustainable Investments. This new capital infusion is set to significantly enhance SYSO’s market…
