Portuguese VC firm Índico Capital Partners has launched its €125 million Fund III, with the EIF as the main anchor investor

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Lisbon-based Índico Capital Partners has announced the launch of its sixth fund, called Indico VC Fund III. The goal is to raise €125 million to invest in early-stage tech startups in Portugal, Spain, and Italy. The fund has already secured a major first …

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Future Energy Ventures closes largest European energy tech VC fund at €235M

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Accelerating the global transition to cleaner energy amid growing concerns over energy security and decarbonization. Reliance on volatile…

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Gosta Labs Raises €7.5M To Scale AI Platform For Oncology

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Helsinki-based healthtech company Gosta Labs has raised a €7.5 million seed round to scale its AI operating system for complex medical specialties. The round was led by Voima Ventures, with participation from COR Group, the Aho family, and both existing a…

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Neuracore Secures $3M To Power Next-gen Robots And Open Robotics Research

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Neuracore, a robot learning platform focused on rapid scaling and deployment, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Clem Delangue, Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face, and advisors from …

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David Lerner, Co-Founder of Tekserve, Dies at 72

John Gruber / nytimes - Sam Roberts, reporting for The New York Times: David Lerner, a high school dropout and self-taught computer geekwhose funky foothold in New York’s Flatiron district, Tekserve,was for decades a beloved discount mecca for Apple customersdesperate to retriev…

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PayPal and Perplexity Debut Instant Buy Ahead of Black Friday Shopping

PYMNTS / pymnts - PayPal and Perplexity introduced on Tuesday (Nov. 25) Instant Buy, which allows U.S. consumers to complete purchases directly in Perplexity’s AI chat, creating a single flow from product discovery to checkout. The companies said the feature streamlines on…

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Sam Altman And Jony Ive Reveal Their iPhone-Killer Could Debut By 2027

bgr - After Jony Ive and Sam Altman teamed up to create an AI device, we're hearing news that OpenAI may unveil the ChatGPT-powered device by 2027.

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The iPhone Fold May Cost A Whopping $2,399 At Launch

bgr - Rumors have been hinting toward a new foldable iPhone launching next year. As per recent reports, the iPhone Fold may be priced at $2,399 at launch.

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SportAI Secures $3M Funding Round Backed By Tennis Star Casper Ruud

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - SportAI, a B2B sports technology startup delivering AI-powered video analysis and professional-grade performance insights, has raised an oversubscribed $3 million round. Investors include Norwegian fund Altitude Capital and professional tennis player Casp…

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Space-engineered, defense-proven power units position Estonia’s PowerUP for a €10 million expansion

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Tallinn-based PowerUP Energy Technologies has closed a €10 million Series A funding round to accelerate the manufacturing and commercialisation of its hydrogen-powered electric generators. The investment, co-led by dual-use venture firms Mercaton and Scal…

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Trump's Genesis Mission Promises Manhattan Project Ambition. The Funding Says Otherwise.

Robert Brown / implicator - Trump's Genesis Mission invokes Manhattan Project urgency to accelerate AI-driven science. But the executive order commits zero new dollars, claims credit for existing partnerships, and arrives while university research funding gets slashed.

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Nuclear energy startup X-energy raises $700M in funding

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - X-energy Reactor Co., a startup developing miniature nuclear reactors, today announced that it has raised $700 million in funding. Jane Street led the oversubscribed Series D investment with participation from more than ten other institutional investors. …

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DOGE Is Officially Dead

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - The project no longer exists, despite eight months left on its mandate.

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How Google Finally Leapfrogged Rivals With New Gemini Rollout

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: With the release of its third version last week, Google's Gemini large language model surged past ChatGPT and other competitors to become the most capable AI chatbot, as determined by consensus industry-benchmark tests…

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UK FashionTech Startup Ponda Secures €2M To Advance Sustainable Fashion Innovation

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Ponda, the Bristol-based biomaterials company developing regenerative material supply chains, has closed a €2.09 million Seed round to commercialise its flagship insulation, BioPuff. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Faber (Lisbon) and Counteract (Lo…

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Tim Cook May Not Be Leaving Apple As Soon As You Think

bgr - Recent reports indicated that Tim Cook might step down as Apple's CEO in a few months. However, a new reports suggests that he may continue for longer.

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Takeoff of China's flying taxis hits turbulence

techxplore - An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that onc…

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Bootstrapped And Profitable Hello Klean Raises €1.3M Funding

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Hello Klean, a water-focused beauty brand, has secured £1.5M (around €1.3M) in debt financing from re:cap to fuel its next stage of growth. re:cap, founded in Berlin in 2021 by Paul Becker and Jonas Tebbe, provides debt capital and automated …

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Onstage launches new early-stage venture fund

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Onstage, an organiser of standalone demo events in Europe, announced the launch of its first venture fund, with an initial close of £10 million. The fund is intended to support European founders at t...

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