Lawrence Investment Holdings https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Eva Ngigi Sarwari, Equity’s head of payments, dies on business trip to China – TechCabal News Home Daytona hits $1B valuation with $60M Series B for AI agent cloud – Tech.eu Aries launches media-tech venture fund for Sub-Saharan Africa, backs first three startups – Dealroom Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation – TechCrunch Venture Repsol veteran De Manueles leaves investor role – Global Venturing Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C – TechCrunch Venture African banks may be sitting on payment technology they aren’t fully using – TechCabal Exclusive: Former H Company CTO seeks $30m for new startup – Sifted Legora raises fresh $550m at $8.8bn valuation – Sifted Foursquare co-founder says equity holders saw no returns from the company’s acquisition – TechCrunch Venture Sony Ventures hones data-driven approach to align startup and corporate goals – Global Venturing How curiosity took Victoria Abiodun from anatomy to crypto – TechCabal Bard Santner wants to turn Zimbabwe’s diaspora remittances into a banking business – TechCabal Should you get a personal AI assistant? – Sifted Sri Lanka’s HLAB venture fund targets $9.06M to scale local startups – Dealroom Why Attention Is Becoming Venture Capital’s Most Valuable Asset – Forbes EIF commits €20 million to Swedish VC BackingMinds to support underrepresented entrepreneurs – EU-Startups VC Investor Oza Says Public Markets Will Fix Bloated Valuations – Bloomberg.com Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from Nouscom, Even Healthcare, Active Label, M Ventures, Revelation Partners, Neva, Angelini Investments, Aurea, European Investment Bank, Angelini Ventures, and more – B – BeBeez International Starling founder Anne Boden sold final stake at cut-price £1.7bn valuation, reports say – Sifted European Deep Tech Funding: How to Sequence Grants and VC – The Recursive Nvidia backs four German startups as European spending spree continues – Sifted Sony Ventures hones data-driven approach to align startup and corporate goals – Global Venturing Inspired Capital closes $450M fourth fund as New York pushes back on Silicon Valley’s gravitational pull – TechCrunch Venture Firstwork Secures $15M Series A to Automate Frontline Workforce Operations with AI – FF News Gabon’s first angel network is building more than a portfolio – TechCabal EIT launches €40M funding call to help bring university deep tech research to market – Tech.eu ‘The true barrier to entry is scale’: Inside the new frontier of European fintech’s AI arms race – Sifted A data centre is not a cloud platform: Why the distinction matters – TechCabal Natura’s Thamara Prado: CVC in Latin America needs a more disciplined approach – Global Venturing Revolut app down in widespread outage – Sifted Silent sailing, noisy generators: Hydrogen startups PowerUP and H2Boat tackle yachting’s diesel problem – Tech.eu Nvidia invests in four German startups as part of $10BN European investment pledge – Tech.eu Coherence Quantum raises €2.78M to tackle quantum computer scaling challenges – Tech.eu Blackwall hits $2.2B valuation with $100M Series C just weeks after joining Estonia’s unicorn club – Tech.eu Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches new startup Metis Reasoning – Sifted Animal Spirits hits $35.4M in second close for its disciplined mid-size VC fund – Dealroom NOVUS secures eight-figure funding to take its electric Lightbike from Germany to California – Tech.eu Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips – TechCrunch Venture AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation 4 months after launch – TechCrunch Venture As France reels from days of violence, founders brace for more uncertainty – Sifted CVC: Between science fiction and practicality – Global Venturing German VCs call for €15B annual funding boost to build the next generation of tech giants – Tech.eu Linkener secures €7.5M to expand its energy management platform – Tech.eu Angelini Ventures and M Ventures back €120m Nouscom cancer immunotherapy round – Global Venturing Barcelona-based Enzo Ventures closes €20M Fund II backing Southern European founders – Tech.eu TechWolf co-founder: Ghent flywheel "super important” – Tech.eu European tech weekly recap: More than 65 tech funding deals worth over €1.8B – Tech.eu