Lawrence Investment Holdings https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Slawson joins Southwire to lead ventures team – Global Venturing News SoftBank leads $500m round for Agile Robots – Sifted Olaf Sakkers is betting he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze – TechCrunch Venture Hambar lands €250,000 in Vest Ventures’ first seed deal – Dealroom Dealmaker’s Log: The latest African deals, exits and fund closes – Africa Private Equity News Ballistic Ventures eyes up to $490m across two new cybersecurity funds – AltAssets Private Equity News Bridgepoint’s Emma Watford to succeed Oakley Capital’s Rebecca Gibson as Level 20 chair – PEI Private Equity Olaf Sakkers is betting he can beat the emerging-manager squeeze – TechCrunch Fractile confirms £540m raise first revealed by Sifted – Sifted From DeepL to ElevenLabs: Northzone taps Europe’s tech talent for new investment and advisory network – Tech.eu Anorak secures $5M to let anyone create their own AI-powered games – Tech.eu Why Vodacom’s fastest-growing markets are outside South Africa – TechCabal Lightspeed and Alphabet’s CapitalG back Fractile in £500M plus funding round – Tech.eu Corporate investors gain from spate of Asian IPOs in October – Global Venturing Cherry Ventures backs Tano with $4M to challenge the traditional influencer agency model – Tech.eu Inside Biscay’s startup ecosystem: Industrial strengths, public investment, and deeptech ambition – Tech.eu Exclusive: Nvidia and Unity join Emulate’s $700m fundraise – Sifted Zimbabwe’s Pizza Inn owner buys out Kenya delivery arm for $664,000 – TechCabal UK AI startup Nscale weighs delaying $35bn IPO amid tech sell-off – Sifted Nigeria’s active mobile subscriptions hit 200 million after NIN-SIM purge – TechCabal From broken ramps to digital gateways: LearnArk’s mission to make tech truly accessible – TechCabal Home Tendrils Compute raises $30M to “redo the CPU” – Tech.eu Why do some patients respond to drugs and others don’t? Switchpoint Bio raises $5.3M to find out – Tech.eu Berlin freight unicorn sennder raises €228M in debt and equity – Tech.eu Czech medtech Kardi Ai raises €5.3M to advance predictive heart monitoring – Tech.eu Techstart Ventures launches new weekly ‘pressure test’ for founders with unproven ideas – Scottish Financial News Proximal Ventures Closes $27.5M Debut Fund to Back AI Life Sciences – Unite.AI VC funding in Europe falls short at early-stage investment hurdles – Pharmaceutical Technology Redalpine closes oversubscribed $250m eighth early-stage fund with backing from Aviva, KfW – AltAssets Private Equity News IINO Lines invests in digital-technology venture capital – Riviera Maritime Media Proximal Ventures raises debut fund to back startups bringing AI to drug development – TechCrunch Venture Khan joins Visa as head of corporate development, M&A and ventures – Global Venturing Mistral pushes back on new AI copyright proposals, sparking outcry from creatives – Sifted Why lower transfer fees cannot easily break M-PESA’s mobile money dominance – TechCabal Denmark backs sovereign AI ambitions with €67M investment in Gefion operator DCAI – Tech.eu Amazon sees South Africa’s online small businesses as its next growth opportunity – TechCabal Anthropic to raise $64BN in landmark US IPO – Tech.eu LEA Ventures goes independent to turn Europe’s industrial strength into startup success – Tech.eu Jensen Huang pulls out of ElevenLabs Summit amid controversy – Sifted Elomia Health acquires Earkick to expand AI mental wellbeing platform – Tech.eu Creandum leads $8.5M funding for Ancep to turn overlooked insurance risks into revenue – Tech.eu Exclusive: Nvidia bet Hiverge quietly raises $19.4m backed by Plural – Sifted Drone startup Uforce raises $700m backed by Valor Equity Partners, UK National Wealth Fund – Sifted Efferon raises €4.3M to expand sepsis treatment technology into new markets – Tech.eu AI is reshaping the venture market — and creating a new role for strategic investors – Global Venturing AI accounting startup Sumary raises $25m seed – Sifted Gabriel Attal: the French presidential candidate wooing the tech world – Sifted Why is Northzone betting on scouts as Sequoia walks away? – Sifted