Lawrence Investment Holdings https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html EIF commits €20 million to Swedish VC BackingMinds to support underrepresented entrepreneurs – EU-Startups News Home Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear – TechCrunch Venture As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier – TechCrunch Venture The secret to fast startup growth isn’t early sales, top names in tech say – TechCrunch Venture Stealing EV cables is big business. This company wants to make it too much effort to bother – Tech.eu Tottenham Hotspur’s venture play turns the CVC model on its head – Global Venturing European companies urged to play more active role in open source software development – Tech.eu Spanish VC Seaya Enters London After Raising €600 Million – Bloomberg.com Raynal leaves corporate VC role at EDF to join energy startup – Global Venturing US fintech Whop lands $200m Series D at $5.1bn valuation – FinTech Futures Barcelona’s Masia closes €18 million debut fund and opens a physical hub for frontier tech founders and investors – EU-Startups Battle for talent sparks growing interest in tender offers – PEI Private Equity Palantir chief: Europe must ‘accept some dependency’ on US tech – Sifted Meet Aaron Rosenberg: The man DeepMind researchers call before they quit – Sifted Investors break down how founders can raise a Series A today – TechCrunch Venture Körber takes stake in bootstrapped German robotics startup NAiSE – Tech.eu Spend first, measure later: Inside African banking’s AI boom  – TechCabal Seaya raises €600M for new growth fund to back Europe’s next global tech leaders – Tech.eu Arke Telekom lands €1M from ACT Venture Partners to advance drone communications – Tech.eu Africa’s stablecoin promise breaks at the off-ramp – TechCabal Indurex raises €7M to strengthen cybersecurity across critical infrastructure – Tech.eu Anglo-Finnish Oxford University quantum spinout QuantrolOx raises €12M – Tech.eu Ireland’s AI scene has buzz. Now it needs breakouts – Sifted Sifted’s first Onstage Demo Day – Sifted More startup ‘mafias’ are coming in Norway, predicts VC – Sifted Repsol veteran De Manueles leaves investor role – Global Venturing Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C – TechCrunch Venture European Deep Tech Funding: How to Sequence Grants and VC – The Recursive Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation – TechCrunch Venture Sony Ventures hones data-driven approach to align startup and corporate goals – Global Venturing Firstwork Secures $15M Series A to Automate Frontline Workforce Operations with AI – FF News Animal Spirits hits $35.4M in second close for its disciplined mid-size VC fund – Dealroom 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 Pigment raises $250m Series E led by Scaleup Europe Fund – Sifted Can Europe and Canada build a tech alliance to rival the US? – Sifted Exclusive: Photon Bridge raises €10m to build laser devices that connect AI chips – Sifted Sri Lanka’s HLAB venture fund targets $9.06M to scale local startups – Dealroom Aries launches media-tech venture fund for Sub-Saharan Africa, backs first three startups – Dealroom Why Attention Is Becoming Venture Capital’s Most Valuable Asset – Forbes Legora’s valuation leaps to $8.8B, Europe’s tech funding rebounds, and solving the problem of brain fog – Tech.eu Italian startups are growing up: bigger early-stage rounds and more late-stage money, data shows – Sifted