Highland Europe closes €1.1B Fund VI to back European technology scaleups

Growth-stage venture capital firm Highland Europe hasclosed a €1.1 billion sixth fund to continue investing in European technologyscaleups.Headquartered in London and Geneva, Highland Europespecialise…

Airbus anchors €500M European defence tech fund as E2D makes first investment in Alta Ares

Earlybird and AVP are pleased to welcome Airbus Defence and Space as the anchor investor in E2D, the €500 million dual-use and defence technology growth fund the two firms launched last month. The fun…

British Business Bank backs EQT Life Sciences with €25M commitment

EQT Life Sciences’ EQT Health Economics 3 Fund (EQT HE3), a multi-stage life sciences and medtech-dedicated fund has received €25 million from the British Business Bank. EQT Life Sciences backs compa…

Why the best time to invest in Ukraine is now
Why the best time to invest in Ukraine is now

Roman Sulzhyk, Founding Partner of Ukrainian investment fund Resist.UA, has a message for the world when it comes to investing in the Ukrainian startup ecosystem: “If you wait until after the war, yo…

Norrsken Evolve plants roots in Amsterdam after €62M fund close

Norrsken Evolve, the European pre-seed fund investing in founders tackling climate, health and resilience challenges, is formalising its Amsterdam presence by taking up base at Norrsken House Amsterda…

SuperCharger Ventures launches Fund I to back global edtech and future-of-work startups

Maltese investor SuperCharger Ventures today announced the launch of Fund I with a plan to invest in edtech and Future-of-Work companies worldwide, with a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage startups. In…

Acurio Ventures launches €115M fund to unlock liquidity in Europe’s VC secondary market

Venture capital firm Acurio Ventures today announced the closing of Acurio Secondaries I FCR, an innovative European fund with a size of approximately €115 million that invests exclusively in fund-lev…

Danish VC Climentum Capital secures €60M first close for climate hardware investments

Danish investment firm Climentum Capital has raised €60 million in a first close for its second climate tech fund, backed by the European Investment Fund (EIF), Denmark’s export and investment fund EI…

Orbit Capital closes €107M venture debt fund for CEE scaleups

CEE investors Orbit Capital have announced the second closing of Growth Debt Fund II at €107 million, surpassing its initial target. To date, Orbit Capital has supported over 20 high-growth companies…

Common Path launches to connect low-income graduates with UK startups

Today marks the public launch of Common Path, a programme created to get graduate talent from low-income backgrounds into startups, and to challenge an industry that prides itself on meritocracy to pr…