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Tallinn’s Skeleton Technologies announces €33 million first close of pre-IPO round ahead of planned 2027 US IPO

by EU StartupsMay 7, 2026

London-based CodeWords raises €7.6 million to help businesses run on AI autopilot

by EU StartupsMay 7, 2026

SCANDINAVIA&BALTICS

Stockholm’s Pit exits stealth with €13.6 million a16z-led funding to offer “AI product teams as a service”

by EU StartupsMay 7, 2026

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Finland’s TheStorage raises €3.6 million seed to commercialise sand-based energy storage

Amsterdam’s VNYX secures over €1 million to make fashion resale more profitable than dumping and burning

WaiV Robotics emerges from stealth with €6.4 million to develop autonomous UAV landing infrastructure

Italy

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from Zonin, Lecta, 21 Invest, Apollo Global Management, and more

DISTRESSED ASSETS

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from Zonin, Lecta, 21 Invest, Apollo Global Management, and more

Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from Smartness, Wopta, A-Cube, BeDimensional, and more

Italy’s angels & incubators and venture capital weekly roundup. News from Smartness, Wopta, A-Cube, BeDimensional, and more

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici, Bain Capital Private Equity, Nexi, F2i, Hellmann & Friedman, Rina, CDP, Arca Space Capital, Apax, and more

Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from Nexi, MECH-I-TRONIC, Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group, Fassi Group, Geosec International, RadiciGroup, Mecaer Aviation, Lecta and others

Gateways to Italy

Gateways to Italy – Offer your services to funds and investors willing to explore opportunities in Italy. Become a partner!

Gateways to Italy – Offer your services to funds and investors willing to explore opportunities in Italy. Become a partner!

ItaHub

Crypto-assets supervision rules in Italy, Banca d’Italia will supervise payment systems and Consob on market abuse

Crypto-assets supervision rules in Italy, Banca d’Italia will supervise payment systems and Consob on market abuse

by Stefania Peveraro

November 4, 2024

Joint document published by the two authorities clarifying who does what on crypto-assets, following the publication in Italy's Official Gazette...

Italy’s SMEs export toward 260 bn euros in 2025

Italy’s SMEs export toward 260 bn euros in 2025

September 9, 2024

With two months to go before the NPL Directive, in Italy the securitization rebus is still to be unraveled

With two months to go before the NPL Directive, in Italy the securitization rebus is still to be unraveled

EU’s AI Act, like previous rules on technology, looks more defensive than investment-oriented

EU’s AI Act, like previous rules on technology, looks more defensive than investment-oriented

January 9, 2024

Premium

Italy’s distressed assets and NPEs weekly round-up. News from PWC, The Italian Government, The EU NPL Secondary Market Directive, and more

Global infrastructures investments will amount to 6.900 billion US Dollars per year by 2050 and data centers will catalize 3000 billion in 5 years, JLL and PwC say

Italy’s venture capital, nearly €2 bn in funding in 2025 (net of Bending Spoon’s venture debt). BeBeez Report

Italy’s venture capital, nearly €2 bn in funding in 2025 (net of Bending Spoon’s venture debt). BeBeez Report

February 3, 2026

Italian private equity accelerates, driven by add-ons. BeBeez reports.

Italian private equity accelerates, driven by add-ons. BeBeez reports.

September 7, 2025

AlixPartners: Automotive, retail and manufacturing sectors may go through restructuring in 2025

AlixPartners: Automotive, retail and manufacturing sectors may go through restructuring in 2025

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DACH

Mutares may sell or list Magirus

Mutares may sell or list Magirus

by Salvatore Bruno

Frankfurt-listed Mutares said it is mulling for a sale or a listing og Germany’s Magirus GmbH, a producer of fire-fighting vehicles...

Swiss startup Moonlight AI raises €2.8 million to turn routine blood and cytology imaging into genomic insights

DMO brings data center online outside Munster, Germany

South Tyrol’s profitize raises €1.4 million to scale AI-powered financial planning for the hospitality sector

Germany’s eleQtron raises €57 million Series A to scale quantum computing systems for industrial applications

Ekiden raises €1.7 million at €17 million valuation for blockchain-based trading platform out of Portugal

Italian TravelTech startup Smartness closes €47 million Series B for European expansion

Iberia

Spain’s Humara raises €1.2 million to cut waste plant design cycles from months to days with AI SaaS

Humara, a Galicia-based software company rebuilding how waste and recycling plants are designed and operated, today announced the close of...

Nscale to deploy 66,000+ Rubin GPUs for Microsoft in Portugal

by dcd

Nscale is set to deploy more than 66,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs at Portugal's Start Campus for Microsoft.This is a significant...

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Benelux

Google deploys AI-powered platform to support water sustainability in Belgium

by dcd

Google has announced that it has deployed an AI-powered precision agriculture platform to support water sustainability concerns in the Scheldt...

QuantWare raises $178m to support development of VIO quantum processor

Warsaw-based Elastics raises €1.7 million to build AI agents for prediction markets

Europe to strengthen drone sovereignty as Intelic launches unmanned systems procurement hub

France

France’s OpsMill raises €11.9 million to help enterprises prepare infrastructure data for AI and automation

French AI real estate startup Davis raises €4.6 million and unveils Gaudi-1 for automated architectural generation

Former Pure DC CEO Dame Dawn Childs joins nLighten

Scandinavia & Baltics

Tallinn’s Skeleton Technologies announces €33 million first close of pre-IPO round ahead of planned 2027 US IPO

Skeleton Technologies, a Tallinn-based AI infrastructure and grid power systems provider, today announced the first close of a larger funding...

Stockholm’s Pit exits stealth with €13.6 million a16z-led funding to offer “AI product teams as a service”

OneQode signs 15-year 110MW lease at Bitzero data center in Norway

T.Loop looks to develop data center in Hanko, Finland

The Latest

Tallinn’s Skeleton Technologies announces €33 million first close of pre-IPO round ahead of planned 2027 US IPO

Skeleton Technologies, a Tallinn-based AI infrastructure and grid power systems provider, today announced the first close of a larger funding ...

May 7, 2026

London-based CodeWords raises €7.6 million to help businesses run on AI autopilot

CodeWords, a London-based AI agent platform that lets users run their business on autopilot, has raised a €7.6 million ($9 ...

May 7, 2026

SCANDINAVIA&BALTICS

Stockholm’s Pit exits stealth with €13.6 million a16z-led funding to offer “AI product teams as a service”

Pit, a Stockholm-based AI startup aiming to replace the patchwork of spreadsheets, inboxes, and rigid SaaS tools that run enterprise ...

May 7, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI launch two enterprise AI services companies with the support of major US private equity firms

Anthropic and OpenAI launch two enterprise AI services companies with the support of major US private equity firms

Anthorpic allied with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and other players. OpenAI involved 19 investors whose list includes TPG, ...

May 7, 2026

France’s OpsMill raises €11.9 million to help enterprises prepare infrastructure data for AI and automation

OpsMill, a Paris-based infrastructure data management company, has raised €11.9 million ($14 million) in Series A funding to grow its ...

May 7, 2026

Pivotal Growth adds to network with new acquisitions

Mayank Prakash Pivotal Growth has acquired Purely Financial Planning Limited and KMC Financial Ltd, expanding its presence across the south ...

May 7, 2026

Landlords and second-home buyers driving majority of Stamp Duty revenues

Analysis by Paragon Bank of government data shows that second-home and buy-to-let purchases now account for the majority of Stamp ...

May 7, 2026

One in four would-be sellers shelve move plans amid rising uncertainty

A growing number of homeowners are reconsidering plans to move in 2026, with almost a quarter of prospective sellers no ...

May 7, 2026