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Atomico has raised $1.24 billion in new funds for Europe’s most gamechanging founders $485m Atomico Venture VI invests at series A and occasionally seed $754m Atomico Growth VI invests from series B to pre-IPO Atomico was founded in 2006 with the vision that exceptional companies could come from anywhere. 18 years later European technology is coming of age: 🚀 Europe creates more new companies than any other region 👥 The tech workforce has grown to 2.3 million 👤 Europe has more AI talent than the US The foundations are in place. Now these entrepreneurs need support to scale globally. Our new funds enable us to continue helping the most ambitious founders rewire the world better, from the earliest stages to worldwide growth. So far, Atomico has achieved:  🌍 155 firms partnered with, across 15 European countries 📈 1 in 6 investments > $1 billion 💻 35,000+ jobs created But we’re still only beginning to realise our ambitions for European technology. We thank our LPs for their continued support for this mission, and the founders we work with for making it reality. #europeantech #europeantechnology #startups #founders Read more: https://lnkd.in/ex9SMNXe

Validus has today announced the establishment of a debt facility of up to US$50 million from HSBC under the ASEAN Growth Fund strategy and is aimed to support financial inclusion for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, addressing their challenges in accessing financial resources. ➡ Read more: https://lnkd.in/g4Hu4bJi Validus Batumbu Siam Validus Validus Vietnam Vikas Nahata Nikhilesh Goel Milena Naitoh Vineet A. Khai Siang Chong #OneValidus #debtfacility #HSBC #funding #MSME #entrepreneur #finance #growth #fintech #lending #empower #ASEAN

Foundry announced $80 million in Seed and Series A funding co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed to orchestrate the world’s compute capacity, rendering it universally accessible and useful. Foundry is a new breed of public cloud built end-to-end for machine learning workloads. They make accessing AI compute as reliable and simple as flipping a light switch. Understanding the challenges faced by CTOs and infra teams in today's AI infrastructure landscape, whether you’re managing training runs, serving clients, or meeting research deadlines, Foundry is here to help. They have industry’s top technical and commercial minds along for the journey including Redpoint Ventures, M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Conviction, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and terrific angels and advisors such as Jeff Dean, George Roberts, Eric Schmidt and Innovation Endeavors, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Mario Gabriele and many more. Jared Quincy Davis #AI #CloudComputing #Funding #MachineLearning #Infrastructure #connectin #investment #founders #entrepreneurship #global #news #technology  https://lnkd.in/eX_NPNTs

Sprinto has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Accel, with continued support from Blume Ventures and Elevation Capital. Sprinto is not just living up to its name—it's setting the pace in the space! But hold onto your sneakers, folks, because that's not all! With this, Sprinto is gearing up for a sharp focus on intelligent automation, AI, expanding into new markets and bringing even more innovation to the table. Read more about the impact of this funding round in this blog post by Girish Redekar, CEO and Co-Founder of Sprinto: https://lnkd.in/gnm6DHht Raghuveer Kancherla, Pritesh Vora, Tariq Ahmad, Aayush Agarwal, Karthik Vemparala, Prabodh Kumar, Abhaya Agarwal, Sandeepa Samuel. #compliance #complianceautomation #seriesb #connectin #global #startups #marketing #innovation #AI #technology #future #cybersecurity #saas

ION Clean Energy announced a $45 million investment from Chevron New Energies and Carbon Direct Capital that will continue to fund our organizational growth and the commercial deployment of our game-changing carbon capture technology. We are also thrilled to officially welcome Timothy Vail as the new CEO of ION as our Founder Buz Brown moves into the role of Executive Chairman. Buz summed it up nicely with this statement, "These announcements will help us realize the kind of wide-ranging commercial and environmental impact we’ve long envisioned." Erik Meuleman Paul K. Tufano #startups #industry #carbon #CCUS #Carboncapture #connectin #global #funding #news #alert #technology #innovation #investing #future

BlaBlaCar announces securing a €100 million revolving credit facility to fuel their growth ambitions. This financing is enabled by the robust performance in 2023: 80 million passengers booked a bus or carpool ride on BlaBlaCar in 2023. Up 23% YoY. €253 million in revenue. Up 29% YoY. For the first time, they also achieved profitability for 24 months and closed the 2023 exercise with positive EBITDA. This heralds a new phase of profitable growth for BlaBlaCar. Aiming to keep consolidating a multimodal strategy, reducing the carbon footprint of travel by 2 million tonnes of CO2 in 2023. Read more in press release. https://lnkd.in/ePxmHp-C Frédéric Mazzella Francis Nappez Nicolas Brusson #innovation #founder #techonology #startups #connectin #global #management #investing #entrepreneurship

PROTIV RAISES $2.4M IN PRE-SEED FUNDING TO TACKLE THE CONSTRUCTION LABOR SHORTAGE AND PRODUCTIVITY CRISIS Protiv, the world’s first performance pay platform designed for construction, landscaping, and service companies, announced today that it has closed $2.4 million in pre-seed funding, amidst a crippling construction labor shortage that continues to make national headlines. The round was co-led by Lightbank and Las Olas Venture Capital (LOVC), with participation from Parameter Ventures and Early Light Ventures. The team will use the proceeds of this investment to build additional product features and expand its go-to-market strategy. Protiv’s mission to “Inspire Human Potential” is reflected in improving the quality of life for workers, creating collaboration between management and field teams, and helping contractors attract skilled employees. Overcoming these challenges is critical for construction to realize its full opportunity to support US economic growth. Michael Fortinberry David Franco-Julian Mark Volchek #connectin #startup #investors #investments #founders #funding #alert #global #news #growth

🎉 Exciting News! 🚀 Easy Bites App announces they have secured its first investment from maze impact, an early-stage funding program dedicated to empowering newly-founded impact-driven teams to amplify their execution capacity by 3x. Maze impact serves as a catalyst for impact-driven businesses, providing essential support and resources to propel their growth and make a meaningful difference in the world. Easy Bites is a digital, research-driven family feeding and nutrition program designed to support stressed and time-poor caregivers in raising healthier, happier kids. Natalia Stasenko Paula Cerqueira, MS, RD, LDN Arran Hamilton-Pearce #ImpactInvestment #MilestoneAchievement #femalefounders #childnutrition #familynutrition #MakingADifference #funding #future #connectin #investments #global #news #startups

Datavolo officially announced the closure of Series A round with the support and backing of General Catalyst , HUMAN CAPITAL , MVP Ventures , Citi Ventures, and Rob Bearden! Datavolo helps you easily harness the multimodal data that fuels Generative AI applications. The new capital enables the engineering team to focus on harnessing the foundational power of NiFi into a cloud-native managed service oriented with specific capabilities and integrations for rapid development of multimodal data pipelines for the latest AI Systems. Read More : https://lnkd.in/g5HZg2-X Joe Witt Luke Roquet #founders #entrepreneur #funding #alert #investment #news #cloud #connectin #global #investors

🎉 Funding Announcement 🎉 SiftHub announces raise of $5.5M in a seed round led by Matrix Partners India and Blume Ventures with participation from Neon and Mars Shot Ventures 🥳 Information overload from ad campaigns, email marketing, and a company’s website means that buyers are equipped with more than a basic understanding of a product or service well before a sales meeting. This means sellers need deeper product knowledge and easy access to proprietary company information to win new customers. However, the current sales tech stack does not support this foundational shift in the role of sales and presales teams. Enter SiftHub. “After speaking to 200+ leaders, it dawned on me that it’s completely unreasonable to expect sales and presales professionals to memorize all the ins and outs of the product in order to be able to respond to clients with complex technical details. Trying to find up-to-date accurate information when it is scattered across Slack, Gmail, Drive, HubSpot, Confluence, and more is incredibly difficult. The fact that sales spends only 30% of their time selling cries for a change - and that’s where our platform comes in.” said Manisha Raisinghani, Founder of SiftHub. Read more of the story here: https://lnkd.in/gspAUagM Pranay Desai Avnish Bajaj Sanjay Nath Sumangal V. Siddhartha Ahluwalia Manish Jindal Andrew Johnston Harshil Mathur Shashank Kumar Arvind Parthiban Pankit Chheda #funding #announcement #seedfunding #salestech #AI #SiftHub #SiftHubSeedFunding #connectin #India #global #founder #investment #news #trending