Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)

A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant thread is not a single sector but a si…

SoftBank secures $40B bridge loan to fund its OpenAI bet
SoftBank secures $40B bridge loan to fund its OpenAI bet

The unsecured facility, arranged with JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Mizuho, SMBC and MUFG, matures in March 2027. Once SoftBank’s $30B follow-on investment in OpenAI closes, its cumulative stake will total approximately $64.6B, representing roughly 13…

Giraffe360 raises $10M Series B to expand AI property media platform
Giraffe360 raises $10M Series B to expand AI property media platform

The London-based proptech, which combines a proprietary robotic camera with an AI software stack to produce a full property media kit from a single visit, has closed its Series B led by Cipio Partners. The premise behind Giraffe360 is straightforward: …

Accumulus Technologies launches live integration layer between pharma systems and national drug regulators
Accumulus Technologies launches live integration layer between pharma systems and national drug regulators

The startup, spun out of nonprofit Accumulus Synergy last August, has built a network connecting pharmaceutical and biotech companies to regulators across more than 70 countries. The new Connector makes that network accessible without leaving the syste…

Foreverland raises €6M to scale its cocoa-free chocolate ingredient across Europe
Foreverland raises €6M to scale its cocoa-free chocolate ingredient across Europe

The Italian foodtech, which makes Choruba from Mediterranean carob and has already signed four European confectionery partnerships, now has €9.4M in total funding to push commercial expansion and develop an organic product line. Foreverland, the Italia…

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use
JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical infrastructure, with a new CEO who sold his last compan…

Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M
Munich startup Interloom raised $16.5M

The Munich startup is building what it calls a ‘context graph’, a continuously updated map of how operational decisions actually get made inside an enterprise, drawn from millions of real cases rather than documentation that may never have been written…

Adzuna buys the jobs verticals of Trovit and Mitula
Adzuna buys the jobs verticals of Trovit and Mitula

The UK job search engine has acquired the employment divisions of two multi-vertical classifieds aggregators from Lifull Connect, bolstering its presence in Spain, Italy, and Latin America as its Japanese parent offloads non-real-estate assets. Adzuna …

Meta’s CEO is developing a personal AI assistant to handle executive duties
Meta’s CEO is developing a personal AI assistant to handle executive duties

Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent designed to assist him with his duties as chief executive of Meta. According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the system remains in development but already functions as an on-demand information tool that …

Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise
Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise

For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The large teams, the committee structures, the distributed decision-making, these were treated not m…