Startups

EIT Food has announced its new cohort of 58 startups for the EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN), one of its entrepreneurship programmes.

Aachen-based Organ Vitality Tech company Vivalyx has received an investment of €5.4 million led by TechVision Fonds (TVF) and Brightlands Venture Partners (BVP) in an oversubscribed seed financing round.

Have you ever been told you are “too close to the matter” to give a full or unbiased overview? What you are being told is you need to give the matter some space to see things clearer. Kuva Space is literally doing that.

With many elements of our modern world revolving around extraterrestrial components, such as satellites, the importance of such technologies cannot be underestimated. We rely on them for information they provide to us on Earth, but also for insights into the devices themselves.

Providing high-quality, reliable, and persistent monitoring in an accessible package, Rafal Modrzewski, CEO and Co-Founder of ICEYE, and his team are ensuring that nothing goes unnoticed when it comes to catastrophe monitoring around the globe, at all times.

Private Scottish aerospace company, Skyrora, is dedicated to becoming the first UK private orbital launcher from UK soil.

IMRO, the Irish based, international performing rights organisation, has announced a partnership with Audoo, the music recognition technology company on a mission to revolutionise public performance royalty distribution.

Showerkap, a UK-based tech startup, has developed a water management system that allows organisations to monitor and conserve water usage while encouraging users to adopt more sustainable habits that decrease water consumption, carbon emissions, and costs.

Award-winning UK gynaecological health company Daye is launching its new workplace app, Daye for Work.

Intel Ignite, Intel’s global startup accelerator programme for early-stage deeptech startups, is launching its second cohort in the United Kingdom on April 24th.

Space data company Blue Skies Space has secured over £2m in funding to accelerate the launch of its science satellites, to help the world’s research communities in their quest to solve the biggest questions in the universe.

Midas, the fintech startup that brought retail investing to millions of people in Turkey, announced that it has raised $45 million in equity funding.

An Estonian startup operating in the data protection field, GDPR Register, is developing an AI-based solution that helps companies escape the time-consuming routine obligations arising from the General Data Protection Regulation.

From This is Your Life to Who Do You Think You Are? Brits have long been fascinated by the life stories and family history of others.

Dating apps in the UK have become the norm. It is no longer ‘weird’ to have met your partner on Tinder, Hinge, or any of the other dating apps that are out there.

Orbital Composites stands at the forefront of technological innovation in the realm of additive manufacturing, a field that’s rapidly transforming the landscape of industrial production. Specialising in 3D printing technologies, this startup is pioneering the development of composite materials for space and aerospace applications.

I first met Ben Ryan, Founder of Ambionics, at an engineering exhibition back in October 2023. It was there that I learnt about his mission to build his son a better prosthetic arm – using YouTube, a 3D printer, and off-the-shelf components.

Hailo, the chipmaker of Edge AI processors, announced it has extended its series C fundraising round with an additional investment of $120 million.

SydeLabs, a security and risk management startup, announced that it had secured seed funding of $2.5m to develop solutions designed to protect GenAI systems within enterprises.

niostem, a German healthtech startup, is ready to shake-up a rather static industry that has not seen any major innovation for the past 30 years.