In 2007, Brian Chesky was a broke designer living in San Francisco, struggling to pay rent on an apartment he shared with his friend Joe Gebbia. A design conference was coming to town, hotels were fully booked, and the two friends saw an opening: what if they rented out a
Nordic Salt Cycle, a Copenhagen-based cleantech startup, has raised €3.5 million in pre-seed funding to bring its molten-salt mineral recovery technology to market — a method designed to reclaim critical materials from end-of-life batteries, turbines, and electronic waste at far lower cost and greater scale than existing processes.
The idea behind Onepot AI emerged from a shared frustration experienced by co-founders Daniil Boiko and Andrei Tyrin: in modern drug discovery, the most innovative therapeutic concepts often stall long before reaching the lab bench.
Just before the winter season kicks into full gear, Marcel Hirscher welcomed the elite VAN DEER–Red Bull Sports athletes to tour the brand’s brand-new headquarters, production facility, and flagship store in Scheffau.
Kaaj, a startup aiming to overhaul how lenders evaluate small business borrowers, has raised $3.8 million in seed funding from Kindred Ventures, with participation from Better Tomorrow Ventures.
TAHO, a new infrastructure startup founded by former engineers from Meta, Google, and Snap has raised $3.5 million to accelerate the development of a distributed compute platform designed specifically for modern AI workloads.
Deblock, a Paris-based startup building a new category of on-chain banking services, has raised €30 million in a Series A round led by Speedinvest, with additional backing from CommerzVentures, Latitude, and returning investors including 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures.
Financial automation startup Dost has entered the UK market after closing a £6 million Series A round led by Octopus Ventures, marking the company’s biggest expansion since its founding.
Integral, the Berlin-based AI platform modernizing accounting, taxation, and payroll for SMEs, has acquired cleverlohn, a German provider of digital payroll and HR solutions.
