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Two Founders Blew Up a Startup Together. Eight Years Later, They Built a Unicorn
Ante Spittler and Anton Rummel's first company collapsed in a six-figure-a-month bidding war. Their second just closed a €30 million round that values it at €1 billion.
Read EditionThe AI Industry Is Funding Its Own Distribution Layer
Passionfroot raised $15M from Anthropic's own lead backer - to sell AI companies access to the creators talking about them.
Read Edition€2M ARR on €1.2M: How Promptwatch Sold Its €6M AI Search Optimization Round
Two repeat founders got two funds to underwrite the same number, for the Amsterdam platform that makes brands visible inside ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity.
Read EditionThey Told Him VCs Don't Fund Consulting. He Raised €10M Anyway
Berlin PropTech Fuchs & Eule turned "boring" energy-renovation advisory into a proprietary data moat, got GET Fund to lead a €10M round, and had all three existing investors pile back in.
Read EditionThey Met 45 Funds and Got Zero Term Sheets. Then the Round Died. Then It Closed.
45 funds met, zero term sheets, and a round that died days before Christmas. Three months later sunbay.io closed a €550K pre-seed, led by the two funds that had already said no.
Read EditionThey Were Tokenizing YouTube Videos. Now They Move Millions a Day.
The accidental pivot that turned Talentir from a YouTube video tokenization startup into a payout-infrastructure company, and got an ex-Google CFO to back it.
Read EditionWhy Sequoia Led Odessia's $6M Pre-Seed Before a Single Line of Product Shipped
Sequoia bet $6M on an AI-powered travel agent before a single line of product shipped. Why early-stage investors underwrite a founder's ability to prove potential, not the tech itself.
Read EditionTwo Spanish Twins Took the Stripe-for-Identity Bet Every VC Said No To
$7.5M YC seed. Profitable. The only Spanish Treasury stamp in the category. How twin founders built the identity infrastructure no one else would touch.
Read EditionFrom a Wine Cellar to a16z in 18 Months
How four Swedes made the most boring job in engineering the most-watched fundraise of the year, going from a wine cellar to a16z backing in just 18 months.
Read EditionHe Sold the Round Before He Opened It: How Podero Staged a €5.5M Oversubscribed Seed
Three months of staged news, no-pitch coffees, and a round run like a sales pipeline. The full playbook behind a €5.5M oversubscribed seed.
Read EditionMistral AI Acquires Austrian Startup Emmi AI
Mistral AI, Europe's leading AI company, has acquired Emmi AI, a spin-off of NXAI and JKU Linz. This deal marks a significant shift in the European AI landscape, with Mistral aiming to become a leader in industrial engineering and manufacturing.
Read EditionPolsia: AI That Runs Your Company While You Sleep
Polsia is an AI startup building autonomous AI agents capable of managing business operations, workflows, and decision-making processes with minimal human intervention.
Read EditionHow Two Repeat Founders Closed $3.3M with YouTube's Jawed Karim and YC
From a €14M exit to building Germany's digital notary, how two repeat founders closed a $3.3M round with backing from YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim and Y Combinator.
Read EditionBootstrapped to €1M MRR. Oversubscribed in Two Weeks.
The story of a founder who bootstrapped to €1M monthly recurring revenue, had an oversubscribed round in two weeks, and then everything changed.
Read EditionThe Good, The Bad, and Ugly Reality
A deep dive into the harsh realities founders face when raising money and how to navigate the toughest parts of the journey.
Read Edition€3 Million in 11 Days: The Exact Strategy
Breaking down the exact timeline, materials, and strategy used to close a multi-million euro seed round in record time.
Read EditionHow One Viral Video About a Broken Door Opener Became a $4.6M Lightspeed-Led Pre-Seed
How a viral video about a broken door opener caught the attention of Lightspeed and turned into a $4.6M pre-seed round. The full story behind the momentum.
Read EditionFrom 'The Rook' to BIG: How a Chess Game in Vienna Became Synaps's €4.5M AI-Native Architecture Platform
How a chess game in Vienna sparked the idea for Synaps, and how the founders turned it into a €4.5M AI-native architecture platform.
Read EditionA Sudanese Airstrike, A French Guiana Spaceport, and a VC Pivot That Paid Off
How CodeWords pivoted from research into product, the original VCs doubled down despite the entire thesis changing, and a single move engineered a $9M seed round.
Read Edition€3.2M Pre-Seed. €12M Seed. 8 Personal Checks From 8 Fund Partners.
How a Milan-based Construction OS engineered the highest-conviction European seed of 2026, with 8 personal checks from 8 fund partners backing the round.
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