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Clara Lepsius finished at ETH Zurich, then moved to Harvard University to complete her thesis. While in the US, she and another ETH alumnus, Ben Chen, launched Aluere, a company marrying technology with infant nutrition. Both have since returned to Zurich and opted to build the business in Switzerland instead of growing it in Boston…

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Female-focused VC funds are piling up this year as women-founded startups pull in more capital.

Each selected team received $100,000 in investment funding to participate in a three-month sprint supporting technologies with defense, government, and commercial applications.

Navisalma plans to invest around €450m in European deep tech startups over the next three years. John Reynolds26 August 2026

Two co-founders of the Swedish scale-up Einride are launching an investment firm of their own. Robert Falck and Linnéa Kornehed Falck, together with former McKinsey partner and Material Economics co-founder Robert Westerdahl, have set up Navisalma, a platform meant to scale European frontier technology into globally leading companies, as they announced at the Copenhagen startup…

A trio of former executives from Danish digital bank Lunar has decided that spreadsheets and human-only bookkeeping have run their course. Together with a professional auditor, they’ve raised €8.2 million to build Repodo, a startup betting that artificial intelligence can finally break into the notoriously conservative audit market, starting with small businesses in Denmark rather…

Silicon Slopes is in transition. Domo, once valued at $2 billion, agreed in July to sell its core business to Progress Software for $400 million. Just last week, Weave announced a $650 million take-private with Francisco Partners. Two of Utah’s software powerhouses are exiting the public markets in the same summer, which raises the question…

Running alongside FinovateFall on September 11 in New York City, IMPACT Funders & Founders is a special opportunity for innovative fintech startups and scale-ups to connect with venture capitalists, corporate investors, and industry leaders.