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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.

August 24 (Hypepotamus) -Over the last several months, I’ve noticed a pattern in my inbox and in the conversations I’m having with founders

From school students to AI-native founders, more than 150 builders gathered in Sydney for OpenAI Founder Day.

Zach Willeyserved as an assistant professor at West Point, a company commander managing more than $40 million in combat equipment, and an executive officer directing complex overseas logistics in Afghanistan. His leadership ability is unquestionable to most who know him. In a recent interview with 1851 Franchise publisher Nick Powills, we dove deeper into the humble…