When Eka Ventures held the final close of its first fund at £68 million in 2021, the London-based firm staked a claim that few UK VCs were willing to make at the time: that impact investing and venture-scale returns were not a trade-off but a thesis. Five years later, it is doubling down. Eka has […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora, with a six-partner team and a $1–5M [...]
The San Francisco firm has closed its third fund at $114 million, its largest to date, betting that AI and biology are now inseparable, and that the founders who understand both will build the compani [...]
Europe’s largest dedicated deep tech growth fund has taken a major step forward after closing the first tranche of its fundraising effort at €750 million. The fund, known as Kembara Fund I and m [...]
The Paris-based VC is targeting 15 B2B companies with revenues above €10M in clean manufacturing, sustainable agriculture, green construction, and digital health, with carry tied to impact performan [...]
Moonshot AI raises $500 million and now sits on $1.4 billion in cash reserves, giving the Kimi chatbot maker room to develop its K3 model without rushing to IPO.<br /> The article Moonshot AI cl [...]
Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into water technology innovation. Water scarcity is not [...]
Empirical Ventures, which backs what it calls “venture scientists”, PhDs building deeptech companies across energy, materials, and life sciences, has received a fresh £10M commitment via the BBB [...]
When FIRSTPICK backed Emilė Radytė in 2021, her company Samphire Neuroscience was still building its first product and the risk, by the fund’s own assessment, was high. There was no revenue, no cl [...]