Creandum closes €668 million fund for early-stage technology startups
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Image: EU-Startups Marvell Technology has reached a deal to buy data center optics maker Lumentum Holdings at an enterprise value of $115 billion, Bloomberg reported.
British-German defence company Hypersonica has secured €100 million in Series B funding to accelerate development of its hypersonic deep-strike systems. Lightspeed and General Catalyst co-led the round, with participation from existing investors including Plural and 201 Ventures.
Estonian startup Roleo has raised €2.9 million to expand its AI career service across Europe and develop its product. Practica Capital led the round, with participation from Inventure, bringing total funding to €3.46 million.
Munich-based Marble Cognition has raised €3.35 million ($3.75 million) in pre-Seed funding to scale inference, expand its engineering team and support a US launch. Heartcore and Seedcamp co-led the round.
Bites raised a $40M Series A led by PeakSpan, CTech reported. Its AI tools deliver personalized training to frontline workers through WhatsApp, SMS, Slack and other channels.
A suspected cyberattack has affected supermarket refrigerators and freezers in Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden and Ireland, the BBC reported.