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Volta, a Shopify for B2B transactions, raises biggest pre-seed round of Italy Nov 29, 2024

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Volta, a new startup with a team split between two headquarters in Milan and Paris, has secured a €6 million pre-seed round ($6.3 million) to develop a new vertical software-as-a-service platform focused on B2B sales. In more practical terms, the Volta team pitches its product as an equivalent to Shopify but focused on B2B transactions.

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Scaling startups top priority, as EU reboots its top team Nov 29, 2024

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Europe must get much better at scaling startups. That’s the prognosis of the European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, who’s on the cusp of taking up her second five-year term steering the bloc of some 449 million people — with a December 1 start date now locked in.

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Biolevate’s raises €6M to helps medical writers keep up with the pace of new drugs Nov 27, 2024

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Writing the documentation that must go alongside the development of new drugs is a highly labor-intensive process: not much software is used and there’s a shortage of expert writers. Paris-based Biolevate helps medical writers go faster with a platform that uses NLP and visual document reading to assisting in writing.

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Cambridge materials science spin-out Molyon is on a mission to make next-gen batteries fly Nov 27, 2024

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Battery tech is pivotal as the world leans into electrification to power decarbonization in the race against climate change. But rising demand is putting more attention on the limits and drawbacks of current generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology.

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Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board Nov 26, 2024

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Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you control other electronic components or devices.

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Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner Nov 26, 2024

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Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models.

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Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, upending Europe’s industrial plan Nov 25, 2024

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The company chose Chapter 11 in an effort to right its listing finances.

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Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS is ‘primary’ cloud partner Nov 25, 2024

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Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services — Amazon’s cloud computing division — the sole place it’ll train its flagship generative AI models.

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Lighthouse, an analytics provider for the hospitality sector, lights up with $370M at a $1B valuation Nov 22, 2024

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Here is yet one more sign of the travel industry’s noticeable boom: a major growth round for one of the B2B startups servicing it. Lighthouse, a data analytics platform for hotels and others in the hospitality industry, has closed a Series C of $370 million.

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Raven Space Systems opens up a whole new category of industrial 3D printing Nov 22, 2024

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Manufacturing has been one of the hottest categories in venture this year, but there are still many innovative materials and processes yet to scale.

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