Gate2Brain, a Spanish BioTech company developing a therapeutic candidate for aggressive paediatric  and adult brain tumours, has announced a €7 million investment – the largest investment raised by the company to date. The investment represent a 30.4% equity stake and strategic partnership with Shilpa Biocare Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shilpa Medicare Limited. “Gate2Brain The post Barcelona-based Gate2Brain secures €7 million to advance brain tumour candidate appeared first on EU-Startups.

Finland-based GitHits has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding, which it will use to develop what the company calls the “Google of code search”. The investors include Finnish VC Vendep Capital, Estonian VC Trind, and notable angel investors such as Peter Sarlin, Zach Shelby, and Jerry Liu. “Our vision is to index all public open-source The post Open-source startup GitHits closes €1.5 million to in pre-seed funding for product development appeared first on EU-Startups.

Rainbow Crops, a Ghent-based AgTech startup developing improved crop varieties by engineering complex agronomic traits, has raised €9.7 million in Seed funding to advance its technology platform, expand its application across multiple crops, and scale the team. The over-subscribed funding round was led by Italian venture capital company LIFTT, together with its vehicle LIFTT EuroInvest, The post Ghent’s Rainbow Crops bags €9.7 million to advance AI-powered gene editing for improved crop varieties appeared first on EU-Startups.

Europe is increasingly becoming a hub for Latin American founders. According to Spanish think tank Elcano Royal Institute, 4.2 million LATAM immigrants have moved to Spain, and 3 million across all other EU countries. Many immigrants are entrepreneurs, looking for access to venture capital funding and commercial partnerships that are more difficult to come by The post Why LATAM founders are finding their feet in Europe appeared first on EU-Startups.

Cortea, a Berlin-based startup building the AI quality layer for audit firms, has raised €12 million in a Seed funding round and announced the launch of its first Audit Quality Agents, designed to help firms improve audit quality while increasing capacity across the audit process. The round was led by Dawn Capital, with participation from The post Berlin-based Cortea raises €12 million Seed round to build AI quality layer for audit firms appeared first on EU-Startups.

Friday’s move by the U.S. government to restrict foreign access to Anthropic’s latest models has sent a clear message to Europe’s AI ecosystem: access to frontier models is no longer just a technical or commercial issue. It is also a geopolitical one. The order reportedly required Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos The post Anthropic pulled the plug, and European AI experts are left asking what comes next appeared first on EU-Startups.