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This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Russia warns of nuclear responseUkraine "struck a facility in [the] Bryansk region" of Russia using six U.S.-made missiles, said Russia's Ministry of Defense. On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin updated the country's nuclear doctrine, expanding the circumstances that would warrant a response using nuclear weapons. Markets recovered from jittersU.S. markets mostly closed higher on Tuesday after dipping in response to news of heightened geopolitical tensions.
Persons: Vladimir Putin, Cristiano Amon's, Atomico, Goldman Sachs, David Kostin Organizations: CNBC, Ministry of Defense, Micro Computer, Eurostat, Qualcomm Qualcomm, Qualcomm, Venture Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Bryansk, jitters U.S, New, Europe, Tuesday's, U.S
Still, Atomico said this shows that European tech funding levels have finally "stabilized" despite worsening global macroeconomic conditions leading to three consecutive years of declines. In the period spanning 2015 to 2024, European startups have bagged $426 billion, dwarfing the sum of investment deployed into tech firms the decade prior. Europe's first $1 trillion tech firm? Atomico said it's optimistic about the next decade in European tech. The VC firm, which was established by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström, is predicting the entire European tech ecosystem combined could be valued at $8 trillion by 2034, up from around $3 trillion currently.
Persons: Reeves, Oli Scarff, Atomico, Tom Wehmeier, Wehmeier, Europe's, Rachel Reeves, techUK, Niklas Zennström Organizations: Startup Coalition, Getty Images Venture, European Tech, CNBC, VC, Skype, Spotify, Google, Apple, Facebook, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla Locations: British, State, Europe, U.S, China, Atomico, United States
Buy now, pay later firms like Klarna and Block's Afterpay could be about to face tougher rules in the U.K.Klarna, which is known for its popular buy now, pay later business, announced Wednesday that it's confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC. The company said the offering would follow the SEC's review process and is subject to market conditions. Analysts recently valued Klarna, which was founded in 2005, in the $15 billion range. Klarna's decision to go pursue a listing in the U.S. represents a major blow to European stock exchanges, which have been trying to encourage local tech companies to list at home. "European IPO markets have seen some recovery as of Q3 this year," she added.
Persons: Block's, it's confidentially, Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CNBC's, Siemiatkowski, Siemiatkowski hadn't, Navina Rajan, We've, Rajan Organizations: SEC, SoftBank's Vision, Sequoia Capital, CNBC, Apple, Meta, London Stock Exchange Locations: London, Europe, U.S
LONDON — Atomico, an early investor in top European technology firms from Stripe to Klarna, announced Monday the launch of two new funds worth $1.24 billion to back emerging and growth-stage startups in the sector. Venture funding for European tech startups nearly halved to $45 billion in 2023, compared to $82 billion in the previous year, according to a report penned last year by Atomico. This decline was a reversal to pre-pandemic years which saw a wild rise in tech valuations, Atomico said at the time. In 2022, Europe's tech sector saw $400 billion wiped off its overall market capitalization amid a sharp slide in tech valuations. The size of Atomico's new funds marks more than a 50% increase on the $820 million it raised for its last round of funds, Fund V, in 2020.
Persons: Atomico, Niklas Zennström Organizations: Venture, Atomico, Microsoft Locations: Europe, Europe's
You could have invested a lot of money in AI chip startups several years ago. "Us going up against them is insane," said Thomas Sohmers, CEO of Positron AI, a chip startup that emerged from stealth a few months ago. "The model of AI chip startups needing to raise 10s to 100s of millions of dollars before they actually test product market fit is insane," he added. TigrisOpenAI's Altman may also be working on an AI chip startup of his own. So it stands to reason that Masa has been trying to raise money for an AI chip startup.
Persons: , Graphcore, Thomas Sohmers, Nvidia Thomas Sohmers, Sohmers, Groq, Googlers, Puneet Kumar, Mark Hayter, Rivos, Andrew de los Reyes, Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, Nvidia's, OpenAI's Sam Altman, OpenAI's Altman, Altman, Masa, Softbank, Son Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Samsung, Business, Nvidia, MediaNews, Boston Herald, Getty, MIT, Google, Chrome, Matrix Capital, Intel, Harvard, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Locations: Silicon Valley, Swiss, Groq, GroqWare, WeWork
Read previewRe:cap, a German revenue-based financing startup, has raised $14.6 million in Series A funding. Borrowers can use financing on re:cap to borrow up to 5 million euros, or about $5.5 million, over terms of up to five years. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. "Overall, the private debt market is growing tremendously, faster than most if not all alternative asset classes, so the opportunity generally is huge," Paul Becker, CEO and cofounder of Re:cap, told Business Insider. According to Atomico, funding for European startups dropped by 45% year-on-year to $45 billion in 2023, but investment in European fintech dropped well below the wider slump.
Persons: , Paul Becker, Felix, Becker, European fintech Organizations: Service, HSBC Innovation Banking, Business, Felix Capital, Finch Capital, Channel Capital, Avellina Locations: Berlin, European
Launched in 2017 by founder and CEO Jaroslaw "Jarek" Kutylowski, DeepL is a competitor to Google Translate. At $2 billion, DeepL is now worth double what it was in its previous round in January 2023, when it raised $100 million from investors at a $1 billion valuation. ICONIQ Growth and Teachers' Venture Growth came on board as new investors, while existing investors IVP, Atomico and WiL also participated. "We're really expanding our product toward being able to support these bigger enterprise customers," Kutylowski said. The company has ramped up its focus on selling into enterprise over the past few years and now counts customers including Zendesk, Nikkei, Coursera and Deutsche Bahn.
Persons: Kutylowski, Jaroslaw, WiL, PARIS —, I'm, DeepL Organizations: CNBC, Google, Venture, PARIS, Zendesk, Nikkei, Coursera, Deutsche Bahn Locations: Atomico, Swiss, U.S, Asia
Harbor Lab, which aims to help the shipping industry streamline port costs, has raised funding. Founded in 2020 in Athens, the startup has brought in a $16 million Series A led by Atomico. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementHarbor Lab, a startup that aims to help the shipping industry reduce costs related to entering port, has raised $16 million in Series A funding.
Persons: Atomico, Organizations: Service, Harbor Lab, Business Locations: Athens
This is Business Insider's annual list of the hottest fintech startups in Europe. After years of standing as the bloc's most in-demand sector, investment in fintech has slumped considerably. In 2022, fintech made up 17% — or $13.9 billion — of the $82 billion that had been invested into European startups, according to Atomico. That number dropped last year when around $4.5 billion was invested — the equivalent of a tenth of the total $45 billion poured into the ecosystem. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
Persons: , fintech Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Europe, fintech
Healthtech startup Pelago just grabbed a fresh round of funding to power its own push. The Series C was an upround for Pelago, said Dr. Yusuf Sherwani, cofounder and CEO. Sherwani said the Series C round may be Pelago's last capital raise before it hopes to IPO. With the Series C funding, Pelago plans to launch a program in the second quarter of the year to refer members who don't complete substance use disorder treatment to inpatient facilities. Check out the 16-slide pitch deck Pelago used to raise a $58 million Series C.
Persons: , Atomico, Yusuf Sherwani, Sherwani, Pelago, Phillips, we've Organizations: Service, Octopus Ventures, Business, Mental Health Services Administration, Healthcare, Centers for Disease Control, MetLife, GE Appliances, Pelago Locations: Pelago
London-based Unfabled, which launched in 2021, has developed a data-driven health platform for women. A key issue that Samano wanted to tackle was the wide gender health gap in the UK, which currently has the largest health gap between genders in the G20, and the twelfth largest globally, a study by men's health platform Manual found. "Another major cause of the gender health gap is the lack of sex-aggregated data, which creates a lack of insight and understanding across women's health," Samano told Business Insider. "Alongside our consumer platform, our data science is helping to fill in a lot of the blanks that currently exist in women's health." With the fresh funding, Unfabled will grow its consumer offerings, and also double down on its data-driven recommendations for women's health.
Persons: Morgan Stanley, Hannah Samano, Samano Organizations: Business, Exceptional Ventures Locations: London
AI talent is very much in demand, with some staffers from the likes of Stripe, Amazon, and Google making the switch to smaller upstarts. AI companies are using some of those funds to shell out on sizable salary packages to attract talent, according to data obtained by Business Insider. While salary transparency remains a problem in both Europe and the US, the latter has taken more steps to make salary data visible to employees and candidates. With considerable research prowess, Europe has become a hotbed for producing AI talent. Business Insider has pulled together salary data from some of the most in-demand AI companies that have published H1B salary data, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Midjourney.
Persons: Sam Altman, queued, chunky, DeepMind's, Mustafa Suleyman Organizations: Google, Business, Mistral, Companies Locations: Europe, Atomico
The founders of Wise, Skype and Songkick have raised 400 million euros ($436.4 million) for a new fund to back technology startups in Europe. Plural Fund II, the firm's second to date, arrives just 18 months after the firm raised its last fund, a 250 million-euro vehicle. Only 8% of VCs in Europe are former founders, he says, much lower than the 60% in the United States. So, if we look at the track record, and our ability to get the deals done, I think that all seems to say that this is really missing in Europe," Hinrikus added. Plural raised the funds from a mix of limited partners, including British and American university endowments, U.S. foundations and insurers, strategic family offices in Europe and the United States.
Persons: Wise, Taavet Hinrikus, fintech, Ian Hogarth, Sten Tamkivi, Khaled Helioui, Hinrikus, they're, we've, Carina Namih Organizations: Skype, Balderton, Bigpoint, CNBC Locations: Europe, VCs, United States, American
While much of Europe's startup ecosystem has been hobbled by the rocky macroeconomic environment and soaring interest rates, climate tech has continued to lure funds from venture capitalists. Many climate tech companies work with hardware, meaning debt financing is also an attractive non-dilutive option for working capital between funding rounds. Global private market equity and grant funding for climate tech startups is actually down – it slid 40% to $65 billion in the 12 months ending September 30, according to PwC. Some smaller climate tech companies have made cuts, including vertical farming company InFarm, which retreated from Europe and was declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. Generally, however, layoffs have been a boon for climate as big tech talent has moved into or launched climate tech startups.
Persons: , Siobhan Brewster, Atomico, Brewster, Piotr Bukanski, Mike Schroepfer, Greg Sandoval, retrofits, Barcelona's, Balderton Capital's Magda Lukaszewicz, Stuart Ferguson, Schroepfer, Warner, Aenu's Brewster Organizations: Service, Business, Venture, Energy, Beringea, Gigascale, Sustainable Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Global, Ada Ventures Locations: London, Europe's, Ukraine, United States, Europe, Silicon, Netherlands
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEurope tech investment set to reach $45 billion in 2023, Atomico saysTom Wehmeier, head of data insights at Atomico, discusses the company's "State of European Tech" report on CNBC's Squawk Box Europe.
Persons: Atomico, Tom Wehmeier Organizations: European Tech
STOCKHOLM, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Total capital invested into European tech startups is projected to fall to $45 billion this year, down 55% from 2021, when investment volumes surpassed $100 billion for the first time, according to a report from venture capital firm Atomico. The decline was mostly due to later-stage companies delaying fundraising, as well as a slower pace of deployment by investors, the report said. In 2022, capital invested in Europe was $82 billion. Over the five-year period between 2018 and 2022, a total of 257 European tech companies reached a billion-dollar valuation, including more than 150 in 2021 and 2022, according to Atomico. However, Europe's funding rounds will still be 18% higher compared with 2020, a year before the tech investment boom of 2021.
Persons: Tom Wehmeier, Wehmeier, Atomico, Supantha Mukherjee, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Thomson Locations: STOCKHOLM, Atomico, Europe, United States, China, Stockholm
Venture capital investment into Europe's tech industry plunged by half in 2023 as investors continued to reel from the effects of high interest rates, according to data from venture capital firm Atomico. Atomico's "State of European Tech" report, published Tuesday, showed that overall funding for European venture-backed companies is projected to decline 45% in 2023 from a year ago. Total venture funding for European tech companies will reach $45 billion this year, Atomico expects. That's down from $82 billion in 2022, which is itself down from $100 billion the previous year. "There has been this reset after an overheated and unsustainable period of growth in 2021 and early 2022," Wehmeier told CNBC.
Persons: Atomico, Tom Wehmeier, Wehmeier Organizations: European Tech, CNBC Locations: Atomico, Europe
Finnish mixed-reality startup Varjo on Monday launched its latest headset, the XR-4, a product it hopes to sell to large enterprise firms. The headset, which starts at a price of $3,990, is similar to those from Meta , Microsoft and Apple . Unlike consumer offerings from companies such as Meta, Varjo's headset is intended for enterprise use cases. For example, a pilot working for a major defense contractor could use it to train in a virtual reality simulation. The XR-4 headset has two 4K displays and a 50% wider field of view compared with previous-generation devices.
Persons: Patrick Wyatt, Apple's, Varjo Organizations: Monday, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, CNBC, Vision, Volvo Locations: Helsinki, Atomico
Web Summit CEO apologises for comments on Israeli conflict
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JERUSALEM, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Web Summit Chief Executive and founder Paddy Cosgrave on Tuesday apologised for comments he made on the Israeli-Hamas conflict that prompted some technology companies and investors to withdraw plans to attend its conference in Portugal next month. Web Summit, one of the world's largest tech conferences, will take place in Lisbon from Nov. 13-16, with attendees from companies such as Meta (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) to investors such as Atomico. "War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are," wrote Cosgrave, who was born in Ireland. Among executives to have cancelled their participation at Web Summit are AI21 Labs' Ori Goshen; Tome's Keith Peiris; Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta; Yinon Costica, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity unicorn Wiz; and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan, according to LinkedIn and X posts. Philippe Botteri, CEO of tech investor Accel, said in a LinkedIn post on Monday he would no longer speak at Web Summit.
Persons: Paddy Cosgrave, Cosgrave, I’m, Leo Varadkar's, Israel, Cosgrove, Goshen, Tome's Keith Peiris, Ravi Gupta, Yinon Costica, Y, Garry Tan, Philippe Botteri, Portugal Dor Shapira, Steven Scheer, Supantha Mukherjee, Josephine Mason, Alison Williams, Mark Potter Organizations: Web, Microsoft, Palestinian, Hamas, Irish, AI21 Labs, Sequoia Capital, Thomson Locations: Portugal, Lisbon, Gaza, Israel, Ireland, Jerusalem, Stockholm, London
A health tech startup using AI to make patient care more accurate and efficient just secured a $60 million Series B round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Atomico. Copenhagen-based Corti, founded in 2016, has developed an AI assistant that analyzes patient consultations in real-time and reduces administrative work. Its widget sits on a doctor or nurse's computer, records conversations, and analyses them in real-time to support the medical practitioner's decision-making. Cleve said healthcare had become "very fragmented" and that there was pressure from "personnel deficits everywhere" with burnout becoming endemic. It will also keep investing in research and development, improving medical practitioners' workflows, and generative AI.
Persons: Corti, Andreas Cleve, Cleve, EIFO Organizations: Prosus Ventures, Atomico Locations: Copenhagen, Europe, Danish
Companies Atomico (UK) Partners LLP FollowSept 8 (Reuters) - The British government has signed a partnership with Singapore to grow its economy and enhance shared security, Downing Street said on Friday, adding it was the UK's first treaty since leaving the European Union. They said the partnership will give Singaporean companies more confidence to invest in Britain and vice-versa, while also creating jobs. The British government added that the partnership will strengthen security cooperation, science and technology innovation, and research and development, including countering cyber threats, through a partnership between Singapore's Digital and Intelligence Service and Britain. "This new agreement with Singapore will take us even further in delivering our priorities and ensure that, as we map the future of the world economy, we are doing so alongside our closest partners," Rishi Sunak said. Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Josie KaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Downing, Rishi Sunak, Lee Hsien Loong, Rishabh, Josie Kao Organizations: Atomico, Partners, British, European Union . British, Singapore's Digital, Intelligence Service, Britain, Thomson Locations: Singapore, India, Britain, New Delhi, Bengaluru
Norwegian AI startup Strise has raised $10.8 million in Series A funding. Strise will use the funding to expand its operations to the UK, where it plans to open an office. Strise, an AI startup that helps businesses deal with anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance issues, has raised $10.8 million in funding. Strise's Series A funding round was led by Atomico, with participation from existing investors including Maki.vc plus angels like Camilla Giesecke, COO at Klarna, and Riya Grover, CEO at Sequence. Check out Strise's Series A pitch deck below:
Persons: Orrick, It's, Marit Rødevand, Rødevand, Atomico, Camilla Giesecke, Riya Grover Locations: Oslo, Norwegian
Opna, a startup that helps carbon removal projects get funded, just raised $6.5 million. Opna, which helps corporations invest in carbon removal or reduction projects, has just secured $6.5 million from European venture capital firm Atomico. The London-based startup, founded in 2022 as Salt, helps corporations find, fund, and monitor carbon removal projects. Carbon removal projects generate carbon credits, one of which represents one ton of Co2 removed from or prevented from entering the atmosphere. This led to market hesitation and a subsequent move to fund carbon removal projects directly via forward-purchasing and long-term off-take agreements.
Persons: Shilpika Gautam, Gautam, Opna, Tiny Organizations: Stripe's Frontier Fund Locations: London, India, Gaumukh, Atomico
Bletchley Park is the home of the World War Two Codebreakers, who in 1941 helped break the secret code used by the German government to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. The U.K. government will host the world's first artificial intelligence safety summit in Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers who cracked the code that ended World War II. The renowned Bletchley Park building was the home of the World War II Codebreakers, who in 1941 helped break the secret Enigma Code used by the German government to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. The U.K. tech sector has been flagging of late, following drops in venture capital investment. The U.S. is by far the world leader when it comes to AI, with massive firms ploughing resources into the technology.
Persons: , Rishi Sunak, OpenAI, Bard, Alan Turing, Turing, Sunak, Bejiing Organizations: Microsoft, Google, Baidu Locations: Bletchley, Bletchley Park, Britain, China, The U.S, EU
Fertility rates are declining, with those trying for children often needing access to reproductive tech. Insider spoke to seven VCs who named the top startups innovating reproductive and fertility services. "While it is difficult to pin just one number to the size of Europe's reproductive and fertility tech sector, there has definitely been significant growth across the market," said Sasha Astafyeva, partner at Atomico. In 2021, investors poured a record $3.76 billion into reproductive tech startups globally, per Pitchbook data. Insider asked seven VCs about the reproductive and fertility technology startups set to take off.
Persons: Camila Caso, Sasha Astafyeva, Peter Thiel, , Roe, Wade, Caso Organizations: World Health Organization, Founders Locations: Mexico, Atomico, Europe, Asia
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