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Seaya Andromeda, a €300 million pan-European climate tech growth capital fund, has acquired a majority stake in Zyclora/Bike Ocasión (Zyclora), Spain’s refurbished bicycle omnichannel retailer and a major player in the European market.

To spur the next era of beauty, in May 2024, L'Oréal launched the Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Program in the South Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa (SAPMENA) region, including India.

With, an end-to-end platform for all city offerings to its communities, has raised $10 million in a seed financing round to help local government leaders and their trusted partners make sure any dollar spent on community engagement doesn’t go to waste.

Loop, a Toronto-based fintech startup, has announced an additional raise of $6.4 million in funding. Coupled with $4 million secured in 2022, Loop has raised over $10 million to date on its mission to enable companies to seamlessly manage their financial services and global payments and simplify financial workflows.

Pickommerce, an Israeli warehouse automation startup, announced it has secured $3.4 million in funding to advance the development, production and marketing of its innovative PickoBot piece-picking robot.

Activation Capital has announced the launch of Start-the-Journey, a new Biohealth pre-accelerator designed to equip early-stage biotech and life science entrepreneurs with the knowledge and tools to build successful startups.

Plug and Play, a global innovation platform, announced that Cathay Pacific (Cathay), a premium travel lifestyle brand, has joined its Travel & Hospitality program as the newest corporate partner.

Can big corporations innovate like fast-moving startups? Aucctus, a Toronto-based AI startup, believes it's possible. Armed with a $1.5 million seed investment led by Four Cornerstones Capital, Aucctus has built an AI-powered platform that turns every employee into a potential innovator – equipped to bring the next big idea to their company.

CrowdStrike has announced the launch of its second annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator with Amazon Web Services (AWS). NVIDIA also joins in supporting the Accelerator program, powering the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud security startups.

DRINKS, the innovator and enabler of e-Commerce solutions for alcohol producers, retailers and any e-Commerce merchant,  announced the launch of its groundbreaking Drinks as a Service (DaaS) platform.

In a world where mental health challenges are on the rise, South Korean startup DoctorPresso, has introduced REDI, a voice-based diary app that can detect early signs of depression by analyzing users' speech patterns.

The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative), a multi-year collaboration from NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Urban Future Lab (UFL), Greentown Labs and Fraunhofer USA to catalyze the carbontech ecosystem, has announced nine startup participants for the fourth year of its carbontech accelerator program.

Reverion, a German startup building reversible, carbon-negative power plants, has raised $62 million in Series A funding, including non-dilutive funding.

DC Connected Car, a trailblazer in AI-driven remote vehicle diagnostics, announced the successful closure of €2.1 million seed funding round.

SOLASTA Bio, a Glasgow-based agri-biotech company specialising in the next generation of green insecticides, has raised $14 million Series A financing led by Forbion, a global life sciences venture capital firm with deep expertise in Europe.

Fika Ventures, a B2B-focused early-stage fund, announced the close of its $160 million Fund IV. The new fund brings Fika's total assets under management to over half a billion dollars since its founding in 2016.

5WPR, an independently-owned PR firm in the U.S., has been selected as the public relations Agency of Record for fleet safety SaaS startup, Netradyne.

Frankfurt-based startup Qualifyze, a trusted company in supplier risk management in the life sciences industry, announced $54 million in Series B funding from global software investor Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, HarbourVest Partners, H14 and Cherry Ventures.

Track3D, a Bay Area-based AI-first startup building a pioneering reality intelligence platform for the construction industry, announced it has secured $4.3 million venture capital seed funding.

Alosant, the customer experience platform for master-planned communities, announced an undisclosed Series A funding round led by the Greg Avis, Co-founder and former Managing Director of Summit Partners.

Retraced, the Düsseldorf-based SaaS platform that enables fashion and textile brands to digitize, trace and analyze risks related to their supply chains, has closed €15 million Series A funding round.