Sophie Renard 
The article discusses the transformation of Raise Summit, originally a Wall Street-focused event, into a European-based summit held in Versailles, highlighting its evolution as a platform for startup ecosystems.
Swiss engineering startup Subatron has secured €162,000 from Venture Kick to develop a new underwater communication platform. The technology aims to improve real-time data transmission for underwater vehicles, divers, and monitoring systems by addressing limitations of conventional wireless systems. Funds will support market entry in Switzerland and Europe.
Macrodata Labs addresses the data infrastructure gap in robotics by offering Refiner, an open-source platform for processing multimodal robotics datasets. The company emerged from stealth after securing $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Air Street Capital.
Tissium raises €30M in equity and €30M in debt to expand its MedTech business
Dropbox expands its European infrastructure with new locations in Paris and Frankfurt
Sopht raised 7.5M€ to reduce IT costs for businesses
Walmart acquired Vibe, an adtech startup founded by two French entrepreneurs
AlpSemi raises €17 million to advance solid-state circuit breaker technology
Timefold, a Belgian startup, raised $13M Series A funding to scale scheduling optimisation infrastructure
201 Ventures, founded by former CIA officer Eric Slesinger, is planning to raise a second defence fund, a year after securing $22m to invest in European defence and dual use startups.