Invest-NL launches with focus on financing the energy transition and innovative scale-ups


The official launch of Invest-NL takes place today in Amsterdam in the presence of Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra and Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Eric Wiebes. As a private company led by Wouter Bos, Invest-NL will provide financing to companies that will make the Netherlands more sustainable and more innovative. With a share capital of 1.7 billion euros, Invest-NL’s focus at launch is on the energy transition and on innovative, fast-growing companies (scale-ups). In the context of the energy transition, Invest-NL is focusing particularly on electrification and energy, circularity, agrifood and the built environment.
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N26 GmbH ("N26") announces Series D Funding extension to $470m


N26 extended its Series D funding to $470m. The Mobile Bank is now valued at $3.5bn, making it one of Europe’s most valuable startups. Existing investors reaffirm their trust in N26’s vision through additional investment in the company. The funds will be used to drive international expansion, grow the team an d drive product innovation with many more features launching later this year.
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Germany, United States, Brazil

AeroVironment Acquires VTOL UAS Developer Pulse Aerospace, LLC for $25.7 Million to Strengthen Family of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems


Pulse’s complementary Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) product family strengthens AeroVironment’s leading family of fixed-wing small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Acquisition expands total addressable market by increasing mission capabilities of AeroVironment family of systems. Pulse Aerospace receives multi-year contract award with a maximum value of more than $13 million from undisclosed defense customer for Vapor VTOL unmanned systems, spares and services. Acquisition expected to be accretive to AeroVironment earnings by the third full year of operations.
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VTOL
unmanned aircraft
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United States

CloudBees Acquires Market Leader Electric Cloud, Creating a Continuous Delivery Powerhouse


CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced the acquisition of Electric Cloud, a market leader in continuous delivery and application release automation (ARA). This acquisition establishes CloudBees as the first provider of end-to-end continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous deployment and ARA.

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Forbion Announces Sale of Portfolio Company, Santaris Pharma, to Roche for up to $450m


Forbion Capital Partners, the leading Dutch VC firm investing in world-class healthcare technologies announces the sale of its portfolio company, Santaris Pharma A/S for a total consideration of up to $ 450 million, of which an upfront cash payment of $250 million and additional contingent payments of up to $200 million based on the achievement of certain predetermined milestones.

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Netherlands, Denmark

Equitybee Launches Innovative Fund to Open the Venture Capital Asset Class to More Investors


Equitybee, a FinTech company and a leading startup employees stock options funding platform, today announced the launch of the Venture Portfolio Fund (VPF), providing private investors with unprecedented access to high-growth, VC-backed startups through an index-like fund. The VPF allows for strategic diversification of 120+ Pre-IPO U.S. companies across industry verticals and technologies.
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