Following a successful initial rollout that saved over 5 tonnes of food and sold more than 2,500 Surprise Bags, the initiative is expanding into four new cities: Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, and Oradea.

Clinical-stage biotech Alchemab Therapeutics has extended its series A financing with a £25 million (USD $34m) investment from the British Business Bank – the Bank’s largest investment in a life sciences company to date.

Gyre Energy has secured over $1.3m in investment and grant funding as it expands work with larger enterprise customers.

Climentum Capital, a leading European climate-tech venture capital firm, today announced the first close of its second fund (Fund II) at €60 million.

InSoil, a European climate finance company channelling institutional capital into the transition to regenerative agriculture, has secured a €120 million senior secured credit facility from Pollen Street Capital (“Pollen Street”).

Laëtitia Launet Gallas is the Founder and CEO of Llum Social, a social impact business that helps NGO manage their resources better and coordinate with other organisations, and vulnerable people access those resources more easily, through an easy-to-use platform and app.

The financing was led by Johnson & Johnson’s corporate venture capital organization, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (“JJDC”), and BGF, who join existing investors.