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🌟 In the news 🌟
🎯 Revolut crosses 50 million customers worldwide
Revolut announces that it has exceeded 50 million customers, including 10 million in the United Kingdom. With 10 million new users in 2024, the company is consolidating its leading position in Europe. Its innovations include eSIMs to reduce roaming costs, RevPoints, a pan-European loyalty program, and Wealth Protection for enhanced security.
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Ha startup specializing in agentic artificial intelligence, announces the launch of Runner H, its first cloud agent designed to automate complex tasks via the web. Combined with H-Studio, a large-scale automation tool, Runner H aims to democratize universal automation through agents capable of navigating all graphical interfaces.
At the SC24 conferences in Atlanta and Quantum Technologies in Lisbon, EuroQCS-France, supported by GENCI and the CEA, announces early remote access to a 6-qubit photonic quantum computer developed by Whenela. This initiative prepares for the deployment in 2025 of the Lucy photonic quantum supercomputer, a 12-qubit system integrated into the CEA’s TGCC center and GENCI’s Joliot-Curie supercomputer. This access, accompanied by the Perceval tool, aims to familiarize the European research community with the applications of photonic quantum computing.
📱The government adopts Tchap and Signal for its communications
Obviously the message has not passed through the time of Elisabet Borne’s government, it is the turn of the Barnier government to recall the rules regarding messaging. Thus it is requested to replace Telegram with Tchap, the in-house application, and Signal for non-sensitive external exchanges. Olvid, whose adoption is more difficult within administrations, remains recommended for the most critical communications.
⚡ IN BRIEF ⚡
- For his part, N26 achieves profitability for the first time, with gross revenue forecasts of €440M in 2024, IPO in preparation
- Databricks plans to raise €6.4-8.2Baiming at a valorization of €56B to finance the buyback of employee shares.
- Opera and Spotify : Intuitive music integration allows you to manage music, podcasts and audiobooks in the Opera One R2 browser, with a three-month free trial for Spotify Premium.
💰FUNDRAISING 💰
- Formal survey €6.4M to secure business data. The tour, led by THRIVE CAPITAL, also welcomes Y COMBINATOR and key industry figures.
- Twenty survey €4.7M in Seed, led by RUNA CAPITAL, with the participation of the founders of HUBSPOT, FRONT, CAL.COM, SENTRY and PHOTOROOM. The startup is developing an innovative open-source CRM, reinforced by a dynamic community of 280 active contributors on GitHub.
- Arenametrixspecialist in CRM and Data solutions for the cultural and sports sectors, raises €8M with REFLEXION CAPITAL and NEWFUND. Profitable since 2020, the company aims for an ARR of €20M within five years, while continuing its European expansion and its external growth strategy.
- Moonvalley survey €65M in Seed to develop generative video tools, supported by GENERAL CATALYST and KHOSLA VENTURES.
- SuperAnnotate survey €34M to perfect its annotation and AI training tools. The tour is led by SOCIUM VENTURES.
- Fabrication survey €107M to accelerate the production of cutting-edge network GPU chips.
- Oura achieved a valuation of €4.8B after lifting €71M to develop its smart health monitoring ring.
🤝 ACQUISITIONS 🤝
- Robinhood acquires TradePMR for €280M in order to expand its wealth management offering and strengthen its services for asset managers.
🏃♂️MOVEMENTS 🏃♂️
- Alice Chaillan joins the board of directors of the National Frequency Agency (ANFR).
- Christine Choquel becomes Global CIO at Accor.
- Valentin Napoli is appointed Director of Epitech Nantes.
- Marie Bornes Breuzon becomes Director of Internal Communications and CSR at Ardian.
- Anne-Sophie Huet takes over the vertical marketing direction of Retail, Luxury and CPG Europe at Valtech.
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