| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.05.2026 | CEE Startup & Tech Weekly: New Deep Tech VC Launches | Company:
The Recursive’s weekly roundup aims to cover key tech developments across Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the growing impact of CEE-born founders on the global stage. Take a look at the latest news in funding, startup milest... |
| 30.05.2024 | The Largest Green Transition Forum in CEE Returns for the 4th Time to Bring Together Key Innovators, Investors, and Policymakers | Sofia, Bulgaria ~
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Can Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) become a hub for green innovation and what needs to happen so we get there? The upcoming 4th edition of the Green Transition Forum, scheduled for June 26-28, 2024, promises to ... |
| 02.09.2023 | Startup Showcase: Augmenta—Revolutionizing Agriculture with Deep Learning | Welcome to this week’s Startup Showcase on EUStartup.news! We’re spotlighting Augmenta, a ground-breaking startup based in Athens, Greece, that’s set on redefining the future of agriculture. Employing artificial intelligence and deep learni... |
| 17.08.2023 | 10 Greek M&A Deals in 2023 You Should Know About | Greece ~
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As we delve deeper into 2023, the Greek M&As 2023 landscape has been marked by a series of significant business consolidations. Spanning diverse sectors from cybersecurity to biotechnology, these M&As offer a compr... |
| 14.07.2023 | Meet the founder: PerPlant’s Rasmus Emil Hansen on taking precision agriculture to the edge | While adoption of precision ag tech is certainly on the upward trajectory in Europe, some segments of farming are still hesitant to transition, according to Rasmus Emil Hansen, co-founder and CEO of Denmark-based startup PerPlant.
“You have... |
| 13.03.2023 | CNH Industrial acquires Augmenta for $110 million | Athens-based agritech start-up Augmenta announced it has been acquired by CNH Industrial for $110 million. CNH Industrial is going to continue to invest Augmenta's team and is going to turn Athens into a CNH Industrial innovation hub.
The C... |
| 20.10.2022 | 10 Greek Startups to Follow in 2023, Recommended by VCs | Greece ~
Greek founders, both from within the country’s borders, as well as from the diaspora, are increasingly weighing in the development of the European startup ecosystem. Just in 2021, Greek startup funding hit over half a billion euro,... |
| 21.06.2022 | Augmenta Emerges from Stealth Mode and Raises US$4.1 Million in Seed Funding to Automate Building Design for the Construction Industry | Augmenta Construction Platform enables contractors and engineers to design fully-detailed, code-compliant, and constructible designs in hours rather than weeks or months
Augmenta, the company automating building design for the construction ... |
| 05.05.2022 | Climate tech meets deep tech: 25+ startups in SEE | Get ready for a growing wave of emerging technologies developed and scaled with the ultimate goal of solving a social or environmental challenge. Deep tech lays one of the most promising pathways towards mitigating climate change. And this ... |
| 12.12.2021 | Vote for the Cleantech Startup of the Year | Company:
Sustainability has escalated on most political and business agendas this year, especially following the red warning code from IPCC. With it, cleantech startup valuations are also going through the roof, indicating an increased trus... |
| 13.04.2021 | This startup says its new laser-armed weeding robot is already sold out for 2021 | Autonomous robotics company Carbon Robotics today debuted its third-generation weeding robot which combines AI and laser technology to take care of one of farmers’ least-favorite jobs.
“After meeting with a bunch of farmers and talking abou... |
| 24.03.2021 | Precision farming startup Augmenta raises $8M Series A round on its way to automating crop fertilization and reducing pollution | Company:
On March 23, 2021, the automation farming startup Augmenta announced closing its $8M Series A round with the support of tractor manufacturer CNH Industrial N.V., EU impact investor Pymwymic, as well as previous investors Marathon V... |
| 23.03.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Tractor retrofitter Augmenta raises $8m in Series A round led by CNH Industrial | Augmenta — a Paris-headquartered startup which retrofits tractors with ‘smart’ tech capabilities — has raised $8 million in Series A funding, co-founder and CEO George Varvarelis told AFN.
Capital goods company and manufacturer of agricultu... |
| 03.02.2021 | Startup Cities in SEE: Who Is Who In The Emerging Athens Ecosystem | Athens, Greece ~
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The Greek startup ecosystem is one of the most active in the Southeast Europe (SEE) region, with Athens winning an award for European Capital of Innovation in 2018. Next to emerging local tech ventures, an increasi... |
| 13.03.2020 | These most funded tech startups make Greece a thriving startup hub | When it comes to the major tech startup hubs in Europe, Greece may not be in the top position and could have been easy overlooked by many. Despite the grim scenario, Greece has set up an energetic tech scene with startups that are aimed at ... |
| 31.01.2020 | MassChallenge Texas Begins Accepting Applications for its Austin and Houston Programs | At the South Congress Hotel last week, MassChallenge Texas officially kicked off its next application cycle for its accelerator programs in Austin and Houston. |
| 24.10.2019 | Augmenta gets $2.5 million to transform farming without changing farmer behavior | Augmenta, an Athens-based agritech startup, has raised $2.5 million seed funding to improve the life of farmers through automated precision software that retrofits to existing farming equipment. The round was led by Hardware Club, the first... |
| 11.10.2019 | Greek agtech startup Augmenta raises €2.3 million seed round for its tractor-camera that scans and analyses crops | In an era of climate change and rapid population growth, farmers have never before been asked to produce more with less.
There is a need for easy-to-use, inexpensive and reliable solutions that allow farmers to treat every inch of their far... |
| 10.10.2019 | Daily funding roundup - October 9th, 2019 | Augmenta raised $2.5M; Doorstead landed $3.3M; Middesk picks up $4M; Papa closed $10M
Augmenta: Augmenta is a precision agriculture company. Augmenta raised $2.5 million in seed funding co-led by Hardware Club and Marathon Venture Capital o... |
| 09.10.2019 | Greek AgriTech Augmenta raises $2.5M from Hardware Club and Marathon Venture Capital | Photo: https://startupper.gr/η-augmenta-στους-τελικούς-του-masschallenge-texas/
Greek Agritech startup Augmenta, a company that develops a precision agriculture app for farmers, raises $2.5 million in a seed round led by San Francisco Hardw... |
| 08.10.2019 | Augmenta raises $2.5m seed round from Hardware Club, Marathon VC | Precision agriculture technology may be both financially and environmentally promising, but it has a bias: it can be unaffordable to the average farmer.
Greek startup Augmenta is trying to change that. The company has developed a retrofit d... |
| 30.04.2019 | 7 Top Agtech Startups Defining the Future of Agriculture | AgriFood tech is a maturing market, as evidenced by the swell in investing activity last year. Startups in the space attracted nearly $17 billion in investment capital–a 43% increase from the previous year, according to data from AgFunder. ... |
| 08.11.2018 | Agri & Co Challenge attracts food and agritech startups from all over the world | |
| 16.08.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Awards $510,000 and Prizes to 10 Startups | By Laura Lorek
Publisher of Silicon Hills News |
| 16.08.2018 | MassChallenge Awards $510K to Eight Startups in Texas Accelerator | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Austin—[Updated 2:11 p.m. See below.] MassChallenge gave out $510,000 in cash to eight startups Wednesday, including to six early stage companies from Texas.
During an award c... |
| 16.08.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Awards $500K in Equity-Free Cash Prizes to Top 8 Startups in Inaugural Cohort | (AUSTIN, Texas – Aug. 16, 2018) - MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, last night awarded $500,000 to eight of the highest-impact startups from the MassChallenge Texas accelerator program. Announced at the Ma... |
| 26.07.2018 | MassChallenge Texas Names Top 16 Startups From Inaugural Cohort | (AUSTIN, Texas – July 26, 2018; source: Juice Consulting) – MassChallenge, a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced the top 16 startups from its first Texas-based program, MassChallenge Texas. Representing some ... |
| 19.07.2018 | Athens-based Augmenta announces $600k seed investment | Augmenta, a developer of next-generation, fully automated precision applications for agriculture, announces the completion of a $600k seed investment by Marathon Venture Capital.
Based in Athens, Greece and Texas, Augmenta's software and pl... |
| 17.07.2018 | Augmenta Raises $600k Seed Round for Plug & Play Automation on the Farm | Augmenta, an ag IoT and automation startup based out of Athens, Greece and Austin, Texas, has raised $600k in seed funding from Marathon Venture Capital, a tech investor focused on entrepreneurs from Greece.
The startup manufactures a plug ... |
