Opendoor, the home selling start-up, has closed its funding round having raised an additional $300 million, after originally filing to raise $200 million in February this year. The valuation of the startup that is taking on the real estate industry, is now at $3.8 billion. Opendoor has now raised $1.3 billion in equity, with some $3.0 billion in debt financing for buying in properties.

In an interview with Handelsblatt, Klaus Hommels speaks about the future of European technology companies and warns about the lack of money for young companies. He calls on Europe to invest more in start-ups, so that funding remains competitive alongside the US and Asia.

Auterion is a software platform designed to power the drone industry. At the heart of its operating system is PX4, the most widely distributed open source flight software. But it also offers all the supporting services such as cloud analytics, predictive maintenance and unmanned traffic management, as well having the ability to run custom-made third party apps like obstacle avoidance and data streaming.