Zürich-based Exclaim Robotics exits stealth with €4.29 million to build robots for AI data centre maintenance
Exclaim Robotics, a Zürich-based startup building robots to maintain AI data centres, has exited stealth mode with a €4.29 million ($4.95 million) pre-Seed round co-led by Founderful and Playfair. Th...
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€40K investment and investor know-how: AceON Accelerator opens applications for its 6th international program (Sponsored)
After five successful programmes, AceON Accelerator has already supported more than 100 startups from over 20 countries, helping founders transform early-stage ideas into companies ready for growth. A...
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Paris-based Shiplog raises over €807.6K to build agentic customer intelligence for personalisation at scale
Shiplog, a Paris-based startup building agentic customer intelligence for personalisation at scale, has raised over €807.6k ($930k) in pre-Seed funding to build what it believes will become the intell...
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The future of private investment platforms: Raising capital is only the beginning
In the first article in this series, we explored why founders should think of fundraising as a capital strategy rather than simply a way of financing growth. In the second, we looked at how private in...
12h ago
Female-founded AI LegalTech startup Aavalynx raises €1.75 million to bring “death to disputes”
Aavalynx, an AI-powered intelligence platform for dispute resolution cases, has raised €1.75 million (£1.5 million) in pre-Seed funding to help enterprises tackle the financial risk of legal disputes....
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Ore Energy raises €37.3 million to scale iron-air batteries that store renewable power for up to 100 hours
Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup developing grid-scale iron-air batteries for long-duration energy storage, has raised €37.3 million ($43 million) in Series A funding to scale its iron-air batte...
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UK AI chip startup OLIX raises €270.5 million at €2.8 billion valuation just two years after its founding
OLIX, a London-based AI chip startup building the infrastructure for frontier AI inference, today announced a €270.5 million ($312 million) Series B financing round at a €2.8 billion ($3.3 billion) va...
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Italy’s Aflabox raises €1.35 million to scale AI-powered portable aflatoxin detection across Africa and Europe
Aflabox, an Italian AgTech startup that aims to revolutionise food safety by making aflatoxin detection accessible, affordable, and efficient, has closed a €1.35 million Seed funding round. The round...
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Europe’s AI challenge is not invention, but momentum
Europe has the talent and the ambition to lead in AI, but it is struggling to translate that into sustained scale. The issue is whether it can keep moving and translate momentum into impact. Across in...
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Helsinki-based Aiforia secures €20 million EIB financing to advance AI-powered cancer diagnostics
Aiforia, a Helsinki-based life-science company providing deep learning AI solutions for pathology, has secured €20 million in venture debt financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB). Supported...
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Index Ventures raises €1.7 billion, bringing total investing capital to nearly €3 billion
Index Ventures, the global venture capital firm, has raised approximately €1.7 billion ($2 billion), bringing its total investing capital to nearly €3 billion ($3.5 billion) across all stages: Seed, v...
4d ago
Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 27 -July 31)
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Paris-based Apolownia raises €1 million to scale coastal restoration and blue carbon projects
Apolownia, a Paris-based company developing high-integrity coastal ecosystem restoration projects, has announced the closing of its first Seed round, totalling €1 million. The round was completed wit...
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Lessons in resilience: What Europe can learn from emerging markets
Europe offers many advantages entrepreneurs admire: strong institutions, advanced infrastructure, research excellence, deep talent, sophisticated investors, and stable markets. But learning should not...
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Eindhoven’s Keiron raises €20.7 million to tackle one of electronics manufacturing’s most expensive problems
Keiron Printing Technologies (Keiron), an Eindhoven-based DeepTech company specialising in Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LiFT) precision solder paste printing, has closed a €20.7 million Series A ro...
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Málaga-based Atomic One raises €5.6 million to automate e-commerce operations with AI agents
Atomic One, a Málaga-based technology company behind an AI operating system for e-commerce brands, has completed a two-tranche financing round totalling €5.6 million. As part of this closing, Arcano P...
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“Now there is a real chance to become a unicorn”: Slovenia’s GenePlanet secures strategic investment from Lauxera
GenePlanet, a Ljubljana-based genomics and laboratory platform delivering advanced genetic testing and next-generation sequencing (NGS) services worldwide, has secured a strategic investment from Laux...
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Pitching investors? Know which side of the Atlantic you’re on
Ask any founder who has been through a fundraising round and they’ll tell you: preparing a pitch deck can feel like guesswork dressed up as strategy. You polish your numbers, rehearse your story, anti...
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London-based Intropy raises €9.5 million to build the AI-native operating system for the spare parts industry
Intropy, a London-based AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other critical decisions for spare parts businesses, has raised €9.5 million ($11 million) in Seed financing. The round was...
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Swiss startup AI Infrastructure Capital AG launches with €16 million to tackle AI compute bottleneck
AI Infrastructure Capital AG, a newly founded Swiss company that buys servers, runs them at sites with renewable power and rents the capacity out on long-term contracts, is launching with a recently c...
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Swedish legal AI unicorn Legora snaps up London-based Wexler in fifth acquisition of 2026
Legora, the Stockholm-based legal AI unicorn, has announced the acquisition of London-based Wexler, a fact intelligence platform that extracts, verifies, and reasons over the factual record from large...
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Swiss preventive HealthTech Ahead Health bags €8.7 million and launches in Germany and the Netherlands
Ahead Health, a Zurich-based preventive healthcare company, has secured a €8.7 million ($10 million) investment led by venture capital firms 3VC and RTP Global. It is also launching in Germany and the...
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10 European SpaceTech startups ready for liftoff
Europe’s SpaceTech sector is reaching new heights, supported by growing public investment and a stronger industrial presence. According to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 2026 report, European publi...
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Drivalia secures €48 million EIB financing to boost electric mobility in Italy and Finland
Drivalia, a Rome-based rental and mobility company of the Crédit Agricole Auto Bank (CAAB) group, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed a €48 million financing agreement to support the de...
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The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Tom Wehmeier, Partner and Head of Intelligence at Atomico
In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Tom Wehmeier, Partner and Head of Intelligence at Atomico, to discuss European technology, the firm’s investment philosophy, and the influential State of...
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Vilnius-based Sigvi raises €1.2 million to scale its AI-powered car rental platform across Europe
Sigvi, a Vilnius-based AI revenue agent for the car rental industry, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate product development and international expansion. The round was led by Hel...
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Why European founders must master “sovereign flexibility”
Over the past two years, anti-tourism protests have spread across southern Europe. In July 2024, demonstrators in Barcelona protested over-tourism with the slogan “go home,” while around 10,000 people...
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Wild Bio acquires F1 Seed to create Britain’s first independent precision-breeding wheat business
Wild Bioscience (Wild Bio), an Oxford University AgTech spinout that designs improved crops for resilient agriculture, has acquired F1 Seed, a Suffolk-based independent wheat breeding business. With...
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London-based responsible lending FinTech Plend secures funding facility of up to €58.3 million
Plend, a London-based responsible lender dedicated to tackling financial exclusion across the UK, has secured a funding facility of up to €58.3 million (£50 million) from Triple Point, a London-based...
July 28, 2026
10 summer watches for entertainment and inspiration
Looking for inspiration and entertainment while travelling or unwinding during your summer holidays? We’ve compiled a list of movies that offer an engaging look at entrepreneurship, innovation, ambiti...
July 28, 2026
Dutch-US MedTech Xeltis raises €20.5 million to advance artificial vessels and valves replaced by patients’ own tissue
Xeltis, a commercial-stage MedTech company based in the Netherlands and the USA, developing artificial vessels and valves that are gradually replaced by patients’ own living healthy tissue, has raised...
July 28, 2026
Sofia-based Tiger Technology raises €8.7 million to advance always-on hybrid cloud data infrastructure
Tiger Technology, a Sofia-based file data services company that specialises in on-premises-first hybrid cloud workflows, today announced the initial closing of a €8.7 million ($10 million) Series A fi...
July 28, 2026
From prototype to production in 3 days: How LS Manufacturing supports European hardware startups in their fast-paced development (Sponsored)
On the fast-moving European startup scene, it’s software companies who often dominate the news cycle talking about the quick turnaround of their products and the benefits of agile sprints. Though, a q...
July 28, 2026
DITTO raises €5.2 million to tackle menstrual health gaps with research and targeted supplements
DITTO, the scientist-founded menstrual health company, today announced a €5.2 million ($6 million) Seed round to accelerate its research projects, expand its science-led supplement range and increase...
July 28, 2026
Zürich-based ZuriQ raises €22.4 million to scale its 2D trapped-ion quantum processors
ZuriQ, a Zürich-based quantum computing company building a utility-scale quantum computer with a native two-dimensional trap architecture, today announced it has raised €22.4 million ($25.5 million) i...
July 27, 2026
14 lessons from 14 years in VC
Venture capital is one of the most varied industries out there. Very few careers let you jump between sectors, immerse yourself in the latest tech and trends, or meet some of the most talented people...
July 27, 2026
Milan’s Beelzebub raises €3 million to fight AI-driven cyberattacks with AI-powered hacker traps
Beelzebub, a Milan-based AI-native cybersecurity platform that protects digital assets from AI-driven cyber attacks, today announced a €3 million Seed funding round exclusively led by the Italian Deep...
July 27, 2026
Turning advisors into angel investors
This article draws on my talk of the same name at the EU-Startups Summit in Malta. The strongest validation came moments after I left the stage, when a man named Peter introduced himself. That initial...
July 27, 2026
Manchester’s Nuclear Turbines raises €17.5 million to develop compact, cost-effective nuclear power systems
Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester-based startup developing compact, cost-effective, advanced nuclear power systems, has raised a €17.5 million (£15 million) foundational round led by IQ Capital, joined b...
July 27, 2026
Spain’s Multiverse Computing hits unicorn status after raising €500 million Series C at €1.5 billion valuation
Multiverse Computing, a San Sebastian-based AI scale-up focused on sovereign and efficient AI, today announced a €500 million ($570 million) Series C at a €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) pre-money valuati...
July 27, 2026
Profitable Serbian-Hungarian InsurTech Ominimo hits unicorn status two years after launch, raises €20.1 million
Ominimo, a Serbian-Hungarian InsurTech startup, has completed a €20.1 million ($23 million) Series B funding round with the venture capital arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
July 24, 2026
Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 20 -July 24)
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July 24, 2026
ispace-EUROPE lands €65 million ESA contract to deliver and operate MAGPIE, Europe’s first lunar polar ice exploration rover
ispace-EUROPE, a Luxembourg-based lunar exploration company focusing on the development of lunar rovers, has been awarded Phase 2 of the MAGPIE contract, the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar...
July 24, 2026
Why player trust is becoming Europe’s next iGaming growth layer (Sponsored)
For years, European iGaming growth has been driven by better products, faster payments, and expansion into new markets. These things still matter, but they’re not enough on their own anymore. Players...
July 24, 2026
Manchester-based PropTech startup Street Group secures Hg investment at a valuation of over €233.8 million
Street Group (formerly Agent Software), a Manchester-based provider of vertical software and AI for the UK residential property sector, has secured a strategic growth investment from Hg, an investor i...
July 24, 2026
How the EU-Startups Summit resulted in investments, a new CEO and even a padel partner!
A potential angel investment, a newly appointed CEO, fresh customers and international partnerships were among the real-world outcomes born from the EU-Startups Summit. For many attendees, the convers...
July 24, 2026
Cambridge’s TidalSense raises €16.6 million to turn the tide on respiratory diagnostics with patented AI tech
TidalSense (formerly Cambridge Respiratory Innovations), a Cambridge-based AI-powered respiratory diagnostic, today announced a €16.6 million ($19 million) funding round to accelerate commercialisatio...
July 24, 2026
Grow and scale globally with an EOR that fits hyper-growth (Sponsored)
Hyper-growth creates a strange contradiction. The moment a startup needs to move fastest on hiring is exactly the moment it has the least infrastructure to support it. A term sheet closes, a new marke...
July 24, 2026
Oxford-based Moa Technology raises €25.9 million to tackle herbicide-resistant weeds
Moa Technology (Moa), an Oxford-based agricultural BioTech company tackling weed resistance to herbicides, has raised a €25.9 million (£22.2 million) Series C financing round. The round was co-led by...
July 23, 2026
Can the UK’s Tech reset deliver real business outcomes?
Let’s axe some acronyms, Whitehall red tape and connect Government policy with real Tech business outcomes. Before our new UK Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, began commuting to “Number 10” on Monday, Te...