Agriodor Raises €15 Million to Expand Scent-Based Crop Protection Globally
French agritech firm Agriodor secured a €15 million (≈$16.3 million) Series A round led by Crédit Mutuel’s Environmental and Solidarity Revolution Fund. The capital will fund the rollout of its scent‑based biocontrol platform, which manipulates insect behavior using natural plant semiochemicals. The company recently launched its first commercial product against sugar beet aphids through an exclusive distribution deal with Syngenta. Building on that success, Agriodor aims to broaden its portfolio to crops such as fruit, vegetables and cereals, targeting pests like fruit flies, whiteflies and thrips.
SolvaPay Raises €2.4M to Build Payment Infrastructure for Agentic Commerce
SolvaPay, a Stockholm‑based AI payments platform, announced a €2.4 million (~$2.6 million) pre‑seed round led by Redstone and MS&AD Ventures. The funding will accelerate development of machine‑native payment rails that let AI agents discover, access, and pay for digital services. SolvaPay’s infrastructure...
Mission Control Games Launches with $4M to Develop New Casual Gaming Sub-Genres
Mission Control Games, a new mobile studio focused on casual puzzles, closed a $4 million pre‑seed round led by General Catalyst. Co‑founders Kıvanç Okutur and Murat Gürel, veterans of Merge Dragons, aim to create original sub‑genres rather than copy existing formats....
Europe Builds Its First “Kill-Switch Proof” Cloud Recovery Stack
At the European Data Summit, Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud and StorPool unveiled Europe’s first fully sovereign disaster‑recovery stack, designed to protect organisations from foreign‑vendor kill‑switches and other catastrophic events. The solution bundles storage, compute, orchestration and security components into a...
Europe Ramps up Autonomous Warfare Capabilities with German–Ukrainian Drone Production Pact
Germany and Ukraine have signed a cooperation agreement that enables the Auterion‑Airlogix joint venture to begin large‑scale production of thousands of mid‑range, heavy AI‑guided autonomous strike drones in Germany. The deal fulfills a February 2026 Munich Security Conference pledge and becomes...
Modern Relay Raises $3M to Build Shared Infrastructure Layer for AI Agents in the Enterprise
Modern Relay announced a $3 million seed round backed by Point Nine, Emerge, Amino Collective, Common Magic and notable angels. The San‑Francisco‑Barcelona startup is building a shared infrastructure layer that consolidates people, policies, data and decisions so AI agents can operate...
Helical Secures $10M to Advance Virtual AI Lab for Pharma Research
Helical, a biotech startup founded in early 2024, announced a $10 million seed round led by redalpine with participation from Gradient, BoxGroup, Frst and AI industry angels. The company’s virtual AI lab combines foundation model outputs with biological validation to create...
Replenit Raises $2.5M to Bring Real-Time AI Decision-Making to Retail
Replenit, an AI decision engine that converts customer signals into real‑time, individualized actions, closed a $2.5 million pre‑seed round co‑led by Movens Capital and Vastpoint. The Warsaw‑based startup adds a reasoning layer to existing retail data stacks, enabling brands to move...
The New Seed Filter: What Investors Look for Beyond the Demo
Partech partner Alison Imbert says polished AI demos mean little at seed stage; investors now demand gritty customer research, clear distribution plans and technical depth. Managing the €53 million (≈$57 million) Paris‑Saclay Seed fund, she backs engineering‑centric B2B SaaS startups that can prove...
GoCardless Sees Revenue Boost, Undertook 2025 Restructure
GoCardless reported a year‑on‑year revenue increase to £155.5 million (≈$194 million) for FY 2025, driven by new customers, renewals and the Nuapay acquisition. The fintech doubled its processed payments volume to £79.2 billion (≈$99 billion) and narrowed losses to £25.5 million (≈$31.9 million), posting its first adjusted...
Zell Raises €500K to Scale AI-Powered Sales Management
Berlin‑based AI startup Zell announced a €500,000 (approximately $550,000) funding round co‑led by P3 Ventures, SkyDeck Europe, UC Berkeley SkyDeck and others. The capital will accelerate the rollout of its platform that layers automated coaching on top of CRM and...
Accenture and Google Cloud Unveil Brussels Centre to Accelerate Sovereign AI Adoption
Accenture and Google Cloud have launched a Sovereign Centre in Brussels, featuring a dedicated training facility and an air‑gapped environment for secure AI and cloud experimentation. The centre combines Accenture’s industry and AI expertise with Google Distributed Cloud’s air‑gapped technology...
Inside Lithuania’s Effort to Build Founders From the Classroom
Lithuania has launched MVP, a prime‑time national TV show that puts 14‑19‑year‑olds into real startup environments, letting them build and pitch companies live. The format mirrors Shark Tank but is embedded in schools, giving participants hands‑on experience with product development, AI,...
New AI Femtech Competition in Portugal Aims to Fast-Track Women’s Health Innovation
Portugal is launching its first AI‑focused femtech competition, inviting both local and international teams to submit projects that apply imaging or time‑series data to women’s health challenges. The open call runs until 28 April 2026, with submissions due at midnight CET, and...
TeiaCare Raises €7M to Accelerate Growth and Internationalisation
Italian health‑tech firm TeiaCare announced a €7 million (≈$7.6 million) funding round led by P101 SGR, with participation from Spanish family offices Namarel and Inderhabs. The company’s AI‑driven platform Ancelia monitors residential care environments using optical sensors, turning data into actionable insights...
