Starling Bank Rolls Out “UK’s First Agentic AI Financial Assistant”
Starling Bank announced the launch of the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant, dubbed Starling Assistant, to automate everyday banking tasks. The voice‑enabled tool can set up savings goals, allocate funds across dedicated spaces, and schedule bill payments through natural language prompts. Built on Starling’s proprietary platform and powered by Google Gemini and Google Cloud, the assistant expands the bank’s suite of generative AI features such as Spending Intelligence and Scam Intelligence. With nearly five million customers, Starling aims to differentiate itself as a leader in AI‑driven personal finance management.
Cleavr Raises €1M to Develop an AI Solution for Accounts Receivable
Cleavr announced a €1 million funding round led by Kima Ventures and other investors to accelerate its AI‑driven accounts‑receivable platform. The solution automates reminders, reconciliation, dispute handling and multi‑channel communication, aiming to cut late‑payment losses for finance teams. Already deployed with...
Alpine Eagle Scales Sentinel Production with New Munich Facility and European Expansion
Alpine Eagle is scaling production of its Sentinel counter‑drone system, adding a 2,000‑square‑metre interceptor plant near Munich and expanding across Europe after its German Bundeswehr launch. The company has grown from 12 to 50 staff and aims to reach 100...
Europe’s Filmtech Ecosystem Is Growing Fast — Here Are the Startups to Watch
Europe’s film‑technology ecosystem is accelerating, driven by AI, sustainability tools, and new distribution models. Accelerators such as IDA Hub, Cannes Next and corporate programmes from Netflix and Disney are nurturing startups across the continent. Companies like EpicFrames, Filmster Network, Greenigma,...
Health Lean Analytics Secures over €2.1M to Automate Hospital Data and Optimise Surgical Workflows
Health Lean Analytics (HLA) secured €2.1 million in seed funding, including a €1.4 million round from family offices and a loan from Spain’s ENISA. The Barcelona startup automates real‑time data capture in surgical suites using IoT, AI and advanced analytics, integrating seamlessly...
Homaio Lands €3.6M to Extend Access to Energy Transition Assets
Paris‑based fintech Homaio secured €3.6 million in a round led by RAISE Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to over €5 million. The platform democratizes access to emissions‑allowance markets, previously limited to institutional investors, and already serves users in more than 30...
Rivia Raises $15M to Fix the Broken Data Infrastructure Behind Clinical Trials
Rivia, a Zurich‑based clinical trial data engine, closed a $15 million Series A round led by Earlybird, with participation from Defiant, Speedinvest, Amino Collective and Nina Capital. The company has built a reusable intelligence layer that integrates heterogeneous trial data in real...
Pi Labs Leads $7M Round in VerbaFlo for AI Real Estate Platform
VerbaFlo, a conversational AI platform for residential real estate, secured a $7 million seed round led by Pi Labs, bringing its total financing to roughly $9 million. The startup automates leasing, operations, and resident engagement through purpose‑built AI agents that integrate with...
Noru Raises €560K to Develop an Agentic Compliance Platform
Stockholm‑based startup Noru has closed a €560,000 pre‑seed round led by Ampli Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund and other Nordic investors. The company is building an AI‑native “agentic compliance” platform that embeds regulatory requirements directly into development...
Rhonexum Secures $1M to Scale Cryogenic Electronics for Quantum Computing
Swiss quantum‑tech startup Rhonexum announced a $1 million pre‑seed round led by QDNL Participations, with participation from Venture Kick and grant support. The company develops cryogenic electronics that operate at near‑absolute‑zero temperatures using standard semiconductor processes, enabling control chips to sit directly...
Elea & Lili Raises €2.5M to Scale Fossil-Free Absorbent Materials
Elea & Lili, a deep‑tech spin‑out from Finland’s VTT research centre, announced a €2.5 million seed round led by Lifeline Ventures. The funding will accelerate industrialisation of its cellulose‑based super‑absorbent (CSA), a fossil‑free, biodegradable alternative to conventional polymers. The startup targets...
Agent Debugging Startup Laminar Raises $3M Seed to Tackle the Observability Gap in AI Agents
Laminar, a startup focused on debugging AI agents, announced a $3 million seed round led by Atlantic.vc with participation from Y‑Combinator and notable angels. The company’s platform provides end‑to‑end observability for agents that run for hours, capturing every LLM call, tool...
Young "Bug Bounty Hunter" Bags $6M Pre-Seed Round for Security Startup
French cybersecurity startup Lupin & Holmes, founded by 23‑year‑old former bug bounty hunter Roni Carta, closed a $5.9 million pre‑seed round led by 20VC and Seedcamp. Carta, who earned nearly $800,000 hunting vulnerabilities for FAANG firms, built Depi, an upstream security...
Choice Secures $7.1M Series A to Expand Its Restaurant Operating System Across Europe
Prague‑based SaaS platform Choice has closed a $7.1 million Series A round, bringing its total funding to $11.6 million. The company now serves over 30,000 restaurants – more than 7,000 of them paying customers – across nine Central and Eastern European markets and...
Italian Startup Alomana Raises €4M for Its AI Operating Layer for Enterprise Workflows
Italian AI startup Alomana announced a €4 million financing round led by CDP Venture Capital to accelerate its Alo platform, an AI operating layer that automates enterprise workflows across finance, manufacturing and pharma. Alo claims to replace fragile, prototype‑driven AI projects...
European Tech Weekly Recap: More than 85 Tech Funding Deals Worth over €4B
Tech.eu tracked more than 85 technology funding rounds across Europe last week, collectively raising over €4 billion. The cloud sector attracted the most capital at €1.7 billion, followed by artificial intelligence with €1 billion and legaltech at €488.9 million. Regionally, the United Kingdom led...
Chipmaker Axelera AI Hoping to Benefit From European Businesses Wanting to Run AI Locally
Dutch chipmaker Axelera AI is positioning itself as a European alternative to Nvidia by focusing on AI inference chips for edge devices. The company recently raised over $250 million, bringing total funding to more than $450 million and supporting a portfolio that...
Energy Aspects to Buy Paris-Based Kayrros to Add Satellite and Geospatial Analytics Capabilities
Energy Aspects announced the acquisition of Paris‑based Kayrros, a specialist in satellite‑derived geospatial analytics. The deal merges Energy Aspects' deep market intelligence with Kayrros' proprietary earth‑observation data and machine‑learning models. The combined entity will offer faster, more actionable insights across...
Tower Secures €5.5M to Support Data Engineers in the AI Era
Berlin‑based Tower announced a €5.5 million raise across pre‑seed and seed rounds, led by DIG Ventures and Speedinvest. The startup offers a unified storage‑compute platform that lets data engineering teams retain full data ownership while accelerating AI‑driven pipeline development. Leveraging Apache...
SkySelect Raises $9M to Modernise Aircraft Parts Procurement with AI
Estonian‑founded SkySelect, an AI‑driven procurement platform for airlines and MROs, raised $9 million to scale its technology. The company tackles a $50 billion excess parts inventory problem and $30 billion annual AOG losses by matching part requests with optimal suppliers in real time....
Neuramancer Lands €1.7M Pre-Seed to Scale Deepfake Detection Tools
Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH secured a €1.7 million pre‑seed round led by Vanagon Ventures, with participation from Bayern Kapital, ZOHO.VC, Lightfield Equity and other angels. The startup’s deep‑fake detection platform analyzes statistical noise irregularities in images and video, offering forensic reports...
Cleafy Raises €12M to Expand Financial Fraud Detection Technology
Milan‑based cybersecurity firm Cleafy secured €12 million in a Series B round co‑led by United Ventures and eCAPITAL, bringing total funding to €22 million. The company’s platform aggregates web, mobile, backend and network data with real‑time threat intelligence to identify malicious infrastructure and...
AIRMO Raises €5M for Airborne and Space-Based GHG Monitoring
AIRMO announced a €5 million seed round led by Ananda ImpactVentures, with participation from several venture firms and strategic investors. The funding will finance its first satellite mission slated for 2027 and broaden its airborne monitoring footprint across Europe, MENA and...
Pure Data Centres and AVK Deploy Europe’s First Large-Scale Microgrid
Pure Data Centres Group and AVK have commissioned Europe’s first large‑scale, 110 MW on‑site microgrid at Pure DC’s Dublin campus. The system comprises three 30 MW energy centres that deliver dispatchable power, combined heat‑and‑power capability, and waste‑heat recovery during early‑phase development. Designed...
EIC Scaling Club Companies Double Peer Funding Growth with 66% Increase
The EIC Scaling Club report shows its 120 deep‑tech members achieved an average funding increase of 66.6 % over the past 14‑20 months, more than double the 26 % growth of a matched control group. Since joining, the cohort has raised roughly...
Avvoka Secures £14M to Expand AI Drafting Tools for Law Firms
Avvoka, a UK‑based legal‑tech platform, has closed a £14 million growth‑funding round led by Valhalla Ventures. The company’s AI‑powered drafting engine transforms legal documents into structured, reusable templates while embedding governance controls. Co‑founders Eliot Benzecrit and David Howorth emphasize that the...
Hosel Raises £500K Pre-Seed to Create the "Vinted for Golf"
Hosel, a golf‑tech startup, secured a £500,000 pre‑seed round led by Ascension VC to launch a marketplace for second‑hand clubs, equipment, and accessories. The platform targets the roughly $3 billion global resale market, offering price transparency, authentication, and a unified search...
BioInnovation Institute Adds 11 Startups to Venture Lab Cohort
The BioInnovation Institute (BII) has added eleven early‑stage life‑science and deep‑tech startups to its 12‑month Venture Lab cohort, each receiving a €500,000 convertible loan plus lab space, mentorship and access to a network of over 200 investors. The programme expands...
Why the Future of Audio May Be Built on a Semiconductor Chip
Danish deep‑tech firm SonicEdge is commercialising MEMS‑based micro‑speakers that generate sound directly from a semiconductor chip, eliminating traditional moving‑coil drivers. The solid‑state design delivers up to 20 kHz bandwidth, higher efficiency and a 100 mg form factor, far lighter than conventional micro‑speakers....
Mantle8 Awarded €2.06M EU Grant for Natural Hydrogen Platform
Mantle8, a European natural‑hydrogen exploration startup founded in 2024, has secured a €2.06 million grant from the EU’s Just Transition Fund. The funding will be used to expand its technology platform in Grenoble, including the HOREX pilot, a new geochemistry lab,...
Cytotrait Raises £3M for Agricultural Gene-Editing Technology
Cytotrait, a University of Manchester spin‑out, closed a £3 million seed round led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from UKI2S and Northern Universities Ventures. The company’s proprietary MOSS platform enables precise gene edits and insertions in plant organelles—chloroplasts and mitochondria—achieving rapid...
ILS Secures Seed Funding to Expand ProVision Legal Workflow Platform
Intelligent Legal Solutions (ILS) has closed a seed round led by Chicago Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $3 million. The company’s ProVision platform automates post‑close fund workflows, consolidating side letters and MFN processes into a searchable system of record....
University of Edinburgh Biotech Spin-Out BIOCAPTIVA Raises £1.58M
University of Edinburgh spin‑out BIOCAPTIVA has closed a £1.58 million funding round and launched its first msX magnetic‑bead kits in the United States. The msX platform extracts cell‑free DNA directly from whole blood, eliminating centrifugation and reducing reagent use, which promises...
Validio Closes $30M Series A to Address Enterprise Data Quality Challenges
Validio secured a $30 million Series A round led by Plural, bringing total funding to $47 million, to scale its AI‑focused data‑quality platform. The solution automates monitoring, anomaly detection, and lineage cataloguing, replacing thousands of manual checks for enterprises in regulated sectors. Customers...
Diligent AI Raises $2.5M to Support KYC and AML Teams with AI Agents
London‑based Diligent AI, a Y Combinator‑backed startup, has closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Speedinvest with participation from fintech investors and strategic angels. The company builds autonomous AI agents that automate repetitive KYC and AML tasks such as risk...
Groundhawk Raises €2M to Digitise Europe’s Underground Infrastructure
Finnish startup Groundhawk secured €2 million in seed funding to digitise Europe’s underground utility infrastructure. The company’s AI‑driven 3D capture system records centimetre‑level data in real time while trenches are open, replacing outdated post‑construction surveys. By syncing measurements instantly to the...
Qura Secures €1.5M to Rethink Health Management in Europe
Milan‑based Qura, an AI‑powered full‑stack health platform, closed a €1.5 million pre‑seed round led by United Ventures with participation from Vento, Italian Angels for Growth and individual angels. The funding will fuel expansion of medical, engineering and operations teams, digital marketing,...
Building Europe’s Native Code Infrastructure: Tangled Closes $4.5M Round
Tangled, a European‑focused GitHub alternative, closed a $4.5 million round led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Antler. The platform introduces a decentralized “Knot” architecture that lets developers host code on their own infrastructure while maintaining a familiar...
Kinfolk Closes $7M Seed Round for AI-Driven HR Platform
London‑based Kinfolk announced a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, bringing its total capital to $8.5 million. The startup offers an AI‑native HR workforce‑operations platform that combines agentic AI, Slack/Teams integration, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics. Kinfolk positions the solution...
SolveAI Raises $50M to Help Employees Build Their Own Enterprise Software
London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
Born in Ukraine, Ready for the World, 7 Ukrainian-Founded Startups You Should Know About
Ukraine’s startup ecosystem is punching above its weight, producing seven diverse companies that span AI‑driven compliance, plant‑based nutrition, eco‑housing, grant consulting, industrial monitoring, metal‑free batteries, and wireless power transfer. These founders leverage local talent and diaspora networks to address global...
Thema Secures $6.2M to Support Mapping of Market Expansion Opportunities for Private Equity
London‑based Thema announced a $6.2 million financing round to build its Portfolio Expansion Infrastructure for private‑equity firms. The round includes $4.5 million in pre‑seed capital led by Stride.vc and a $1.7 million UK government grant tied to a Cambridge partnership. Thema’s AI platform...
Secfix Raises $12M Series A to Build End-to-End Security Compliance Platform
Munich‑based Secfix closed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by Alstin Capital, with Bayern Kapital and existing backer neosfer participating. The funding will accelerate Secfix’s European expansion and the development of its AI‑native automation and CISO‑as‑a‑Service capabilities. Secfix’s platform automates...
From ‘Prompt-and-Pray’ to Production: Straion Raises €1.1M to Govern AI Coding at Scale
Straion, a governance layer for AI‑generated code, closed a €1.1 million seed round led by Marathon VC. The startup aims to replace the “prompt‑and‑pray” development model by centralising organisational rules and validating AI‑generated plans before execution. Its platform integrates with tools...
Celebratix Closes €2.2M Round to Scale European Ticketing
Celebratix, an Amsterdam‑based ticketing startup, secured €2.2 million in growth capital from Airbridge Equity Partners, following a €1.1 million round at the end of 2024. The company’s blockchain‑powered platform gives event organisers unified control over sales, resale, access and data, while offering...
Tewke Secures £1.5M to Scale AI-Powered Home Energy Platform
London‑based Tewke closed a £1.5 million second‑stage round, backed by JamJar, Cur8, Energy Mix Ventures, Project Ventures and Revolut CTO Vlad Yatsenko. The company’s Tap device, engineered in the UK, retrofits without a neutral wire and can be installed in minutes,...
VoiceLine Raises €10M to Expand Enterprise Voice AI for Frontline Teams
Munich‑based VoiceLine closed a €10 million Series A round, led by Alstin Capital and Peak, to scale its voice‑first AI platform for frontline sales and service teams. The solution lets field reps capture voice memos or call an assistant, instantly converting speech...
Can Berlin Become Europe’s Most Builder-Friendly Tech City in 24 Months?
The Berlin auf die Eins (BAD1) campaign launched this week aims to transform Berlin into Europe’s most builder‑friendly tech city within 12‑24 months. Backed by founders, The Delta, UNITE and Dentsu Creative, the grassroots effort highlights Berlin’s existing strengths—10‑12% of...
MaXon Systems Secures Funding to Build Autonomous Air Defence Against Mass Drone Attacks
Ukrainian defence startup MaXon Systems announced a new funding round led by Greenflag Ventures, BRAVE1, Freedom Fund VC and Big Defence. The capital will accelerate development of its autonomous, end‑to‑end counter‑UAS platform designed to protect large perimeters against high‑volume Shahed‑type...
Pontiro Secures £357,500 to Expand Healthcare AI Infrastructure
Pontiro, a health‑tech firm that streamlines medical‑image data for AI, secured £357,500 in a round led by SFC Capital with participation from Plug and Play Ventures and the British Business Bank. The company’s platform has already processed more than two...
