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 Iceberg, Tower enables seamless integration with major data engines and supports AI coding assistants that generate production‑ready code. The capital will fund go‑to‑market expansion and further platform enhancements.
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...
Lithuania Leads Baltic Startup Resurgence with Record €238M Funding and Surge in Exits
Lithuania has emerged as the Baltic leader in startup activity, with startups raising a record €238 million in 2024 and achieving the highest number of exits in the country’s history. Early‑stage financing was especially strong, delivering €77 million across pre‑seed and seed...
Giggle Raises Funding to Expand Flexible Staffing Platform
Budapest‑based Giggle, a mobile‑first staffing platform for blue‑collar shift work, has closed an undisclosed funding round led by OXO Labs and Catalyst NXT Ventures. The capital will fund Giggle’s entry into Romania and accelerate growth across its existing Central and...
Can Everdye Clean up One of Fashion’s Dirtiest Processes?
French startup Everdye has created a room‑temperature, electrostatic dyeing process that can slash energy consumption by up to eight times and cut greenhouse‑gas emissions by 60‑99 percent. The technology uses positively charged pigments that instantly bind to negatively charged fibre...
TrueLayer Lands eBay "Strategic Investment"
eBay Ventures has made a strategic investment in UK open‑banking fintech TrueLayer, joining backers such as Stripe, Tencent and Temasek. The deal coincides with the launch of an open‑banking payment option at eBay checkout, adding the marketplace to TrueLayer’s merchant...
Tingit Raises €1.5M to Scale AI-Powered Repair Platform Across Europe
Agaton Raises $10 Million to Expand Its AI Platform for Sales Teams
Copla Raises €6M Series A to Support EU Regulatory Compliance
Flinn Secures $20M to Develop AI Tools for Product Lifecycle Management in Medtech and Pharma
Happyhotel Secures €6.5M Series A to Develop AI-Based Solutions for Hotel Revenue Management
Firecell and Accelleran Unite in €7.9M-backed Merger to Simplify Private 5G Networks
UK Legaltech Adeus Launches True Wills Ahead of Electronic Will Reforms
London‑based legaltech firm adeus has launched True Wills™, a service that records a cryptographic fingerprint of a will on blockchain while keeping the document off‑chain. Backed by an Innovate UK Smart Grant, the product complements traditional wet‑signed wills and is...
Klaris Raises $1M to Address Regulatory Challenges in Medtech
London‑based Klaris, an AI‑driven medtech startup, closed a $1 million pre‑seed round led by Meridian Health Ventures, with participation from Antler, Vento Ventures and other angel investors. The company’s platform automates regulatory compliance checks for medical device manufacturers, addressing persistent quality...
Paket Mutfak Raises $3.8M to Grow Multi-Brand Cloud Kitchen Model
Turkish cloud‑kitchen software startup Paket Mutfak announced a $3.8 million financing round, bringing its total capital to $12.3 million. The round was led by existing backers Nokta Yatırım Holding, Ünlü & Co, and Fırat İşbecer, with new investors including Ali Sabancı and...
Sendance Secures Investment to Grow Wearable Sensor and Data Platform
Sendance, an Austrian startup specializing in flexible wearable sensors, has secured a convertible‑loan investment from Garage Angels, bringing its total funding to €2.6 million. The capital will accelerate development of its patented sensor grid and cloud data platform, which embed pressure,...
Intuos Receives €720K for Non-Commercial Aviation Operations and Safety
Intuos, an Italian startup focused on non‑commercial aviation efficiency, closed a €720,000 investment round led by Argo, Techstars, Ventive and other investors. The funding will accelerate development of its two‑part platform that digitises flight operations and adds real‑time IoT telemetry...
The Fourth Law Secures Investment to Advance Drone AI for Ukraine
The Fourth Law (TFL), a Kyiv‑based defence tech firm, has closed a new funding round led by US public‑safety group Axon. TFL builds an autonomy‑focused AI stack that can run on quadcopters, fixed‑wing UAVs, missiles and ground or maritime drones,...
European Tech Weekly Recap: More than 65 Tech Funding Deals Worth over €3.4B
European venture capital activity surged last week, with more than 65 tech funding deals totaling over €3.4 billion. Cloud startups captured €1.2 billion, followed closely by space ventures at €1.1 billion, while healthtech secured €214.4 million. The United Kingdom led the regional tally with...
Legora and Tandem Health CEOs Reject Anthropic and OpenAI Threat
Swedish AI startups Legora and Tandem Health said they do not view US frontier AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI as threats to their business models. Legora, a legal‑tech platform serving over 400 firms and valued at $1.8 billion, argues...