The French-Belgian medtech uses a portable headset to capture up to 800 infrared images per eye per second, extracting oculomotor biomarkers that can indicate Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis years before clinical symptoms appear. It received CE certification in January 2025 and is targeting FDA clearance in 2026. neuroClues, a French-Belgian medtech company developing an […]
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nFuse raises $2M to let small retailers order via WhatsApp
Two former Coca-Cola operators built a messaging-first ordering platform after watching B2B eCommerce initiatives repeatedly fail in fragmented trade. The platform claims 70% retailer adoption and order processing costs up to 20 times lower than traditional digital channels. Bulgarian B2B ordering startup nFuse has raised $2 million from Eleven Ventures and LAUNCHub in a round […]
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Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes
Satellites on Fire, founded in 2020 as a school project by three Argentine teenagers, has closed a seed round led by Dalus Capital. Its software-only platform integrates satellite data from multiple agencies and detects fires faster than NASA’s FIRMS system by avoiding the gaps between satellite passes. Argentine climate-tech startup Satellites on Fire has closed […]
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Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection
The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were not disclosed. Penemue, the Freiburg-based TrustTech startup developing AI to detect and counter online hate speech, digital violence, and disinformation, has raised more than €1.7 million in […]
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Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series A, with SIMEST providing international expansion funding through Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wearable Robotics, an Italian rehabilitation technology company spun out of the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in […]
Read MoreLegora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.
Eighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the company told Business Insider that it has crossed $100 million in ARR, a milestone that in enterprise software typically takes the better part of a decade. Max Junestrand, Legora’s 26-year-old […]
Read MorePickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”
The Tallinn-based platform, formerly WOIS.io, hosts over 1,000 professionals including Rovio co-founder Peter Vesterbacka and ex-Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John. AI handles routine questions; high-value queries go to the expert via 1:1 asynchronous video. Pickmybrain, the Tallinn-based platform that turns professionals’ expertise into AI-powered “Digital Brains,” has raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round from a […]
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Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant
The Swiss startup’s Turbe project at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam will be the first commercial deployment of its aerobrew methanol-to-jet technology, and a blueprint for large-scale e-SAF production across Europe. Metafuels, the Swiss aviation technology company developing synthetic sustainable aviation fuel, has been awarded €1.92 million in grant funding from the […]
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Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M
The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via background audio. Its new Sleep Headband targets secure environments where phones are banned. Audicin, the Finnish neurotechnology company using brainwave entrainment and auditory engineering to support nervous system regulation, has raised $1.9 million in […]
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Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents
The Brussels-founded, Y Combinator-backed startup counts Orange among its early enterprise customers, which deployed a customer onboarding agent in four weeks. General Catalyst led the round. Nexus, the Brussels-founded AI agent deployment platform backed by Y Combinator, has raised $4.3 million in a seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from Y Combinator, Transpose […]
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Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play
German consumers throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food every year, worth roughly €6 billion. Austrian startup Afreshed just bet that the solution is consolidation, not competition, acquiring Munich-based rival Etepetete and raising a mid-seven-figure sum to take its organic rescue-box model across the border. The deal, announced on Monday, unites the two largest “ugly […]
Read MoremyStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health
The Ontario startup combines AI with trained human professionals to help patients navigate PCOS, endometriosis, fertility, and perimenopause, the conditions with the longest diagnostic delays and most fragmented care in the system. Graphite Ventures led the round. When a patient receives a specialist referral, a confusing test result, or a diagnosis that landed in their […]
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Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste
The Paris-based precision fermentation startup has already validated industrial-scale production of its Advanced Casein with Bel Group. The Series B will fund its US commercial rollout in 2026, with Europe and Asia from end 2027, pending regulatory approvals. Standing Ovation, the Paris-based precision fermentation startup producing casein from dairy waste streams, has raised €30 million […]
Read MoreEnkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete
ReCeramix™, made from over 90% recovered ceramic and construction waste, is already in use at Stockholm boutique hotel Ett Hem, members’ club Angel House, and Fotografiska. The round was valued at €3M; the raise amount was not disclosed. Stockholm startup Enkei has closed a pre-seed round at a €3 million valuation to commercialise ReCeramix™, its […]
Read MoreStarcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship-class spacecraft designed to be the first orbital data centre cost-competitive with terrestrial facilities. Starcloud has raised $170 million in a Series A round led by Benchmark and […]
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Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. Its founder’s longer-term ambition: making commercial real estate itself modular and on-demand. The problem miros is solving is visible in any busy train station, airport, or hospital: people who […]
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TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit. Its CTO ran ESA’s Solaris SBSP initiative until the agency paused it in 2024. Daphni led the pre-seed round. The person best placed to know why the European Space Agency decided not to press […]
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Keith raises £2M to become the UK’s most automated law firm
Andy Shovel and Pete Sharman, who built THIS into a market-leading plant-based food brand, are pivoting hard. Keith is an AI-native regulated law firm targeting conveyancing first, with a 24/7 AI client agent and a target of reducing transaction times by 70%. Launch is Q3 2026. Andy Shovel’s previous company sold plant-based bacon and chicken. […]
Read MoreLaigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs
The Dutch biotech’s SureTACs platform targets membrane proteins that have long eluded conventional drug discovery by engineering them out of existence rather than blocking them. Biovance Capital joins as new co-lead alongside Kurma Partners in a final close that brings the oversubscribed seed round to €17 million. Most drugs work by blocking proteins. They attach […]
Read Moretozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant
The Munich startup’s demo plant at Chemical Park Gendorf in Bavaria processes 1,500 tonnes of battery waste a year and produces 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate, at costs the company says are twice as competitive as conventional miners. A full-scale facility capable of 45,000 tonnes per year is planned for 2030. Europe has a […]
Read MoreHerbalife acquires Bioniq in a deal worth up to $150M
The London-based personalised supplement startup, which uses blood biomarker data to formulate individual supplement regimens, will be integrated into Herbalife’s 95-market network. The $55M guaranteed price is paid over five years; up to $95M in additional contingent payments takes the total to $150M. Herbalife has been searching for a credible data-driven answer to the personalisation […]
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Theia Insights raises $8M to replace the static industry classification systems
The Cambridge-based AI company, founded by a former Amazon Alexa research scientist, builds a self-learning economic map that models companies as multidimensional entities rather than forcing them into a single bucket. MiddleGame Ventures led; Unusual Ventures returned. Amazon is not a retailer. It is also a cloud computing provider, a logistics operator, an advertising network, […]
Read MoreUber, Pony.ai, and Rimac’s Verne announce Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service
On-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to invest in Verne. The three companies plan to scale to thousands of vehicles across Europe, but have declined to announce a commercial launch date. Mate Rimac built his reputation making electric hypercars […]
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OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform
The Amsterdam startup, which gives employees direct anonymous access to psychologists, lifestyle experts, and financial counsellors through their employer, now serves more than 2,000 organisations across five European markets. Smartfin led the round; Rubio Impact Ventures, which led the 2022 Series A, returned. The traditional path to professional psychological help in Europe involves a GP […]
Read MoreGiraffe360 raises $10M Series B to expand AI property media platform
The London-based proptech, which combines a proprietary robotic camera with an AI software stack to produce a full property media kit from a single visit, has closed its Series B led by Cipio Partners. The premise behind Giraffe360 is straightforward: a single property visit should generate everything a real estate agent or photographer needs to […]
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SOUS raises €4M to power culinary entrepreneurs
The Amsterdam startup, founded in 2022, is building a single AI platform that handles customer discovery, direct ordering, and retention for independent food and beverage operators. seed + speed Ventures led the round; PeakBridge returned alongside āltitude and Gekko Capital. A local pizzeria and Domino’s compete for the same dinner occasion, but they do not […]
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Arkadia Space raises €14.5M for green propulsion system
The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DARK system became the first hydrogen peroxide propulsion system flown in orbit in Europe, launching on a SpaceX mission in March 2025. Most of the satellites currently operating in orbit are kept in […]
Read MorePAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles
The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and Creandum led; Lombard Odier, Atlantic Labs, and Sistafund also participated. The satellite lifecycle has a structural inefficiency baked in. Launch vehicles deliver payloads […]
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Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital led the round; HSBC Innovation Banking UK also contributed growth financing. One CFO told Origin’s CEO […]
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Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ventures participated. The gap between an AI agent that works in a demo and one that works in production is, […]
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Epoch Biodesign closes $12M to prove its nylon recycling enzymes can work at scale
The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now exceeds $50M. Nylon 6,6 is one of the most useful materials humanity has ever made. […]
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