SAIA Agrobotics, a developer of robotics for greenhouse growing out of Ede, has completed a new €10 million Series A funding round to accelerate the commercial rollout of its automated greenhouse system, which aims to boost crop yields and reduce labour requirements across controlled-environment agriculture. The round was led by Check24, in collaboration with the ... Read more ›
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Guideways, the Dutch AI company helping MedTech innovators navigate regulatory and compliance complexity, has raised over €1 million in pre-Seed financing according to a source close to the round. The investment came from HealthTech funds Healthy.Capital and Rising Star Venture Partners and will be used to launch and scale Guideways’ agentic AI platform, built to ... Read more ›
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Hailing out of Zurich, quantum computing startup YQuantum has obtained €160k (CHF 150k) from Venture Kick to develop miniaturised hardware components for the next generation of quantum computers. The funding from Venture Kick will help YQuantum strengthen its technology base and accelerate the commercialisation of its next-generation products. The funding will support R&D expansion, business ... Read more ›
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London’s AI Score, a new intelligence platform that empowers organisations to harness AI safely, today announced that it has emerged from stealth with over €864k ($1 million) in pre-Seed funding. The company, which was built in the GALLOS Technologies venture studio, has created a centralised AI governance and management platform that provides real-time visibility and ... Read more ›
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Danish/Lithuanian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufacturing company MNP Technologijos, operating under the brand name Monopulse, has signed a €1.12 million financing agreement with the national development bank ILTE. The loan was issued under ILTE’s Billion for Business programme, aimed at fostering the development of high value-added products, digitalisation, and growth in the defense industry. It ... Read more ›
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A week after we rolled out a new pricing model, I did something that felt almost irresponsible for a CEO: I switched off. My family and I headed to the Pyrenees; I turned my phone and laptop off, zipped them into a bag, and told the team that if anything truly urgent came up, they ... Read more ›
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Eastleigh-based Aquark Technologies, innovators in miniaturising deployable sensing and timing technologies based on cold atoms, today announced it has been awarded a €1.6 million (£1.4 million) contract by Innovate UK. The contract will facilitate the future deployment of Aquark’s cold atom-based atomic clock, AQlock, at a major telecommunications site in the UK. NPL and Purbrook ... Read more ›
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Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, has announced the opening of new offices in Paris and Munich as part of its accelerated expansion across Europe. Following a year of rapid growth in the EMEA region – where the company has tripled its headcount – these new hubs are set to bolster Anthropic’s presence ... Read more ›
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From autonomous agriculture to encrypted finance, satellite-enabled infrastructure underpins 18% of the United Kingdom’s GDP – an estimated €515 million (£454 billion) of economic activity. Yet, as the global space economy booms and European neighbours ramp up capital deployment into sovereign launch systems and orbital manufacturing capabilities, the UK is at risk of drifting in ... Read more ›
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I’m an ex-GM at Uber and am now building a startup in the UK, and I have one very painful question: Why is hiring for a startup in the UK so damn difficult? Within our entrepreneurial network, we often see the repercussions of poor hiring. Dying from bad hires is faster and easier than from ... Read more ›
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Balnord, a Luxembourg-based early stage investor for the Baltic Sea Region, has announced this morning that it has oversubscribed its €70 million fund target and is well on its way to achieving a final close of €100 million by mid-2026. LPs backing the fund include the European Investment Fund, PFR Ventures, and European family offices, ... Read more ›
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French gaming app Hoora announced a €1.1 million ($1.3 million) fundraising round to blend social-media mechanics with instant-access gameplay – marking a key step in its ambition to become the “TikTok for gaming.” The project has attracted investors including Kima Ventures, Mathias Salanon (ex-Voodoo, Ubisoft), Nicolas Steegmann (Stupeflix exit to GoPro), Jean-Guillaume Kleis (Keleops), as well ... Read more ›
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Devengo, a Spanish FinTech specialising in account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure, has closed a pre-Series A funding round worth €2 million, combining debt and equity, to offer multi-sector infrastructure for instant payments. The round features participation from Bankinter, Demium, and Banco Sabadell as lead investors, alongside continued support from existing partners such as TheVentureCity, Wayra – ... Read more ›
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arcoris bio, a Swiss life science research tools and in vitro diagnostics company, has secured €6.7 million (CHF 6.3 million) in an oversubscribed Seed financing round to advance the development and commercialisation of its breakthrough MUSE biomarker detection platform. The round was co-led by Ventura Ace and ZEISS Ventures, with participation from Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) ... Read more ›
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We all know that artificial intelligence has moved beyond the hype phase and is now reshaping nearly every industry, from healthcare and finance to logistics, retail, and defence. Across Europe, this technology is here to stay, with billions flowing into platforms, applications, and infrastructure that power the next wave of intelligent systems. Initiatives such as ... Read more ›
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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Rebecka Löthman Rydå, General Partner at Norrsken Evolve, a €57M oversubscribed pre-seed fund backing founders who are building Europe’s resilient and sustainable future. Born out of Norrsken Accelerator, which has supported over 80 startups since 2021. Evolve combines capital, community, and world-class mentorship to help ... Read more ›
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Europe’s startup ecosystem moves fast. Our education systems don’t. Over the past two decades, working across startups and education, we have seen this gap grow wider: while founders push to innovate at speed, talent pipelines are too slow and rigid to keep up. If we want to compete in this globalised world, we must treat ... Read more ›
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Europe’s startup ecosystem moves fast. Our education systems don’t. Over the past two decades, working across startups and education, we have seen this gap grow wider: while founders push to innovate at speed, talent pipelines are too slow and rigid to keep up. If we want to compete in this globalised world, we must treat ... Read more ›
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Swiss battery start-up BTRY AG has raised €4.9 million in an oversubscribed Seed round for its ultra-thin solid-state batteries reportedly capable of combining fast charging, extreme temperature stability, and intrinsic safety within an extremely thin format. The round was led by Redstone VC, with participation from Bloomhaus Ventures, Linear Capital, Kickfund, Kick Foundation, and the ... Read more ›
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